Boredom +2

aonomus

<div class="IPBDescription">Need a good, cheap, game to play</div> I just need something to stave off the boredom, something that isn't too involving, but its good, cheap (sub $30 CDN), but preferrably free game to play, something interesting but it won't take forever to finish or get boring. Post away guys, you all probably know of something....

DragonMech

Played Deus Ex? It's $10 US, and is a game that can give you MONTHS of gameplay goodness. ^^

Kaine

Deus Ex

i just picked up Viet Cong for $20 AUD, its multi is fun

BulletHead

<a href='http://www.flashplayer.com/games/raidenx_movie.php' target='_blank'>Raiden X</a>

Wewtness +3

BadKarma

<a href='<font color="orange">Because of the illegal warez or borderline warez status of many supposedly "abandoned" games, links to sites such as this one are currently not permitted</font>' target='_blank'><font color="orange">Because of the illegal warez or borderline warez status of many supposedly "abandoned" games, links to sites such as this one are currently not permitted</font></a>

Lots of free stuff. Oldies but golidies.

Edit: Geuss I should shut up about that stuff then. PC Gamer says it's ok!

DOOManiac

IRC!

Oh wait, you already know all about it... :P
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Thansal

<!--QuoteBegin-DOOManiac+Jul 3 2005, 09:00 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Jul 3 2005, 09:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> IRC!

Oh wait, you already know all about it... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><aonomus> DOOManiac, go reply in my boredom +2 thread in OT<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
MMOTextPad FTW!

Fatal_Error

Yes.

Maple Story.

DiscoZombie

<a href='http://www.adom.de/' target='_blank'>Ancient Domains of Mystery</a>, if you're not against text-based, roguelike games :>


you could also start playing a MUD like <a href='http://www.medievia.com' target='_blank'>Medievia</a>... I logged a couple thousand hours on that sucker...

Quaunaut

<!--QuoteBegin-DiscoZombie+Jul 3 2005, 08:05 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DiscoZombie @ Jul 3 2005, 08:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> you could also start playing a MUD like <a href='http://www.medievia.com' target='_blank'>Medievia</a>... I logged a couple thousand hours on that sucker... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Thats the MUD that got me into MUDs. From a (at the time) 3 month old PCG issue, a full page ad.

TranquilChaos

Morrowind and all of the cool plugins that make it better.

ZephyrYHK

soldat.

Private_Coleman

LambdaMOO

UnderDOG

System shock 2. Great game, but a tad difficult to get working on XP.

Also if you’re looking for old, old, but still good games go to <a href='<font color="orange">Because of the illegal warez or borderline warez status of many supposedly "abandoned" games, links to sites such as this one are currently not permitted</font>' target='_blank'><font color="orange">Because of the illegal warez or borderline warez status of many supposedly "abandoned" games, links to sites such as this one are currently not permitted</font></a>.


(PS This site may be view as controversial, but as there was a whole article in PCgamer about it and how it is an amazing and legitimate site, I think it should be ok here)



edit: Well, nevermind then

SuitePee

Continuum/Subspace.
A great little 'Infantry' (better than) time-waster.

UltimaGecko

<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=94124&st=0&#entry1493987' target='_blank'>From a different thread</a> I remembered I posted this (a few games in there)


I saw Medieval: Total War (no expansion, sadly enough) at a local Wal-Mart for $10. If you like strategizing or in-depth real-time tactics than the game should be good for you. Even better if you find the expansion pack (then go to the TW website and get M:TW XL or Napoleonic mods).


I'm not sure if it's on sale from the website (which was Vivendi or Black Isle or something) but Fallout and Fallout 2 double pack was $15 when I bought it 3 years ago. Beating FO2 alone is at least 10 good hours (I really forget how long, but it's probably a lot more).

<a href='http://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php' target='_blank'>Ur Quan Masters</a> (also known as Star Control 2 - except that's a copyrighted name) was posted on these forums a long time ago...it took a few hours of my time.

<a href='http://www.fileplanet.com/132144/130000/fileinfo/Counter-Life-Beta-5.7' target='_blank'>Counter-Life</a> is a pretty fun modification for HL that goes through single player HL with CS weapons (and some minor changes involving getting money for killing stuff, and such). At least fun until you get to Xen...or maybe a bit before that.




System Shock 2 really isn't an under $30 game anymore, since you can pretty much only get it off Amazon.com or Ebay (since the company has long stopped producing anything).




And I think I'm out of stuff now...

DOOManiac

I change my vote to Google Earth (formerly known as Keyhole).

You can spend hours just looking at crap. It's really quite amazing.

OrganoX

Battlefield 1942 + Desert Combat

[WHO]Them

Everyone loves a good case of vertigo.

<a href='http://www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com' target='_blank'>Narbacular Drop</a>

Crispy

Freespace
Magic Carpet (Bullfrog)
Gender Wars (Hard, -a bit- like Syndicate Wars)
Gene Wars (Bullfrog)
King Pin

aah too many to post...

Thaldarin

<i>Starcraft</i>

Thansal

<!--QuoteBegin-SuitePee+Jul 4 2005, 03:53 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SuitePee @ Jul 4 2005, 03:53 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Continuum/Subspace.
A great little 'Infantry' (better than) time-waster. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
you do realize that subspace was the first

then infantry and Continuum came out around the same time...

right?



oh, and despite everyone saying it, infantry is nothing like supspace <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Iron_Maiden

<!--QuoteBegin-TranquilChaos+Jul 3 2005, 11:04 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TranquilChaos @ Jul 3 2005, 11:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Morrowind and all of the cool plugins that make it better. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I have been playing this game for 6 months and every day it gets better.

Crono5

Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker

Or do you want PC only?

If so I'd go with Crimsonland.

You can also check out N the Ninja, it's a free Flash game.

minsk

I bet if you do a Google search for: "Many former commercial games were released as freeware to promote their sequels", you will find a good collection of freeware games to search through. A few sites seem to be collecting links to the sites of their respective copyright holders.

esuna

<!--QuoteBegin-minsk+Jul 4 2005, 03:04 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (minsk @ Jul 4 2005, 03:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I bet if you do a Google search for: "Many former commercial games were released as freeware to promote their sequels", you will find a good collection of freeware games to search through. A few sites seem to be collecting links to the sites of their respective copyright holders. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Or just goto fileplanet and check their free / full games section, there's one or two good ones there.

I'd say get <a href='http://beyondgoodevil.com/' target='_blank'>Beyond Good & Evil</a>. You can pick it up relatively cheaply for PC, Xbox, PS2 or GC, and it's an awesome game. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

BulletHead

<a href='http://elmodied.ytmnd.com/' target='_blank'>Elmo's been hanged!</a>

DiscoZombie

<!--QuoteBegin-T h e m+Jul 4 2005, 05:57 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (T h e m @ Jul 4 2005, 05:57 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Everyone loves a good case of vertigo.

<a href='http://www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com' target='_blank'>Narbacular Drop</a> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I just had a fun couple hours with this, thanks for the link :>

'fire with fire' is the last level/there's nothing to do there right?

Thansal

<!--QuoteBegin-DiscoZombie+Jul 4 2005, 11:05 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DiscoZombie @ Jul 4 2005, 11:05 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-T h e m+Jul 4 2005, 05:57 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (T h e m @ Jul 4 2005, 05:57 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Everyone loves a good case of vertigo.

<a href='http://www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com' target='_blank'>Narbacular Drop</a> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I just had a fun couple hours with this, thanks for the link :>

'fire with fire' is the last level/there's nothing to do there right? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
correct.

them and crew are still working on finishing the game (I think)

now if you want something fun try speed runs of the game, you can pull some realy great tricks <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Tyrain

Nevermind.. the forums don't link the linkeh.

TheSavior

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