Try playing MUD. I used to play it when I was in college. All you need is a MUD client.

Warning - It's addictive as hell!!!


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i strongly recommend using some emulators to play old classics like:
Snes - Terranigma, Chronotrigger, Final Fantasy
Gameboy - Pokemon
PC - Diablo, baldur's gate

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http://www.the-underdogs.info/
That is a site for abandoned games that didn't get their rightly deserved fame. There are RPGs there and I guess you can play them in linux with emulators and WINE.

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Neverwinter Nights is a fantastic, and fortunately Linux native, RPG that I would highly recommend.

Or better yet, dosbox.

The Tombs of Asciiroth
http://www.icculus.org/asciiroth/

who needs fancy graphics? :P

Yeah, you really can, TexMex. As a gamer, I find NWN2 to be personally offensive.

Really ? Well damn. Why did they have to ruin the series like that. I hear Bioware is now M$-owned, I wonder if that might be a reason. Maybe I'll try to sell it on e-bay. I didn't actually buy it, it came with my nvidia card.

EA, not Microsoft, own Bioware (I'll let you decide which is worse).

not RPG but curios, did any of you get Fallout 2 to work on linux? I have to boot windows to play it (it's like the 10th time now).

I know Fallout 1 works fine, and it says on winehq that Fallout 2 is Platinum rated. It's got to work:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...ersion&iId=319
Read the How-to, scroll down on there.

The problem is, I think, that they subcontracted NWN2 to Obsidian Studios. People insist that Obsidian "kicks ass" and so on, I'm not sure how they say this.

I would say that they are sloppy, and unprofessional.

The game is rife with technical instability, a general lack of technical quality, and Obsidian also decided they would reimagine much of the look, which results in idiot screw-ups like boxy great-swords hardly larger than a longsword.

The game is unfinished, plain and simple. To be fair, EA does have a habit of forcing things out the door.

And as MadMan said, EA acquired Bioware.
Really, between the two, I think Microsoft is the dramatically lesser evil.

Well I knew a bad company acquire Bioware, I guess it must have been EA not M$. I agree that EA makes some of the crappiest games out there, it didn't used to be that way a long time ago.

yea, EA used to be such a nice company, but they got so greedy, best example is Sims & Sims 2 & its 2214 expansions

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Sims 2 expansions (there are only 17 of them, not 2214. From those only 7 are expansions, and other 10 are "stuff packs", that can be ignored) are worth it, since they add features that didn't exist in original game (cars, cellphones, pets, lifts, seasons, etc.). Of course, 1/4 of this could be included in the game from beginning, but other 3/4 couldn't (2004 year computer probably were not suitable for handling stuff added in later packs, like weather change or running shops (up to 24 sims in one location)), also they gradually increase game complexity (compare base game with game that have 6 expansions (not stuff packs). There will be a big difference), and fix certain game problems (like immortal teenagers that never age). so it is not simply getting more cash. EA also made(or published) Spore, so I don't think things are really bad. Besides I don't remember many other games that could survive 4 years so it looks like EA is doing its job. Even Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 seems to be nearly forgotten now, although there are still people that play Counter-Strike, Half-Life 1 and Doom 1,2. It looks like the newer game is, the less chances it have to live for a long time, no matter what genre it is.