Brogues Before Ho's

bza · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 1:15 am

Not all roguelikes require you to memorize what things kill you.

Call me a purist but Brogue's colors and flashiness are really distracting. The fact that it has instant deaths that require either spoilers or trial and error really turns me off as well.
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bza · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:54 am

I drank the first potion I found and fell through the floor and died instantly. I don't really feel like playing more if that's how the game is gonna be!
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bza · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:03 am

I dunno, I've never played any other roguelike where drinking a single potion instantly kills you. I'm perfectly fine with crawl :)
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bza · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:58 pm

I haven't tried it myself but Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup has mouse support for local games.

I'm actually playing Nethack right now, for the first time in forever! At D:20 right now as a Human Valkyrie with tons of resistances and AC -10 and about to do my quest!

Re: Brogue I'll give it some more time, I just really don't care for the graphics. I prefer my roguelikes playable in a terminal D:
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bza · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 10:40 pm

Nethack and Crawl are way more than boxes connected by tunnels. Heck, Crawl even has a chain of islands with tides as one of the branches!
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bza · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:34 am

If you're playing Crawl online it's gonna be laggy due to the tournament. No idea why it would have performance issues locally.
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bza · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:45 am

Totally just won my first game of DCSS online, pretty happy about it despite it taking forever 'cause I mostly played at school and was afk for half the time! Ended up grabbing 6/15 runes; skipped the Hells and Pandemonium because Spriggans have such low HP :(

http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.10/bza/morgue-bza-20120323-053050.txt

Next goal is to win in Brogue! My best so far is floor 20 or so before being wrecked by traps while running from a lich and a tentacle beast or whatever they're called.

bza · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:05 am

Still chugging away at Brogue, the RNG seems ridiculous. Although it's tempting, I won't be using the custom game thing...

Is there a way to find out how a weapon compares to the one you're using? I keep wondering if something I found is better but I'm not sure how to test besides just hitting dudes and making a guess!

Also an example Crawl map, just to show the complex level generation in the plain ol' dungeon levels: