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Fun Stuff => CLIKC => Topic started by: johannaffendy on 05 Aug 2007, 23:20
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i don't think anyone brought up this topic before.
since my PS2 is on it's death bed and my PC is a minimum-spec system by today's standards, i've to resort to freewares for my daily dose of gaming. i've always been a sucker for adventure games and titles like 5 days a stranger, ben jordan and missing (to name a few) not only provide fun but also put me in a nostalgic moment, reminiscing about the good old days of monkey island, police/king/space quest and prince of persia. although done in a limited budget, some of these titles are of high quality (e.g. facade, penumbra, a tale of two kingdoms).
does anyone else here share this interest? if so, what games have you played?
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CAVEEEEEEEEEEEE STORYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Besides that the Independent Gaming Source is a pretty nice little blog about indie gaming. It'll turn you on to alot of games you'd otherwise not know about.
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CAve Story is definitely a great game and I'm gonna list a couple of sites. Indie may not be applicaple in all cases, but free defiitely is.
http://www.agdinteractive.com/ - They've remade the first 2 King's Quest games to great success, and are currently alpha testing a remake of Quest for Glory 2. They also have a retail game called "Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine" which is a great adventure title.
http://www.agdinteractive.com/ - Abandonware site made of pure win. With a slightly shitty search engine.
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thanks for the recommendations. (ackblom12, you listed the same link twice :roll:) i'll list some of my favorite sites:
http://indygamer.blogspot.com
http://reloaded.org
http://new.bigbluecup.com/games.php
yea i've heard of cave story but it's in japanese isn't it?
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ah hell, sorry about that.
http://www.the-underdogs.info/
amazing site none the less.
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SOLDAT. Side scrolling 2D shooter. So many guns. Ragdoll physics, action packed. It's insane.
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ah hell, sorry about that.
http://www.the-underdogs.info/
amazing site none the less.
seconded. i was definitely going to suggest this. you can sort games by genre, and year. and there's a lot of games that we grew up playing, on there, that we might miss dearly. I got Colonization from there, and damn do I love that game.
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yea i've heard of cave story but it's in japanese isn't it?
y helo thar cave story english translation http://www.gameflaws.com/cavestory/
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oh. thanks lazer :-D
www.abandonia.com - another abandonware site, they have quite a huge library. some games are ESA-protected though.
http://freeware.remakes.org - independent gaming's review archives.
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9 Dragons? (http://9dragons.acclaim.com/)
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i don't think 9dragons qualifies as a freeware indie game..
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Because it's made by Acclaim?
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www.xevil.com
despite the shitty site layout, it is pretty much incredible.
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Because it's made by Acclaim?
that's one thing. it's also an MMORPG.
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I suppose it wouldn't hurt to mention Orbiter (http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html), which does for space what Flight Simulator did for air. It's definitely a simulator, and not a game, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Most of the solar system is available from the get-go, but it should be noted that user-made mods for it infinitely increase the value of the game, most found through the related sites link (http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/sites.html). In particular, nab some high-res textures (video card compliant, of course), Delta Glider IV and the Sound Mod from Dan's Orbiter Page, the latter two which are absolutely essential to having fun.
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since i see some abandonware sites here, i'd think it's ok to post abandonwarering (http://abandonwarering.com/), it links to lots of great sites, one among them xtc abandonware (http://www.xtcabandonware.com/).
then there's actual freeware games like(i'd have to admit, i got most of the links from another forum i'm on, description is mine though):
frets on fire (http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/)(guitar hero clone, only you use your keyboard)
trackmania (http://www.trackmanianations.com/indexUk.php)(racing game)
F.E.A.R. combat (http://www.joinfear.com/main)(fear, online, free)
generally (http://generally.rscsites.org/)(mico machines like)
neverball (http://www.icculus.org/neverball/)(like super monkey ball? you'll like this)
penumbra (http://frictionalgames.com/?q=penumbra)(horror game, plenty of puzzles, no weapons)
little fighter 2 (http://lf2.net/)(like the name suggests, fighting game, has got lots of different modes)
gta 1,2, and wild metal (http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/index.html)most likely, gta 1 and 2 are well known, in wild metal you control a tank, i think you can imagine what you have to do with it
black shades (http://wolfire.com/blackshades.html)(you're a bodyguard with psychic powers, killing zombies, and various kinds of assasins, graphics look like the original starfox)
warzone 2100 (http://warzone2100.strategyplanet.gamespy.com/) RTS game, futuristic setting
ground control (http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/groundcontrol/)(also a futuristic rts, pure combat)
crack attack (http://www.aluminumangel.org/attack/)(basically a stripped down version of tetris attack)
tribes (http://www.fileplanet.com/140246/140000/fileinfo/Starsiege:-Tribes-Full-Game)(futuristic shooter, huge pretty open maps, jetpack, enjoy)
gunbound (http://www.softnyx.net/)(bit like worms, online play)
clonk planet (http://www.clonk.de/contents_en.html?/classics_en.html)(worms/rts crossover)
narbacular drop (http://www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com/narbaculardrop.html)(bit like the game "portals")
torus trooper (http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/%7Ecs8k-cyu/windows/tt_e.html)(very fun low tech graphics, very high speed, techno music, you're a space ship, see how long you last)
tremulous (http://tremulous.net/)(team based scifi shooter, also has you build stuff for upgrades)
scorched 3d (http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/index.php)(alot like worms 3d, you use tanks though, and need fuel to move)
line rider (http://fsk.deviantart.com/art/Line-Rider-beta-40255643)(like excitebike, only you make the map)
return to castle wolfenstein: enemy territory (http://enemy-territory.4players.de:1041/news.php)(online shooter, team based)
cortex command (http://datarealms.com/)(you are a brain in a jar who has the ability to control robots)
warrock (http://www.warrock.net/)(like a free battlefield 2)
cube (http://www.cubeengine.com/index.php4)(shooter not unlike quake 2)
cube 2 (http://sauerbraten.org/)(sequal to the above)
abuse (http://www.acid-play.com/download/abuse/)(awesome side scroller)
doom legacy (http://legacy.newdoom.com/)(like the name suggests, doom, i prefer to use programs like Jdoom to achieve something of the same effect though)
super mario 3:mario forever (http://www.gamershell.com/news/26443.html)(mario world 3 clone)
tux racer (http://www.acid-play.com/download/tux-racer/)(yay! im a pengiun, and im faster then you!)
americas army (http://www.americasarmy.com/)(online shooter, you die quickly, well, depending on how good you are, but bullets are FATAL in this game)
alien arena (http://red.planetarena.org/)(scifi shooter)
savage (http://www.s2games.com/savage/)(real time strategy shooter, wanna know what that is? play the game)
warsow (http://www.warsow.net/)(fun quake like game, with cartoonesque graphics)
nexuiz (http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/)(fast paced online shooter)
vivid conceptions (http://www.vertigogaming.net/vivid.htm)(side scrolling platformer)
phosphor (http://www.rasterwerks.com/)(browser based online shooter)
GlTron (http://www.gltron.org/)(remember the bike scenes in TRON? this is it)
worms wars (http://www.bobtheschizo.co.uk/wormwars.html)(you're a worm army, fighting for garden supremacy, top down view)
elder scrolls: arena (http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/downloads_games.htm)(come on, you must know this game, for the heathens that don't. think
ultima)
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oh, how could i have forgotten plasma pong (http://www.plasmapong.com/)?
it's a pong close, accept you shoot jets, and can suck the ball up, looks great, very fun sandbox mode.
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oh, and as you said adventures, try white chamber, http://www.gamershell.com/news/28602.html
unfortunately, i couldn't find their own site, but i know it,s there, been there.
adventure, anime looks, pretty futuristic, i admit, i haven't played much of it, since the anime style threw me off, but what i played was nice
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I never could get into Ground Control. I only played a little bit of it, but the controls were kind of confusing, and it was kind of boring.