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Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 21 Jan 2008, 09:45
by REVENGE
APC Magazine 5 Best
That's RIGHT! Battle for Wesnoth has ONCE AGAIN been named one of the 5 BEST free and open source games EVER!
On another note, Secret Maryo looks cool, and Nethack got an honorable mention. Otherwise, I've pretty much seen and heard of everything else.
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 21 Jan 2008, 10:03
by clumsy_culhane
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 21 Jan 2008, 14:42
by manored
Personally I like the original civilization over freeciv...
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 21 Jan 2008, 14:56
by DZHIBRISH
We are there but spring got a shitty description.If i didnt know it i wouldnt download it after reading that.
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 21 Jan 2008, 15:01
by DZHIBRISH
If spring was user friendly it wuld have deserved being on a top 5 list.
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 21 Jan 2008, 22:24
by manored
DZHIBRISH wrote:Since spring is user friendly it deserves to be on a top 1 list.
Fixed :)
I personally dont find spring hard to manage, I was able to get into a game in the first try (after downloading the stuff), consequently ruining the game for anyone who was in here with impressive levels of noobage...
maryo is quite fun... too bad it has no story nor bosses

Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 22 Jan 2008, 00:29
by Das Bruce
DZHIBRISH wrote:If spring was user friendly it wuld have deserved being on a top 5 list.
Remember 0.4?
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 22 Jan 2008, 01:05
by kiki
warzone 2100 <3
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 22 Jan 2008, 01:32
by ralphie
Does anyone have an opinion on this Battle For Wesnorth?
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 22 Jan 2008, 01:46
by REVENGE
I played an earlier version, and it felt like a bunch of cut out icons moving around on the screen. That's not to say there's no strategy involved, but turn based is not my game.
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 22 Jan 2008, 03:37
by smoth
lol we didn't even get an honorable mention... if you ask me... the gauntlet is thrown...
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 22 Jan 2008, 04:06
by kiki
ya, spring > wz2100. But still.....
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pumkinstudios rip

Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 22 Jan 2008, 14:19
by tombom
Battle for Wesnoth is cool but the random factor is big enough that it gets really frustrating, while being small enough that people can say that anybody who cares about it is whining.
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 22 Jan 2008, 15:17
by pintle
Wesnoth is very cool imo, well developed balance, and the random element is not actually that huge; it's pretty rare that a game can be decided on a single "dice roll".
The multiplayer lobby is fugly tho, and it lacks a lot of the more basic necessary functions imo, the inability to switch back to the main lobby once you have hosted a game, without closing the game, is a big problem imo.
Worth checkin out tho, my nick is (surprisingly) pintle on there gimme a shout if you fancy a game
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 22 Jan 2008, 15:36
by Regret
There's no mention of
Warsow,
Padman or
Tremulous. Yawn.
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 23 Jan 2008, 06:39
by REVENGE
How is the tux racing game? Looks promising.
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 01 Feb 2008, 10:12
by smokingwreckage
"If spring was user friendly it wuld have deserved being on a top 5 list."
With ICEUI, Spring is more user-friendly than some commercial games I play. Actually the default UI is good now too.
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 01 Feb 2008, 15:27
by manored
Spring is user friendly... the main mods are not :) BA takes forever for you to learn all the things that you must and must not do to win...
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 01 Feb 2008, 17:59
by Gota
Im talking about key shortcuts im talking about unfriendly lobby im tlaking about ...zzzzz...what was i talking about?
Spring and the spring lobby are very user unfreindly.
Re: Top 5 best (free) open source games (Guess who's on there!)
Posted: 01 Feb 2008, 18:58
by Otherside
manored wrote:Spring is user friendly... the main mods are not :) BA takes forever for you to learn all the things that you must and must not do to win...
a 2 year old could learn flash spam..