Game of the Day thread

[Dracos]

Heh, welcome then. =)

I'm trying to build this part up further.

Dracos

[Dracos]

http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/tree/index.html

Christmas tree grow!

Dracos

[Karlinn]

http://www.totallyscrewed.net/newsite/games.htm##scz

Survival Crisis Z, y'all.  Mass zombie-killing and turf warfare at its 2D finest.

[Merc]

http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/tree/index.html

Christmas tree grow!

Dracos

Awww...that was cute! XD

[thepanda]

http://www.mapleglobal.com/

Fun, free, MMORPG. I play it. I like it. I haven't seen it linked here.

[Ranmilia]

Warning Forever

So this here is a pretty simple freeware game.  It's a good old fashioned 2-d space shootemup, with two little twists.  The first is that there are no levels or powerups.  You only have one gun, the only controls are for your movement, movement speed and direction you fire in, and all you do is fight one boss over and over again until you run out of time (dying carries a hefty time penalty).
The second twist is that the boss "evolves" intelligently each time you beat it, growing tougher in ways tailored to beat your particular playing style.  You like to fly behind it and shoot backwards?  It'll start rotating.  You like to go straight for the core?  It'll grow armor.  You like to blow up all its arms?  It'll come back with more of them.  You get killed by one of its weapons?  Guess what weapon it'll grow twenty of next round.  A lot of games advertise "intelligent adaptation" like this, but I've yet to see any game noticeably pull it off except this one.
Throw in a customizeable scoring system, replays and an amusing lil system that gives each boss a unique name and you've got quite the nifty package.

[StormDragon]

http://www.parapluesch.de/

Now YOU can become a certified professional psychiatrist to some of the most misunderstood and abused individuals: plushies.

This is game is entertaining, in a trying-to-figure-out-how-to-cure-the-neurotic-sheep-before-it-kills-itself sort of way. It will engross for a long while.

[Dracos]

http://perso.wanadoo.es/bubblebobble/bubblebobble2.swf

This is really neat.  Flash run bubble bobble 2.

Oh the nolstalgia =D

Dracos

[thepanda]

http://www.animegalleries.net/index.php

Not a game site, but the gallery allows you to make jigsaw puzzles from the images. I went looking for a Sailor Moon image and three hours later I;m still there.

[Kwokinator]

At Merc's urging, here's a little time-waster...

http://www.arcadezero.com/play-407.html

You fly your ship through a wormhole and can't touch the walls while the path keeps curving.  Simple but fun for a little while ^_^

[Dracos]

Gah to sudden sharp angle moves. =)

Dracos

[Ranmilia]

Should probably post stuff here...

Grid Wars - Hey, look!  It's Geometry Wars, the best reason to have an Xbox 360!  Except ported to PC, free and regularly updated as the guy keeps working on it!

Zeux World - A Marioesque platformer.  Nice creative levels, lots of secrets, quirky graphics and music, and a few pain-inducing design choices and bugs.  Actual gameplay isn't very hard... once you get used to how things work.  Worth a look if you like platformers.

[Dracos]

*grabs gridwars to try*  Mmm, mario brothers clone?  Has dune beaten that yet?

[Kwokinator]

Not a game, but found a site where they listed what they considered to be 101 best free games on the 'net, from various genre... has stuff like Cave Story, Dad 'n Me and Nanaca Crash on it, so there might be some games that're good ^_^

Some of those links are dead though ^_^;

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=0&cId=3148013

As for an actual game recommendation:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/298925

You're Chuck Norris battling an onslaught of infinite (might be, might not be, I didn't stick with the game long enough to find out) ninjas.  You can punch or jump kick them to death, or rip their hearts out and eat it for health, and jump and stomp on the corpse's head, making the brain pop out, and then use it like a football to kick at oncoming ninjas ^_^

The game mechanics and the game itself is pretty crappy, but I'm a gore fan and eating ninja hearts amuses me enough to let me rack up some 260+ ninja kills, so there ^_^

Probably should insert gore warning though, for the heart ripping and brain popping ^_^

[Kwokinator]

Weird how the simple games are often the most addicting ones ^_^

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/300760

I couldn't make it past stage 15, unsteady hand plus crappy optical mouse.  Maybe I have Parkinson's ^_^