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2014-01-30 17:11:36
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EDIT - that one is over. Now it's Codemasters games.
[THE BELOW APPLIES TO THE PREVIOUS WEEKLY BUNDLE]
The Humble Weekly Bundle - Roguelike Edition
https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly
The best reason to get this is Teleglitch (trailer). A perma-death topdown "horror shooter", it's a very original game. It reminds me a lot of my first experiences playing Doom. I was a kid back then, so Doom seemed impossibly hard. Teleglitch is very, very unforgiving. It's really good.
For $6 you can get that plus a bunch of other roguelike games. I'm less fond of the others, but each to their own.
<3 the Humble Bundles. It's how I give money to charity!
[THE BELOW APPLIES TO THE PREVIOUS WEEKLY BUNDLE]
The Humble Weekly Bundle - Roguelike Edition
https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly
The best reason to get this is Teleglitch (trailer). A perma-death topdown "horror shooter", it's a very original game. It reminds me a lot of my first experiences playing Doom. I was a kid back then, so Doom seemed impossibly hard. Teleglitch is very, very unforgiving. It's really good.
For $6 you can get that plus a bunch of other roguelike games. I'm less fond of the others, but each to their own.
<3 the Humble Bundles. It's how I give money to charity!
Comments
Posted by licker on 2014-01-30 18:12:38
No comment on any of the games as I haven't played them (other than The Pit), but why do they insist on calling all of these FPS crap fests roguelikes?
Is it because they are procedurally generated? FPS is FPS, roguelike is a game which is actually like Rogue, which, clearly, if you're old enough, or retro enough, wasn't remotely anything like a crappy FPS.
;)
But charity is usually a good reason to spend money :)
Is it because they are procedurally generated? FPS is FPS, roguelike is a game which is actually like Rogue, which, clearly, if you're old enough, or retro enough, wasn't remotely anything like a crappy FPS.
;)
But charity is usually a good reason to spend money :)
Posted by Chainsaw on 2014-01-30 18:17:47
I agree with you licker. If you look for roguelikes on Steam, very few actual roguelikes come up. It seems to be that mainstream is interpreting roguelike to mean permadeath.
Posted by Overhamsteren on 2014-01-30 18:41:48
I'll try it out.
What are the original rouge games, or is it 1 original game?
What are the original rouge games, or is it 1 original game?
Posted by Anzelak on 2014-01-30 18:45:46
This is a seriously good deal. If I didn't already own all but one of these games I'd buy it.
Posted by licker on 2014-01-30 19:01:31
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_%28video_game%29
To a purist (which I am not really) a true roguelike also would feature ASCII graphics.
Of course these days that's a bit silly, but back in the day when you needed to fit your game a floppy...
Permadeath is probably why, but that feels like such a shallow description of roguelikes to me. It's also not totally unique, as there have been various RPGs as well as 'Ironman' modes in all kinds of games.
To a purist (which I am not really) a true roguelike also would feature ASCII graphics.
Of course these days that's a bit silly, but back in the day when you needed to fit your game a floppy...
Permadeath is probably why, but that feels like such a shallow description of roguelikes to me. It's also not totally unique, as there have been various RPGs as well as 'Ironman' modes in all kinds of games.
Posted by PurpleChest on 2014-01-31 00:49:07
it seems to marketeers roguelike = hard.