Comments on: Dungeons of Dredmor Is Effing Great

By: Nonomu198

Nonomu198 — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:46:58 +0000

JT, Minecraft can’t become a roguelike… it’s 3d, not turn based, and while it has randomly generated “dungeons”, they are not the roguelike type. Heck, one of the most important rules of rogulike is generating a random level once you die, and that would be pretty fucking annoying if implanted in Minecraft.

I don’t think the skills lost on death mechanic will actually pull the game towards any genre.

By: JT

JT — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:16:31 +0000

I love these roguelike games. Hate it when I eventually die, but still, quite awesome, and easy enough to start over.

Recently, I’ve been playing Hack,Slash,Crawl. Flash game, but it’s got some depth. Kinda like this.

They’re saying that Notch might make Minecraft into a roguelike. Killing monsters may upgrade skills, and dying makes your skills reset. That’d be interesting. And it’d give Minecraft more direction.

By: Nonomu198

Nonomu198 — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:38:36 +0000

This looks similar enough to NetHack. Looks prettier and more casual though. Might give it a try for the low price tag, though hours of spelunking on NetHack, then dying, kind of put me off of roguelike games.

I just got a bit tired of my latest time consuming game, Europa, too. I payed like 20 bucks for it with the expansions on a discount and have about a thousand hours on it now. You should try it, Chris. Starting it is a bit hard but after the first half an hour it’s easy enough, especially if you don’t shy away from cheating in your first couple of campaigns.