Do you know the Roguelike?

[Cake-Pie]

There's Nethack, Rogue, Baroque and even modern takes on the roguelike: Diablo, Dark Cloud, and Torchlight. Have you played any of these? Loved them? Never heard the term "Roguelike"?

Roguelikes are RPG games with random loot and random dungeons, older RLs were turn-based (movement and combat), and offered you permanent death and no real saving (saves were overwritten if you died or completed the dungeon).

They take wits, luck, and replay to defeat. Modern takes have been good translations of the old styles, adding real-time combat and depth to their arsenal. I was just reminded of how much I love these games, and maybe you do to?

What are your favorite roguelikes? Did you ever beat one of the old classics?

 

[machblast]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=dm0buqnd

Here's a free (aka doujin) roguelike I played for a while. Note: it's Touhou, so if you're not into that kinda thing, then stay away.

Note #2: Requires installation of Japanese language pack. Can also be played without being able to read Japanese, but...well...yeah.

 

[machblast]

I've played the shit out of DOOM: The Roguelike. Great Freeware game, a Roguelike set in the DOOM universe. I've played a few more, but DOOM was the one I played most.

I'd recommend you check it out.

As it's also free, I'll post a link in here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/168405112/Doom_Roguelike.rar

 

[Ultress]

Does Shrin the Wanderer count, I found it to be an enjoyable game, a bit on the frustrating side but when I finally got through a part of a dungeon, the feeling was awesome.

 

[Zacharine]

NetHack: SLASH'EM (Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack - Extended Magic) and Thomas Biskup's ADOM are great games that I still play often.

On a side note, I've beaten Nethack exactly once in roughly 10 years of playing it.

 

[Henrik Persson]

Nethack, Ancient Domains of Mystery and Stone Soup are the ones I generally turn to. They're awesome.

 

[Cake-Pie]

NetHack: SLASH'EM (Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack - Extended Magic) and Thomas Biskup's ADOM are great games that I still play often.

On a side note, I've beaten Nethack exactly once in roughly 10 years of playing it.

Still better than me.

Have you played Powder?

 

[Scobie]

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[Zacharine]

NetHack: SLASH'EM (Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack - Extended Magic) and Thomas Biskup's ADOM are great games that I still play often.

On a side note, I've beaten Nethack exactly once in roughly 10 years of playing it.

Still better than me.

Have you played Powder?

I have to admit I've never even heard of it. Is it any good?

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

Now some roguelikes are actually my guilty pleasures!

They include Nethack, Moraff's Dungeons of the Unforgiven and Dungeon Adventure, which is a cool XBL indie roguelike.

 

[SnowdensOfYesteryear]

Do Spelunky and Dorf Fortress count?

 

[Cake-Pie]

NetHack: SLASH'EM (Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack - Extended Magic) and Thomas Biskup's ADOM are great games that I still play often.

On a side note, I've beaten Nethack exactly once in roughly 10 years of playing it.

Still better than me.

Have you played Powder?

I have to admit I've never even heard of it. Is it any good?

Powder's really good. Also it's on all pc platforms. I even dled it for my homebrew wii.

Now some roguelikes are actually my guilty pleasures!

They include Nethack, Moraff's Dungeons of the Unforgiven and Dungeon Adventure, which is a cool XBL indie roguelike.

I didn't realize there was a roguelike on XBLA. I think you have single-handedly given microsoft my money lol. Dungeon Adventure sounds familiar, do you know if it's a port?

 

[BlumiereBleck]

The rouge bad ass mofo named Volke of Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn. He is always in my dream team and is the best assassin/rouge/theif EVER!

 

[NeutralDrow]

What are your favorite roguelikes? Did you ever beat one of the old classics?

I was quite fond of Castle of the Winds when I was younger. Hell, even when I was older and the second part of the game was made freeware. That's one of only two roguelikes I've played. I don't really know what ADOM is, and I've only heard of Rogue (duh) and Nethack.

For that second one I've played...well, I hesitate to bring it up, due to the Review Wars thing going on now. It's kinda what I submitted my review on, and technically that's supposed to be secret.

Spoiler

Ragnarok, of course. I love that game.

I've beaten it a few times, now. Once I learned more or less how the whole world worked (after a few years of playing), it started to get...well, I don't think "easy" is the right word, though "simple" might be.

 

[eelel]

OHH GOD NET HACK *cowers in corner*

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

Now some roguelikes are actually my guilty pleasures!

They include Nethack, Moraff's Dungeons of the Unforgiven and Dungeon Adventure, which is a cool XBL indie roguelike.

I didn't realize there was a roguelike on XBLA. I think you have single-handedly given microsoft my money lol. Dungeon Adventure sounds familiar, do you know if it's a port?

It doesn't say it is a port, I think it's original.

It's pretty cool, only 240 MS, probably not the best ASCII roguelike though (I wouldn't know, I don't know too many)

 

[The Madman]

Play Roguelike?

I *AM* ROGUELIKE!

I once nearly beat Nethack, cower before my godlike abilities and unfaltering amazingness!

 

[Cake-Pie]

Play Roguelike?

I *AM* ROGUELIKE!

I once nearly beat Nethack, cower before my godlike abilities and unfaltering amazingness!

I never came almost close to beating nethack. In fact, the only roguelikes I have ever beaten are the "new" roguelikes: dark cloud, diablo etc, and I'm not sure these really count (8000% easier to beat).

Powder is really a great game, but I pissed all my friends off by introducing them--for some of them it was their first RL, and they stayed up late replaying the fucker only getting to floor 7 or something. Ouch.

 

[CmdrGoob]

Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup is damn good.