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Offline Polpolion

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I'm bored
on: March 31, 2007, 09:51:30 am
Anybody know of any good free games that I can kill time with? Because for now I'm stuck playing Halo 1 :(
 

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Re: I'm bored
Reply #1 on: March 31, 2007, 10:23:39 am
Emulators...any of them.

Ive got a NeoGeo arcade emulator, and I waste a lot of time playing metal slug
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Re: I'm bored
Reply #2 on: March 31, 2007, 10:27:02 am
"Good" and "free" are often strangers. Theres lots of cheap, darn little (of quality and not warez) in the way of free. A fair few demos with full ****ional;ity, some ad-ware games like Anarchy Online (if you wanted to try an MMO) and a couple other "free" MMO's (a couple Korean ones), and of course things like FS2 and Allegiance (I think this is still on the MS site, and there used to be a SCP style community around the source, but they seemed more interested in god-modding, it may have improved) where both the source and the game files are available.

I think Bethesda released functional version of the earlier Elder Scrolls games, those are always the time. I think you can get them from their site.

Some java stuff like Megamek (a battletech board game simulator, http://megamek.sourceforge.net/ )

A couple freebies on the GarageGames.com site, varying quality there from the free ones though.

Now, if you had 10-20 bucks to spare, your choices expand exponentially.
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Re: I'm bored
Reply #3 on: March 31, 2007, 02:14:46 pm
This little number should keep you busy for a few hours.
 

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Re: I'm bored
Reply #4 on: March 31, 2007, 03:58:49 pm
Quote from: Mongoose on March 31, 2007, 02:14:46 pm
This little number should keep you busy for a few hours.

Where has this been all my life? Holy crap... it's the greatest... :eek:
 

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Re: I'm bored
Reply #5 on: April 02, 2007, 05:19:10 pm
Can't....stop... playing
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Reply #6 on: April 02, 2007, 05:46:10 pm
Heehee...this was posted on another forum I frequent, and I managed to get a whole AIM chat room full of people to play it for an hour or two straight. :p
 

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Re: I'm bored
Reply #7 on: April 02, 2007, 11:40:15 pm
I'm in the same predicament. Until I get my new video card, I'm stuck with older an/or casual games.

Here's a gem I found. The demo only has 3 maps, but they kept me busy for hours. It's a lot like Risk, but is really fun and you can finish a single game in fifteen or twenty minutes. And you can change which faction you play on each map, which adds a lot of replay value.

http://sillysoft.net/ael/
 

Offline SadisticSid

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Re: I'm bored
Reply #8 on: April 05, 2007, 06:23:18 am
SNES emulator + Final Fantasy 5 and 6. Should burn off a few days at least. :p
 

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Reply #9 on: April 05, 2007, 09:18:01 am
DAMN that guard towers game is fun! Don't let me see these things while I'm at work!!
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Re: I'm bored
Reply #10 on: April 05, 2007, 10:43:08 am
"In the beginning, the Universe was created.  This made a lot of people very angry and has widely been regarded as a bad move."  [Douglas Adams]
 

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Re: I'm bored
Reply #11 on: April 05, 2007, 11:38:07 am
BTRL? :p
 

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Re: I'm bored
Reply #12 on: April 05, 2007, 12:03:59 pm
Can his PC even handle it? :P
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Re: I'm bored
Reply #13 on: April 05, 2007, 12:27:49 pm
I can think of hundreds of great games like this, but most of them are Mac titles from the early 90s. I keep my ancient Mac operational just for running them, although some of them work fine in the Basilisk II emulator.
 

Offline Polpolion

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Re: I'm bored
Reply #14 on: April 05, 2007, 06:38:51 pm
Quote from: Unknown Target on April 05, 2007, 11:38:07 am
BTRL? :p

IIRC I posted this before or during I downloaded it and I needed to kill the time until it and another DL finished, but couldn't play much other games due to FPS suckage from the other DL.

@Cobra: even with my other DL, I can run BTRL with fine FPS. In fact, I've already played it three times and played a lot on mult.
 

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Reply #15 on: April 05, 2007, 08:42:22 pm
Quote from: Mongoose on March 31, 2007, 02:14:46 pm
This little number should keep you busy for a few hours.

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Re: I'm bored
Reply #16 on: April 14, 2007, 06:02:35 am
awesome, free, and very accurate elite clone, multiplatform too
http://oolite.aegidian.org/

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Re: I'm bored
Reply #17 on: April 19, 2007, 06:31:41 pm
One thing that will pass your time. Is duke nukem 3d with the hrp (high resolution pack). The duke3d source code was released a while ago, and the game is now rendered in opengl, all the enemies are actually 3d models now, all of the original textures have been revamped to 4x the detail, and a whole lot more great stuff. The multiplayer has been revamped too, idk about you but duke3d multi was the most fun i've had on multiplayer. Also a whole bunch of the ancient bugs in duke3d have been fixed as well. Even more good info is that with the release of the source code, duke3d is now on macosx, unix, linux, and winows xp (duke3d was a dos game so technically it had to be ported to winxp). And don't feel frightened, duke3d includes everything you could ever want in an fps. The first fps to have open and even slanting surfaces with many things to interact with in the environment, the first fps to have actual mouse look like we have it today, and ****ing awesome assortment of weapons. And grab the hrp too ;7
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Offline Ulala

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Re: I'm bored
Reply #18 on: April 19, 2007, 06:38:20 pm
Do you need the original Duke3D game to play this? And does multiplayer work?
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Reply #19 on: April 19, 2007, 07:10:26 pm
You just need one of the files from the original duke3d for it(i'm thinking it's sort of like duke3d's version of a doom wad file and that's why it only requires this one file...this is similar to getting zdoom to work). Of course i still somehow still have my copy of duke3d atomic edtition. Of course you could always use bittorrent or something(duke3d is like 20 or 12mb in size total...not like it would take very long), you're only trying to get a hold of one file from duke3d which is what the duke3d source code projects use to play the game.

For more information go here http://hrp.duke4.net/index.php
That'll tell you about the necessary file from duke3d, along with which source code port of duke3d you should use, and how to use the hrp, along with downloads.

For more information on multiplayer go here http://www.duke4.net
This site has pretty much basically any information you want on duke3d, especially multiplayer.
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