Rogueism

This is kinda similar

The faggoty manga people thing is still in full effect, however

The shrieker shrieks!
The rust monster hits! Your boots rust.
The rust monster hits! Your boots rust further.
The rust monster hits! Your boots are completely rusty.
The Olog-hai wields a glaive. The Olog-hai hits!
You die...

F@RT

Also, it's not like the other FF games haven't had turn based fighting systems and strategy elements. And there's a strong emphasis on plot in FFT, developing and playing the roles of characters in an intricate story. Is the isometric grid alone enough to make it a strategy game? I don't think so, especially when the aesthetic is so clearly RPG oriented. but I'd be curious to hear what other people think.

What Laura H said... Plot, characters/story levelling up, job classes, random quests and jobs you can take to get rewards and experience. It is much closer to final fantasy games and rpg's in general than strategy games like romance of the three kingdoms or rome total war, i am unsure of any strategy game it is like tho it has some elements from strategy games. Strategy-RPG is a good definition i guess although surely all rpg's or pretty much all games need 'strategy'.

Final Fantasy X and X-II got rid of the world map for linear location to location travelling which gets rid of a lot of exploration, still exploration of dungeons and towns but no world. Azure dreams only has one town and one dungeon but it's still an rpg.

OUR HOUSEHOLD

http://www.squareamp.com/features/gallery/Group/sephiroth_Aeris.jpg

Those pictures are the funny.

People sick of the press-A-til-you-get-a-CGI nonsense should play Atelier Iris for the PS2. It's totally big eyed otaku shit but fairly deep with next to no cutscenes and decently fun random encounters.

(Isn't rogueism kinda maybe about difficulty? So FFT but not FF, which is 'easier'?)

I gave up on Final Fantasy when I got to the one with the dude who talked like a surfer and wore half-jams.

FYI: voiced by John DiMaggio, who also did Bender from Futurama and Smiling Jack in VTM: Bloodlines.

some rubicons are better off not crossed.

with that said, Sierra games always lagged Lucasarts.

i'm still finding a tough balance between exploring enough to get resources and running out of gas / money

thom jesus west (4:55:21 PM): you killed and ate some gnomes first tho

i stand by that

i have ~oddly vivid~ memories of my nethack-addicted period, normally in remembering videogames i remember what transpires on the screen, nethack i remember that i was listening to the first marnie stern album on a loop basically the entire time and the particular movements of my hands on the keys, or rather how my body felt in space and it felt to be ~interfaced with the machine~

that was then and this is now and thats that

a friend of mine saw i'd left my laptop running ftl and she said "whatever that is, it makes me feel very sorry for you"

haha

she should feel happy for you. ftl is awesome. i beat it on normal w/ the stealth ship yesterday!

i finished it on normal with the cruiser |:

woo! beat FTL w/ the Mantis cruiser, unlocked its second form, and I think I've got all the ships unlocked except for the Crystal one.

oh man playing w/ the basilisk is so much fun - 4-person teleporter ftw

my highest score yet - basilisk w/ 5395 points (also set my personal most ships defeated: 47, most scrap collected: 2406, most combat kills - 88, and most piloted evasions -281)

:( stop tempting me with this obviously addictive and awesome game

there's something about roguelikes that make this transition way more central to the experience than when you play, like, god of war

There's something also odd about people who post some of the FAQs, like "Hey I transformed this interesting game into a joyless grind / an OP faceroll, let me show you how and validate the hours I spent on this!!!".

Which I definitely will do if it's falling into the category of games that I like for the story (so, er, not very many roguelikes - is this one of their defining features, that it's less "the story" than "the stories, that your character would tell in the local inn for years"?) rather than the actual gameplay.

Andrew I've said here and elsewhere that the specific feeling that Roguelikes create is closer to the experience of playing Tetris. You're manipulating a stream of circumstance into a potential endgame, it's like surfing

Yeah I can definitely see that, though I think the complexity makes some difference - I've never finished a game of Tetris and wished that there was someone there to talk to about what just happened. Also most roguelikes aren't real time.

They're real time in that they eat up your real life

I mean, I tend to play as quick as possible because I want to achieve some sort of transcendent state of character cultivation within a reasonable time frame. It's about quick keystrokes and just-hubristic-enough game plans

Whenever I read a victory post (Skyrim included) and it involves a tonne of herb gathering, smithing, farming or repetitive skill development I am reminded as to why I only play this shit when I'm sick and bed-ridden

what on earth is an "OP faceroll"

OP = overpowered, as used upthread.

faceroll = er actually possibly slang local to WoW - it indicates that a class is so easy to play you could perform adequately just by binding their spells to random keys, resting your face on the keyboard, and rolling it around on there.

Achievement Unlocked: Your Own Fleet

well ... done?

thx! :)

crystal ships are super easy mode

how many hours have you spent on this dare i ask

idk I didn't time myself. Its a great game bc u can play a little bit whenever u have some spare time

Also the more you play the better you get at it

c'mon man. steam. show us the numbers.

do iiiiit

i haven't been playing it on steam. i can tell u tho that i've apparently played 295 games and i have 9 total victories. i just realized time played wouldn't make a lot of sense for this game bc i often leave it running in the background while i do other stuff anyway.

SHOW US

or i may have to contact mordileaks

i would happily share my hours played since they are surely fewer than my has-played on WoW, but i cannot!

fuck myself forever for ever decrying the non-rogue-iness of this awesome roguelike, btw. I hate this game for existing and hate myself for playing it for two hours this morning

i miss this game

anyone played brogue? https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/

(now available for ipad! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brogue/id613921309)

Oh cool - seems to work okay.

I love Brogue! The most beautiful ASCII game ever!
It's impossible, though

just unlocked the godhead in binding of isaac

is desert golfing roguist

if you fail to meet par do you have to start over from the first hole?

lol that is a great concept. someone bang that out pronto. ilx games release #1. can't be hard to procedurally generate golf holes.

no but if you fail to meet par you have to live with that _forever_ which seems like the compliment of the same idea

http://i58.tinypic.com/2nk45sy.png

i've never been prouder

congrats that is excellent work

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/05/22/encrypted-rougelike-release-date/

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/15/may/encrypted.png

Eventually the 'rougelike' misspelling is going to be universal

egad, why would someone make this...

happy birthday to me just picked up a copy of invisible inc

encrypted looks quite gorgeous imo. lol ilx wont let me put the tag in