What games do people still play these days?

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John5788 · Post by **John5788** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 5:07 am

I've been away from the gaming scene for a very long time, just reinstalled true combat to play, but there were barely any people playing! all the servers were empty except 1 that had 4 people total.

where'd everyone go? what other games are people playing?

Yggdrasil · Post by **Yggdrasil** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 5:32 am

If you're looking for a realism-based shooter, Urban Terror might be a good start. Otherwise, Nexuiz just updated so there should be some more people on that. Or, for something completely different: World of Goo, if you like puzzle games/physic simulations you should give it a shot and dl the demo.

GODhack · Post by **GODhack** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:38 am

You tried on bad time or sth. there is still 2-3 very active true combat servers.

John5788 · Post by **John5788** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:55 am

heh, 2 -3 servers arent enough for me. I like playing games that have a little more players than that

atrophy · Post by **atrophy** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 10:34 pm

ET still has a decent sized community.

Occasus · Post by **Occasus** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:42 pm

games-fps/warsow

Around 100 online players at the moment, rather small, but active community.

codergeek42 · Post by **codergeek42** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:52 pm

Nexuiz, BZFlag, and Urban Terror are my three favorite games for the moment.

ChrisJumper · Post by **ChrisJumper** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:26 pm

Today?

Shooter:
ET-QuakeWars.
Waiting for UT3-Linux-Client. (With Cedega, i played the Singelplayer til the End, Online it won't work since i have to use the Patch 2.0)

Strategy and the best Game Ever:
Civilization IV + Warlords + Beyond the Sword (with cedega, but take care: Don't try the "Complete Edition" or Download-Versions like Steam)-
(And i am waiting for my Version of Alpha Centauri)

2D-Slide-Shooter:
Jets n Guns

And Jump n Run:
The Prince of Persia Trilogy + the new Prince of Persion 2008 (with cedega)

Sometimes: x3 - reunion (its time expensive! - and has some bad game-design "bugs". It Rocks!)

The Games i will try in future:

Bioshock (cedega, works really nice!)
Fear2 (if its a budget game)
Sacrad gold (maybe..)

I hope some Adventures will run with Wine/Cedega:
"A new Beginning" and "The Whispered World" from Daedalic Entertainment
and "The Book of Unwritten Tales" (works - cedega). Damn i like these Adventures so much, since i played Monkey Island!

TinheadNed · Post by **TinheadNed** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:48 pm

The Orange Box is £8 on Steam. I bought it for £15 the week before, just for Portal. Both work in wine. Peggle & Peggle Nights also work in Steam/Wine, as little puzzler flash games. The demos are free.

World of Goo is out for Linux, and if it is as good as the Wii version, should be bought instantly.

disi · Post by **disi** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:45 pm

currently installed:
Red Alert 3, sometimes. Still working on the soviet campagne...

einstein, great puzzle game

XSkat, famous german board game

Cyker · Post by **Cyker** » Fri May 01, 2009 1:31 am

The only stuff I have been playing lately has been:
WH40k: Dawn of War
Jets'n'Guns
Neverwinter Nights
Freespace 2

Still waiting for FS2 multiplayer to be fixed 'tho in the Linux version!

Naib · Post by **Naib** » Fri May 01, 2009 7:46 am

Linux side: EnemyTerritory QuakeWars, UT2k4, Battle of Wesnoth (been getting into this!!!) and some worldOfGoo

Win: Left4Dead (doesn't run in wine, well not my wine in 64bit gentoo), DemiGod (doesn't install in wine), DawnOfWar2 (again doesn't install in wine)

Dagger · Post by **Dagger** » Fri May 01, 2009 11:49 am

Not much time to play games nowadays. Last game I played was Fallout3 couple of months ago.

ruskie · Post by **ruskie** » Fri May 01, 2009 11:50 am

quakeworld

EzInKy · Post by **EzInKy** » Fri May 01, 2009 11:53 am

Freeciv is about all I play. It's really come a long way in the last few years.

d2_racing · Post by **d2_racing** » Fri May 01, 2009 12:06 pm

Urban Terror, one of my friends are playing that game every friday night, so I will double check that game one day

bobspencer123 · Post by **bobspencer123** » Fri May 01, 2009 2:27 pm

I just tried world of good demo and it is a very addicting and unique game. Highly recommend trying the demo and the full version is only 20 bucks too.

monsm · Post by **monsm** » Fri May 01, 2009 3:35 pm

I noticed linuxquestions gave the games award to battle of wesnoth. Been a bit hooked on that lately. Great strategy game.

My lighter entertainment one is Supertux kart. Good, simple racing. You can download extra tracks from their website.

Mons

atrophy · Post by **atrophy** » Sat May 02, 2009 2:52 am

ruskie wrote:quakeworld

Ruskie the Linux QW guru

I played QW since about NQR 2 (always lowskilled div4) but gave up a few years ago when the community really started to shrink. Such a shame, never had as much fun playing anything else since.

h2sammo · Post by **h2sammo** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:36 pm

evony

Mad Merlin · Post by **Mad Merlin** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:00 am

Naib wrote:Win: Left4Dead (doesn't run in wine, well not my wine in 64bit gentoo)

It runs for me without complaints in 64-bit Gentoo. It's much (much!) slower than I'd like, but it is playable.

dreadlorde · Post by **dreadlorde** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:11 am

Wormux, xgalaga, Diablo II, and Starcraft.

Cyker · Post by **Cyker** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:20 am

Found another kickass shumup - Hurrican!

It's basically a Turrican clone but the graphics are superb (If you like Jets'n'Guns you'll probably like this

)

No Linux version sadly, but it works in WINE and is free! (Beer, not speech)

Speaking of Jets'n'Guns BTW, The RiG folks told me there was now a Linux version, and I checked it out, but it has DRM on it, and not just serial key DRM but on-line activation a'la Telltale Games Sam'n'Max or Steam!! WTF? Seriously??

If RiG didn't need to DRM JnG, I can't understand why LGP feel the need to...

MaximeG · Post by **MaximeG** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:03 pm

Hi,

I'm waiting for QuakeLive to be released on Linux !

Besides, much more the same as the people who posted before me plus Company of Heroes. (Quake 3, Civ 4, Doom3+RoE, ETQW, WoW on Linux )
And a bit of World of Warcraft ... yeah, I'm ashamed. But it's to have a game in common with my wife !

Regards,
Maxime

ocin · Post by **ocin** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:21 pm

quake live on windows 7. and sometimes a little round of cs 1.6

and yeah, I can live without windows again if ql is released for linux :)