EXCELent Rogue

[guest509]

There was a 7DRL done this year in excel. It's a very good game. Unless I'm totally missing something with the new ARENA excel game, this 7DRL is just done way better.

Go check it out.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3MbmK0KHVpjbzdZc0RPdjhjZVk/edit


Also, lemme know if I'm being dumb about ARENA. Is it just about running around in one little room? Really? Here's a link to that one.
http://carywalkin.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/arena-xlsm-released/

[Xecutor]

Yes, I was very much surprised by  EXCELent Rogue.
Excel as a platform has it's flows and problems, but overall it is playable.
But! It looks like the game is not really balanced.
And it's that kind of unbalanciness where you start very easy, but over time the game become frustratingly hard.
When the game is far from being balanced, I personally prefer when it's vice versa.
Hard at start, so it doesn't take much time to start over, but become easier as your character become more powerful.

[guest509]

Yeah I found myself getting my doors blown off just as soon as I got to the ranged guys, human archers I think.

Did you know there was an 'easy mode'? I played on that mode.

[Xecutor]

Yes, I saw the easy mode checkbox, as well as comments about difficulty of classes.
So I tried to play as easy class in easy mode. That allowed me to descent deeper, but final result was the same.

I looked thru available macro, and found 'GodMode'. That macro set all stats to 10. I reached level 25, and was brutally killed there

[guest509]

I wonder if level 26 is the end, you almost beat it?