Favorite freeware game

[TheGreatRings]

Bruno's Star Wars games (sorry, windows only), especially BoE (I don't like BoY as much since the trench run is really boring).

Oh, and do try to beat my record in BoE - 374 TIE's, didn't die a single time, destroyed all Executor turrets, finished with Home One having all three turrets intact and two surviving corvettes, too.

Free Star Wars games? God I wish I had Windows.

[panzervb]

P.U.R.E. (Spring), Spring:1944 (Spring)
Wolfegames.com Spring1944.com

[martenzo]

Hmm.. TA:Spring, but sadly, my video card fried itself recently and I can't play it. Other than that, I also like Alien Arena and True Combat: Elite

[panzervb]

IT's not called called TA: Spring anymore.

[martenzo]

Yeah. I know. But I forgot what it's called now and didn't bother looking it up.

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

T.o.M.E. is a good one. It's the ultimate roguelike. The new version being worked on is so moddable that any other roguelike ever created can be made as a mod for it.

Fixed URL for you. - Turuk

[suiraCLAW]

Forgot one.

Cave story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Story

Many argue that it's the perfect game and I can't disagree with them.
It's a pretty light game but you'll need to get a translation pack somewhere (very easy to get).

PS: it's also known as "Doukutsu Monogatari"

edit: damn, just found out somebody mentioned this game before me in this thread. Sorry.

[Urs]

One the "Free Software to Download" side, my favorite (other than Wesnoth) is:

Marathon.

Are the graphics terrible? Yes. Is anything else wrong with it? No.

[ADmiral-N]

What a nice thread!

And an opportunity to raise some attention for Iji, which is freeware.
A short discussion snippet from the GameFAQs forums:

Some may think it's blasphemy, but I think this game is better than Cave Story.

Iji is ugly as sin and has very clunky controls. To even compare it to Cave Story's stool is heresy.

Either way, it is definiately worth a try.

[cool evil]

I think nexuiz deserves a spot in this thread as well. Even though i haven't played it yet, from what i've seen it is the best looking FPS shooter in the freeware category. Problem is, you will get bored of it quickly since there are dozens of these free quake clones out there since probably the launch of quake 3.

[Dveman115]

I think nexuiz deserves a spot in this thread as well. Even though i haven't played it yet, from what i've seen it is the best looking FPS shooter in the freeware category. Problem is, you will get bored of it quickly since there are dozens of these free quake clones out there since probably the launch of quake 3.

I don't see how that would make you get bored with it. Like I mentioned earlier, I think that quakeworld is 10xbetter then any Q3 based game. Still, no matter what the game, deathmatch FPS has to be my favorite genera OF FPS.

[Kryz]

Sauerbraten pwns all!!!

It is another quake-like game, with better graphics than nexuiz. The game is ready to run on 32 bit linux and can be compiled for 64 bit. Found at http://www.sauerbraten.org


Fixed broken URL tag. - Turuk

[Urs]

It is another quake-like game, with better graphics than nexuiz.

o rly?
I must say I have tried both, and they're both basically the same. Sauerbraten has nicer maps, Nexuiz nicer enemies/character models. I mean really, some of the Sauerbraten enemies just look terrible.

And Marathon wrecks all of them when it comes to plot/storyline. Namely in that it has one (and a quite good one at that).

[Corvvs]

Sauerbraten has bad graphics but a nice sort of industrial aesthetic. Nexuiz has very pretty graphics, especially laser effects and explosions.

My favorite game? Probably was Urban Terror until I stopped playing about a month ago. The community's about one step above 4chan in sordidness, and the gameplay was exceptionally hard to learn. Once I got good at it, though, it completely rocked. Nothing like an FPS with Mario moves in 3D

[suiraCLAW]

What a nice thread!

And an opportunity to raise some attention for Iji, which is freeware.
A short discussion snippet from the GameFAQs forums:

Some may think it's blasphemy, but I think this game is better than Cave Story.

Iji is ugly as sin and has very clunky controls. To even compare it to Cave Story's stool is heresy.

Either way, it is definiately worth a try.

I actually played that game before I found cave story.

It's actually a very great game, very good setting and tension. It's actually one of the few games I truly completed (to be honest, I can't think of any other game which didn't get me bored until the last boss) and nice RPG system.

Comparing Iji and cave story isn't as easy. They're pretty much equal - both awesome - but I would give the favor to cave story (for the moment) as that one has more original and different weapons. While Iji has more kinds of weapons, there's little variation between them and you switch weapons when you run out of ammo, not because the situation changes.

Also gove teeworlds a try (was mentioned here before; http://www.teeworlds.com/), great game as well. The movement system is extremely well done and there's quite variation between the weapons. Good game for casual use.