Favourite roguelike

[feathin]

Ooops. My mistake. Thanks for clarifying.

No prob. It is just assumed that everybody's favorite roguelike is going to be ToME...probably get booed out if you claimed it wasn't. So to save any such embarrasing happenings, no one's allowed to compare ToME with other roguelikes...

(all tongue-in-cheek, of course)

Although ToME definitely is my fav, but then my only other roguelikes are Angband and several bands, and I tried Moria once just to see what Angband's predecessor was like.

[LordBucket]

I really tried to like ADOM but couldn't get into it. It looks like it has a lot of interesting ideas, but the early part of the game just didn't grab me enough to keep me playing.

If you can call it a roguelike, my vote would definitely go to Dwarf Fortress. Terrific idea, and once you get past the interface, it's a fun way to look up and suddenly realize that the sun is coming up. Though I haven't been playing much since they added a Z-axis to the world. On my computer it slows the game to a crawl.

In any case, I've found myself playing games much less since I started working on Dragonball T.

Bucket Man

[Elemos]

It's ADOM for me, first Roguelike I really got into.

I found TOME one fateful day and decided to try it, I think I'd read an article about roguelikes and as it covered the various games, I saw noted "There's also TOME, but I don't think many of us are *that* hard"

So naturally, I had to try it *blames being Scottish*

Mind you, ADOM wasn't listed in that article, and I'd certainly say that was harder, no methods of recall that I remember, very hard to learn to teleport as a non-mage (or mage even), curses are a git to remove, traps very often destroy items completely and means of healing (potions) are scarce in the early game. Oh, and it's generally considered impossible to win without gaining around half a dozen corruptions, only been a few exceptions AFAIK.

Gets easier when you learn a few tricks, but I like TOME a lot better, despite how many, many differences there are. (maybe that's *why*, infact)

Elemos.

[Sradac]

Hells yeah elemos! Adom was awesome! I found that as my first roguelike myself back in like, '96 and I thought whoa! This game is hard! Its so complex! I think the first character I made was a drakeling paladin. I went to the small cave NE of terrinyo and wandered around, killed some orcs and thought, this is kinda fun never knew anything about roguelikes before, Found a locked door, kicked it in and found a nest of giant rats! Needless to say I died as im sure EVERYONES first roguelike character died very prematurely. Me and my brother would take turns, we both knew we would die fast and we only had one PC. So I would get two deaths, then he would, and we would trade off for hours at a time watching the other one play cringing and cheering alongside with the other one. Good times playing roguelikes as young kids. Adom is definatly the absolute hardest roguelike i've played, especially when the world starts to get filled with chaos and walking in the wilderness slowly corrupts you. Food was always an issue too, no ents potion, no scrolls of satisfy hunger, just you and your wits. Its a lot more of a tense environment knowing that even if you get to level 40+ one wrong move can mean instant death. Sure thats there in ToME but there's alot more chance for you to survive. Good game too bad it hasnt seen an update or even any kind of news at all from TB since last christmas. http://www.adom.de if anyone wants to check it out!