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Title: Non linear games
Post by: aldo_14 on December 16, 2003, 07:30:54 am

Anyone recommend any of the above?

i.e. I liked KoToR, but at the end of the day it finished.  and I'd liked to have been able to go around pottering in the world (or worlds, in this case), gathering up stuff and generally making a nuiscance of myself.

Title: Non linear games
Post by: J3Vr6 on December 16, 2003, 08:01:46 am

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, or GTA 3 :)  That's pretty non linear.

Balder's gate was non-linear, right?  I remember an old game my sister lent me that was non-linear and fun to play:  Return to Krondor or something like that...

Title: Non linear games
Post by: Levyathan on December 16, 2003, 08:36:58 am

Ultima IV.

Title: Non linear games
Post by: mikhael on December 16, 2003, 08:41:35 am

Baldur's Gate is pretty good at being hybrid-linear. You've got a pretty clear central, linear plot and then there's a bunch of stuff scattered everywhere around it. Very well put together.

Title: Non linear games
Post by: Nico on December 16, 2003, 08:47:29 am

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Originally posted by J3Vr6
 Return to Krondor

Ouch, you'd have to dig into a lot of dust to find that one, it's pretty old , no pentiums back then :D

Title: Non linear games
Post by: Triple Ace on December 16, 2003, 08:53:37 am

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Originally posted by J3Vr6
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, or GTA 3 :)  That's pretty non linear.

Balder's gate was non-linear, right?  I remember an old game my sister lent me that was non-linear and fun to play:  Return to Krondor or something like that...

I can never play too much GTA.:D

Title: Non linear games
Post by: mikhael on December 16, 2003, 08:57:14 am

Return to Krondor should be available for a free download somewhere. The company released it for free on a couple different game magazine CDs. I think I have a copy of it around here somewhere. It was a great game, but there's too much crap to manage and its too easy to get yourself into a situation where no amount of luck can save you.

Title: Non linear games
Post by: Nico on December 16, 2003, 09:48:09 am

besides, you have to make it run first, and that's not a given...

Title: Non linear games
Post by: Sandwich on December 16, 2003, 09:54:13 am

X-Plane. :D

Title: Non linear games
Post by: Drew on December 16, 2003, 09:57:29 am

Morrowind :yes:

Title: Non linear games
Post by: Goober5000 on December 16, 2003, 10:47:43 am

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Originally posted by mikhael
Return to Krondor should be available for a free download somewhere.

IIRC it was only Betrayal at Krondor (http://www.gamesdomain.com/demos/demo/krondorz.html) that was released like that.  BaK was awesome, but RtK was less so.  RtK was pretty linear, too.

Title: Non linear games
Post by: J3Vr6 on December 16, 2003, 11:02:59 am

I forget which Krondor she lent me.  I know that it had puzzle chests laying around the roads and wilderness that were annoying.  It was a decent game, would put it as linear as Baldar's Gate I guess.

Wasn't I-war2 supposed to be non-linear?  I never picked that game up but I heard u could go fly anywhere and do what u felt like.

Title: Non linear games
Post by: aldo_14 on December 16, 2003, 11:12:08 am

I war didn;t work too well, though.  You coudl theoretically play 'elite' with it, but there wasn't a particularly good economics model for trading / pirating IMO.  You'd accumulate vast quantities of stuff, but there's wasn't really much need for it.  Plus being a spaceship is somewhat distancing.

I have GTA:VC on the PS2, but I've done pretty everything I want to in it...... I guess Morrowing might be ok, but I'm not a fan of fantasy stuff........

Title: Non linear games
Post by: Martinus on December 16, 2003, 11:27:46 am

[color=66ff00]Betrayal at Krondor is available to download here (gamehippo.com/search/search_title_1_03e84286a1bb09b57b799b63bb95b23e.shtml) guys. :)

I've never played it myself though.
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Title: Non linear games
Post by: 01010 on December 16, 2003, 11:56:47 am

Morrowind is really difficult to get into if you're not RPG minded and you don't have the time to sit down and put at least 5-10 hours with it the first time you play it.

It's taken me a year to really get into it.

Title: Non linear games
Post by: Flaser on December 16, 2003, 01:18:41 pm

Fallout 1 - Fallout 2 :D

Title: Non linear games
Post by: Impurial on December 17, 2003, 08:46:55 am

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Originally posted by Flaser
Fallout 1 - Fallout 2 :D

Non-linear?  If you say so... :lol:

For the BaK freeware, you'll want to get the patch... try here (http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/krondor/bakpat.exe).

MMORPGs :ick are generally non-linear, if you're truly desperate.

psst! Daggerfall > Morrowind :p

Title: Non linear games
Post by: J3Vr6 on December 17, 2003, 08:51:40 am

MMORPGs?  Is that like a MUD?  I used to play one...  It was a text one, no graphics.  Pretty fun.

Title: Non linear games
Post by: Impurial on December 17, 2003, 08:56:02 am

MUD = MultiUser Dungeons. Great fun :D
MMORPG = Massively MultiPlayer Online Role Playing Games.  Includes MUDs, but generally refering to games like EverQuest, RuneScape, Anarchy Online :ick.

Title: Non linear games
Post by: Lynx on December 17, 2003, 09:31:29 am

Bah, Morrowind. Play Gothic II and you'll get to know a really good RPG:p

Title: Non linear games
Post by: J3Vr6 on December 17, 2003, 09:53:09 am

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Originally posted by Impurial
MUD = MultiUser Dungeons. Great fun :D
MMORPG = Massively MultiPlayer Online Role Playing Games.  Includes MUDs, but generally refering to games like EverQuest, RuneScape, Anarchy Online :ick.

Yeah, it was just a MUD then.  Was a small one, had about an average of 15 players on at a time.  I could never see the fun in an Everquest type of MMORPG just b/c there's so many things going on that you can't actually roleplay your character.

Title: Non linear games
Post by: 2FB on December 17, 2003, 10:00:56 am

does a MMORPG  really have quest, i mean KIll the big boss, but what happened if someone kill the big boss and new player get it,a re they able to kill it, does he respwan, it is true that is a big chat room with no goal at all?

Title: Non linear games
Post by: aldo_14 on December 17, 2003, 11:32:34 am

Depends on the game, I think.  I'm not sure - never played one - but the best would have some sort of ongoing storyline that affects the options available to the player.  Heavily dependent on the players, thouygh - i know that the Stars Wars MMORPG has problems in that they can;t get even battles because no-one will join the Empire side.

Title: Non linear games
Post by: Gloriano on December 17, 2003, 11:37:16 am

there is onw awesome MMORPG  and it's Final Fantasy XI(11)

non linear games GTA:VC Morrowind Baldurs gate are good