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Other Announcements / Villain-based Roguelikes?
« on: December 21, 2010, 05:05:04 AM »
In most roguelikes, your character is the good guy, or at least NOT the force of evil that's threatening the land. How many RLs are there where you can play the bad guy?
Rogue Survivor is a good example, where you can play a zombie and score points by killing humans instead of surviving the longest. Or arguably Prospector, if you start as a pirate (attacking/looting merchant ships instead of exploring planets). If it hadn't been a hoax, the Serial Killer RL would've counted, too.
What would be some other examples?
Note that I wouldn't necessarily count RLs that simply have "evil" classes/races (ie chaos knights in Dungeon Crawl, much as I love that game). Many games have those, but in most of them, you still have the same goal, face the same dungeon, and score points for the same things normal characters do, you just have a different set of tools and handicaps to work with (if even that). I'm curious about examples that change the game experience more drastically.
Rogue Survivor is a good example, where you can play a zombie and score points by killing humans instead of surviving the longest. Or arguably Prospector, if you start as a pirate (attacking/looting merchant ships instead of exploring planets). If it hadn't been a hoax, the Serial Killer RL would've counted, too.
What would be some other examples?
Note that I wouldn't necessarily count RLs that simply have "evil" classes/races (ie chaos knights in Dungeon Crawl, much as I love that game). Many games have those, but in most of them, you still have the same goal, face the same dungeon, and score points for the same things normal characters do, you just have a different set of tools and handicaps to work with (if even that). I'm curious about examples that change the game experience more drastically.