Roguelikes RPG...anyone?

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Maelkav

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For those of you who do not know what a roguelike is:
http://users.tkk.fi/~eye/roguelike/
http://www.tripalot.com/roguelike/intro.htm

Anyone reading this who has the inclination of saying "Wow! Morrowind has got to be the most detailed and freeform game I've ever played." then you likely have not heard of Roguelikes.

For those reading who HAVE played roguelikes, what is your favorite?

My own right now is between Gearhead Arena and Ancient Domains of Mystery...
 
Maelkav said:
My own right now is between Gearhead Arena and Ancient Domains of Mystery...
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Never heard of Gearhead Arena. ADOM is a cool one. I used to play all kinds of Angband variants, primarily Zangband of course.
There was another one that was just plain fun as hell, all the stuff you could discover. It was called Ragnarok or something like that, I forget now though. :???:
 
Steamband is my current most played.

Favourite is Iter Vehemens ad Necem (Ivan), but then any game where you can batter a zombie to death with it's own severed arm (then eat the remains) gets my vote.
 
Well URW is my favourite one... it just kicks ass because it's so realistic (well not always.. eh :smile: ) and you don't have anykind of "save the world"-quests.
 
IIRC it saves on exit, as with most Roguelikes. You can only have one character active at a time, without cheating....

Another great game which reminds me of the Roguelikes is Notrium . It's a real time game, the premise been you've crashlanded on an alien planet and need to survive long enough to escape. Quite good for a freebie. You can combine items you pick up to build tools, such as attatching a lens to a battery pack to make a laser.
 
I played a lot of ZAngbandTk and some IVAN. Ive tried ADOM and some others, but I really cant stand ASCII graphics. Very simple graphics like in ZangbandTk are enough for me, but my head start spining when I look at a a screen with nothing but #s, @sm &s and etc.
 
Elias_Maluco said:
Very simple graphics like in ZangbandTk is enough for me, but my head start spining when I look a with nothing but #s, @sm &s and etc.
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Heh, I have to agree. Most Angband variants now include graphics as an option you have to enable. Before that I remember playing the Tk versions myself.
With the ASCII version it's like, oh, wait, that's a capital "D". Oh crap.
 
I have played Notrium, and I liked it a lot (though it is not as "in depth" as most other Roguelikes, but that's like saying that the Atlantic Ocean isn't as deep as the Pacific, or maybe the other way around :wink: ) As for Angband and it's variants, they are cool, but they borrow from literature too liberally IMO.

I've never been able to get IVAN to work, which makes me sad.
And I LOVE the &, D, # etc. symbols! I'd rather have no graphics than cratchety 16-color graphics. I think it opens up the imagination more.

Gearhead Arena is one of the only good "futuristic" roguelikes I've found, and it is very easy to get into. I mean, who can frown upon a game where you get to stomp around in 50-ton mecha?

Oh, and ADOM owns! I feel no shame in saying that I have beaten it over a dozen times, and for those that know, that is a LOT of time! My favorite was playing as a Trollish Healer born in the month of Candle. It was like cheating... :roll:
 
yeah you really feel like the king of the world when you beat ADOM.
IIRC i've done so 4 times. human wizard, drakish healer, drakish mindcrafter (my fav. combo btw.) and a gnoll bard.

..4 times in the 4 years i've played it. really says something.
hundreds of failures, so many promising trolls scorched in the tower.
so many up and coming barbarians drowned :grin:
 
Yeah, we had the Orb of Zot on my old man's Amstrad, sounds kind of similar but with more text. Flares ftw! The day you finally manage to kill a dragon.. better than having christmas and your birthday on the same day. Although I only started playing it after being banned from space invaders for destroying the space bar :smile:
 
Here is my top 3 list:

ADOM
Nethack
Rogue

I played Moria for a little bit, but then I found Angband, which is essentially Moria with sound added and better graphics (oh dear - did I actually type that?). Meaning there's colour variation. :razz:

I've also played a few others, the names of which escape me at the moment.


I started playing ADOM when the newest version was 0.9.2. I started playing Rogue when I was using MSDOS 3.0. When did everybody else start?
 
Nethack is the only one I play, although I have tried many of the classics. nethack also has some really cool gui's for it, esp. hawk's eye or whatever.
 
I once owned the free version of URW and I think it kicked ass, never bought a newer one because I think it was much too expensive ($20+) for a game that is very rarely updated and that seems to be very realistic but still a ferret can bite your toe, fracture it and kill you from that!
ADOM was cool but as somebody else said too many ASCII graphics get on my nerves very quickly
 
Another problem I have with roguelikes that dont have any kind of GUI is the fact I dont have a good head to memorize 200 commands for everything ("CTRL +T" for this, "SHIFT + K" for that, "ALT + ;" for something...).

Thats why ZangbandTk is still my favorite, since it has graphical menus for everything.
 
Bah, I dunno. For me, half of the fun was learning all of the commands...it gave one a major sense of accomplishment when you could rattle off an entire dungeon without having to consult the '?' menu. But then again, that was just ME. :roll:
 
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