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Harminoff posted:Card Survival now has a free version if you wanted to try it without buying/refunding it! Sweet I've had my eye on this one. Also the one review for it tickles me because of the new expectation of what roguelikes are to bring to players: quote:Obviously try it, its free. But $35.95 (aussie) for the full game is hilarious, I don't think the game even has meta progression? Edit: Quoted the wrong post! SettingSun fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Oct 4, 2022 |
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Vault of the Void just left early access. Anyone play it and recommend it? I'm a sucker for card games but I hated Eranorth, it dragged on forever and the only meaningful choices seemed to be during character creation.
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Oct 4, 2022 20:46
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TVRUHH update: i have unlocked every monster currently in the game. you know how people were saying their least fights are lila and veyeral rain? well you are going to love null unit which combines those two fights + the gimmick of null battles :)
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Oct 4, 2022 21:00
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I actually kinda like Null Unit. 
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Oct 4, 2022 21:03
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the only part of veyeral rain that is bad is the challenge to beat it without breaking any parts
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Oct 4, 2022 21:07
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IronicDongz posted:the only part of veyeral rain that is bad is the challenge to beat it without breaking any parts i do think it feels a tad bit too slow. nova is ofc a longer fight but it changes itself up a lot so it doesn't feel as bad
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Oct 4, 2022 21:09
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drink_bleach posted:Vault of the Void just left early access. Anyone play it and recommend it? I'm a sucker for card games but I hated Eranorth, it dragged on forever and the only meaningful choices seemed to be during character creation. I played it. It's mechanically very sound, but last I saw the difficulty was still stratospheric because the dev listens too much to the grogs on his discord.
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drink_bleach posted:Vault of the Void just left early access. Anyone play it and recommend it? I'm a sucker for card games but I hated Eranorth, it dragged on forever and the only meaningful choices seemed to be during character creation. It's fun and has a pretty interesting card and energy economy. The classes are also distinct and support multiple builds. Incoming damage only resolving the turn afterwards opens up a ton of design space. Negatives for me are the minimalist ui that still wastes a ton of space and has a bit too much Hearthstone in it for my liking, that it's sometimes rather difficult to keep track of all the ways enemy buffs and debuffs will interact, and that runs last just a bit too long.
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Oct 4, 2022 21:26
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News of the sequel inspired me to install the latest version of Elona+. Within 5 minutes I was being chastised for accidentally trying to steal some woman's horseshit. Literally. Ah old times.
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SettingSun posted:Sweet I've had my eye on this one. Also the one review for it tickles me because of the new expectation of what roguelikes are to bring to players: I have decided for the sake of not driving myself crazy that I don't like Roguelikes anymore, I like games that are like Rogue. Maybe we can call them Likerogues.
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Mithross posted:News of the sequel inspired me to install the latest version of Elona+. Within 5 minutes I was being chastised for accidentally trying to steal some woman's horseshit. Literally. Ah old times. hey maybe she was gonna bag it up and sell it on the side of the road as fertilizer. why you gotta mess with her income
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deep dish peat moss posted:I have decided for the sake of not driving myself crazy that I don't like Roguelikes anymore, I like games that are like Rogue. Maybe we can call them Likerogues. Rogue clones.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1944570/Boneraiser_Minions/ this is probably the best of the vampire-survivor type games ive played so far, up there with brotato its a twist in that you're a fairly vulnerable necromancer type guy who collects bones from dead guys to raise minions, so you're kind of raising a counter horde to the ever-increasing enemy horde. but theres a lot of depth and mechanics on top of that: - you can customize the graveyard the game takes place in, adding various props and graves that can help you and let you summon new minion types (theres a broken pot you can place that lets you summon the hero pots from elden ring) or act as traps or buffs - you can build wide or tall, either going for a lot of low level minions, or using those resources to upgrade your existing minions. there gets to be pretty advanced stuff like fusing multiple minions into larger or elite minion variants (like i was able to combine an archer and a bomber minion into a pistolero skeleton, which i could have then fused with others into a giant pistolero, or demonically possessed into a demon skeleton guy. i've not explored the systems very fully yet cause i havent played it for that long. - there is metaprogression but it exists more in the form of being a steady drip of new mechanics than a ramping up cost for diminishing return stat boosts. like you start without any of the advanced minion fusion stuff but can access it basically as quickly as you want because they aren't expensive and can be freely refunded. - the most interesting metaprogression element is you get the ability to freely upgrade the enemy army, so you can introduce tougher variant waves and period champion spawns and such. these include like whole new factions of enemies so its not just a palette swap thing, and choosing which ones you want active can tailor a run a lot. like you can enable the slime faction, who will show up sometimes and dont drop bones but do turn into gems on death and such. - there are spells (use items) and relics (passive items) which have a super wide bunch of effects - there are classes that focus on different playstyles (lots of minions, big minions, demon minions, casting spells, finding treasure) etc. - it has the charming art and sense of humor of stuff like spirits abyss and stramium immortaly, but i think is much more accessible in difficulty and interface terms than those. which isnt to say its easy, it ramps up pretty hard, but it isnt something where you're gonna be dying instantly 800 times in a row before you can get into the game. - you can get hats
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Osmosisch posted:It's fun and has a pretty interesting card and energy economy. The classes are also distinct and support multiple builds. Incoming damage only resolving the turn afterwards opens up a ton of design space. I like the complex buff/debuff interactions and run length didn't feel egregious to me, but definitely agreed on the Hearthstone-feeling UI. I think overall I'd put it upper-mid in spire clone rankings - there's enough mechanical complexity and a high enough skill ceiling that I feel like I could happily play it for a very long time if I had access to no other games, but nobody's life is incomplete without it.
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look at this amazing giant pot dude i summoned, he sits in the ground and shoots out baby pots from his head   also the humor is a lil more bawdy in this one 
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juggalo baby coffin posted:look at this amazing giant pot dude i summoned, he sits in the ground and shoots out baby pots from his head Very much a "wahoo the sentences I can get away with in English are fun huh" writing style, which requires the reader to be okay with flagrant disregard for misuse of "thou"
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juggalo baby coffin posted:look at this amazing giant pot dude i summoned, he sits in the ground and shoots out baby pots from his head "whom tosses"? "thou is"? disgusting efb
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i'm sorry if this has been asked recently but the thread is Too Big - are there any good traditional roguelikes on the Switch nowadays apart from Tangledeep? i feel like it's been a long time vvv i completely forgot about the mystery dungeon games, which i also know about. every time i've tried one it has felt weirdly pointless and easy to me but maybe it's time i give shiren a try vvv Your Computer fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Oct 5, 2022 |
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Your Computer posted:i'm sorry if this has been asked recently but the thread is Too Big - Shiren the Wanderer is still the best roguelike on switch.
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I have not actually played any of them, not having a switch, but there are actually three Mystery Dungeon games released on switch in 2019-20. On top of the latest Shiren game there is also Chocobo Mystery Dungeon and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon DX It's a really long-running series, the normal formula is to have a bunch of shorter easier dungeons as the story campaign and then you unlock the 'real roguelike' dungeons with like 50-100 floors that don't allow bringing in outside items as a postgame thing
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Oct 5, 2022 19:40
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Do you know any roguelikes which have like standing/on knee/prone positions? VATS style aiming? Motion vectors so you can't just easily stop from run? Rotating viewport depending on the direction player looks at? Just wonder if there are any unexplored gimmicks left.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:I have not actually played any of them, not having a switch, but there are actually three Mystery Dungeon games released on switch in 2019-20. i did give the pokemon mystery dungeon a try when it came out but it just felt very pointless to me. like i know it's a game for
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Ihmemies posted:Do you know any roguelikes which have like standing/on knee/prone positions? VATS style aiming? Motion vectors so you can't just easily stop from run? Rotating viewport depending on the direction player looks at? CDDA has like all of those I think lmao Motion vectors are only for vehicles though
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:CDDA has like all of those I think lmao Thanks, I'll try that and see how they made it work in practice! Edit: not nearly what I had in mind. Time to start making my own roguelike then.. Ihmemies fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Oct 5, 2022 |
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Oct 5, 2022 19:58
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Has anyone made a rogue-like racing game? I'm thinking like procedurally generated tracks, pre-programmed "boss encounters", and randomized persistent powerups / weapons. Why not exist?
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Your Computer posted:i did give the pokemon mystery dungeon a try when it came out but it just felt very pointless to me. like i know it's a game for If you’re looking for visual variety in the maps Shiren isn’t going to blow you away, but the gameplay is rock solid and has tons of depth. I can’t recommend it enough for someone looking for an oldschool roguelike. PMD is by the same devs but it’s pretty much just Shiren with the difficulty turned to 0 and all the interesting parts of the gameplay stripped out, it’s not representative at all.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:"whom tosses"? quote:~ In the far stars of Straimium, Queenis nestle in Cubicus nests. There they birth meany nasties to wage ever lasting Cubos War against rivaly Queeni Emperess. Straima Ninjas, holiest warriors, lead these Immortaly Incursions. Are you one such hallow Straima? Dare you breach the... Cubicus? ~
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yeah all his games have that kind of idiosyncratic speech pattern. somehow it doesnt come off as cloying or twee like you always feel it should. dev may be some kind of giant talking rat though
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here's another stupid question i have now that i am finally getting a bit into actually playing roguelikes - what's the most castlevania/spoopy (traditional) roguelike out there i crave skeletons that throw their bones, whips and vampires, mummies and bats. the cheesier and the more oldschool horror the better
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idiosyncratic patterns are fine and that quote from straimium seems good i just hate the "someone just learned an olde-timey word exists and doesn't know how to use it right so they slap it in as a 1-to-1 replacement for a modern word" style. using whom and thou wrong is really common in bad writing that's supposed to sound medievalish and/or pretentious online. like this page from the steam screenshots seems fine, it's playing around a bit with language but at least all the verb conjugations match 
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Your Computer posted:here's another stupid question i have now that i am finally getting a bit into actually playing roguelikes - what's the most castlevania/spoopy (traditional) roguelike out there Boy do I have a game for you. https://slash.itch.io/serenade-of-chaos
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Your Computer posted:here's another stupid question i have now that i am finally getting a bit into actually playing roguelikes - what's the most castlevania/spoopy (traditional) roguelike out there Golden Krone Hotel, maybe?
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SettingSun posted:Sweet I've had my eye on this one. Also the one review for it tickles me because of the new expectation of what roguelikes are to bring to players: It does have metaprogression in a sense though, the longer you survive the more starting options you can unlock
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SettingSun posted:Boy do I have a game for you. h... how old is this ToxicFrog posted:Golden Krone Hotel, maybe?
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The best troll in Boneraiser Minions isn't the language, it's that hitting "back" on the main menu takes you back to the intro scroll instead of quitting. You have to specifically select Quit Game to actually quit. Or you could just Alt-F4 I guess
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Seconding the "Brotato pick up sounds are too wet" comment, as well as the "these aren't potatoes, they're obviously eggs" one. Beta patch you can opt-in adds an alternative pick up sound you can toggle on in the options. Way better than before!
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SpacePope posted:Beta patch you can opt-in adds an alternative pick up sound you can toggle on in the options. Way better than before! lmao that the developer did this
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Deakul posted:Nitro Kid kinda owns! I watched a streamer play it a bit and god drat the soundtrack is awesome
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Your Computer posted:"requires java 1.5 or higher" I have a copy on one of my machines that dates to 2006.
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