Rogueism

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