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Some of us escape our miserable lives by playing video games. Most times, these games will allow us to become heroes in far away lands, shoot alien horrors and save mankind, or command armies on the glorious road to victory. Other games make us appreciate reality just because those games are so brutal, and we feel as if we are fairly accomplished individuals after the 500th time the character on the screen dies within the first few minutes. Roguelikes fall into the latter.
Roguelikes are designed for the masochist. It's that thing you see the weird nerdy guys with the long, unkempt hair doing at the college computer lab that resembles an arcane screen full of spat out code. We play them because we hate ourselves. Yet, at 4 am, rolling a new character after your level 6 Ghoul Necromancer Fry Cook bites the dust seems like a good idea. The challenge of playing nethack or crawl and the work it demands from the player might as well be a second job.
Yet there is something appealing about the genre, the dense gameplay and completely unforgiving randomization mechanics. There is also something undeniably cool about a game that demands you use pretty much the entire keyboard just to do basic commands.
Plus the visuals are pretty awesome.
Some popular roguelikes are:
Nethack
Crawl
IVAN
Dwarf Fortress
ADOM
Angband
Who else enjoys directing around a @ symbol through imaginary mazes?
Roguelikes are designed for the masochist. It's that thing you see the weird nerdy guys with the long, unkempt hair doing at the college computer lab that resembles an arcane screen full of spat out code. We play them because we hate ourselves. Yet, at 4 am, rolling a new character after your level 6 Ghoul Necromancer Fry Cook bites the dust seems like a good idea. The challenge of playing nethack or crawl and the work it demands from the player might as well be a second job.
Yet there is something appealing about the genre, the dense gameplay and completely unforgiving randomization mechanics. There is also something undeniably cool about a game that demands you use pretty much the entire keyboard just to do basic commands.
Plus the visuals are pretty awesome.
Some popular roguelikes are:
Nethack
Crawl
IVAN
Dwarf Fortress
ADOM
Angband
Who else enjoys directing around a @ symbol through imaginary mazes?
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As the designers intended I'm sure
Steam
This one time I totally got like twelve dwarves to dig a hole
then something straight fucked them up
those were kinda neat
text-based adventure time!
No no no.
The moon really is made of cheese.
they were alright
back when i was a mega nerd, i even went so far as to play a dragonriders of pern muck
those don't even have objectives
you're just pretending you're a dragon rider
actually that one might have been a MUSH
there were some achievable objectives, and you leveled up but it was a class thing and it was determined by your "weyr leader" whether or not you obtained a level, you had to like role play out these scenarios
oh jesus
i hope to god humble does not read this thread.
I don't even know what good ones are around anymore that aren't pay to play. because I guess the 200kb a month bandwidth and typing stuff in notepad development costs are just so high.
I liked the forest's edge and the clones that came after it closed. nothing came close. I mean I played a few others that were good, but I was still left wishing they were TFE. cept the warcraft one which was crazy awesome. little working ascii minimap and ranged attacks that went over several rooms and junk. good stuff
I even tried being a mapper for one but the head immortal dude was a total dick.
Crackin' toast, Grommit!
I was just going to say this
so now I will just tell you i love you
I know I am not as big a nerd because I am looking up some of those terms in an effort to appear relevant.
THERE IS A NEW ONE THIS CHRISTMAS!!!
WALLACE AND GROMMIT IN A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH.
on a BBS
god i'm so old
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this is what i used to do in my free time
i was really young when i played this, probably 11 or 12, it was one of my first internet adventures
http://www.pern.org/
But speaking of text games, who played Federation on AOL before it left AOL and went pay to play
That shit was the BEST
LoRD and Drug Wars were the shiiiiit
Steam
roguelikes fucking own as hard as a thing can own
lol i also played drug wars for a bit. on a texas instruments calculator.
Officer Hardass you bastard.
was dope wars the one you played online that was based off drug wars?
i think i tried that too
but i only really played drug wars because you could play it on a ti-84
Yea, I remember there was a multi-player aspect to it.
Someone in my calc class had super mario, some scorched earth type game and tetris on his ti.
Castle of the Winds was a nice little wimpy Roguelike.
It's kind of really easy to die
I had Tetris
I wrote a DDR clone
obviously there was no sound or songs, but arrows would fall from the sky and you had to hit them at the correct time to fill a point bar at the bottom, etc
LORD was alright.. but nothing compared to fuckin Usurper
Also, trade wars.. so many hours
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It is a pain simulator.
Now there's some fucked up body parts system that tracks internal organs, bones, the volume of blood left in the body, body tissue layering, hair growth and even how many teeth you have left and which ones they are.
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
how much weed did he smoke to think that was a good idea
I was totally ready to believe this was a joke, until I read the developments page on the site.