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[Flop]

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Review + download

[taikara]

I never realized the review was quite that long, hehe.

[MrBackAlleySka]

Ooooo this looks really nice! I have been looking for a roguelike that I haven't played yet...Now I got this, Mordor, and Geneforge 3 (not a roguelike) to play now!!      

[Eagle of Fire]

This sure look interesting. I'll give it a try when I get time.

[Whisk]

Interesting little game that I recently discovered myself while looking for some better-than-default Nethack tiles to use when my eyes aren't doing so great.   While it doesn't seem as complex as Nethack the races and classes make it a great game to play when (god forbid) you do not feel like playing Nethack, but do want to play a roguelike.  

For those of you that prefer to use tiles there is a version available here that is pretty easy on the eyes and also has a nifty player tile customizer thing - so if you'd rather have a new look when you find a nifty sword to replace that club you've been using you can easily change it to look like you are actually using a club, or change your armor/hair/gender/whateverelseIforgot.  

[DakaSha]

heh all i can say is give the game a try. its alot better than one might think at first... it took me 1 1/2 years to actually start thinking the game is worth playing but once i got into i thought...uh... cool  

[Paul_G]

This game is really bloody hard. It's a meat grinder. It's quite fun to a point, but hard to the extent of being nearly unplayable and it takes a *LOT* to get me to say that about a Roguelike.

I've played Roguelikes for years and the closest I've come to winning one has been making it to the animated forest in ADOM, so I don't go into a game expecting to survive. Just the fact that ADOM is my game of choice tells you that I'm not someone who minds dying in a Roguelike. But Dungeon Crawl takes it to an extreme. I've run about 100 characters in this one now over the last week and my most powerful guy made it to level 6. Not Dungeon Level 6, mind... character level 6. About half of my characters don't make it past the first 5 minutes of play. In fact, the characters at the top of my high score list are all characters who were about to die on level 1, and to avoid death just took the stairs and left the dungeon altogether.

Most characters, even Fighters at full health, when they start will find themselves getting pummelled by even some of the common level 1 monster types in a 1-on-1 encounter. My last character, a mummy fighter at full strength with 16 hit points, took on a rat and got destroyed in an even fight. No other monsters around, no other weird circumstances. I mean come on... any melee-oriented character at full strength should be able to easily handle a rat on level 1 of the dungeon, shouldn't he?

Also, there doesn't seem to be enough food available to run a really good spellcaster for too long, and you can't be too elusive because all characters seem to run at the same speed and most monsters are as fast or faster than you are.

Basically, take the endless caverns from ADOM. Make the traps a lot weaker, the monsters a lot stronger and more numerous and that's the type of play you have here.

[DakaSha]

i think its great... and i dont think its that hard either

[Cow'o'war]

wtf?  punkbuster keeps booting me for having "inadequate o/s privileges".  WTF DOES THAT MEAN???  i feel like that guy in office space...

[BeefontheBone]

From LDC? Think you got the wrong thread there.

[DakaSha]

Alternative

heres a supposed more friendly and logical version of the game for those who think its to hard at the beginning.

sadly its only the source and im not installing C or whatever just to try it out. if anybody compiles it and trys it let me know how it is

[Sabreman]

I'm finding this tough going. I'm completely new to the Roguelike genre (and I'm completely in love), so I guess I'm not expected to be very competent yet, but this really is quite unforgiving. I can get down to level 3 but once there I inevitably run into spellcasters or multiple goblins and I'm swiftly despatched.

Still having loads of fun though. I've got Zangband, ADoM, Nethack, Mordor and ToME, but funnily enough thought I'd start with this one as it's 'simply' a single dungeon...

[DakaSha]

heh ^^

doesnt make it any easier

[Potatoe]

Is this worth downloading if I'm doing fine in Zangband? I mean, Zangband is hard to get a good player started, and if you don't concentrate for a while or venture too far you die. Is this any better?

[DakaSha]

depends on taste id say... zangband has alot going for it but this has skills and lots and lots of race/class combos + cool spells.. its a small download... you could just try it out