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Op, I have a story for you. Seeing this post made me go back and look at my own Gex game, which reminded me that there was a demo of a game on it that I loved, but I couldn't remember the name of it. I Googled the game case (I only have the game disk) and found this, which states the names of the included demos. I squinted to see that the game I wanted so much so many years ago was called Warzone 2100, which I remember playing through a hundred times. I googled warzone 2100 to find it online and buy it immediately, but instead found http://wz2100.net/ offering a free download and informing me that the game is still to this day being worked on and updated. Ilikeitmetal, I can't tell you how happy you have made me this day.
Warzone 2100 It's a free RTS where you resarch stuff like towers and walls but also vehicle parts/weapons and you have to desing vehicles by your strategical needs. I really recommend it.
For most sites, I don't see why this is that important. 960px is a good upper bound for wrapping text, anyway.
And who says we can't make layouts that work in multiple dimensions?
Here's a site I made:
Would you believe it was designed to work well in 640x480?
I'd like to point out that there's an option between, "give up food so you can game," and "give up gaming so you can eat." There are a lot of free games that come up on this sub, any good game is worth several replays, and this isn't one of the cheaper games I've seen here. If free games and your library aren't enough, watch for Just Cause 2 to be on sale, that's $4 with DLC, or a Star Wars sale, there's a lot there for $5 or $2.50 (Battlefront 2 and Republic Commando are good shooters, Empire at War a good RTS, Galactic Battlegrounds is basically Age of Empires 2 but slightly better, Jedi Academy or Outcast are excellent part shooter/part melee games, and the X-Wing series are superb Edit: also Knights of the Old Republic, both excellent but gameplay in 2 is definitely better), or Witcher 2 is pretty cheap on sale if you missed it being free (I'm not a big fan, but a lot of people are). Also, if you don't already know about it Warzone 2100 is well worth sinking a few hundred hours into, and always free. It looks like I need to get back to that since they've been doing bugfixes for the campaign since the last version I downloaded, but that'll have to wait until I've done some more of my free Saint's Row game. I have probably 200 hours in Endless Sky too, that's less worth it, but not bad, and again free. There's also Star Trek Online which is a freemium kind of thing, it's definitely gotten worse over the years, but you can still do okay in a lot of the content without spending real money or too much in-game money, certainly you can do all the story missions, and there are 3 free event ships every year which can help you, with the Summer event coming soon.
Well, that was a wall of text that's probably irrelevant, but now that I wrote it maybe it's helpful to someone, lol, sorry.
System Shock 2 and the Red Alert games run in wine (with a nocd patch). In fact, a lot of the older games work great in wine. It's usually the copy protection that stopped them from working (hence the nocd patch).
Also, warzone 2100 works natively in Linux ( http://wz2100.net ). It's a great RTS, so give it a try if you haven't.
Seems a few people took offense to your mention of RTS games; nuts to em friend the game is technically a Real Time Strategy by a certain definition. Most city builder games are a hybrid of RTS and God Game.
If you want a game that I recently found out about might I steer you towards http://theuniversim.com/ where you essentially play a god that impacts the planet and the people on it? Edit: HAH EVERYONE LOVES UNIVERSIM ALREADY! Good times :D Hope to see you guys in game soon enough!
If you're looking for an incredibly indepth war RTS try Warzone 2100. You could literally spend hours trying to get all the research in the game. Plays like Impossible Creatures as well, one of Relic's big hit RTS games where you piece together units. http://wz2100.net/
OpenRA if you loved the olden Command and Conquer games www.openra.res0l.net/
Infested Planet is a quickly rising "RTS" of sorts. You control a squad of marines in their quest for making off with some serious cash. Game plays like a Starcraft zerg-rush custom game where you control the marines and put them down in different spots to try and mop up the map. My words don't do it justice, just look here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/204530 I didn't think I'd like it, then I sank 27 hours into it within 2 days.
If this post does well I'll trickle some more to you.
What you're describing immediately reminded me of Warzone: 2100 (http://wz2100.net/). After each "level," the map simply zoomed-out. So whatever terrible base decisions you made in the last level, you were stuck with. Likewise, any good choke-point placements stuck around, too. I remember playing this game for the first time and being blown away by the concept. From the second "level" on, I made sure that my decisions were prepared for the edges of the map to expand. Great game, if you can overlook its age.
Warzone 2100 might be a good fit for you. It's also open source and free, btw. :)
Earth 2150 is another that allows custom units and such and it's only $2.39 for the whole trilogy on GoG right now.
There is also a game called Metal Fatigue that uses mechs as the units and the mechs have interchangeable parts for the torso, arms, legs, and cockpit, I believe. You can even harvest the parts from other downed mechs that you beat in battle. This one is a bit hard to get a hold of, though. I can't seem to find a digital copy (barring out less scrupulous avenues of procuring data, of course.)
> Looking for recommendations of free/fun games I can start with?
Hah, there are so many awesome free/libre open source games, you've got a lot of choices:
Battle for Wesnoth for starters, awesome fantasy turn based strategy with massive content, this can easily eat up a lot of time:
sudo apt-get install wesnothFor FPS that runs well on old hardware, i'd recommend Red Eclipse
FreeCiv --- if you like civilization 2, this is like "civ2.5" ---
sudo apt-get install freeciv-gtki thinkWarzone 2100 --- for a super kick ass real time strategy with a full single player campaign, also works well on dated hardware ---
sudo apt-get install warzone2100probablyIf you like mario kart type games, SuperTuxKart is one of my favorite kart racing games, has a full singleplayer too and awesome splitscreen ---
sudo apt-get install supertuxkart
There are so many more... dunno which other ones to recommend, haha! :)
Going to have a stab in the dark and say War Zone 2100 . If so its open source now and has quite a few mods for it. I recently played through it again and was really enjoyable. http://wz2100.net/ <<< link to the now official site.
I'm surprised I haven't seen this here yet:
Warzone 2100: A great open source RTS game. It is really fun and there are always one or two servers up if you want to play online. It is installable from most package managers.
Warzone 2100 is old, but has aged pretty well. It has been open sourced so various aspects have been improved. Plus it's free.
It's a pretty deep game with a huge tech tree, you have to set together your vehicles with different propulsion, guns and chassis.
I'd give the campaign a try, it's pretty huge.
Warzone 2100 was TOTALLY that game for me. I had it on a demo disc years ago on PS1 and I eventually bought it probably a decade after the fact. It was actually a pretty solid game for an early console RTS. Pumpkin Studios (the design studio for the game) actually released the source code to the public in 2004 which here can download here if you're interested.
Warzone 2100
Online/Lan connection (easy as hell to setup and get working)
Open Source (Add your own maps to the collections on the forums, or make them for just you and your friend, as well as designing your own AI, ect)
MASSIVE Research tree's. Takes well over an hour just to reach the top tier (or you can start out mid/high, skipping all the lower training).
Warzone 2100; it was released in 1997, but it´s open source for a few years now. The community has updated the graphics and now it look really good. It was one of the first RTS in 3d, the controls are great and there are hundreds of technologies to research. The campaign is great and so is multiplayer. I want everyone to know because it needs more players!!!
There is a project to bring it back to life. But they are far from a playable game https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/recaged/
I hope rollcage will get the same attention like warzone 2100. http://wz2100.net/
EDIT: And I just found this: http://de.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/dklxf/old_games_remade_list/
Warzone 2100. It's getting on a bit now, but it's freeware and still really fun. Really good base building and you can design your own units, a pretty cool gimmick that never really caught on.
Battle for Middle Earth 1 and 2 aren't bad either, but the main draw is the Lord of the Rings setting.
If you want a free RTS strategy game there's Warzone 2100.
In theory it should also work well on a tablet.
There's also OpenTTD, though you need to learn how to play it (if that is indeed possible, lol) before going to stylus action.
FreeDroid (ParaDroid clone) is also good though a bit repetitive, and you need the keyboard. FreeDroid RPG (a different game altogether) should run on the machine and work with the stylus, but note that that game's far from complete.
That's all I can think of, at any rate.
Lot's of open source games you can try.
Warzone 2100 was originally released in 1998, but since then the company released it open source and it is still being developed today. Has a relatively low minimum requirements, but even then you might have to turn down the texture detail with that kind of computer.
It was a full game on the PS1, but now the developers/publishers have made the entire game completely open, it gets updates pretty regularly and has been much improved.
Also, those of who with skill and talent could help out on the game.
Warzone 2100 is one of my top 5 RTS games of all time. Nothing else comes close to the unit customization in this game. The best part is that the game went open-source in 2004, and can be downloaded from the project website, (http://wz2100.net/).
are yes i do love Warzone 2100 i first played in on PS1 when i was young
There is a good community version been out for years and same version if on steam to
I'll always love Warzone 2100. It's old now, but the open source team keeps going and just released a new version 2 weeks ago. It's a real time strategy game with heavily customizable units set post-nuclear apocalypse. It is a left click to move control system, which could be confusing.
A newer option is Planet Explorers, apparently the development team gave up on it and just made it free, so it's a bit buggy, and the graphics are a bit childish, but the game itself is not bad. You crash land on an alien planet and have to work with the NPCs to all survive. It would be nice if farming was easier, though, getting food is a major problem for a long while. The map of mineral locations here is extremely helpful, although I suppose it could be argued that that's cheating.
I've also gotten back into Star Trek Online recently. I'm not sure I can recommend it, it's not as good as it once was, there's a lot more to grind and the pay to win has gotten pretty bad. But there's an event running now where if you complete things 20 times in the next 28 days or so you get one tier 6 ship (the main thing people pay for), so it could be a worse time to get into it.
Warzone 2100 is a great game that's free, open source, and will run on most computers. The learning curve is a bit steep at first, but levels off fairly quickly. And there's a new beta out where they've tried to fix the campaign.
Fundamentally, it sounds like you went looking for a place to be that would make you happy, and discovered that you really need something to do. I'm the same way, some people aren't. I assume you've tried going for a swim in the waves for an hour, if not go do that. If you really can't come up with any other ideas, I'll point you to two free computer games that will run on almost any computer.
First is Warzone 2100, which is a great real time strategy game with a lot of depth, where you get complete control over the designs of your units. Unfortunately the campaign doesn't really work, they're still working on that. The 3.x.x versions run slower, so I recommend 2.3.9 if you have an older computer.
Another one is Endless Sky, which is free through Steam. It's not nearly as good a game in my opinion, but it is different enough that it might be more to your taste. Fly your 2D ship through a 2D galaxy, defending yourself from or actively seeking out pirates and trading goods, until you're ready to embark on the plot missions and actually join a war.
Check out Warzone 2100. It's old, has been opensourced a while ago, there's a strong developer and player community around it.
It has resource gathering, research, vehicle design (10s of thousands of different combinations possible), fairly advanced AI and mechanics (indirect fire, anti-artillery radars, aircraft, transports, what have you).
Very long campaign as well as multiplayer and skirmishes.
In addition to /u/Boogers73's point, you can get a really low bar to entry with PC gaming as well. There are tons of sales where you can get older stuff for $2.50 (watch /r/GameDeals for these) and some free stuff as well. I'd recommend Warzone 2100, it's a really great free real time strategy game, and if you dig through the download link and find the 2.3.9 version it will run easily on anything these days. The newer version will be semi-ok, but 3.x.x have different graphics that seem to be more demanding, and I don't like them as well. On the other side of the coin, if you can get the Mass Effect trilogy they're amazing games and you can set the difficulty so they shouldn't be too hard.
Warzone 2100, I loved churning out tanks behind layers of defence turrets and then rushing out like a great popped pimple until the next choke point. Fair warning, it also includes offensive missions under a time limit.
But hey, it's also free so you've got little to lose by trying it: http://wz2100.net
True, the commando missions involving just one bot were kinda cool, and the bot fighting animations were just awesome. Also, if you like that kind of unit customization, you might like Warzone 2100, which is made of nothing but!
Warzone 2100 (free), if you're okay with a constant time limit throughout the entire campaign (this mod removes it):
- Entirely custom units (you structure every part yourself, from drive mechanic to chassis to weapon)
- Persistent bases; for each of three big chunks of the game, your base stays exactly how you built it from the previous mission as each next mission merely expands the map, truly making for long-term campaigns.
- Away missions: you often have to transport a limited number of commando units to control on another map away from your main base.
One contribution, and it's formerly commercial but now free: Warzone 2100, an RTS. Super fun, and has a pretty unique part-combining method for building your units.
You can get a ton of these "pretty good" games for around $1 via random bundles. That's cool.
In addition, you can buy these A+, best (most popular)-example-of-the-genre games when they get older/go on drastic sales.
In direct response to your question: there are a half-dozen really good ARPGs out there. But even Diablo 3 was just on sale a few weeks back via Battle.net for 10 bucks.
>Design units with parts
Still tho, unit design is too simple, all you can do is to choose what kind of chasis the unit will use, propulsion and weapon system...
But yeah, hundreds of possible combinations.
If you're ok with old games try out 'Emperor of the Fading Suns'. Even got a big steam group if you want to play with players. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/emperorfadingsuns
Total War series is good. But it's all Revolutionary War period or earlier.
Unique RTS that's worth at least 1 playthrough is Warzone2100. Campaign missions build upon each other, not 4x but ya...
Sadly no. I don't think any 'modern' game exists with your requirements. Everyone just plays Civ5... And the market with soon make Civ6.
EDIT: Oh! And if you haven't played Homeworld. Do it. There are good graphic HD mods as well.
Warzone 2100 is a fun RTS game with a neat mechanic that lets you customize your units.
There's another one I can think of... it was a pretty basic one that had these goo-people you played. I can't seem to remember its name nor find it, though.
I got the ideas for my suggestions from Warzone 2100, which is one of my favourite RTS games.
If its going to be round based, we're also going to need to consider the possibility of people joining halfway through a game.
I think Seven Kingdoms (1997), Warzone 2100 (1999) and Jagged Alliance 2 (1999) are the oldest games I have always installed and still play regularly. I play really old games sometimes but I don't keep them on my HD all the time.
xonotic, OpenArena, and Warzone2100 are great games I'd recommend. The first two are Quake-like FPSes, and the last is a really deep RTS.
Warzone 2100 - definitely a 'Low End' game
Spring RTS Engine - you'll have to check this out, I'm not able to tell if it's still a 'Low End' engine, but it has some variety, if one of the games will work, others might as well
OpenTTD - strategy simish type thingy
To add to the list, there's:
I'm not sure how the online multiplayer is though, I just know they have it. I've only played LAN multiplayer with them. They're open source free games, so the quality may or may not be to your tastes.
There's also Swords and Soldiers HD and Worms Reloaded on Steam for Mac.