Linux gaming

Jacek Poplawski · 2006-06-26 03:08:28

What do you think about games? Do you play them? Or just have them on disk with distro?

pauldonnelly · 2006-06-26 03:54:58

I've been playing the Descent series lately, with Loki's engine for D3 and the Dxx-Rebirth engine for the other two. I also like to play Cube, and Warsow on occasion. Old DOS games play great in DOSbox too. And of course there are the classics like Xpilot, Nethack, Neverball, and BZFlag. Those get less play from me though.

Was the second-to-last poll option supposed to read "a few"?

Bysshe · 2006-06-26 04:08:25

I couldn't select one of the options that fits me.
My write-in vote is:

Linux should be for games, but I don't have the time to play them.

or as already suggested:

I sometimes play games in Linux.

Gullible Jones · 2006-06-26 10:30:35

I selected the third option but that was just the closest... There are a lot of okay games for Linux, but I don't play them often or on any regular schedule.

pauldonnelly · 2006-06-26 10:38:11

I'm curious to hear from the person who voted "There are no good games for Linux." I'm surprised that there's nothing you enjoy. Have you really looked into it?

Arkamririon · 2006-06-26 11:35:41

I think there are many interessting Games for Linux. But i don't have the time to play much. So the only Game i play is UT2004.
When I look back to the time when i had both windows and linux on my computer, i have to say also i had 20 FPS less on linux than on windows it was a smoother feeling on linux. Don't know if this was a placebo effect, but on windows it always felt a bit stuttering. For UT I then always booted linux
Now Archlinux is my only OS and i have no problems playing games
Also there are many great OpenSource Games, I really like to see more Publishers releasing commercial Games for Linux.

lumiwa · 2006-06-26 11:50:29

On DOS I did play many adventure games (Larry, Space Quest...) and I will play again if I will find for Linux . I think Linux is for games but there are not enough games.

soffcore · 2006-06-26 17:19:40

Good Day,

As a linux gamer I can say (as my past screen shots have indicated - Jan 2006) that I have had a crap load of fun installing and getting games working with various means.. Whether it be native linux binaries and then copying the packaged files from the cd/dvd, or using wine-cvs/cedega to get the games with out the native installers to work.. Either way I have had as much fun wrestling with them as I did playing them.

To date I have had success with:

SimCity 3,
SimCity 4,
Quake (I,II,III,IV),
Doom (all versions),
Pain Killer,
FarCry,
Homeworld 2,
UT2003/2004,
World of Warcraft,
and a few others...

My latest games I want to try to install are Rise of Legends and Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory.

As for purely developed linux games I always enjoy any game Love NeverBall tho! Reminds me so much of SuperMonkey Ball! Per chance, has anyone be able to get MonkeyBubble working?

I am using a P4 3Ghz, 1Gb Dual Channel RAM and a NViDIA 6800 256Mb with an Audigy 2 Z.

iBertus · 2006-06-26 17:20:15

I have a ton of old DOS games that I'm going to get working if possible using DOSBox or QEMU/FreeDOS and I also play UT2004, DOOM3 and Cube when possible. Enemy Territory is also a great game that has given me many hours of joy. I've always wanted to try American Army, but hear that the linux version is now discontinued. Anybody know where I can buy an old copy of Warcraft II and expansion set? I've really been looking hard for it but with no luck.

Snowman · 2006-06-26 18:04:16

iBertus wrote:

I have a ton of old DOS games that I'm going to get working if possible using DOSBox or QEMU/FreeDOS

If it doesn't work with those, you could try with dosemu in community repo.

Bysshe · 2006-06-26 21:54:45

My native game of choice is Sauerbraten (the newer cube version). I thought Nexuiz used to interesting, but it doesn't run properly anymore. Oh, well.

kensai · 2006-06-26 22:17:50

Wesnoth and Eternal Lands they are the best games for Linux.

pauldonnelly · 2006-06-27 00:47:04

Bysshe wrote:

My native game of choice is Sauerbraten (the newer cube version). I thought Nexuiz used to interesting, but it doesn't run properly anymore. Oh, well.

I like Sauer too, but it's not running reliably for me now. It's Cube for a while yet.

mucknert · 2006-06-27 08:30:04

NetHack (and the Spin-Off Slash'EM), Angband, Descent 1-3, UT99, X², Postal 2, Darwinia, Uplink... there are a lot of great games for Linux and I enjoy them to the fullest.

gothicknight · 2006-06-28 10:25:16

Enemy Territory and friends (mostly True Combat Elite MOD)
Warsow
Armagetronad
Doom 3
Quake 4
Planeshift

And MAME ROM's :twisted:

I don't play a lot, but there's a list here: http://alts.homelinux.net/ with some nice FREE games.

Jacek Poplawski · 2006-06-28 21:42:19

Why there is no planeshift package in AUR?

Gullible Jones · 2006-06-28 22:06:09

Vega Strike is pretty cool, and not resource-intensive. It is, however, extremely unstable (at least on my system), and there's never a word on how to navigate through the help system.

FoPref · 2006-07-12 11:22:24

I play Quake3 CTF/RA and Battle For Wesnoth, every time I get to it (I don't have much time to play).

Wesnoth is a really great open source game (turn based strategy). I could spend days playing it in multiplayer. Check it out!

Also have a look at http://www.holarse.net if you understand German. There are lots of good game reports.

1c3d0g · 2006-07-12 12:07:50

UT2k4 for life! 8) Don't forget to install the Excessive Overkill mod, it really makes the game 10x better, trust me.

jaboua · 2006-07-12 17:13:23

I play some old DOS games in DOSEMU (mostly death rally and warcraft 2)

Native games:
(I don't play all though, freeciv I think I've run 10 times in my life...)

Cube/Sauerbraten
Quake 3
Enemy Territory
Unreal Tournament GOTY
Globulation 2
Battle for Wesnoth
Second Life (linux client is alpha)
FreeCiv
Glest
X-Moto
PPRacer
Xevil
Supertux

Some while ago I tried planeshift but it lagged - now I got a new gfx card and want to test it again...

Gullible Jones · 2006-07-12 17:19:48

Bysshe wrote:

My native game of choice is Sauerbraten (the newer cube version). I thought Nexuiz used to interesting, but it doesn't run properly anymore. Oh, well.

Sauerbraten is nice, until it causes the X server to lock up on you. :evil:

(Yes, I still think Linux badly needs a maximum priority terminate-foreground-application-as-current-user command, or some means of handling lockups without a) terminating everything or b) giving unprivileged users control over the kernel. But I digress.)

tmadhavan · 2006-07-14 08:50:50

This was mentioned in another post, but I thought it might be relevant here.

If any of you miss the Counter Strike days, but don't see that as any reason to defile your computer with Windows, try this.

It's class, trust me. It's an enemy territory mod. The game and the mod are (beer) FREE.

kensai · 2006-07-14 11:37:09

tmadhavan wrote:

This was mentioned in another post, but I thought it might be relevant here.
If any of you miss the Counter Strike days, but don't see that as any reason to defile your computer with Windows, try this.
It's class, trust me. It's an enemy territory mod. The game and the mod are (beer) FREE.

Nice to know that. And you can ditch windows after that since it is available for Linux also.
So good that all it takes is an emerge enemy-territory && emerge enemy-territory-truecombat

palandir · 2006-07-14 12:10:14

I played Quake 3 for the last couple of years.
After that I started to play Nethack. Got 8 ascensions so far, and I'm now trying to ascend a pacifist, which is goddamn hard.
Furthermore, I'm currently playing Baldur's Gate 2 via Cedega.

shadowhand · 2006-07-14 16:30:11

caviet: I haven't read the whole thread.

When you say "Linux games", are you excluding games that can be played with Wine?

Native games I play:
-UT2004
-Quake4

Wine games:
-World of Warcraft
-Cloud

I perfer the "big-budget" games, commercial games, to cheap/freely made home brew stuff, simply because I'm a sucker for (good) gameplay mechanics, pretty graphics, and in-depth stories/large worlds. Most free Linux games aren't up to par in terms of graphics and depth, at least for me. Some people are ok with playing Wesnoth, I'm not. I'd rather play Starcraft or Warcraft, because the graphics are better and the game "feels better". Some people play Nexiuz, but the game controls are horrible compared to the exactness and smoothness of UT2004.

Just my $0.02

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