Best Free Games for Linux?

flamesrock · 10-05-2003, 03:21 PM

What are the best:

-Shooters?
-Strategy?
-Action?
-Adventure?
-RPG?

that are free on linux?

Also, are there any good MMORPG's?

(I think this might be a good sticky

)

The_Ace · 10-05-2003, 03:27 PM

Neverwinter Nights rocks as usual, not free though but well worth every penny!

xp2400 · 10-05-2003, 03:51 PM

enemy territory

chup · 10-05-2003, 03:53 PM

definately enemy territory, and maybe america's army, but ive never played that game before....

LavaDevil94 · 10-05-2003, 04:01 PM

did you check this gamelist at
http://icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php
? ive looked there and ive looked through the entire 1000+ database of games they have at the game tome, and im still looking for something new. anyone?

arioch · 10-06-2003, 02:08 PM

America's Army Operations, is one of the best FPS out there. You bleed to death, no bunny hopping, weapons are just like there counter parts in reality, the HONOR system is awesome. With 2.0 comming out, you can bet you'll see me there fraggin

teval · 10-06-2003, 02:55 PM

There's freeciv which noone has mentioned. A civ-clone. It's really fun.
Also there's armagetron, a tron-like-cycle-racing-game.
Lots of fun times with that one.
There's xlincity which is also fun, I'm thinking of maybe starting to upgrade that one. That's when I get time.. which will be probably next summer. Or.. I might do it as part of my comp. sci. class in school.
I'll see..
Check this out:

http://happypenguin.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=15

And:

http://happypenguin.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=549

Sure.. it's about a year old, but the games listed there have imroved. Wait for january when there's going to be a new list+results.

LavaDevil94 · 10-06-2003, 02:56 PM

americas army is great, but not for me. i have a 28k connection. i got aa on a cd, but it wasnt worth it (but that was in windoze) because the minimum ping was 3000ms. average was 7000ms. and ill have to wait for DSL to try it again.

crashmeister · 10-06-2003, 04:32 PM

What about vegastrike
planeshift looks promising,too

LavaDevil94 · 10-06-2003, 08:26 PM

yeah, but i wish i could get vegastrike. with its size at 166MB, it would take 16 hours to get it, and i get kicked by my ISP after 9 hours of constant connection.

flamesrock · 10-06-2003, 10:26 PM

Very promising. Also, for those of you who don't know, simcity 3000 unlimited is available on linux too. (SC 4 isn't tho..)

I only wonder why all of these newer games aren't ported to linux. That's one of the only things keeping me from deleting the windows partition altogether. And before anybody say it -- I haven't been able to use wine. It just won't compile for me.

mondaypickle · 10-06-2003, 10:28 PM

BZFLAG IS THE BOMB haha its really alot of fun

Paracyber · 10-07-2003, 04:43 AM

Enemy territory, it's the best for me

Atmchicago · 10-07-2003, 10:05 AM

Bzflag is awesome!

Tux racer is also fun, but not *incredible*.

slakmagik · 10-07-2003, 11:43 AM

I'm an xgalaga addict, myself, but I'm not sure if that counts as the sort of thing gamers have in mind by 'games'.

(I finally got to hear the sounds right now that I've got ALSA working and... wow. Cool.)