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Other Announcements / Searching for a specific kind of roguelike
« on: February 23, 2011, 04:50:42 AM »
Hey--I'm a reasonably experienced roguelike player, but a very casual one. I started playing nethack years ago and i've since moved on to dcss, doomrl, and incursion. (i only ever play once in a while, so I've never actually gotten any good at them. I just mess around in the first ten floors or so until i die.) But while I was looking at doomrl's extensive medal and stat-tracking screens I had a thought: those screens really reminded me of the Barracks from Modern Warfare. So I had a wonderful idea, and immediately wanted to know if it existed: roguelikes and multiplayer shooters actually have some strong similarities; playing both involves iteration, covering the same territory over and over again while slightly altering your equipment and strategy, starting out weak and growing stronger until the game ends and your score and progress reset. MW revolutionized its entire genre by marrying that very roguelike-esque start-everything-over with a deep, crunchy long-term persistent system of unlocks and powerups that carry over from round to round. Having the same kind of idea applied to a roguelike would be fantastic.
I searched up this forum because it seems like the place to ask: does such a game exist? A roguelike where, like every roguelike, you start the game with little equipment and a couple of abilities, and try to find items and level up as you go down the dungeon--but in this one, the more you play, and the more specific goals you achieve, the stronger your character can be next time? Kill 100 enemies in one life with an axe, and your fighter can start with a +1 axe next time. Play a Wizard to at least dlvl10 three times and unlock a Sorcerer with different abilities. Stuff like that. The only roguelike-type game I can think of with that kind of content is Desktop Dungeons, which is huge fun, but hardly a proper roguelike. Is Crawl of Duty out there somewhere? Because I want to play it.
I searched up this forum because it seems like the place to ask: does such a game exist? A roguelike where, like every roguelike, you start the game with little equipment and a couple of abilities, and try to find items and level up as you go down the dungeon--but in this one, the more you play, and the more specific goals you achieve, the stronger your character can be next time? Kill 100 enemies in one life with an axe, and your fighter can start with a +1 axe next time. Play a Wizard to at least dlvl10 three times and unlock a Sorcerer with different abilities. Stuff like that. The only roguelike-type game I can think of with that kind of content is Desktop Dungeons, which is huge fun, but hardly a proper roguelike. Is Crawl of Duty out there somewhere? Because I want to play it.