New to Linux (or not)? Need a game?

[sudomania4]

This thread is based on the very useful thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=33183

The purpose of this thread it to RECOMMEND your favorite native linux games, or favorite clones of windows games or to REQUEST a clone of a windows game.

If you are recommending a game, please specify whether the game you reccomend is Open source or Commercial, and only recommend the most developed games in response to requests. Please provide links to the game's website. If there is not a package for the game in the official main/universe repositories, please make sure there is a link to linux source on the website, or a linux package, along with directions to compile.

If you are requesting a linux clone of a windows game, please provide as much information as possible, including links.

For general requests, specify the genre you are intersted in (rpg, fps, rts, etc.).

[malcolmb]

Ok sudomania5!

Give me: The best linux mmorpg.

Dont let me down.

[slugkilla]

oh oh, yey I'm #2 lol! BZflag (http://www.bzflag.org) is my all time favorite game. It is a fps with tanks and such. Very popular. Battle for Wesnoth is very good too. It is a startegy game. I also play GTA2 way more than I should on epsxe and hope that it is cloned but not to the extent that it is the same game. Emptyclip (http://gaming.gwos.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=1) looks like a good clone, but I have had no installation success.

edit: crap I waited to long.... #3

[NewWithoutClue]

Ok sudomania5!

Give me: The best linux mmorpg.

Dont let me down.
This is not what the thread is for.

p01n7

[sudomania4]

Battle for Wesnoth's website is http://www.wesnoth.org/
Please try to include links to ALL sites. I appreciate your input. I'm thinking about a few days from now, when we have more posts here, to compile the suggestions into one huge chart, a favorite games chart of the games most recommended (i know these already exist, but this one would be specifically for ubuntu). and maybe a chart for native linux games, as well as a windows-linux chart.

And my nickname is sudomania4, not sudomania5...

[synacktion]

I really enjoy Unreal Tournament 2004 and it runs better on Linux than it does on Windows...

http://www.unrealtournament.com/

EDIT: UT2K4 is a fast paced first person shooter that includes all kinds of weapons, such as grenade/rocket launcher, chain gun, lightning gun, etc. There are several modes of play - CTF, Team deathmatch, deathmatch, king of the hill, etc. Also includes certain multiplayer maps w/ vehicles and defensive guns. If you like any of the Quake games or Counterstrike, you'd like UT2K4. Unfortunately, it's not open source and typically costs around $20. Very friendly gui installer.

[seth0x2b]

You won't find a better list than this one: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Native_Games

My personal favourites are Neverwinter Nights,Dungeon Siege I and II, Divine Divinity, Temple of elemental Evil, Sacred 2 and, of course Diablo I,II,LoD.
Neverwinter is already native, but I hope Neverwinter Nights 2 will be ported also.Dungeon Siege is..well..You know who's ;) so I guess we won't be seeing it ported to Linux..to bad..great game!
Divine Divinity and ToEE ...maybe with Wine..but I had no success :(
Sacred probably runs with Wine, but natively would be better(newer version of course, II is old already so no economical reason to port it now :) )
Diablo:works with wine, but if rumors are true and Diablo 3 will be developed, I realy realy realy! hope they won't forget the linux comunity.

Cheers

[EDIT] BTW, "you know who" is Micro$oft :D

[sudomania4]

OK, i have been using Ubuntu for about a month. I have never been a very big gamer, but since i started using linux, i started playing some games when i had the time. I was a newbie so i didnt want to compile much, so here are some of my favorites...

Armagetron- free open source, available in the repos. 3D Tron-like high speed game. The rules are simple: you ride a light cycle (a kind of motorbike that can only turn 90 degrees at a time, leaves a wall behind and cannot be stopped) and have to avoid running into walls while at the same time you have to try to get your opponent to run into them. http://armagetronad.net/

BZFlag- free open source, available in the repos. BZFlag is a 3D multi-player multiplatform tank battle game that allows users to play against each other in a network environment. There are two main styles of play: capture-the-flag and free-for-all. http://www.bzflag.org/

Emilia Pinball- free open source, available in the repos. The Emilia Pinball Project is a pinball simulator for Linux and other Unix systems. There are only two levels to play with... http://pinball.sourceforge.net/

Nethack: Falcon's Eye- free open source, available in the repos. Falcon's Eye is a mouse-driven interface for NetHack
NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text interfaces all using the same game engine. You can pick your race, your role, and your gender.http://users.tkk.fi/~jtpelto2/nethack.html

Freeciv- free open source, available in the repos. Freeciv is a free clone of the turn based strategy game Civilization. In this game, each player becomes leader of a civilisation, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal: the extinction of all other civilisations.http://www.freeciv.org/index.php/Freeciv

PlanetPenguin Racer- free open source, available in the repos. PlanetPenguin Racer, or ppracer as it is called for short, is a simple OpenGL
racing game featuring Tux, the Linux mascot. The goal of the game is to slide
down a snow- and ice-covered mountain as quickly as possible, avoiding the
trees and rocks that will slow you down. Collect herings and other goodies while sliding down the hill, but avoid fish bones.http://projects.planetpenguin.de/racer/

The Battle for Wesnoth- free open source, available in the repos. Battle for control of villages, using variety of units which have advantages
and disadvantages in different types of terrains and against different types
of attacks. Units gain experience and advance levels, and are carried over
from one scenario to the next campaign.http://www.wesnoth.org/

Glest- free open source, however, NOT available in the repos. Glest is a free 3D real time strategy game, available for several operative systems and that can be modified using XML and a set of tools
Current version includes single player game against AI controlled players, providing two factions for the player to control: Magic and Tech, each with their corresponding tech trees, units and buildings. http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/%7Euxsm/glest/ and http://www.glest.org/
for help on compiling, see http://www.masguadalinex.net/?q=glest except change to dh_make -e glesttest@glesttest.com (or any email address) and change the two tar -xjf ../ to the actual path. (/home/username/glest/glest.tar.gz) Other than those changes, the compiling guide is perfect.

Neverball- free open source, available in the repos. In the grand tradition of Marble Madness and Super Monkey Ball, Neverball
has you guide a rolling ball through dangerous territory. Balance on narrow
bridges, navigate mazes, ride moving platforms, and dodge pushers and
shovers to get to the goal. Race against the clock to collect coins to earn
extra balls. http://icculus.org/neverball/

Neverputt- free open source, available in the repos. Neverputt is a hot-seat multi-player miniature golf game for 1 to 4 players.
The 18-hole course takes advantage of all the elements that challenge
Neverball players, including moving platforms and barriers, teleporters,
ramps, and drop-offs. A simple putting interface and golf scoring system
have been added. http://icculus.org/neverball/

Cube- free open source, however, NOT available in the repos. Cube is an open source multiplayer and singleplayer first person shooter game built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine. Cube is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine, which combines very high precision dynamic occlusion culling with a form of geometric mipmapping on the whole world for dynamic LOD for configurable fps & graphic detail on most machines. Uses OpenGL & SDL. http://wouter.fov120.com/cube/

[seth0x2b]

Thanks to this thread I became interested in Wesnoth. Never heard of it before.
I'm in the middle of compiling it right now.
If it's at good as it looks(very Heroes III-ish :) ), I see looooong nights spent on my box in the near future :)

Cheers

[sudomania4]

wesnoth is in the repos, but im not sure of the version...

[seth0x2b]

Yeah but ./configure it's a delight :)
I am going through the Wesnoth screenshots right now and a question pops into mind: I see more and more nice GPL games (Nexuiz rocks..quake 1 engine taken to the max ..really nice and looks kinda like Unreal tournament):
GPL games are reasonably good and playable, but graphics are a no no.I mean from an "artistic" point of view :).They look like the old Zelda games.Since the game engines render out images anyway, map them to 3D models or whutever, why don't we make those pictures/textures look awesome?! Part of a good game is it's "eyecandy".For me anywayz..I don't get near a game that has crappy graphics(Heroes III was an exception:) ).
So...put this to thought.I think a good RPG is doable.I mean really good, Neverwinter like quality:D .Technically, I'm sure a good SDL+OpenGL implementation of an engine could be done.This is not a suggestion, is more of a question:are there any teams out there that are working on such a game right now?! A good graphics/gameplay rpg?!

Cheers

[sudomania4]

For a beautiful rpg, i highly reccomend glest see one of my previous posts). I seems you know how to make, so ompiling glest should be no problem. Here are some screenshots: http://www.glest.org/en/gallery-screenshots.html

[slugkilla]

glest looks nice but is there a .deb? I dislike compiling.

[seth0x2b]

There you go slugkilla
http://apt.linex.org/dists/cl/juegalinex/binary-i386/
Man that folder is full of games :)

[slugkilla]

wow yes it is, thanks. After I find a couple I like I'll add the links and discriptions.

[livingtarget]

I'd like to recommend darwinia, a retro style arcade RTS thingy. It's a commercial game but try the demo for free to see if you like it.

www.darwinia.co.uk

[ELD]

For a beautiful rpg, i highly reccomend glest see one of my previous posts). I seems you know how to make, so ompiling glest should be no problem. Here are some screenshots: http://www.glest.org/en/gallery-screenshots.html

No offense but he asked for an rpg, glest is an rts....

[sudomania4]

Sorry, then. The version of glest provided in that link is really old. The current version is 2.0.2. I have .debs i have made and would be glad to send them to someone, or if someone wants to host them, that would be nice.

[charlieg]

I can recommend Scourge (http://scourge.sourceforge.net/) as an upcoming RPG.

[GazzaK]

is there a flight sim? I don't mean like MS Flight Simulator, thats just way too complicated, I mean some game where you can just fly about like a looney doing tricks and stuff, more of a eye candy sim not a true physics sim...

and not a goal based shoot the baddies sim either...](*,)

[seth0x2b]

http://www.flightgear.org/ looks neat ;)

Cheers

[JoWilly]

Yeah but ./configure it's a delight :)

You should be using gentoo, its made for you ;)

[seth0x2b]

/offtopic
Lol..no way.Ubuntu is the first distro that got everyting I wanted to work as it should.Is the first distro that got my ati 9200SE to work(I used Fedora for 1.5 years, and couldn't get the damn drivers to work :) ).And I just love apt-get :) !

/ontopic
has anyone tried Planeshift?! (www.planeshift.it).It's GPL and looks really nice.I installed it with no problem, but didn't have much time to play around.Looks very nice though.


Cheers

[JNik]

Is there any pinball game for linux? Google only comes up with Emilia that doesn't seem very exciting.

[charlieg]

Is there any pinball game for linux? Google only comes up with Emilia that doesn't seem very exciting.
Sadly that's about your lot as far as I'm aware. Try WINE/Cedega and the commercial Windows pinball games, or consider getting your feet wet and restoring Emilia development.