OT: Oldies but Goodies

[Erax]

I discovered Angband long before I heard about Nethack. When I started playing Nethack, I felt frustrated because many of my old Angband tricks wouldn't work. I have it on my HD but I don't play it.

About the graphics, there's a free interface add-on that makes it MUCH nicer. It's called Falcon's Eye.

There seems to be some sort of connection between Scandinavians and roguelike games. Well, at least it gives me a good excuse - "I can't help being addicted to Angband, dear, must be my Finnish genes".

[Voidhawk]

Originally posted by Erax:
About the graphics, there's a free interface add-on that makes it MUCH nicer. It's called Falcon's Eye.

Yes, I've tried FE! Very nice interface. Call me loony, but I still prefer plain ol' ASCII. I honestly don't know why! It's like I've been looking at those ASCII characters for so long, they look more like monsters/items/dungeon features than any graphic ever could. I'm not one of those roguelike purists or anything though. I've got a few different tilesets I like to use when I'm not playing Online (which is not that often, Online is my favorite).

There seems to be some sort of connection between Scandinavians and roguelike games.

Haha, you're not the first one to point that out! There was a discussion on rec.games.roguelike.nethack a while back on that phenomenon. I guess Finns just have great taste in games.

[Gwaihir]

Originally posted by Kamog:
ADOM is more difficult than most other RPG's I've played... gaining a few levels does not make the battles easier by that much even when you fight the same monsters; also you can't revert to a saved game when you die - you have to start all over. Oh well, keep trying!

Well, if you get too frustrated, you can use the old "cheat save" tactic - copy all the data files (or fiugre out the ones that change after execution and just save those), and put them pack when you die - poof, back to the point where you copied off! I did that in a few old games after I lost several weeks of progress to a stupid mistake . . . Once i beat Wiz8 though I plan to play it through on Ironman mode, which doesn't allow saves (well, one for when you exit, but it removes it once you start playing. I will make a backup if i can, but only for cases of computer crash, etc).

Sometimes the fates are against you, though. I had a game called Starflight for which i always kept several saves on disk, yet one day, my save was corrupt. No problem, i used the backup. nope, corrupt too! so i go back through all of my backups of previous days. nope, all corrupt! magic, poof, all gone. ( i think now that the program had gotten corrupted and that it destroyed the files upon opening them. Problem is, i opened every copy i had and didn't make new ones first. ) Probably lost well over a hundred hours. Obviously, it took less time to get back to that point, since i had my old notes, but still, its the principle of the thing . . . that hurt!

[Erax]

Originally posted by Voidhawk:
I guess Finns just have great taste in games.

LOL ! Can't disagree with that !!

[ May 14, 2003, 13:10: Message edited by: Erax ]