Zachary Amaranth said:
Imp Emissary said:
I assume Yahtzee's is a reference to a game that has a story about a family line of adventures(or just game adventures in general) who all get killed in the same castle. Pretty good.
And Jim's......Was meant to be kind of disturbing in a funny way.
o_0 Well, it was funny. In a way....
Yahtzee was referencing roguelikes, hence the title. Jim was clearly off his meds. >.>[quote="Stryker"
No. He was referencing the game Rogue Legacy. Which is a "roguelite".
And it's not really a roguelike. It's more a procedurally-generated, metroidvania game where every time you die the castle you've been looting is rearranged and the money collected can be used to upgrade weapons, or magic, or improve stats and gain new character types or abilities. And then the next generation with humorous names and physical traits invades the castle again.
It's a fun game and has already sucked ten or so hours out of my life and I haven't even killed the first boss yet. But
I really think roguelike shouldn't be used as a catchall for 'permadeath' games. There is a word for permadeath. It's permadeath. The original ASCII based 'Rogue' had permadeath, but it was also a turnbased survival RPG game on a grid.
'Rogue Legend' is an action-platformer with quasi-permadeath where the goal is to earn enough money to level your character enough to perhaps get a little further with the next character.