There are lot of first person shooter games, anyone please name some real time strategy games like glest and some story based games. One thing I must tell that graphics in FPS games in assault cube, openarena and others are **** good. I love it
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I don’t play a lot, but there seems to be a lot of good and active free RTS games…
- 0 A.D. looks pretty impresive.
- You have Warzone 2100, released originally for PSX.
- …most of the rest looks good enough.
I don’t think the situation of gaming on linux is likely to improve soon…
OpenGL is discarded in favor of DirectX for almost every upcoming PC title (even Rage was rumored to use this API) ; if DX is the API of choice if you develop a PC title, because it is well supported by hardware vendor, it is windows-only ; thus to port a DX game, you need to rewrite a lot of code. And Linux+Mac (the main non DX platform) does represent only 5% of OS market-share, not saying that Mac users are less likely to be gamer than Windows users.
On the other hand, PC gaming is loosing interest of editors, because consoles market is more “rentable” than PC. Except Starcraft 2, there was no exclusive PC major title since Crysis (whose sequel is going to console by the way). It is know that console are easier to support (single hardware), are considered as gaming platform in everybodies’mind (PC are mainly working platform,gaming is just a “plus”), and console gamers are less reluctant to be charged for things that are traditionnaly free in PC gaming world : access to online gaming, to demos/videos, donwloadable content…
You can’t ask for developpers to support linux if windows support is already on the bottom of their todo list. By the way, XBox API is DX, not OpenGL, and PS3 has some kind of native API, that can be wrapped against opengl but with a loss of performance that people would like to avoid.
You can still find some indies devs having interest in supporting linux : think of penumbra, dystopia, and unigine engine.
I am skeptical that it will happen on Linux as well,
but having a cousin (OSX) so close to the action is encouraging.
It seems to me that the Khronos Group’s new releases of OpenGL 3.3 and 4.x is a very very good thing for Linux gaming. Look for Postal III and Amnesia Dark Descent to come to Linux Natively (very good looking commercial titles) soon (these are both official announcements straight from the developers–no BS), and if the buzz is correct (which is still way way up in the air) Valve Software’s Steam client and Source Engine titles such as Portal II, Halflife series, etc to come to Linux eventually. Valve has already decided to make the switch to OpenGl for all of their future titles on all supported platforms!!! I am going to be experimenting with Wine 1.3 in OpenSuse 11.3 this weekend, and I am going to try to get Crysis Warhead and Bioshock 2 up and running, I will put a post in here with the results when I can.
By the way, I am running 11.3 on a Quad SLI enabled gaming rig and it works well! I will be putting up my Unigine Heaven and Tropics benchmark scores after I reinstall my OS (oops I broke my wireless drivers…lol)
I am not a gamer, but sometimes it’s a nice way of wasting time. I mostly play →Nexuiz and am looking forward to the upcoming fork →Xonotic, since the development of the original Nexuiz has stopped for some time now. →World of Goo has been mentioned already, this game is a nice example that Linuxers are actually willing to pay for apps - the Linux version of WoG has been quite a success and I recommend giving the demo a shot; there hardly are games which have been developed in such an affectionate way. Yet another commercial (but cheap) game which I’d like to mention is →Osmos, the ultimate antithesis to your common action/shooter-game.
I know wine is everything but working perfectly, yet I often am surprised how well some games work with it; recently I played Half Life 2 for the first time (I know, this game is old, but the gameplay and GFX are still kinda impressive for a non-gamer like me) and it runs without the tiniest flaw, same with Half Life 2 Episode Two.
yeah, the HL series works very well under Wine/PlayonLinux for me as well… now that Steam is using webkit and runs flawlessly under Linux with Wine it gives me high hopes that the Register and Phoronix were correct about the Source Engine and future titles from Valve will actually be coming to Linux natively…
I play Supertux. I like it. Its cute.
Most all of Id’s and some of Apogee(3D Realms) games run on native Linux, because most of the engines have been GPL’d, you still have to pay for the content though.
Quake 1-3 (4 maybe, I don’t have it)
all Doom games
Rise of the Triad
Wolfenstein 3D
Duke Nuke’m 3D
And I heard RAGE is going to be for Linux.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:40:31 +0000, Martin Helm wrote:
> trans123 wrote:
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>> And if we are to purchase any game it is against to Linux ideology.
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> Just as a side not esp. on this special topic: It is not against the
> ideology of linux to have commercial software on this platform.
+1
Two of my favourite games on Linux are World of Goo and Osmos - both of
which are commercial games. I paid for both of them to help support the
development of Linux games; same reason I paid the maintenance on
Crossover Professional (I got in on the free deal a couple years ago).
Supporting companies that support Linux is a good thing IMO. And the
best way to do so is open your wallet. 
Jim
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penumbra is an awesome game series for linux. Frictional Games actually just released a new game called Anmesia: the dark decent recently too.
There’s a new one coming, OilRush is an RTS game that will run natively in Linux.
From the website:
In a post-apocalyptic flooded world there are two things running short: oil and time. The last survivors in a desperate desire to seize control and dominate the enemy have started the naval warfare that turned the whole world into one large battlefield. In these harsh and cruel times, oil is thicker than blood.
The graphics look stunning. It isn’t released yet but will be soon, well worth keeping an eye on.
on a side note, what happened to those games that were played in the old days, when computers had floppies and rarely HDDs? can’t remember what they were/are called, but you played on a text console (what else?), the whole thing was text based. you got a description of the situation you were in, and then had to choose what you’re gonna do…
i understand this type of game doesn’t have much appeal nowadays, but a few years ago i’ve seen engines for this sort in oS’ standard repos. didn’t try to get that working then, but now i’d like to–only don’t know what to look for. doesn’t seem to be in the standard repos anymore. does anybody (of the oldtimers probably) understand what i’m talking about?
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phani.
The package ‘bsd-games’ contains several text-based adventures.
“Supporting companies that support Linux is a good thing IMO. And the
best way to do so is open your wallet. :-)”
That’s the best way for the growth of Linux and its communities not only for games but in all the arenas. Now I regret my statement " And if we are to purchase any game it is against to Linux ideology"
I like Enemy Territory, a WWII tactical FPS (available in Packman)
I am an online gamer who puts a high value on the prettys
Second Life
Dofus
Ryzom
Vendetta
Prey
Savage
Savage 2
Heroes of Newerth
Steel Storm (new game! Awesome!)
Offline games I like…
Osmos
Machinarium
Penumbra (1, 2, and 3)
Yet it Lives
World of Goo
@Pilgervater
+1, I guess nowadays my ideal gaming sessions are pretty innocent and simple. Well Left 4 Dead is always a good time killer! 
thank you, only now i’ve got around to install those and look at them–that’s exactly what i was looking for. (not an avid gamer i am…)
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phani.
Many links have already be given. Let me add: