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Game Discussion => Classic Roguelikes => Topic started by: TidusBlade on September 23, 2007, 10:26:47 AM
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Simple :P How much gold have you got at most in Rouge ? Im still on my 4th day playing :S only got like 2800 once and i thought I was lucky xD
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I'm not familiar with any game named Red! *evil grin*
Seriously though, I think the first ever ever roguelike I played was Rogue (roGUe)... but that was a LONG time ago. All the other ones seem better now ;)
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Sounds like it isint as popular as the other ones ::) Im still determined to get that Amulet :-\
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ha! good luck with that one Tidus! I have never been able to!
Rogue is very enjoyable, even by nowadays standards... the only bad thing is the existant step of imbalance... if this were fixed the game would be much better
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ha! good luck with that one Tidus! I have never been able to!
Rogue is very enjoyable, even by nowadays standards... the only bad thing is the existant step of imbalance... if this were fixed the game would be much better
I agree. Rogue is *too random*. I also think that if long term strategy had a larger part of importance, it would be better. Still it's fun.
I have never won it, of course... In fact, I have never won any roguelike (except from a beta of DrashRL) :P
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I'm not familiar with any game named Red! *evil grin*
Maybe he was asking what's the greatest percentage of golden that you can mix with other colors to obtain red?
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I agree. Rogue is *too random*. I also think that if long term strategy had a larger part of importance, it would be better. Still it's fun.
I have never won it, of course... In fact, I have never won any roguelike (except from a beta of DrashRL) :P
I got pretty used to the randomness of it now :P I just hate it when I really wanna know what is this potion and it blinds me or poisons me or something bad :S
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Yeah, that is the COOL random part of rogue, the BAD random part is when you can be killed in two blows after being a god in the previous level :)
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ive never been able to get more than 1398 gold in rogue :-X
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I've had something over 12,000, gained after going down to around L34.
Last night I died with 7646, coming back up. I ran out of food and was finally killed after fainting for the umpteenth time.
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I've gotten 5000 a few times.
I have to disagree about the imbalance. The complete impossibility is what makes Rogue fun. When there's no reasonable expectation of winning, losing a good game is an accomplishment instead of an annoyance. You focus on how far you got instead of your failure.
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I've gotten 5000 a few times.
I have to disagree about the imbalance. The complete impossibility is what makes Rogue fun. When there's no reasonable expectation of winning, losing a good game is an accomplishment instead of an annoyance. You focus on how far you got instead of your failure.
I second that - I completely disagree on the imbalance.
The deal is - you simply have to plan and\or take risks.
Save your stuff so that you can try it when it's "safe".
Haven't seen a blindness potion? Then keep a see invisible or healing potion on hand just in case you get one.
Haven't seen enrage monster scroll? Then read scrolls after you've cleared the level.
In other words, if you always gamble, you'll lose a good deal of the time. Instead, if you manage the risks, you'll come out ahead most of the time.
As for "complete impossibility" of winning, I completely disagree again.
What makes Rogue fun (and unique) is that you CAN win! It's essentially an ASCII video game - the critters keep getting harder, but you can actually win it! I've won it twice this year, so it can be done. Trust me, when you finally DO win after countless games of trying, it's great! Our college CS lab (in the 80s) practically declared a holiday when the game was defeated for the first time!