The Official Games For Cheap Losers Thread?!

[Revenga]

I know you've all played them at one point in time, the holy grail of all video games: the free ones. :thumbsup:

 

 

 

Free games come in all kinda of genres and styles of play, and with enough searching, you can find one that suits you perfect ( Like Runescape for ...MANY of you.)

 

 

 

Now what I intend to do with this thread, is make finding those games more effiiciant. IF someone would care to post a game they play, a few screenshots, some info ( genre, style of play, is it online, ect..) It would be much easier to weed out the bad, don't work, or poorly contructed games, from the ones a lot of people play like Warrock and Runescape ( pardon is Warrok isn't considered popular...seems enough people play it to do so.

 

 

 

The free gaming industry could be one that keeps me entertained untill I'm old and wrinkly, so I think this post could be one of importance, with a little help from you guys. I was thinking something of the following format.

 

 

 

Game: Runescape

 

 

 

Genre: Sandbox kinda action RPG

 

 

 

Playablility: There are people that kill themselves over this game..it's pretty damn playable, don't yuh think?

 

 

 

Screenshots: * Place screenshots here, I don't have any on this computer and I have no intentions of visiting Runescape again. :uhh: )

 

 

 

Personal opinion: It's a great game, but definatly an aquired taste. Some people hate it, some people play it 14 hours a day. It's about addicting as World of Warcraft and Oblivion ( for me anyway.. ) and it's hard to put down once you pick it up. Somehow I've managed to put it down several years and thousands of hours after picking it up...but meh.. :oops:

 

PS: ..Don't use Runescape as one.

 

PSS: Tell me what you think about the concept of this thread. :

[Revenga]

Now..I don't think this thread'll go anywhere if ya'll don't contribute.

 

 

 

So uh..Bump?

[Riku3220]

ok then

 

 

 

game: gunbound

 

genre: cartoon car shooting game

 

playability: you have to be somewhat good at math because you have to calculate how much power you use, how far your target is, how strong the wind is, how high or low your angle is, and how heavy your shots are for example: a lightning ball will be overtaken by the wind easier than a missle

[Guest Cosinus]

Game: GTA 1

 

 

 

Genre: Skyview action-game.

 

 

 

Playablility: Very easy to learn and good controls overall.

 

 

 

Screenshots: I don't think I have to.

 

 

 

Personal opinion: One of the best games ever, everyone must play it atleast once!

 

 

 

http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/ <- Download here. :)

[jgrazotis]

Game: Supreme Destiny

 

 

 

Genre: Online RPG

 

 

 

Playability: pretty easy to learn but some bits, like for me, the whole chaos point c point thing is just confusing, but otherwise pretty fun to play

 

 

 

link to site

 

 

 

http://sd.e-games.com.my/index.asp

 

 

 

have to say, some things are pretty inaccurate on their site, like in Huntress skills, they have the same details and description for Meditation and Iron Pierce (Meditation is the correct 1)

[rhan_wolf]

Game:Gunz:the duel

 

 

 

Genre:online fps

 

 

 

Playibility:Easy to learn, and its fun as soon as you start

[Nenga]

Game: Scions of Fate

 

 

 

Genre: Anime japanese style MMORPG

 

 

 

Playablility: It's a bit hard to grasp the control of the movement at first. Selecting monster to is controled by the mouse but the rest by the keyboard

 

 

 

Screenshots:

 

 

 

Personal opinion: It's a good break from Runescape, it's fun and free to play. The only thing that costs is completly optional if you wanna get it and you won't miss any areas if you don't pay for it. In-game money is kinda hard to get.

 

 

 

You gotta download scions of fate if you want to play, it's worth it though.

 

 

 

link follows:

 

http://fate.netgame.com

[Brad25891]

Game: Fly for fun (Flyff)

 

 

 

Genre: RPG

 

 

 

Playablility: Quite a fun game, gets better after level 15.

 

 

 

Screenshots: http://www.mmorpg-world.net/bg/Flyff/images/big(15)Flyff.jpg

 

 

 

Personal opinion: It is quite a fun game, but quite a bit of a grind-fest. You start of as a vagrant and when you get to level 15 you get to choose if you want to be a mage/warrior/assist(buffer + healer)/acrobat(ranger) Its good for a free online game. you can find it at http://flyff.gpotato.com/

 

 

 

Game: Wolfenstein Enemy Territory

 

 

 

Genre: FPS

 

 

 

Playability: Lots of playability because most fps's have that! :P

 

 

 

Screenshots:

 

http://titaniclinux.net/doclib/content/ ... reen16.jpg

 

 

 

Personal Opinion: Awesome game with lots of playability. There are 5 classes: Soldier(heavy weapons)/Medic/Field ops(hands out ammo + calls air + artilary strikes)/Covert opts(Can snipe + steal peoples uniforms)/Engineer(can create barricades, place mines, dinamite)

 

Lots of servers to play on, hardy ever any lag and a really fun game to play.

 

 

 

EDIT: Forgot link :P

 

http://www.enemyterritory.com/main.html Go to downloads then on the left hand side - Wolfenstein: Enemy Terrirtory.

[Caxis]

Game: Soldat

 

 

 

Genre: 2D shooter action game.

 

 

 

Playablility: A lot of modes including Deathmatch and Capture the Flag, good physics, a nice selection of weapons, and a lot of fun.

 

 

 

Screenshots:

 

 

 

Personal opinion: An excellent game that you can load up anytime for a few minutes, to a few hours. It's pretty easy to learn, but does take a while to master. There is a single player mode, but the real action is online. You can also make your own maps and can easily mod your own weapons, and mod the whole game too if you want. Although some people don't like the graphics, I think they're excellent. Check it out at http://www.soldat.pl

[Kiriyama]

In scotland?

 

 

 

Well for PS2 I'd say any Platnum(sp?) game, ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã10-ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã15, I forget which.

[assassin_696]

Game: OGame

 

 

 

Genre: Text based strategic space based simulation game.

 

 

 

Playablility: It's good, especially if you've got a few mates who've play and you get into a bit of an alliance.

 

 

 

Screenshots: Meh, http://www.ogame.org

 

 

 

Personal opinion: Hardly takes any time out of your day because stuff takes an hour to build or an hour to travel, so it's easy to fit in around a busyish schedule.

[Solidus_77]

Game: OGame

 

 

 

Genre: Text based strategic space based simulation game.

 

 

 

Playablility: It's good, especially if you've got a few mates who've play and you get into a bit of an alliance.

 

 

 

Screenshots: Meh, http://www.ogame.org

 

 

 

Personal opinion: Hardly takes any time out of your day because stuff takes an hour to build or an hour to travel, so it's easy to fit in around a busyish schedule.

 

 

 

I second this game, it was pretty fun and got me hooked for quite a while

 

 

 

It's quite slow to start off, but once you get going with attacking others (or playing defensive known as "turtle") you can have a lot of fun.

 

 

 

Although it's a text-based game, with the overview and such, you really get the feeling that you see things happening. Has a wide array of ships that, with the right ratios and balance, you can pull off some effective profitable hits.

 

 

 

If you really get into it, you will most likely have a tight schedule as this is vital if you wish to survive in this game, a bit like farming, but a single careless mistake can cost you months of building ships

[suomiownaa]

Game: Elastomania

 

 

 

Genre: 2D motocross driving game

 

 

 

Playability: Funny to play, easy controls, if you play alot, you can do awesome tricks that make you feel like a pro gamer :D .

 

 

 

Sorry got no pics.

 

 

 

Link to the site: Elastomania

 

There is loads of extra levels to download in internet, just search.

[Tommy213]

Game: Soldat

 

 

 

Genre: 2D shooter action game.

 

 

 

Playablility: A lot of modes including Deathmatch and Capture the Flag, good physics, a nice selection of weapons, and a lot of fun.

 

 

 

Screenshots:

 

 

 

Personal opinion: An excellent game that you can load up anytime for a few minutes, to a few hours. It's pretty easy to learn, but does take a while to master. There is a single player mode, but the real action is online. You can also make your own maps and can easily mod your own weapons, and mod the whole game too if you want. Although some people don't like the graphics, I think they're excellent. Check it out at http://www.soldat.pl

 

 

 

Looks like a good game but i need help running it when i try and play it an error message pops up. It says

 

 

 

Could not initialize DirectX graphics.

 

You must have DirectX 8 or better.

 

Try running Soldat in compatibility mode.

 

 

 

I have DirectX 8 and i read the FAQ for help but its still not working.

[highlanders]

http://www.onrpg.com/ftopic53062.html

 

 

 

This thread but 1000x better, lool.

[Caxis]

 

Looks like a good game but i need help running it when i try and play it an error message pops up. It says

 

 

 

Could not initialize DirectX graphics.

 

You must have DirectX 8 or better.

 

Try running Soldat in compatibility mode.

 

 

 

I have DirectX 8 and i read the FAQ for help but its still not working.

 

 

 

I think you actually need DirectX 8.1 or higher, and when you install DX don't forget to restart or computer. Changing your color seeting to 24 or 16 bit might help, and have you tried running the game in compatibility mode?

[megakiller32]

Game: Fly for fun (Flyff)

 

 

 

Genre: RPG

 

 

 

Playablility: Quite a fun game, gets better after level 15.

 

 

 

Screenshots: http://www.mmorpg-world.net/bg/Flyff/images/big(15)Flyff.jpg

 

 

 

Personal opinion: It is quite a fun game, but quite a bit of a grind-fest. You start of as a vagrant and when you get to level 15 you get to choose if you want to be a mage/warrior/assist(buffer + healer)/acrobat(ranger) Its good for a free online game. you can find it at http://flyff.gpotato.com/

 

 

 

I played that for months. Then i got to level 65, and grinding from there on is sooooooo boring. (and i was an aoe ranger :? )

[highlanders]

 

 

 

I played that for months. Then i got to level 65, and grinding from there on is sooooooo boring. (and i was an aoe ranger :? )

 

 

 

Very true. I quit at lvl 64 hehe. But it was worse for me, I was a yoyo jester, worse pvm class after assists/Rms >_< And psys would still kill me at pvp. Stupid psys, good at pvp, pvm, at everything ><

[heartless619]

Game: Stick arena

 

 

 

Genre: Online fighting game

 

 

 

Playablility: ez to learn watch out for the hackrs

 

http://www.xgenstudios.com/play/stickarena

 

 

 

Screenshots:

 

 

 

Personal opinion: i like it..kinda wierd at first but its good

[Bufoman]

Game: Ground Controll

 

type: RTS

 

Playebility: smooth interface, low system requirements by modern standards, nice graphics, good story line, first rate video game made free by its develper to promote the series.

 

 

 

Distributer is Game Spy in corroperation with its develper Sierra. free to download from file planet.

 

 

 

I don't have a screen shot per say but belive me its a good game and not one to drain system requirements due to its age. its a rts set in the future like so many others. two factions the crayvan corperation and the order of the new dawn fight for controll of the planet krig- 7b.

 

 

 

I won't bore you with details but this one I belive far out ranks anything else up heer becouse it was an acual video game ment for the retail market relised for free download years later. a note on performance: If your running windows xp chose 98 in compatibility mood to clear up alot of broken record sound issues.

 

 

 

wait a miniute heers a link to a review from Game Revolution: http://www.gamerevolution.com/review/pc/ground_control

[Tommy213]

 

Looks like a good game but i need help running it when i try and play it an error message pops up. It says

 

 

 

Could not initialize DirectX graphics.

 

You must have DirectX 8 or better.

 

Try running Soldat in compatibility mode.

 

 

 

I have DirectX 8 and i read the FAQ for help but its still not working.

 

 

 

I think you actually need DirectX 8.1 or higher, and when you install DX don't forget to restart or computer. Changing your color seeting to 24 or 16 bit might help, and have you tried running the game in compatibility mode?

 

 

 

Thanks but ive found out that theres a problem with my graphics card because some of my other games aren't working they say the same thing.

[vladmoney]

Game: SilkRoad http://www.silkroadonline.net/

 

 

 

Genre: MMORPG

 

 

 

Playablility: Train level and sp, get really cool weapons, several classes, you can trade silk for money (fun), guilds, a lot of cool monsters, and rare monsters

 

 

 

Screenshots:

 

 

 

 

Personal opinion: talk about a grind, you have to start gridning sp at lvl 16 in order to be anygood at high level. Sp is used at to put up your special skills for your class. Usually you have to make a first char, get money on him, and then buy a really good weapon for a level 16, then make another char and grind sp on him. It also has a server problem, hard to log in because a lot of people play it, and everytime you fail to log in you have to restart your computer. Its a good game besides that, the silk tradeing aspect is fun, since there are traders theives and hunters. The graphics are really cool and so its fun to get new armor and weapons. There are alot of cool monsters and you can team up to fight for better sp. You can join guilds, that have different levels. Don't do quests because they are boring and because they give a lot of xp but not a lot of sp. New servers created often, so you can start at same level as everyone else. There is a shop that you can buy pets with rl money, or you can buy from people online who paid real money for it If you can get through the early grind, the game is fun.

[deloriagod]

Sorry I'm not using the same format as everyone else, but I already had this posted elsewhere so I just copy/pasted it here..

 

 

 

Shadowbane

 

 

 

Background/Cost:

 

 

 

Shadowbane is a free MMORPG. It was originally run by Wolfpack and cost $12.99 a month to play. But earlier this year they turned the game over to Stray Bullet Gaming and the game has been free to play ever since.

 

 

 

The Game:

 

 

 

First things first. You're going to need a character. I'm going to figure you're smart enough to figure out how to create a character. So I'll give you a quick overview of the different classes. Fighters are generally high HP/strength characters. A damaging blow to anyone will low defense or simply taking damge is their job. Healers are group support characters. They often provide heals and buffs, but some can deal some good damage. Rogues are stealth based characters. Good for solo pking and generally move quickly while invisible. Mages are magic based characters. They rely on spirit for more mana and intelligence to help them deal damage. When built right, they can do some serious damage but they go down quick.

 

 

 

When you create a character you're put onto a tutorial island. It's really not fun but you'll get the basics of the game down. At level 21 you're kicked from your newb island guild and (while you can stay on newb island until you want to leave) you can repledge to a new safehold guild. Then it's time for the hard work. Grinding/carebearing your way up to a respectable level. You can go solo and, depending on your race/class/profession, this can be anywhere for simple to impossible. If you don't want to do the work yourself, you can find a guild that will level you until you're ready for PvP. This game is based around PvP. Now you're going to spend probably a day to a week (depending on race/class/profession and people helping) to get to a high enough level for PvP.

 

 

 

Now you're high enough for PvP. You're going to want to find a good guild. Pking solo is only good for some professions but can become suicide if you don't know your limits. The most common time for PvP is when mines are up for the taking. Once a guild takes over a mine and keeps it until the time is up, they get it for 1 day and are allowed to set the time they want it to go up for the taking. Once that time comes around, they have to defend it from opposing guilds unless the mine isn't wanted by anyone but themselves (or a guild using some good tactics to keep a certain guild out of the running for a while).

 

 

 

Now, mine fights are fun but they're pretty small scale. Usually battles consist of ~40 people depending on which guilds are fighting. Want a larger scale battle? Here's your chance. Sometimes a guild wants another guilds city. What better way to get a city than to plant a bane stone and start a war? A war consists of 2 guilds fighting plus any allies they decide to bring (or random people wishing to join in the battle). A war starts at a designated time and ends when either the bane stone is destroyed or the tree of life is destoryed. But it's not as simple as just destorying either of those. Don't forget all the people who need to be killed in order to get to what you want to destroy.

 

 

 

PvP is great and all, but you need to do some carebearing once in a while if you aren't getting much money from pking (which you won't if you're only pking during mine fights/banes). There are plenty of zones to carebear at, some are just more dangerous than others. Every 2 hours a new zone will be designated as the 'hot zone'. Exp/drops will be greatly inscreased, as will the chance of pkers being around. If you're looking for some quick cash, just round up a group and head in. If you're looking for PvP, this could be a good chance for some soloing. Chances are you're going to find people who think they can handle their own out there and won't expect you to be lurking not far behind. Rogues are great in these places. A scout can drop a warlock into a group of mobs and loot his body without being seen for more than a second. A fighter can be great if you're looking for getting as much money as possible out of these areas. They can carry much more than any other class so you can take those item drops too.

 

 

 

Screenshots:

 

 

 

During a bane - notice the poorly placed bane stone:

 

 

Carebearing on RoC:

 

 

More carebearing with rarest sword in the game (none may be left in existence):

 

 

My favorite armor:

 

 

 

 

[LINKS]

 

Shadowbane Main Page

 

Game Download (click installation files)

 

Account Management

 

 

 

If you decide to play, be sure to look me up. I'm playing as LouisXIV or MyGold on Redemption server. ^_^

[Nadril]

I never did get into shadowbane. I loved the idea of it but the controls were so horrible.

[vladmoney]

Here I will do another:

 

Game: Knight Online

 

Genre: MMORPG

 

 

 

Playablility: Pretty plain, just train, several classes, you can fish, guild, guild wars, you have your own pets that you train. Not too bad, community pretty nice.

 

 

 

Screenshots:

 

 

 

 

 

Personal opinion: I havent played it in a while, but i still remember some things. Its nice game, with a lot of stuff coming out right around the time I quit (cause no time to play). Cool armor, they have some cool events they do, have your own pet. A lot of fighting, quests, thats about it. You can have guilds and guild wars. No real interesting twist that a lot MMORPG now have to set themselves apart. They were doing a lot of interesting things with guilds though, like having their own hall and taking over a hall. Its probably updated now. Its worth a look I think, very playable.