Since I am poor, and a number of our members love videogaming on top of RPing and Tabletop gaming, I figured i'd throw out some useful links and info about free games you can find on the net. If any one else wants to contribute, feel free. More Free Games = Maximum Win.
I'm going to start off with a bang here, folks. The first free game on my list is The Elderscrolls 2: Daggerfall. This game was originally released in 1996 and ate up a considerable amount of my computer time back in High School. Its a 1st person Roleplaying game set in a fully immersive environment. The game is completely non-liniar, and contains over 15,000 locations to explore in addition to the wilderness. While there is a main quest to partake in, the player also has the option of taking side-quests with guilds or temples, or even asking around the many towns and walled cities for odd jobs to do. Anything from delivering opackages, to assassinating rivals, to delving into dungeons on daring rescue missions. Other features include horseback riding, the ability to make make your own character class, the ability to make your own spells and magic items (as a member of the mages guild.) Changing seasons and realistic time of day, the ability to buy your own house and/or ship and, while the game is set to a point and click interface by default, one can easily reconfigure it to use a mouse-look and wasd keyboard set up. Easily the most immersive game I have ever played. And thanks to bethesda, its 100% Free. Check it out at http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/downloads_games.htm
You can also pick up the first Elder Scrolls game, Arena, on the same page, but you do not need to play the first to play the second.
Note: You will need the dos emulator, DOSBox, to run either of these, fortunately bethesda has provided a link to the DOSBox page on the download page. I also reccomend downloading the installation PDF, also located on that page, but since its easy to mis, here is a direct link:
http://static.bethsoft.com/downloads/games/daggerfall_legal_and_installation.pdf
And here are some Screen shots!
an interior to one of the buildings
A Character's Status Screen.
Riding through a town on horseback during winter
The Entrence to a dungeon in a spring rain.
Battling an orc in a dungeon.
and finally, just to give you an idea of how big the locals are in this game, this is just one of the cities in the game.
So enjoy there you have it! I'll post more free game goodness soon!
I'm going to start off with a bang here, folks. The first free game on my list is The Elderscrolls 2: Daggerfall. This game was originally released in 1996 and ate up a considerable amount of my computer time back in High School. Its a 1st person Roleplaying game set in a fully immersive environment. The game is completely non-liniar, and contains over 15,000 locations to explore in addition to the wilderness. While there is a main quest to partake in, the player also has the option of taking side-quests with guilds or temples, or even asking around the many towns and walled cities for odd jobs to do. Anything from delivering opackages, to assassinating rivals, to delving into dungeons on daring rescue missions. Other features include horseback riding, the ability to make make your own character class, the ability to make your own spells and magic items (as a member of the mages guild.) Changing seasons and realistic time of day, the ability to buy your own house and/or ship and, while the game is set to a point and click interface by default, one can easily reconfigure it to use a mouse-look and wasd keyboard set up. Easily the most immersive game I have ever played. And thanks to bethesda, its 100% Free. Check it out at http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/downloads_games.htm
You can also pick up the first Elder Scrolls game, Arena, on the same page, but you do not need to play the first to play the second.
Note: You will need the dos emulator, DOSBox, to run either of these, fortunately bethesda has provided a link to the DOSBox page on the download page. I also reccomend downloading the installation PDF, also located on that page, but since its easy to mis, here is a direct link:
http://static.bethsoft.com/downloads/games/daggerfall_legal_and_installation.pdf
And here are some Screen shots!
an interior to one of the buildings A Character's Status Screen. Riding through a town on horseback during winter The Entrence to a dungeon in a spring rain. Battling an orc in a dungeon.and finally, just to give you an idea of how big the locals are in this game, this is just one of the cities in the game.
So enjoy there you have it! I'll post more free game goodness soon!
Title Screen!
its dangerous to go alone take this.....ominous warning....
Recieving an item!
Scary Blue Guy!
Boss fight!
Fafnir Battlemech with the Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries Logo
Open Warfare. Fighting other mechs as well as air support.
Battling it out in an arena.
The Iconic Mad Cat MkII Battlemech.
Laser Light Show
I did promise you explosions.