Harri Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Any free games you like for the pc? Post them here. AVA: A free game based on the UT3 engine. ava.ijji.com Urban Dead: A text browser zombie game. urbandead.com Maplestory: Grindy Korean mmo. Fun if you like pain. maplestory.nexon.net Vindictus: A dungeon crawler based on the Source engine. Looks very nice. vindictus.nexon.net 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Shepard Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 I Wanna Be The Guy. Go play it. Go beat it. Do it. Seriously. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirandello Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Any free games you like for the pc? Post them here. AVA: A free game based on the UT3 engine. ava.ijji.com Urban Dead: A text browser zombie game. urbandead.com Maplestory: Grindy Korean mmo. Fun if you like pain. maplestory.nexon.net Vindictus: A dungeon crawler based on the Source engine. Looks very nice. vindictus.nexon.net Urban Dead is just about the only one I'd really recommend to anyone else looking a free game. Also, there's Die2Nite, which is sort of like Urban Dead's cooperative/town-building counterpart. AvA in itself is always rife with hackers. And 12 years-olds. Perhaps if you really, really, really can't afford a game (which I doubt, everyone has some sort of stable income these days, and Team Fortress 2 is $10 at the gameshop), then it might be worth a play. Might. Maplestory isn't one of my particular favorites, but it's violence-lite, so I recommend it for anyone who has free time or wishes to get into MMOs. The art style/gameplay of the game is hit or miss, though (it was miss for me). Vindictus is a mixed bag. I absolutely hate it because Nexon doesn't seem to realize that everywhere else other than Korea has pretty variable internet (read: mostly unstable and not always high-speed government-mandated like Korea's is), and I think it's a stupid move to keep the system peer-to-peer based instead of moving it onto server-based instancing (which would save a lot of trouble of just trying to find a damn good party instead of dropping out repeatedly, getting frustrated, and ending up running the mission yourself, which sucks, too). Anyways, for my recommendations: Battlezone (1998 remake): I recommend this WITH HIGHEST HONORS. It's absolutely free, just google up Battlezone Enhanced (make sure it's by a guy named Spock. It contains the singleplayer, which is what the game is all about: first-person tactical command). Dark Reign: Starcraft's lesser micro-cousin and more about massive armies waging warfare. Defense is killer in this one (after all, giant gun towers annihilate most things). The game's alright, but it's easy to see how Starcraft overshadowed it. Netstorm: Floating islands! Magic! Building bridges to attack your enemy's island! It's a load of fun (and very thinking-intensive). Try it out! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enervation Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 (edited) I heard S4 League was pretty popular among peoples. I'm not one for animu and mango all up in my games, though. Many MMORPGs fall into the so-called "free to play on PC" category. There's a huge variety of them (though scifi MMOs are distinctly lacking), and a lot of them have their own style and what not. I'd recommend Cabal Online, and only that one since it's pretty easy to get into and it's one of the flashiest MMOs I've ever played. Edited January 12, 2011 by Enervation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Vindictus is awesome. Don't hate a game because your connection sucks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enervation Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Vindictus is awesome. Don't hate a game because your connection sucks! It has nothing to do with your/our/his/her/its connection. It runs on a peer-based network connection for joining games, which means the lag you get with various people fluctuates very rapidly. That, combined with Nexon's seemingly inability to comprehend this problem, leads to a lot of varying opinions about Vindictus. I was the CB for it. Then I was in the OB. Then I dropped it. It's nice at first, but once you get to the later levels it's absurdly obvious it was geared to players who can pay for the ridiculous cash shop tokens to get through. Most people burn their all their silver tokens in 2-3 days. I can burn 25 in a 2-3 hour period, because I had a nice guild to run with. And frankly, it's repetitive. You cannot deny that. The level designs are 150,000% linear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docsfox Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Knytt Stories. Most charming game I've ever played. It feels like to me that the people who made LittleBigPlanet used Knytt as their basic model for their game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Here's a few we did (Might pick back up on them in the future) http://pressxordie.com/tag/friday-freeloader/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Ben There Dan That: http://www.zombie-cow.com/?page_id=17 Excellent adventure game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Vindictus is awesome. Don't hate a game because your connection sucks! It has nothing to do with your/our/his/her/its connection. It runs on a peer-based network connection for joining games, which means the lag you get with various people fluctuates very rapidly. That, combined with Nexon's seemingly inability to comprehend this problem, leads to a lot of varying opinions about Vindictus. I was the CB for it. Then I was in the OB. Then I dropped it. It's nice at first, but once you get to the later levels it's absurdly obvious it was geared to players who can pay for the ridiculous cash shop tokens to get through. Most people burn their all their silver tokens in 2-3 days. I can burn 25 in a 2-3 hour period, because I had a nice guild to run with. And frankly, it's repetitive. You cannot deny that. The level designs are 150,000% linear. Sorry it's not Ragnarok online. Your argument went from "herp a derp connections suck" to "i play too many mmos so this wasn't shit to me." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enervation Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Vindictus is awesome. Don't hate a game because your connection sucks! It has nothing to do with your/our/his/her/its connection. It runs on a peer-based network connection for joining games, which means the lag you get with various people fluctuates very rapidly. That, combined with Nexon's seemingly inability to comprehend this problem, leads to a lot of varying opinions about Vindictus. I was the CB for it. Then I was in the OB. Then I dropped it. It's nice at first, but once you get to the later levels it's absurdly obvious it was geared to players who can pay for the ridiculous cash shop tokens to get through. Most people burn their all their silver tokens in 2-3 days. I can burn 25 in a 2-3 hour period, because I had a nice guild to run with. And frankly, it's repetitive. You cannot deny that. The level designs are 150,000% linear. Sorry it's not Ragnarok online. Your argument went from "herp a derp connections suck" to "i play too many mmos so this wasn't shit to me." I do not see your point with this statement, not to mention you just popped in a red herring. Thank you for reading my sig. @topic: GameTap has a lot of free arcade style games. I used to play Metal Slug on it (and it even comes with the co-op!) for free. I'm not sure how it is now though, it seems they've changed drastically since I last played. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeniorPuffyPants Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 League of legends anyone? IGN: Стивен 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enervation Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 League of legends anyone? IGN: Стивен Ah, one of the bigger F2P games out there! How could we forget that? xD I'm not sure my keyboard allows Cyrillic though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pointfourtyfour Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Scrolling through these posts I was going to mention League of Legends, it has got to be one of the best free games to play out there. My LoL summoner name is Etheros, if anyone else wants to add me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Vindictus is awesome. Don't hate a game because your connection sucks! It has nothing to do with your/our/his/her/its connection. It runs on a peer-based network connection for joining games, which means the lag you get with various people fluctuates very rapidly. That, combined with Nexon's seemingly inability to comprehend this problem, leads to a lot of varying opinions about Vindictus. I was the CB for it. Then I was in the OB. Then I dropped it. It's nice at first, but once you get to the later levels it's absurdly obvious it was geared to players who can pay for the ridiculous cash shop tokens to get through. Most people burn their all their silver tokens in 2-3 days. I can burn 25 in a 2-3 hour period, because I had a nice guild to run with. And frankly, it's repetitive. You cannot deny that. The level designs are 150,000% linear. Sorry it's not Ragnarok online. Your argument went from "herp a derp connections suck" to "i play too many mmos so this wasn't shit to me." I do not see your point with this statement, not to mention you just popped in a red herring. Thank you for reading my sig. @topic: GameTap has a lot of free arcade style games. I used to play Metal Slug on it (and it even comes with the co-op!) for free. I'm not sure how it is now though, it seems they've changed drastically since I last played. My point is that Vindictus isn't tailored for people who play too many MMOs. It's for people who don't want to play MMOs. Which is why I enjoy it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enervation Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Vindictus is awesome. Don't hate a game because your connection sucks! It has nothing to do with your/our/his/her/its connection. It runs on a peer-based network connection for joining games, which means the lag you get with various people fluctuates very rapidly. That, combined with Nexon's seemingly inability to comprehend this problem, leads to a lot of varying opinions about Vindictus. I was the CB for it. Then I was in the OB. Then I dropped it. It's nice at first, but once you get to the later levels it's absurdly obvious it was geared to players who can pay for the ridiculous cash shop tokens to get through. Most people burn their all their silver tokens in 2-3 days. I can burn 25 in a 2-3 hour period, because I had a nice guild to run with. And frankly, it's repetitive. You cannot deny that. The level designs are 150,000% linear. Sorry it's not Ragnarok online. Your argument went from "herp a derp connections suck" to "i play too many mmos so this wasn't shit to me." I do not see your point with this statement, not to mention you just popped in a red herring. Thank you for reading my sig. @topic: GameTap has a lot of free arcade style games. I used to play Metal Slug on it (and it even comes with the co-op!) for free. I'm not sure how it is now though, it seems they've changed drastically since I last played. My point is that Vindictus isn't tailored for people who play too many MMOs. It's for people who don't want to play MMOs. Which is why I enjoy it. I guess that makes sense. A lot of games seem to be taking this idea on nowadays. It was pretty good idea to use the Source engine though, makes for great physics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 http://www.onlinegamesector.com/onlinefull/12215/icarus_proudbottom_in_the_curse_of_.htm via Rockpapershotgun. You fly and propel yourself forward by shitting yourself. Dodge birds, you have two lives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excel_excel Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 Champions Online has gone to F2P I'm gonna give it a whirl soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 "Tag: The Power of Paint" it's the tech demo that got the devs picked up by Valve. It'll give you something of an idea of what you can expect in Portal 2. The game sites link is no longer active, you can find the developer here: https://www.digipen.edu/studentprojects/tag/ the download can be found by using that there Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintage Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 Mabinogi is a pretty good open world do what you want free game. Combat arms wasn't a bad free FPS too. and shattered galaxy still has people playing on it. Funny a lot of these games come from nexon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirandello Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 Tiberian Sun and Full Spectrum Warrior, both full-fledged games, are also free to play. No, I mean, literally. They're free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 Area 51. Pretty cool game for the price of free Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 Also on older games that are free: GTA and GTA II Daggerfall and Arena (TES) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted January 27, 2011 Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 Daggerfall. Shit yeah. Still the biggest free-roaming gameworld to date. I'd add: Allegiance (open version called FreeAllegiance) http://www.freeallegiance.org/ -Hardcore space combat sim in the vein of Elite, Freelancer, Freespace, the X Series, etc. - it's multiplayer only. Two teams in space battle for objectives -Really good! Though I have barely played because of a tutorial bug which wouldn't let me learn how to fly and stuff properly. Pain in the ass.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enervation Posted January 27, 2011 Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 Mabinogi is a pretty good open world do what you want free game. Combat arms wasn't a bad free FPS too. and shattered galaxy still has people playing on it. Funny a lot of these games come from nexon. Didn't Shattered Galaxy get a subscription thing going? I remember it changed hands from the developer when I last played it. It was quite glorious, the definite of multi-commander battles. I watch my cousins play Combat Arms and laugh. :B As for Mabinogi, I really, REALLY, REALLY want to get into it, but every time I do I get butt raped by a bunch of coyotes. Unfun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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