Jono
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I've just finished a fan-made graphical point and click remake of Infocom's text adventure game based on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I thought it was quite fun. The game is freeware, here's the link:
http://h2g2remake.wordpress.com/.
Has anyone else played a freeware game they've liked or enjoyed? |
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SamwiseGamgee
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I'm quite excited to try that game now! I've played the infocom game but I'm rubbish at text based adventures.
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The Battle for Wesnoth, a turn-based strategy game.
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wesnoth was great, not a big fan of the player base though
LOL causing quite a stir recently, and it's fine.
I find the best games are semi free, and by that I mean mods  |
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Dwarf Fortress, of course. It being the best game ever written and all. 
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Really nice titles here.
I played Quest for Glory series a lot and the parody/sequel Quest for Glory 4 1/2 is pretty funny. In some ways it has a better plot than Quest for Glory V. Okay, it has some sexual innuendo in the game, not really suited for kids.
The site Abandonia Reloaded has a lot of free gems. There are a lot of remakes and fan-made sequels of games. |
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Ancient Domains of Mystery
Of course there are also plenty of "liberated" games that should be mentioned such as the first two games of The Elder Scrolls. EA has been liberating the Command and Conquer series slowly with each new release. |
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| SamwiseGamgee wrote: | | I'm quite excited to try that game now! I've played the infocom game but I'm rubbish at text based adventures. |
I love text based adventures, but, apologies to Mr. Douglas, the Hitchhiker's one is just frustrating. A lot of the puzzles are just downright illogical and take me forever to figure out (still haven't finished the game).
Though the Babel Fish puzzle was so absurd, it had me laughing out loud.
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Jono
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I see people have come up with nice examples. Another good one I tried a while ago is Flight of the Amazon Queen:
http://www.download-free-games.com/freeware_games/amazon_queen.htm.
Also, I found a game in the Ubuntu repositories called Adanaxis. I became interested in it because it claimed to be a shooter in four spacial dimensions, although I was disappointed that the Linux version had a bug that caused a segmentation fault in one of the levels, which still hasn't been fixed. Here's the link:
http://www.mushware.com/ |
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Might try the second one later, trying the first one now cause it looks hilarious  |
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