My second Crawl win! (The first was with a Spriggan Enchanter of Okawaru back in February 2013, in version 0.11.)
(For those of you unfamiliar with Crawl*, I’m called a “Politician” because I’m very good at backstabbing. (Only in the literal sense, though.) For those of you unfamiliar with roguelikes in general, Crawl is not an easy game to win. There was a statistic on the dev-blog a little while ago that 98% of games played on the online servers end in a loss, and that’s lumping the games of uber-players in with everyone else.)
Now that I’ve finished my current Crawl game, I’m going to give Rogue a try. I’ll be using this browser emulator, which was making the rounds on Tumblr a while back. I was catching up on @Play today and found a link to this Rogue guide, but I won’t use it right away: I want to see how much of the game I can understand using only my (slightly rusty) fluency in Nethack (plus the occasional thing I remember from reading @Play).
*Which might be all of you. I know comparativelysuperlative and amaranththallium both speak a couple different dialects of Nethack, but I don’t know what else they speak.
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#Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup #roguelikes #obvious GIMP is obvious #(I play Crawl under a different username) #I’ve been in a roguelike mood the past few days #oh look an original post
i almost never play video games, but when i do it is a roguelike of some sort
right now i am playing Super Lots Added Stuff Hack – Extended Magic aka slashem
it is pretty fun, i am trying to be a monk doppelganger neutral lady
Doppelganger Wizard for the Win. Not literally for the win; I’ve only ever ascended in vanilla Nethack rather than SLASH’EM, but you know what I mean.
Oh hey, more people play NetHack! It’s on my list of ways to kill a…week…if I ever happen to have no obligations.
I’M PLAYING SLASH’EM AGAIN BECAUSE OF THIS POST THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA.
Decided that I’d start off by winning, since I haven’t played in a while, so I rolled up a doppelganger Wizard, and what should I start with but a ring of polymorph control. This is a very promising turn zero.
Sounds good. Doppelgangers are fun, from what I recall of Slash’em. I mostly stuck to vanilla Nethack, though, and I haven’t even played that in quite a while. I go to Crawl for my roguelike fix these days.
I’ve never technically ascended in Nethack (I have ascended once in Crawl, as a Spriggan Enchanter), but I do have a Wizard that is basically omnipotent and could pretty much win any time I wanted. I wanted to do it extinctionist, because small-child me loved reading Nethack guides (probably even more than she loved playing it) and that challenge sounded like one to try. I’m mostly there, but I got bored, drifted away, and…dear gods, I think that was two computers ago. That’s at least three and a half years. (I copied the savefile from the old computer, and copied it again when I moved to this one on the off chance I ever decide to pick it up again. I figure it’s not savescumming if you’re only messing with the savefile to cheat out-of-universe virtual death.)
I’m rusty enough that I’d probably have to play some other Nethack games before going back to that one, to reduce the chances of forgetting some detail or other and making a fatal mistake. I still love reading game guides, but I haven’t read any Nethack ones lately.
#history #my childhood #games #hey it’s Wolfenstein 3D! #I played a lot of 90’s third-person shooters as a kid #also they have Rogue #which I’ve never actually played #but I’ve spent so much time playing roguelikes I probably should try the original sometime
Quick reminder that Flight Rising’s one-day registration window opens in about fifteen minutes! (Half past 1pm GMT.)
I’d write a longer post about why it’s a really cool site and you should join ^_^ but I’m currently super focused on pokemon-battling a group of my dragons up to max level so that I can help out my not!Hogwarts House in a friendly-but-intense competition tussle thing we’ve got going on with another House this week. (They’re called Flights. Because dragons.)
So I’ll just drop this fact here: when my Flight did an informal Gdocs survey of people’s demographics after the November reg window when I joined, like 18% of us were nonbinary. Also there was an option for nonbinary gender. :D *shrugs* I can’t speak for other Flights, but Lightning is some damn cool people if you’re into spreadsheets. :D
Ooh. *wanders over to website*
…wow. I have not seen that much impenetrable game-jargon in one place in quite some time. Not that I’m saying Flight Rising is unusually bad, mind you. I’m sure the Runescape home page I looked at this morning would seem just as impenetrable to the untrained eye, but I have eleven years’ experience speaking Gielinorian and it comes as naturally to me now as standard English. It’s been a while since the last time I had to learn a new game language.
Well, you’ve only been playing for what, a month? And you seem to be reasonably fluent already. I’m sure I can cope.
I’m confident that potential near-future me who already has a decent grasp on Flight Rising would like to hear your explanation of why it’s awesome almost as much as I do. Maybe when you’re less busy.
I was about to say I’m not into spreadsheets, but then I remembered the time I charted my menstrual cycles for six months out of sheer curiosity. And the time, eleven years ago, that I read the entire guide section of the Runescape website before even making an account. (The guide section is much, much bigger now. A modern-day newbie could never hope to do the same.) And how, though I enjoyed playing Nethack, I enjoyed reading about it even more. (The so-called “bachelor’s degree” aspect of Nethack, in which you must study all the obscure intricacies of the game in order to do well, puts a lot of people off. I really liked it, that there were entire long guides devoted just to, say, Altars and You.) I suspect I probably am what you’re calling “into spreadsheets”, and just don’t think of it in the same terms. Feel free to correct me if I’ve misinterpreted you.
Find out all about why RuneScape is the place to be this festive period, including:
– A brand new Elf City task set. – Dominion Tower improvements, including new ‘Rumble’ mode! – Premier Club 2015. – Winter Weekends. – All our Christmas events – including Community Crackers, our Snowman Boss, and a Snowboarding event!
Which are you most excited for?
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#Runescape #…oh god what do I do #so many video games so little time #(I can’t just play Mass Effect part of the day and Runescape part of the day) #(my brain doesn’t work like that) #(I have to ‘pick’) #((some conscious influence over a mostly subconscious process)) #(one game to be in the mood for at a time) #(…fuck it I’m going to play Runescape) #(I’ll play more Mass Effect sooner or later) #(and it’ll still be Enjoying My New Computer because the 15R runs Runescape noticeably better)
Simple yet challenging Chinese web game where you have to identify the odd coloured square amongst others in a grid. You have a minute to get as many as you can, and it is easy to get stumped now and again …
i’ve figured out that horror games with grotesque monsters and spooky environments are -9000 scary if you pretend you’re steve irwin on a mission to document the monster(s)
“Lookie there. That’s a six-foot grunt from the basement. A’hm gonna wrassle it.”
As a further note, I’ve found that if you are one of those chumps like me who enjoy watching horror games late at night and then going straight to bed, fear and night terrors are much easier to avoid with the addition of one simple thing:
Mariachi. (Or polka. I hear polka works too.) It is the one genre of music that CAN NOT be made creepy. Nobody ever gets assaulted by monsters while mariachi is playing. It is a magic aural force-field against any and all monsters.
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