I've played a few Roguelikes, but I spent the most time with Elona.
Mostly because it was totally animes, and pretty easy.
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So I downloaded nethack and did a buncha things but I'm not quite sure I get it, because I've never played this type of game before (except for trying a little DF).
You just...do stuff? Because I ran out of space to explore and thought that was the end but couldn't find a real end.
There is a homebrew nethack thingo for DS if anyone cares.
It is pretty cool, and playing it wasn't nearly as painful as I thought it would be. I think it is 3.4.3 or whatever the stable release for ages was.
It uses the tileset that comes packaged with pretty much every release as well, which is nice.
I think it has sort of a minimap as well, since your screen can't see a whole lot at once unless you stop to make it move around.
Does anyone remember Larn? Back when we got our first home PC back in '87, that was one of the two games we had installed on it from the start (that and Chuck Yeager's Flight Simulator).
Basically, there were 15 levels to beat. 10 levels of the dungeon, then go back to the home level and beat 5 levels of volcano, grab the potion of cure dianthroritis from the invisible endboss, and get back in time to cure your daughter. They had a store on the home level where you could buy equipment and consumables, a college where you could spend time to learn things, a bank that would pay gold for gemstones you found, a variety of spells you could learn and cast, the usual assortment of potions and scrolls, and I was playing this game years before I came across Hack, Rogue, or any of the others.
Only roguelike I've ever played was Elona, in all it's broken english glory. It was pretty decent, if you got over getting your ass kicked by everything at the start.
So I downloaded nethack and did a buncha things but I'm not quite sure I get it, because I've never played this type of game before (except for trying a little DF).
You just...do stuff? Because I ran out of space to explore and thought that was the end but couldn't find a real end.
the point is to get to the bottom and then get to the top again. Well, I actually have not played nethack, but for roguelikes it is either get all the way to the bottom, or make a trip down to retrieve an artifact. The "game" is seeing how far down you can get without dying, since there is no save state your journey is completely perilous.
I like how in Nethack, there is a special food that you can change the name of in an ini file. I think it's a slime mold by default, but you can make it so you eat penises and drink penis juice.
I like how in Nethack, I found a shop, picked up and equipped the 24k gold vorpal sword and used it to kill the shopkeep, then ran off giggling into the night.
I played IVAN for a while, and I thought it was pretty awesome. I'd always try to get my limbs chopped off as early as possible so I could upgrade to artificial ones. Then I'd get a leg made of banana flesh and die to a mutant bunny.
I like how in Nethack, there is a special food that you can change the name of in an ini file. I think it's a slime mold by default, but you can make it so you eat penises and drink penis juice.
You can name and rename basically anything you can carry.
I like how in Nethack, there is a special food that you can change the name of in an ini file. I think it's a slime mold by default, but you can make it so you eat penises and drink penis juice.
You can name and rename basically anything you can carry.
Yeah but that's not permanent across all sessions.
Once I figured out the basic poisonous monsters (kobolds are the main ones early on, cockatrices and the like are obviously no-gos, and hopefully you have poison resistance later), and to never eat a monster that you didn't see die (you don't know how long it's been sitting there rotting) I pretty much never had a problem with food.
Look sometimes a dude just wants to eat a rotting corpse.
I think maybe orcs were good with eating corpses and not getting sick?
I'm pretty there was something about them eating humanoids (maybe even other orcs) and it not angering their god.
I just ate all the corpses I wanted all the time.
E: Then there were vampires in SLASH'EM who were fucking tough, but you needed to feed on things, I can't remember if it had to be live, or just hit the ground very recently. But food became a problem pretty quick for them, you couldn't really carry any with you except for potions of blood, and I can't remember if you could make those or just got like 6 at the start of the game.
Eat all the leprechaun corpses. Makes you super lucky. Trust me.
Hope you've been eating all the tenguu corpses too.
E: If you tin a corpse, can you eat the tin for the intrinsics later? I honestly cannot remember this.
Also I think you can get intrinsic slow digestion by polymoprhing yourself into a rustmonster and eating a ring of it. Don't know if this is a great move though, because you might not get it, then you ate your ring of it.
the only way to know for sure is if you have an altar and sacrifice something. if it says 'you have a hopeful feeling' or 'you have a feeling of inadequacy' you cannot pray, otherwise you can. sacrifice also lowers your prayer timeout.
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edited June 2011
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There is no success/fail message, or anything to imply that you might be right about this particular dead end, you just keep on hammering s until you get bored.
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Mostly because it was totally animes, and pretty easy.
You just...do stuff? Because I ran out of space to explore and thought that was the end but couldn't find a real end.
I mean, it seems cruel and unusual, but possible.
hitting hot metal with hammers
It is pretty cool, and playing it wasn't nearly as painful as I thought it would be. I think it is 3.4.3 or whatever the stable release for ages was.
or two, in this case
hitting hot metal with hammers
I think it has sort of a minimap as well, since your screen can't see a whole lot at once unless you stop to make it move around.
Basically, there were 15 levels to beat. 10 levels of the dungeon, then go back to the home level and beat 5 levels of volcano, grab the potion of cure dianthroritis from the invisible endboss, and get back in time to cure your daughter. They had a store on the home level where you could buy equipment and consumables, a college where you could spend time to learn things, a bank that would pay gold for gemstones you found, a variety of spells you could learn and cast, the usual assortment of potions and scrolls, and I was playing this game years before I came across Hack, Rogue, or any of the others.
the point is to get to the bottom and then get to the top again. Well, I actually have not played nethack, but for roguelikes it is either get all the way to the bottom, or make a trip down to retrieve an artifact. The "game" is seeing how far down you can get without dying, since there is no save state your journey is completely perilous.
Or die-because-I-ate-the-wrong-thing game.
8-)
You can name and rename basically anything you can carry.
Yeah but that's not permanent across all sessions.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
were you using #pray?
I think maybe orcs were good with eating corpses and not getting sick?
I'm pretty there was something about them eating humanoids (maybe even other orcs) and it not angering their god.
I just ate all the corpses I wanted all the time.
E: Then there were vampires in SLASH'EM who were fucking tough, but you needed to feed on things, I can't remember if it had to be live, or just hit the ground very recently. But food became a problem pretty quick for them, you couldn't really carry any with you except for potions of blood, and I can't remember if you could make those or just got like 6 at the start of the game.
E: If you tin a corpse, can you eat the tin for the intrinsics later? I honestly cannot remember this.
Also I think you can get intrinsic slow digestion by polymoprhing yourself into a rustmonster and eating a ring of it. Don't know if this is a great move though, because you might not get it, then you ate your ring of it.
At least I think that was the way you were meant to do it.
Any ranged weapon will do.
Another way that I did sometimes was dig a passageway 2 tiles deep and stand in it so the eye blocks the way and no newts can get in to kill you.
So, you can pray once and then not pray again for 1000 moves? Is there some way to count that or do you just have to estimate?
I can't remember what means what though. I think a clover means it's safe.
How do you find hidden doors?
There is no success/fail message, or anything to imply that you might be right about this particular dead end, you just keep on hammering s until you get bored.