Good games on Linux?

[lewnacy]

What are some good games that run on linux?
I tend to flow more towards the FPSers and MMORPG.

[techieMoe]

What are some good games that run on linux?
I tend to flow more towards the FPSers and MMORPG.

You're in luck then. The vast majority of commercial games available for Linux are FPSes. Some of my favorites are:

Quake 2, 3+Team Arena
Unreal Tournament GOTY
Unreal Tournament 2003/2004
Doom 3 (not available yet, but coming)

I'm an RPG fan, though not MMORPGs. I'll let someone else comment on that one. As far as RPGs go, though, here's a couple:

Neverwinter Nights
Nethack and any of it's variants (QTHack, GnomeHack, nethackX11, etc)

[sarumont]

Also check out planeshift for a MMORPG (I haven't yet, but it looks cool).

[techieMoe]

I just realized I forgot one very notable FPS that I play quite often, the original Doom and Doom 2. You can play these in Linux using the WAD files and one of many open-source ports of the engine. My personal favorite is Doom Legacy:

http://legacy.newdoom.com

And some people swear by another port, Doomsday

http://www.doomsdayhq.com/

Both of these engines (as far as I know) allow you to play Heretic and Hexen as well. The best feature IMHO is the ability to play in fully 3D-rendered OpenGL with dynamic lighting and shadows at high resolution.

[Tweakin]

Don't forget about Americas Army. It is a 100% free(unless you are a US Tax Payer), modern, and commercial grade FPSer. One of my favorites.

http://www.americasarmy.com/

[tylerwylie]

If you have cedega Warcraft 3 runs FLAWLESSLY. It runs much faster too, only thing that might slow down is startup time but besides that I'd recommend Warcraft 3

[techieMoe]

If you have cedega Warcraft 3 runs FLAWLESSLY. It runs much faster too, only thing that might slow down is startup time but besides that I'd recommend Warcraft 3

Well, perhaps. But Cedega doesn't always run the same (or even run at all) on everyone's system. I for one have never had any luck getting Cedega to run at all, much less with any of the games I want to play. I still highly recommend only running Linux native games on Linux, since go-betweens like Cedega and WINE are shoddy at best. Glad it works for you, though.

[winfried]

If you have cedega Warcraft 3 runs FLAWLESSLY. It runs much faster too, only thing that might slow down is startup time but besides that I'd recommend Warcraft 3

Well, perhaps. But Cedega doesn't always run the same (or even run at all) on everyone's system. I for one have never had any luck getting Cedega to run at all, much less with any of the games I want to play. I still highly recommend only running Linux native games on Linux, since go-betweens like Cedega and WINE are shoddy at best. Glad it works for you, though.

Oh dear,

I am running cedega on, Suse 7.2, Gentoo with 2.6.8.1 kernel, Mandrake 10, RedHat 9 and it certainly works with Warcraft3, Far Cry ( not multiplayer), Stronghold and Stronghold-Crusader (no multiplayer), Homeworld2 (no multiplayer mode), FIFA2004 demo no multiplayer, Never Winter Nights Demo..etc..

So were is the problem ??

I have 6 Athlon boxes over 1.300 GHz mostly about 512MB DRAM NVidia grafic cards 5200-5700, and geforce 4ti, 3ti.

Don't give up,
remember:

If at first you don't succeed ,
Try, try, again.


winfried

[imdeemvp]

now since you guys are talking about linux games....which distro does really good when it comes to games?

please explain why.

[winfried]

[quote="imdeemvp"]now since you guys are talking about linux games....which distro does really good when it comes to games?

please explain why.[/quote]

What is a distro ??

A collection of programms for Linux which "CAN BE" but must "NOT BE " installed, if you have a pure Linux box for games only you might not be interrested in the multitude of servers provided by Linux, you can also chose a simple windows manager as icewm or xfce which is not binding so many resources.


Kernel

Second you can configure your kernel accordingly by leaving out a lot of stuff which you don't have and with which your distribution is simply delivered to you because the provider tries to fit as many computers as possible.

IMHO:
- you should use Gentoo if you are a more advanced user of Linux, because you get a system which is tailored on your personal special box, which usually leads to a faster Linux box.
- you can use Mandrake as a beginner because it is simpler and takes you lesser than 40Min. to install. No hassle at all.

Practically its up to you

Linux kernel you find at www.kernel.org