What computer games work without any internet connection?
There are a lot of Steam games that you CAN play without an internet connection, once you’ve logged into Steam once. (There can be minor snafus if Steam suddenly forgets your password, but I managed to play Mass Effect for an hour and a half at 35 000 feet in an airplane, so there you go. Paragon FemShep, for the curious.) This is mentioned as merely a datapoint for the future. Diablo 2 and Lord of Destruction can be played offline easily; if you patch it up to current, you don’t need the CDs either (thank you, Blizzard, it’s about damn time) — and you can download all the patches and include them on a CD, so he can make use of those patches. Mass Effect and ME2, which are sci-fi based third-person shooters with some amazing RPG elements, can be played offline if you have the CDs and don’t buy them through Steam. ME2’s DLC can be downloaded and installed locally (I keep my DLC install files on CDs), though I can’t remember if you need access to the Cerberus Network (net validation) fo