Linux GOTX?
December 23rd, 2009 by Crusader
What’s your Linux game of the year?
For the more ambitious, what’s your Linux game of the decade?
Mine:
- 2009: I didn’t really play enough games to make a good call here unfortunately :( – I played Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup more than anything.
- Decade: Return to Castle Wolfenstein! I spent more time with this game than anything else in all likelihood, single player and multiplayer, even to the point of having an organized clan in online ladder play.
December 23rd, 2009 at 7:19 am
2009: HoN – Beta
Decade: Probably the same – as the amount of playtime is going. Runner ups would be ET: Quake Wars and OpenTTD for polishing and fun factor.
December 23rd, 2009 at 8:05 am
For me it would be Alpha Centauri!
Music didn’t work which sucked, but since it was my favourite game of that part of the decade, it actually made me want to learn Linux on top that! I already had the windows version but there was something cool about playing such a AAA title on Linux.
After that I’m tempted to say either Neverwinter Nights (if that counts) or even Darwinia?
–Maquis196
December 23rd, 2009 at 8:15 am
Game of the year(does beta counts?) is Heroes of Newerth!
December 23rd, 2009 at 8:16 am
Neverwinter Nights certainly counts; and now that I think of it I’m pretty sure I spent more time playing that multiplayer (persistent world servers mainly) than even RTCW!
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:13 am
Game of the Decade? In terms of hours played, it’s probably Urban Terror, followed by Sacred: Gold. Urban Terror has the advantage of coming out earlier, and Sacred has been sucking my free time away since it hit beta.
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:18 am
This year Heroes of Newerth!
Last year definetely World Of Goo.
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:35 am
definitely Quake III Arena/Quake Live, followed by Doom III (yes, i’m still playing it every now and then in nightmare) :-)
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:53 am
Ah remember the weekly updates from that dude in bioware was it? With his adventures of getting it to work on Linux, almost a year after it came out if I recall? One week was how the wheel wouldn’t work for him or something and how he had to rip the videos out because they wouldnt pay for the Linux version of bing video or whatever it was called.
Ah good days, esp when Loki were still about (On that note, anyone get Myth2 working these days outside of a vm of red hat 3?)
– Maquis196
December 23rd, 2009 at 11:29 am
GOTY: Grapple Hook (I didn’t play many new Linux games this year)
GOTD: Neverwinter Nights
December 23rd, 2009 at 11:47 am
GOTY : World of Goo (although my subjective favorite would be Space Phallus ;)
GOTD : Neverwinter Nights (don’t know that many older games ?)
December 23rd, 2009 at 2:38 pm
GOTY: Nexuiz
GOTD: uh… really depends… I was thinking of Savage / Urban Terror / Tremulous / Armagetron AD .
December 24th, 2009 at 6:02 am
GOTD : Unreal Tournament (99 & 2004)
December 24th, 2009 at 6:17 am
I played Sauerbraten most this year.
Game of the decade? Hm. Nexuiz, I’m afraid.
About the whole Heroes of Nevareth.. It will probably be Goty2010… :)
December 25th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Game of the Year : World of Goo
Game of the decade: Regnum Online
December 26th, 2009 at 6:04 am
GOTY: For sure most time spent on Eschalon Book 1, followed by World of Goo
GOTD: From hours played for sure Quake/Quoth and Hexen II, but those are probably more than a decade old… Doom 3, then.
December 26th, 2009 at 6:08 am
@Maquis196: MythII Soulblighter runs perfectly fine on my laptop with openSUSE 11.0
December 28th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
GOTY: Tremulous/TremFusion mod’d for play on KoR server
GTOD: County-court, solitary confinement (has pixel and vertex effects more impressive than Doom3)
December 30th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Year: Penumbra: Black Plague.
Decade: … Freeciv, probably.
January 2nd, 2010 at 3:06 pm
X3! Sucked up my whole year playing this game. It’s a bit complex at first, but the graphics are awesome and adding fan-based material, like Star Trek and Star Wars ships, makes for awesome visual delight.