Any good games

[yourmompeterson]

hey newbie here any one know of any good games that are easy to install and fun to play well any way none of the games that kome with slack though

[davisfactor]

depends on what kind of games you like:

tuxracer is a fun arcade-style game

[CoffeeMan]

foobiliard, it is a 3D Billiards (pool) game

[davisfactor]

Originally posted by CoffeeMan
foobiliard, it is a 3D Billiards (pool) game

yeah, that is a cool game!

[soulestream]

I think americas army is going to be. I installed it and went through the demo, but the still havent sent me my registration stuff.


soule

[JamminJoeyB]

There is a site. linuxgaming.com or something like that. just google/linux for it and you will find plenty of answers about linux and games. There are also a number of threads on here about games. Search the forums, they are very helpful and answering a most of your questions.

[Icarus]

Here's a short list to get you started

http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php

[garskoci]

Quake 3 Arena runs nativly on Linux.

[Parcival]

Using this forum's search function you will find dozens of lists concerning the question. ;) My favorite Linux game: Neverwinternight.

[Icarus]

Originally posted by Parcival My favorite Linux game: Neverwinternight. [/B] That is one of my favorates...but somehow ut2004 over rules it when I can't decide :p
Creatures Docking Station (http://www.gamewaredevelopment.co.uk/ds/ds_index.php) wins when I feel like playing God with little furry aliens :D

[eskiled]

Originally posted by soulestream
I think americas army is going to be. I installed it and went through the demo, but the still havent sent me my registration stuff.


soule

AA has been linux native for a while.

AA's Linux FAQ (http://www.americasarmy.com/support/faq_linux.php)

have fun
eskiled :)

[dannybunkins]

Unreal Tournament GOTY is really easy to install and works perfectly.

[battalax]

Yeah , I second that. ut goty was an easy install and I personally think it runs faster in linux then it did in windows.
Ut goty is not like 9.00 $ an amazon.com or something like that and its all around a good game.
Depending upon the hardware that your machine has ut2004 also works under ut with an easy install but like i said you need the hardware for it .

[davisfactor]

linuxgames.com
and
linux-gamers.net

are both really good linux related gaming sites

[Seph64]

Doom 3 is native to Linux as well, a demo can be found at id software's FTP (ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/) server. You'll just have to look around for it. :)

[yourmompeterson]

well i have looked into utgoty and it was extremely easy to install and it is an excellent game to play runs like a charm on my p3 so it is a realy fun game thanks all kepp posting those fun games and give them a rating if you would

[dannybunkins]

i forgot to tell you about Armagetron it is one of the greatest games of all time you. You can download it at freshmeat.net:D

[Sgood1971]

Originally posted by Parcival
Using this forum's search function you will find dozens of lists concerning the question. ;) My favorite Linux game: Neverwinternight.

Just doesn't get any better than that. I spent all weekend playing.

Icarus Creature Docking Station looks pretty awesome I am going to look into that when I get home tonight.

dannybunkins, you are right, Armagetron rocks.

[Icarus]

Nobody has mentioned Nethack (http://nethack.org/) yet??

Blasphemy!

[davisfactor]

Enemy Territory is a free (for Windows and Linux) game by id. It's multiplayer only like America's Army or Counter-Strike.

And there is a mod for ET that was just released the other day called True Combat: Elite. It's based on the Quake 3 mod of the same name.

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=687


Other cool Open Sour games that are in my Fluxbox menu:

Cube
First person shooter
http://www.cubeengine.com

Death Illustrated
Based on the Cube Engine
http://www.deathillustrated.com

Flight Gear
Flight Simulator
http://www.flightgear.org

Frozen Bubble
Arcade style game
http://www.frozen-bubble.org/


Not Open Source but still free and fun to play:

GTA and GTA2
These are freeware now (You'll need WINEX or CEDEGA to play them)
http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/


Also the Quakes and Dooms play nicely on Linux, although you'll need the WAD files to play them. Some people have written free WAD files, you'll just have to search for them. Running apt-cache search doom brings up a lot of results in Debian.

And I've never played this but I've always wanted to, Text Mode Quake:
http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/


The above game is True Combat, I had Total Combat

[ladoga]

Originally posted by Icarus
Nobody has mentioned Nethack (http://nethack.org/) yet??

Blasphemy!

Yes, nethack is awsome.

I have played it now and then over 10 years already. Even met wizard of Yendor once...but the damn bastard killed me. :(

Other than that... Targetware (http://www.targetware.net/index.php). Best online flightsim ever.

[thanquol]

Another Nice game:

Red Orchestra (http://www.redorchestra.clanservers.com/)

Installs nice and rawx!

BTW!
.. |
.. |
. V

[mrBen]

I thoroughly recommend Enemy Territory (http://www.enemy-territory.com), which is free (as in beer, not as in freedom), and also Return to Castle Wolfenstein (should be able to get cheaply - get the GOTY edition / Extended edition) both of which run natively.

Postal 2 has also just been released for Linux - might be worth checking out.

I also have Unreal Tournament 2003 running nicely on Linux.

And check out Frozen Bubble - very addictive.

[thanquol]

I agree on the Frozen Bubbles :p

[bsm2001]

Scorched 3D
http://scorched3d.co.uk

The absolute best game ever.

[davisfactor]

Originally posted by thanquol
Another Nice game:

Red Orchestra (http://www.redorchestra.clanservers.com/)

Installs nice and rawx!

BTW!
.. |
.. |
. V

That game looks amazing. I'm assuming it's a UT2003/2004 mod? Either way I've got both games and I also see that it has a Linux installer ... very nice !

[Icarus]

Yes, that is a UT2004 mod (won the top spot in the "Make Something Unreal Contest" (http://www.unrealtournament.com/ut2003/ct_finals/))

Another great game from the contest that is a top-down RTS style mod for UT2004 is Alien Swarm (http://www.blackcatgames.com/swarm/)
(Think Aliens meets Smash TV)

[DimGR]

UT2004 rules them all !! :)

i didnt like doom3 at all . boring game
Americas Army seems a nice game but i never passed the training class :P

ET is ok but everybody cheats

so once again UT 2004

[deathadder]

Super-Tux, its Mario with Penguins :cool:

[dannybunkins]

Originally posted by deathadder
Super-Tux, its Mario with Penguins :cool:

I just downloaded and installed supertux and it totally rocks

[bwkaz]

Javascript Lemmings!

:p

http://193.151.73.87/games/lemmings/index.html

(I don't know how long that URL will be valid, considering it's an IP address, but hey, it's cool. ;))

[yourmompeterson]

i have recently installed supertux and foo billiards and they are great fun and free. with foobiliard you do have to have a video driver more advanced than the one default to linux

[jmhiggins]

You might want to check out Cedega as well from transgaming technologies. If you have any windows based games you want to play under linux. http://www.transgaming.com/ It seems to have made some progress since the days of winex.

[Calipso]

I played True Combat today and its really kool!!
I also recommend Enemy Territory...you need it to play True Combat anyway.

And for those that like penguins and like lemmings, I recommend Pingus

http://pingus.seul.org/welcome.html



I would love to be able to play Red Orchestra but unfortunately I cant run UT04 :(

[Calipso]

http://wolfpack.twu.net/SearchAndRescue/about/index.html

Search And Rescue

could be a fun game, but I was never able to get it to run properly, something to do with a joystick if I remember correctly

[Icarus]

For the Enemy Territory fans, if I'm playing it's always at et.tjw.org
Maps rotate every month or two, custom maps, fair players and an aggonizing 1 minute limbo time :D

Fills up with over 30 players nightly (USA)
Loads of fun!

[thanquol]

Originally posted by jmhiggins
You might want to check out Cedega as well from transgaming technologies. If you have any windows based games you want to play under linux. http://www.transgaming.com/ It seems to have made some progress since the days of winex.

I agree that this can be a solution, but as I can see it just has to be the last solution of them all...

The fact that Cedega exists has the effect that some companys refuses to make a native linux-client. They point at Cedega.

With this solution we will never be a first choise operationg system!

I, myselt do really want to play the game "World of Warcraft", but they seem to refuse us the right to run it native under Linux.

Please sign the petition.

[jmhiggins]

I signed :) I hope we will see more and more games with native linux support in the future. I do believe that cedega supports WoW though correct? I personally enjoy everything linux has to offer, the only reason I would currently use windows right now for is to play a game that isnt supported under linux to be honest. There is nothing that I personally cant do under linux that I could do under windows besides play certain unsupported games.

[CoffeeMan]

Half-Life for Linux was just released, and It runs faster on Linux than it does on windows.

[Seph64]

Originally posted by CoffeeMan
Half-Life for Linux was just released, and It runs faster on Linux than it does on windows.

Half-Life for Linux? Client?

[jmhiggins]

Originally posted by CoffeeMan
Half-Life for Linux was just released, and It runs faster on Linux than it does on windows.

Sweet :) I dont think it will be to long before we start seeing dual releases of games for windows and linux. I think ID already does this now with their releases but they are the only major developer to do so.

I believe that openGL is still considered experimental in linux at this point but once it isnt we will see more linux gaming support from developers I hope. I was reading on anandtech.com the other day that nvidia and ati seem to have started some sort of linux video driver war...thats a good sign if you ask me :)

[Seph64]

You'd think a Linux version of HL (client not server) would be big news, but I can't find any. Coffeeman, if you are gonna say something like that, please post a link, or a source. We need proof. :)

[jmhiggins]

Maybe he means cedega? I know that HL 2 is supported by Cedega.

[Seph64]

Originally posted by jmhiggins
Maybe he means cedega? I know that HL 2 is supported by Cedega.

But it has been known that you could get Half Life to work with Wine/Cedega. and that's not specifically meaning a Linux version.

[jmhiggins]

Yeah but I was saying that maybe that is what he meant? I havent heard of a native linux client for HL 2 you'd think that would be pretty big gaming news.

[Icarus]

Originally posted by Seph64
You'd think a Linux version of HL (client not server) would be big news, but I can't find any. Coffeeman, if you are gonna say something like that, please post a link, or a source. We need proof. :) He's trolling, there is no native port for Half-Life (server only) but Steam and Half-life run VERY well under Cedega.

Blizzard will NEVER port ANY of their games to Linux, they seem to have something personal against it with claims that it is too easy to pirate games on Linux (and use Loki games as 'proof')

The companies that do support Linux will show it by releasing a Linux port alone with (or soon after) the Windows release. The ones that do not make releases usually use the 'copy protection' argument, not the 'it runs with Cedega' argument as the anti-wine people like to claim.
(Ask them for proof of this is you will be lucky that they can offer even one company that has said it in written form. If they do offer links it's usually to other soothsayer comments like the one thanquol claims.)

If you really want to play WoW under Linux and not pay for Cedega (by being good and no pirating it) it works with regular Wine
http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=707

[Seph64]

I just wish Cedega was free, so I could actually play all my major games without having to be tempted to install Windows.

[jmhiggins]

Sometimes you just have to pay for worthwhile products. :)

[davisfactor]

If you don't want to pay for cedega, there are sevaral guides to installing the CVS version.

If you do want to pay for cedega, it's only $5 US dollars a month. You have to buy 3 months up-front but even then, 15 dollars to support the company that lets you play most windows games under Linux is a very small price. That price also includes Point-to-Play or something like that which from what I understand is a graphical interface to installing games under Cedega.


Here's an awesome site for help with installing games under Cedega.
http://digital-conquest.ath.cx/wiki/index.php/Category:Games

[janet loves bill]

neverball/neverputt............a new version is out AND there is now a Neverball hall of fame.........!!

http://icculus.org/neverball/

[Seven up]

I am not a gamer, but I did get totally hooked on BZFlag for over a year. I ran a server and built my own maps. I can't believe nobody else has mentioned it.

http://www.bzflag.org/

[Sbbath]

a pretty cool game it Supertux all you do is emerge it and it takes like 5 minutes not even mabye

check it out it's kind of like super mario brothers but with Tux!

http://super-tux.sourceforge.net/
~sbbath

[dannybunkins]

Originally posted by davisfactor


Cube
First person shooter
http://www.cubeengine.com




take this suggestion seriously, I downloaded it a couple of days ago and it totally rocks

[davisfactor]

Originally posted by janet loves bill
neverball/neverputt............a new version is out AND there is now a Neverball hall of fame.........!!

http://icculus.org/neverball/

This game rocks! I installed it based on "janet loves bill's" suggestion and it's a great game!

[madcompnerd]

ET, UT2K4, Quake3, Doom 2/1, Doom3; all play natively and well in 32bit linuxt. And I think UT2K4 has a good 64bit client.

[Icarus]

hmm..we've missed the Privateer Remake (http://priv.solsector.net/) somehow!
I've been playing it all week..it's eating into my UT2004/ET time!!!

[madcompnerd]

Greaaat, you just reminded me of how much of my childhood I spent playing privateer....