There's nothing more fun than running from a capital letter!

Unless it's HALF A SCREEN of capital letters, throwing waves of asterisks at you!

Shit.

You're defiantly boned then!

I loled hard.

These games are going to cause violence! Look how realistic the simulation is for murderers to practice on!

I know you're joking, but one of the more violent games I played is probably Dwarf Fortress. It's possible for toddlers to die in a explosion of gore and bones.

Of course, it's all ASCII symbols but still...

Yep, you caught me there. I suppose a gun-toting gamer isn't the sort of person to say that something's too violent.

I play alot of FPS games. Yet Dwarf Fortress gotta be the most gruesome, mean and violent game I ever played.

Sure it's a happy face blinking X... but for me it's one of my legendary dwarfs who have collapsed into coma due to damage in the nerve system. And his legs and arms is spread over the battlefield as small red "²"... it's so heartbreaking!

It looks like a jumbled mess of symbols and text characters for anyone who hadn't played the game for a few hours, which makes the game even more amusing to play amongst other people...

What about I Wanna Be the Guy? One hit, and you explode into a shower of red pixelly gore.

You just know that some kid's gonna take his } of extra might and start firing {s at his classmates someday. It's only a matter of time.

He'd better keep his little @ out of here, else I'll ) him a new one!

Ruining the flapstack. :[
Man, what game is that? I'm strangely attracted to those li'l characters.

Angband, or any given variant. I'm actually playing NPPAngband, but that doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely.

Pound period pound pound pound at-sign pound pound pound pound lowercase-dee uppercase-dee uppercase-dee period left-brace pound period uppercase-dee period lowercase-dee equals pound period pound period degree comma.

Yes, I read the entire thing.

THE ONE EQUALS TO RULE THEM ALL

OH SNAPPLE>>>>>

I GET JOKES LIKE THIS NOW

YAY

I LOVE Angand and other Rogue-likes. :D

HURRAY! I've been playing them for something like 6 years ... and I'm STILL getting my ass kicked.

I think that's part of the joy of those games... building up a character and then mourning his death. A collegue at work gets really depressed after losing a character with months of work in it. xD

By the way... if you want a REAL hard core game, try Dwarf Fortress.. it's hard to get into it but well worth it. There should be one or two 3D-clients for that one to make it more appealing, too. ;)

I kind of wish there was a compromise ... like, respawn with half your gold, or a percentage loss of your experience, or something. Permanently losing a character after so much work is devastating, but using wizard mode and respawning with no penalty at all takes all the suspense out of the game.

I have played Dwarf Fortress, actually! Heh, I kind of have a love/hate relationship with base-building games. I love them in concept, but after playing them awhile ... eh. I was literally quivering with excitement when I was reading DF's feature list, but after awhile, getting bogged down in administrative things turned me off of it.

Still, though ... Purplecat plays it a lot, and he's always gushing about some new awesome thing they added, and I'm like "OH SHIT THAT'S SO COOL."

Hehe, only thing that made me lose a intrest a little in Dwarf Fortress is that my current fortress runs at 12 FPS as max...

...and this is on a fairly above-average computer too. Bah.

I heard Gary Gygax perminately lost his character yesterday.

Ah jeez, yeah ... just heard about that last night ...

Are those things Dragons? If one of them is grey you might even get yourself a GDSM.

Yeah, but I just made that scene up ... OH! Shit, I should've some of my old ZAngband screenshots as reference! I've got one of this vault that looks like Main Street in Disneyland, only slightly less crowded and somewhat more dangerous.

God, ZAngband kicked my ass so hard. I think I only ever made it to level 40 or so in the dungeon, and that was when I was CHEATING.

I think some of its difficulty came from bugginess also. I mean

a) I felt obliged to keep backups in case of inexplicable crash when I stepped somewhere.

b) Death drakes should not appear in the wilderness near a path next to my Level 17 character! I mean WTF -- on the level of stupid causes of death, that is like a randomly triggered 'Rocks fall. Everyone dies.' (up to two turns to teleport out of it's LOS, then sure death). Not even a sadist would make the game deliberately that difficult.


I hope.


Have you played ToME (Tales of Middle Earth)? It's pretty hard too, but more rewarding and explorable than other *bands. If you enjoy insane difficulty, after 'winning' the game by defeating M******, you can traipse through the Void which is equivalent to DL666 ... 696 (with insanely leveled monsters to match), and try to beat up M***** B****** to obtain total winner status. YAY!
( I never got that far, not being paranoid enough and hence succumbing to YASD after YASD)

(http://www.t-o-m-e.net)

Yeah, I really hated the wilderness in ZAngband. You'd never know what level the area you're in is until you stumble upon one of its inhabitants. And oh man, the dungeon entrances, guarded by hundreds of monsters ... if I was IN a dungeon, with walls and stuff to protect me, then sure, no problem, but on the SURFACE? Yeah, no.

I HAVE played TOME, actually. I liked it, except for the fact that I'd have to level up back in Barrow-Downs every time I died. Funny how that works, eh? You can go through thousands of levels of a plain, undecorated dungeon without ever getting bored, but give it a little personality and suddenly it starts to overstay its welcome.

My god, it's full of dots....should've sent...a bard.

What about Pacman? ;)

lol are you playing nethack?

Angband hand from Nethack?

;P

I have no idea what this means.

http://www.thangorodrim.net/

oic

And here I was, thinking you were playing Dwarf Fortress.

Dwarf Fortress is PurpleCat's forte. I play *bands.

Never heard of Angbad before, only rougelike I've ever played is Nethack. Damn it, and right at the beginning of the quarter too, so much for good grades D:

Have I ever told you how hot you are?

~<3

Have I ever told you what a cute sock puppet you are?

Almost called you a cock puppet by mistake. Heh.

HEY! That floating heart looks EXACTLY like a brass lantern, and up staircase and the entrance to the weapons shop. WEIRD!

I wish FurAffinity would let you post .exes or Silverlight files. Then I would be posting my roguelikes here.

But then we'd have so many viruses it wouldn't be funny.

No, the people who didn't know better (or turned off 'inconvenient' security features) would have so many viruses. ^^;

I couldn't get into NetHack. Something about a game with permanent death royally pisses me off because if I'm going to put that much work into a character, I don't want some random pit or bad fountain killing them off out of nowhere, invalidating my entire reason for playing.

It also makes the savegame feature pretty much useless, except of course for just quitting and reloading.

Yeah, I can understand that ... On the other hand, it DOES add a remarkable level of suspense and intensity to the game. You could of course turn on wizard mode and avoid death altogether, but without consequences the game becomes surprisingly boring. I kind of wish there was a compromise ... like, being able to respawn, but losing half of your gold ... that'd change the dynamic of the game, though. The high score screen would be pointless, except maybe for people who can actually beat the game. That's the thing. Roguelikes are SO DIFFICULT, that even cheating can't guarantee your victory. I played a single character on ZAngband for over a year, probably had to respawn hundreds of times, and I never even made it HALFWAY THROUGH THE DUNGEON. Granted, ZAngband is notoriously difficult, even among Angband variants, but STILL.

have you played Ancient Domains of Mystery? (ADOM) www.adom.de

its really fun, and you dont die as easilly as in alot of other roguelike games, but you can play for a whole month and still not have beaten it yet.

Y'know, I DID download it once, but I couldn't get into it for some reason. I think I was so used to Angband variants that my brain couldn't shift gears to learn something completely different.

Maybe I'll try it again ... I've been in the mood for a real RPG, not just a dungeon crawler, and I've heard ADOM is pretty deep.

its pretty damn good, i beat it before using a drakonian mage, but im going through as a warrior this time and its a little harder because i cant heal myself...

I had a long period where I was all about getting me some Angband action. These days though the only ASCII I deal with is the stuff in the textfiles where I write stories I shouldn't and/or lists of things to buy

Depends. Are we talking Nethack, or fucking Crawl? Or Slash'EM, which also pisses me off to no end? XD

Or is this one of those *bands I just can't bring myself to like?

Good one.

It's much more fun running from zombies.

And one of those zombies isn't a zombie, but is me... backstabbing you!

THIS ZOMBIE IS A SPY!

Ah .... truly the most powerful character of all.

Damn dragons.

Love nethack, even though I haven't acended yet, i've gotten damn close with a barbarian. Which isn't saying much...they are way too easy, especially when you start with frost brand >.>;

Is a withered angband hand like tendonitis?

Because I have that one. Tendonitis.

All these people talking things I know nothing about. I played this like 15 years ago when it was known as Dungeons of Moria. X3

Ouch... gettin' Angbanged.

Angband! Killer of many an evenin! Nice!

Roguelikes are kickass, even if I've been trying to beat Dungeon Crawl for a year now. :|

There's hope for you yet! It's too late for me. I've been playing *bands for six years. The only one I ever beat was Steamband, and that's because it was unbalanced and I was cheating. Run! SAVE YOURSELF! While you still can!

NO! this game is too hard

Well HAI THERE Mr. Three Years Late to the Conversation! =D

You know me, always late on that bandwagon, and i like how you did the shit, looks neat