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    What games do you play on Linux?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by droes, Jun 22, 2010.

  1. droes

    droes Notebook Geek

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    Post what you're playing (if anything) on your Linux box here!
    To start us off, I'm playing Assaultcube and Warsow natively, and warcraft 3 through wine :).

    What are your favourite games?
     
    droes, Jun 22, 2010
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  2. Gintoki

    Gintoki Notebook Prophet

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    I don't play games on my Linux box but if I did I would combine Wine/Cedega and native games.
     
    Gintoki, Jun 22, 2010
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  3. Enunes

    Enunes Notebook Consultant

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    Currently, I'm more on the path of making my own ones :)
    ( YouTube - Labyrinth 0.5b )

    Ok now seriously, in general I don't play them, but when I do, its native only.
     
    Enunes, Jun 22, 2010
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  4. Joel

    Joel coffeecoffeecoffeecoffee

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    I play Sudoku. That's it for the games. I'm not a huge gamer anyway.
     
    Joel, Jun 23, 2010
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  5. timberwolf

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    No games on the laptop, but on the main linux box:

    Native: PySol or GemGame when I want a few minutes diversion.

    Vendetta-Online - I paid for a six month block, but at renewal I felt that I couldn't commit enough time to justify the subscription (plus I don't think I was very good).

    And Oolite but it aborted the last time I tried running it on my PC - I guess it probably hasn't worked since I last updated the nVidia binary driver.

    Wine: gta2 (the play area is corrupted in a few places - not sure if that was due to a resolution fixing patch that I found somewhere, and there is the very occasional crash), Pro Pinball TimeShock! (I don't run this one much as I need to put the original disc in the cd drive, and it is annoyingly much more crash happy).
     
    timberwolf, Jun 23, 2010
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    I play Bejeweled and poker on Facebook sometimes. Do they count? ;)
     
    Daytona 955i, Jun 23, 2010
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  7. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    moral hazard, Jun 23, 2010
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  8. v1k1ng1001

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    My two favorite linux fps games are Sauerbraten and Urban Terror.

    An overlooked classic is netrek. It is one of the oldest networked games. You will laugh at the client and it has a pretty steep learning curve, but the teamplay is extraordinary once you put the time in.
     
    v1k1ng1001, Jun 24, 2010
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  9. Riotstarter

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    I play Counter Strike 1.6 mostly via Wine and played in past Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Interesting is that Steam is going to be released for Linux soon so this will bring probably more native games.
     
    Riotstarter, Jun 24, 2010
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  10. droes

    droes Notebook Geek

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    Hazard: AA doesn't have a native Linux client for AA3, they stopped around 2.something.
    Riotstarter: Did Valve issue an official comment on the releasedate yet? I remember reading about near the end of this summer, but I can't seem to find where I found that..
     
    droes, Jun 24, 2010
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  11. bubzers

    bubzers Notebook Evangelist

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    when i had linux on my old laptop, i played doom 3 natively. interestingly, i got 2x-3x the frame rates as i did under windows xp with the same machine.
     
    bubzers, Jun 24, 2010
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  12. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    OpenArena, Nexuiz for native, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Starcraft, Warcraft III, and all the AoE games for wine.
     
    Thomas, Jun 24, 2010
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    Rodster Merica

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    OpenGL FTW :D
     
    Rodster, Jun 24, 2010
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  14. silentivm

    silentivm Notebook Guru

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    Actually, I play most of my games in emulators (Snes9x, Gens, DOSBox etc...). As for native games? Mostly I play PyChess.

    Also, NetHack.
     
    silentivm, Jun 24, 2010
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  15. pixelot

    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    Assault Cube or Alien Arena. Usually boot Windows on the desktop to play games. :rolleyes:
     
    pixelot, Jun 24, 2010
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    i've played Halo and oblivion through wine...worked pretty well for me :)
    i've also tried out nexuiz, tremulous, tux racer, america's army, secret maryo chronicles...just to name a few.
     
    1ceBlu3, Jun 28, 2010
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  17. visiom88

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    I have played Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.

    It's pretty fun.
     
    visiom88, Jun 28, 2010
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  18. Riotstarter

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    Yep it was confirmed here in Toms Hardware.
     
    Riotstarter, Jul 9, 2010
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    I've tried OpenArena just for the lulz, but I'm not much of a gamer. I've not bothered to try and get apps working in Wine yet let alone games.
     
    Zaraphrax, Jul 15, 2010
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  20. theZoid

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    I voted only native games, but truth be told, I'll play anything I can on Linux.... :)
     
    theZoid, Jul 15, 2010
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    Savage 2 :p
     
    osomphane, Jul 20, 2010
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  22. helikaon

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    on linux OpenArena
    but if i want to game seriously i dualboot windows on my home pc ... linux is still unfortunatelly still behind in this compared to windows thanks to many reasons ...
     
    helikaon, Jul 21, 2010
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  23. debguy

    debguy rip dmr

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    Sorry for bringing this old tread up again, but there are some great games missing here:
    Widelands, Hedgewars, Warzone 2100, Battle for Wesnoth

    Not great ihmo but still good:
    Torcs, Supertux, Globulation2, Wormux

    And by far not finished, but with with great potential:
    0 A.D.

    All of them running natively, most even on integrated Intel graphics chips (at least to a certain point).
     
    debguy, Sep 16, 2010
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