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Started by Jutter, February 14, 2013, 09:19:00 AM

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Jutter

Free to play versions of games are often cripled compared to the experience you pay extra for, and open source material can be a bit tricky to get firing on all pistons. But while wallets are growing slimmer in financially dire times, there's increasingly more fun to be had for free these days... if you know where to find it. I thought it would be cool to devote a gaming-thread purely to fun you can have for free.

So there you have it. Share your links/reviews/setup instructions here, and they'll all be in one neat compilation for people to consult in times of boredom.
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Being flabbergasted about existence never made anyone disappear in a poof of flabbergas, so nevermind why we're here. We ARE here.

Jutter

To kick things off with an obvious choice, here's tip number one:

Open up a STEAM account. It's for free, and so are several games on offer there.
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Being flabbergasted about existence never made anyone disappear in a poof of flabbergas, so nevermind why we're here. We ARE here.

Plu

Zero-K

Running on the open-source Spring engine, Zero-K plays a bit like Total Annihilation but with a greatly updated UI. Easily supports 10v10 games with players commanding vast armies.

Steep learning curve, but very rewarding to play! Give it some time to figure it out.

Jutter

Retrogaming heaven. If you want emulators and roms; this russian website is the place to go.
8 -and 16 bit consoles. 16-bit arcade (Capcom and NeoGeo).
http://emu.kulichki.net/
No religion for me thank you very much; I 'm full of shit enough as it is.

Being flabbergasted about existence never made anyone disappear in a poof of flabbergas, so nevermind why we're here. We ARE here.

Jutter

Visual Pinball/PinMAME

If you've never caught the pinball fever, you can discover what the appeal is for free. An open source program called Visual Pinball, over the years, has been used to faithfully recreate some of the best pinball tables of all time, and it's all out there for free on the internet.

Don't be discouraged if you can't get things running at once. You might need to lower the resolution, and it can sometimes take several downloads before you've caught a working table/rom pair, but you'll get the hang of it soon.

Just download/install the latest shake&bake version of Visual Pinball from VPforums (you need to open a free account first).
-Unzip tables in the table folder (both VP tables and PinMAME tables will be accepted)
-Place the zipped roms in the PinMAMEROMS folder
-Load the table through the File dropdown menu
-Press the PLAY button on the user-interface to start the table.
(if things go wrong there, chances are you need to hunt down an alternate romset for the regarding table)
-Press F2 to get a list of keyboard commands. You can also assign keyboard-commands to joypad-buttons.

Two places to look for tables are VPForums and Pinball Nirvana
(desktop versions is what you want, unless you can use your monitor in portrait-mode somehow; then go for the cabinet versions)
http://s640.beta.photobucket.com/user/j ... d.mp4.html
Keep in kind that some recreations are flawed. Sometimes it's nothing a helpfull nudge can't fix, but sometimes it also means the balls gets stuck and you can't play on.
In such a case keep your eyes open for updates that fix the problem.
One name to remember is JPSalas. His recreations tend to be the best ones out there.

Roms can be available there too, but if one stop is all you want to make, then I reccomend pulling your ROMs from IPDB (the Internet Pinball DataBase)
No religion for me thank you very much; I 'm full of shit enough as it is.

Being flabbergasted about existence never made anyone disappear in a poof of flabbergas, so nevermind why we're here. We ARE here.

SvZurich

Path of Exile is nice so far.  No pay to win.  No real currency either.  Sell items in a barter exchange for useful items like identify scrolls or random enchants.  Pay for cosmetics and pets and dance moves only.

The Marvel Heroes game is okay, but a bit boring so far.  In it you can pay for boosts, to unlock heroes, and for costumes.  Overall, I hope it gets more polish during its beta.  I already paid to unlock all heroes and costumes on release, and a perma boost to loot and XP.  Current closed beta testers got a 10% discount, which I used on the $250 Ultimate pack that came with $100 of in game cash too.
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aitm

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ilostmypass

Uhm. LoL (league of legends) is pretty cool. 3vs3 or 5vs5 on a individual and team strategy 3D game. There are payable benefits that in no way provide advantage for the player who buys them.

http://www.transformice.com is a free typical childish game to pass the time. It has some physics and creativity envolved! Over 3M members (average 40k online) and 5M maps. Quite easy to learn, friendly community, and fun if you have the right mindset :)

BlackL1ght

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League of Legends is really fun.



Or you can resort to pirating like all the kewl kids out there.
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_Xenu_

Quote from: "Jutter"Retrogaming heaven. If you want emulators and roms; this russian website is the place to go.
8 -and 16 bit consoles. 16-bit arcade (Capcom and NeoGeo).
http://emu.kulichki.net/
This. Emulation rules, though I tend to prefer Nintendo.
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Quote from: "SvZurich"Path of Exile is nice so far.  No pay to win.  No real currency either.  Sell items in a barter exchange for useful items like identify scrolls or random enchants.  Pay for cosmetics and pets and dance moves only.

The Marvel Heroes game is okay, but a bit boring so far.  In it you can pay for boosts, to unlock heroes, and for costumes.  Overall, I hope it gets more polish during its beta.  I already paid to unlock all heroes and costumes on release, and a perma boost to loot and XP.  Current closed beta testers got a 10% discount, which I used on the $250 Ultimate pack that came with $100 of in game cash too.
Do you ever suspect you might be spending too much money on games?
Click this link once a day to feed shelter animals. Its free.

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/ars/home

SvZurich

Yes Xenu, I do.  I've bought Fallout 1 and 2 both 3 times already.  Original CDs, compilation CD with Tactics, and on Steam.  Every time a $60 game comes out that I want (I'm looking at you, Batman Arkham series!), I try to wait for its GOTY edition to go on sale.  With Arkham City and Borderlands 2, I failed.  I did okay with Fallout 3, won with Fallout New Vegas, and am waiting for Skyrim's GOTY edition so I can rebuy it with the DLC included (as I did with Fallout 3 and Borderlands 1).
Kimberly (HSBUH) aka Baroness Sylvia endorses the Meadow Party's Bill N' Opus for the 2024 Presidential election! Or a Sanders/Warren ticket.