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Are there any online games available?

Joshua9891 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:46:48 GMT

Hi Friends, I want to ask you that are there any online games available. I am fond of playing video effects games. I already have video games, play station but still feel that I should now hang up with some more new games. If you people know about some internet games then please tell me. Thanks in advance.

Erepublik

Atreyu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:26:45 GMT

Anyone 'round here that plays Erepublik?
Think of it like a "Massive Multiplayer Online Civilization", where every citizen in one of the the world's many countries consists of a real person. You can write in your own newspaper, start a world wide corporation or become a politician (i.e a congressman or even the president and rule over your people!). The biggest nations atm have a little more than 2000 inhabitants...

As of today, since the Great World War started, many free countries have been conquered by its neighbours. For example, Sweden now controls Germany and Denmark, Norway conquered Finland and Russia while the president of Indonesia decided to invade Australia and made South Africa a puppet state. There are two large pacts that practically have laid the world under their rule; the Northern Alliance (Sweden, Norway and Britain) and the Mediterranean Alliance (Pakistan, Indonesia, Italy, France and Spain)

Check it out! Its definitely worth a try!
www.erepublik.com

Its invite-based, so I'll need your e-mails if you want to try. Post it here, in a PM or in a message to atreyu.erepublik@hotmail.com

Shattered Galaxy

Roadkill — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 13:22:57 GMT

-I just came across this game today and I find it quite interesting. You play as the commander of a small division of mechanic soldiers in the fight to control a planet. It is an MMORTS where you along with other players fight battles to control provinces on the planet. I can't really describe it much better than that at the moment but just check out the site for information.

[url=http://www.shatteredgalaxy.com]Shattered Galaxy[/url]

-You can choose to have a free account or pay for an elite account. You will have to download the game(170MB) but the servers are quick and you should have downloaded it in 30 mins with DSL.

runescape

Gen. white — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:08:04 GMT

i think this is an extremly good game and i think all of you should try it.

i've benn playing for the last few months: www.runescape.com

Multiplayer Games

Roadkill — Fri, 19 May 2006 21:21:54 GMT

-Ok, I've been looking through my 'games library' in order to see if I can find any games to play online. I'm going to set up a full list later on of all the games I would like to play online(PBEM or Direct). As of now I'm just going to list the games I can remember at the moment.

-If you wish to post a list of games that you want to play online then reply to this post. It would be great if we could have all the games in one thread. If it's multiplayer or MMORPG don't hesitate, anything goes. If you see one of your games on somebody's list then PM them and set up a game.

My list:

Heroes of Might and Magic III (All expansions)
Shogun - Total War
Shadow Company
C & C - Tiberian Sun
Baldur's Gate(Not installed)
Icewind Dale(Not installed)
Age of Wonders
Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord
Anno 1602
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Sid Meier's Gettysburg
Transport Tycoon Deluxe Open Source
The Settlers II - Gold Edition
(I am unlikely to play uninstalled games unless a large crowd joins in)

-More games to be added later

Vanguard - Saga of Heroes

aconfusedkid — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:32:37 GMT

Vanguard - Saga of Heroes http://www.vanguardsoh.com/

I was reading through the online gaming section and I believe someone brought this game up, so I thought I'd make a topic on it. It is an MMORPG being developed by a lot of the people who worked on the original EverQuest. It is still in closed beta, but "open" beta is speculated to start tomorrow, 01/04/07, or at least in early January (only available to fileplanet subscribers and those who have pre-ordered the game). The game has been designed in the same manner as EQ in that it is based on MUDs. However, it will include all of the experience garnered from the past/current MMORPGs including UO, EQ, DAoC, WoW, etc. There is quite an extensive FAQ that has long-winded responses by some of the well-known designers.

At any rate, it has caught my interest enough to cause me to subscribe to fileplanet to download the beta client. I suppose I could use another distraction after quitting WoW and having nothing to play except Civ4.

GuildWars Factions anyone?

cleopatra143 — Sun, 14 May 2006 02:15:40 GMT

Been playing this since beta...awesome standalone or expansion. Anyone else here playing GW?

Hey whats up anyone playing Battlefield 2

Luis1279 — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:17:42 GMT

I mostly posted about this before but not sure, are any of you guys playing battlefield 2. You can look me up at http://www.freewebs.com/dpsniperdan. Thats the clan me and one of my friends organized. The requirments we are looking for are First Sergeants or Higher ranks and Must have a Mic for use on vantrillo. The site has the rest of the info, oh yea and I am going under the assumed name Suntuz there, Suntzu was take several times over.

My latest obsession

king_lamus — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 01:52:01 GMT

http://www.ankhet.org/

It's based on Egyptian mythos and strongly trivia driven.

And free! It's in beta right now, but it's an open beta.

Anarchy online

mik1984 — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:49:28 GMT

Anyone played it?

America's Army

Bismarck2990 — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:19:49 GMT

MMOR developed by the United State's Army:

Client Download is around 800+ MB but the game play is very addictive... the game allows different maps with different scenarios such as the parachute drop, guerilla warfare, remote outposts, and etc. It's very difficult to stay alive giving a realistic effect to the game... give up your position unsupported and get taken out by some sniper out there. They also allow a off-line option where you go through simulated training. Medic Classes, Special Forces lectures, and etc.

Very Informative and great play: https://www.e-games.com.my

[img]http://www.americasarmy.com/gallery/screens/dusk7_800.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.americasarmy.com/gallery/screens/dusk6_800.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.americasarmy.com/gallery/screens/dusk8_800.jpg[/img]

Any Loathers out there?

king_lamus — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 04:19:50 GMT

About the only online game I play is "Kingdom of Loathing." In my opinion it's one of the freshest games around, and it's free to boot. Any other Loathers out there?

For those fans of Diablo 2

Luis1279 — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:14:29 GMT

Something I found while trying to Inquire if this game would ever be made.

Luis1279

[quote]It looks like the Diablo III rumor mill has started up once again with a seemingly innocent post on the jobs section of the Blizzard web site. A few days ago they posted a job for an art director and various leads to join "the team behind Diablo I and II" for "an unannounced PC project." I have been getting some inquires since then if Blizzard is indeed working on Diablo III and when is it going to come out?
Well, before I answer let me mention a few things. First, I don't want to get any of my friends at Blizzard in trouble, so from instead of mentioning "Diablo III" let's call this theoretical game "Beelzebub 3" and instead of "Blizzard" let's call them "Snowstorm". Second, my information is quality stuff, but it is a little old, so take that with a gain of salt. Third, err, well, there is no third, so let's get into what I know!
Let's the obvious out of way, "Snowstorm" is indeed working on "Beelzebub 3". Not only are they working on it, but they have been working on this game for no less than the past four years. In fact, "Snowstorm North" nearly completed the game several years ago, but what they developed just "wasn't fun" and been quietly reworked. This was actually one of the key reasons why Snowstorm North was closed and everyone was relocated to Irvine-based Snowstorm, so that the bigwigs in Irvine could better track and follow the development of Beelzebub 3.
As for what to expect in to see in Beelzebub 3, believe it or not but those rumors that were floating around a few months ago about the game were fairly accurate (by the way, I have no idea who started these rumors or where they came from). According to the rumors:

"Diablo 3 takes place in heaven. Hell is trying to take it over and it is AWESOME looking … Imagine the brightness of heaven being taken over by the darkness of hell … Imagine WoW but in a Diablo world in amount of size and playability … Also, guild housing is available in this game for those of you who know about it."
This information was pretty dead-on. It is true that Beelzebub 3 will be done in true 3D and it did indeed look freaking awesome. It is also true that Beelzebub 3 features a story between the conflicts of Heaven and Hell and contains a very cool feature where every single item in the game can change between a "light" version and a "dark" version. However this was also one of the problems with the original version of the game. Other than the ability for any item to visually change from light to dark it didn't affect the actual stats of the item or change the gameplay in any way. So the game has gone through a total rework to inject some "fun" into the gameplay and to make it feel like the Beelzebubs of old.
The core gameplay Beelzebub 3 will play pretty much like Beelzebub 1 and 2, but the game world will be much larger and provide a much deeper experience -- many more items, more levels when you go through the game for first time, more skills, more of everything. In addition, the multiplayer aspect will be greatly enhanced from the past installments and don't be surprised to see more than a couple of WoW-based concepts to leak over into the Beelzebub 3 universe ... such as two opposing factions (Alliance and Horde = Heaven and Hell), enhanced guild functionality, and maybe even mounts?!
As for when Beelzebub 3 will released, that one is easy to answer ... when it's done. Snowstorm is in no rush to finish this game and will release it only after they feel it's perfect. And after the fiasco of StarCraft: Ghost -- which has been announced for years and is currently going through its second round of redesign and reprogramming -- Snowstorm is in no rush to announce Beelzebub 3. Don't except an announcement until the game is near completion.
But there is some good news; that "leak" on the Snowstorm jobs page was no accident. If they are starting to leak information about Beelzebub 3 then they are starting to get closer to a final release. Of course for Snowstorm something "getting close" can mean two years from now.
Hopefully that will hold everyone over for the short term. Hopefully Beelzebub 3 will be announced at the next E3, I'll try to find out more before then and give everyone the dirt as I get it.[/quote]

Lords-Fun,Short game

Rodent — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:35:42 GMT

Here is a game which i used to play but quit because i was alone with no one to support me.

This game is short,Does not take up Connection Power And is easy to understand once you get the hang of it.And also we can form factions of friends which is the best thing.

Would you like to join?We can form a faction of 1BCians if you join.Should i open it for you?Send a PM to "Rodent" if you join. When we have 5 i will open the faction.

Link is lords.gamessite.net

Anyone play HOMM?

madcat — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:01:00 GMT

I play all the HOMM, waiitng for HOMM 5.

EVE ONLINE

Gabba — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:18:54 GMT

Name: Red Gabba
Race: Minmatar
Bloodline: Sebiestor

Corp: Deep Space Consortium
Maelstrom Allience.

[url]http://www.eve-online.com[/url]

EVE takes place in a cluster of stars far from mankind’s original habitat, planet Earth. How far away, and whether or not that cradle of civilization still exists, is a mystery. Humans arrived through a natural wormhole and, gazing up upon an alien sky they had never seen, were completely unable to determine where this new world was located. From the New Eden solar system, where the gate of EVE once led to the old world, humans expanded in all directions at a furious pace, exploring and colonizing rapidly.

Then, unexpectedly and seemingly unprovoked, the EVE gate collapsed in an apocalyptic catastrophe of a scale never before witnessed by the human race, ruining the New Eden system in the process. Thousands of small colonies were left in complete isolation to fend for themselves, cut off from the old world. For millennia they endured, clinging to the brink of extinction, and only a handful managed to survive.

Of those that lasted, five were to rise up and become the major empires that, between them, hold the balance of power in the world of EVE. Today, they are known as the Amarr Empire, the Gallente Federation, the Caldari State, the Minmatar Republic, and the Jovian Empire. Additionally, the world is full of several small, independent factions and states.

For more than a century, the five empires have lived together in relative peace. They’ve continually strived to maintain this peace, as each faction realizes only too well the grave consequences of a massive inter-stellar war. Recent technological breakthroughs in FTL travel, and the ensuing increase in space travelers, have shaken, but not broken, the fragile peace... at least not yet.

[url]http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/video/2/NoOtherDestiny.wmv[/url]

Adellion

Roadkill — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:42:46 GMT

-While surfing a few days back I came across a MMORPG development site. Now, there are plenty of these to go around but this one will be different. Though I myself do not quite agree with everything these developers are planning it is still going to be a unique and worthwhile MMO experience relying on realism and roleplaying. The game is still far from finished but that means you might be able to influence the further evolution of the game. Before you start asking too many questions I recommend you read the FAQ(I didn't but I'm lazy....), they're a bit strict on that.

-If you're interested in checking it out just go to their [url=http://www.adellion.com/]homepage[/url].

Dungeons and Dragons ONLINE

cleopatra143 — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:38:55 GMT

Anyone play in beta, or fast start that plans on continuing on release of the game tomorrow? I'm on Ghallanda server!

RFOnline

Panic — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:30:37 GMT

Codemasters got the rights for this L2/swg mix game for UK/USA/Euro, & looks to be a great RvRvR type like DAoC. Three races compete to control resources: Elfin, Cyborg & Mech.

I got in beta but not going to take part at this point, few reasons; I'm enjoying WoW too much, i kinda lost interest in RFO after realizing the pve limitations, & i have to pay for a fileplanet account to d/l the free client.:ermm:

GuildWars Free PvP Weekend

cleopatra143 — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:11:01 GMT

If anyone is playing this, you can now try out the new factions and assassin/ritualist professions. You can even play it if you don't have the game. Go to www.guildwars.com to get your key and to download the client.

Just a reminder, this is PVP meaning Player v Player. The new professions haven't been released for the RP/PvE version of the game yet. Also, if you want to make a new pvp character you must delete one of your 4 characters. No extra character slot yet.

Anyone playing World of Warcraft?

strzeszut — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:44:25 GMT

Just wondering. I am playing on the Thunderhorn server primarily but have some characters on others and would love to see some of the 1BC crew in another game system. Given what I've seen from the people here I know that I would benefit from class analysis, fun, and good discussion by gaming with anyone here. Of course I will take a leave from playing for a month or two once CIV comes out. lol