I actually haven't! My first was NetHack, which I did terribly at. And then there was a little one called Incursion based on D&D that I loved (I think it's dead, but it was based on DND 3e and had an incredible diplomacy system).
I might check out Rogue one day for historical satisfaction, though.
People are intensely emotionally invested in cars and meat. You could prove beyond all doubt that a vegetarian life would be longer, happier, and more prosperous, and people would disbelieve you because of their feelings.
Many people are little better than toddlers.
Oh I read about that but never played it. Thanks for reminding me of it.
Cut it down to three days a week? How much meat do people eat??
I consider myself a half assed vegetarian. A social meat eater. I only really eat meat if I'm like at a party and the host ordered a pepperoni pizza.
Mostly stuff I bought from Bandcamp. It's drm free, but for convenience I usually let it stream from the app.
I also have a bunch of mp3s from older purchases I listen to sometimes, but I don't have a media server set up so that's mostly limited to my desktop.
Sometimes I'll pull up a specific track on YouTube, but that's mostly for "do you remember this song?" stuff. Adblock and the "resume playback from lock screen" make it bearable.
You would likely find the end of the stairs, and then more rooms and hallways. You need to walk without purpose for a while for it to pull up the final room.
The dungeon was heavily inspired by the novel House of Leaves. Endless, featureless, black hallways. Great book.
Yes! I usually take any opportunity to gush about Fate but I restrained myself here
The main weakness of Fate is you need more engaged players. Stuff like DND can mostly hum along with passive players, but Fate falls really flat if people aren't engaging with it.
Isaac is a great game, but it's also one of the most iconic examples of the subgenre with metagame progression.
Most rogue likes, each game is independent. Isaac went hard on the "unlocks for future runs" thing. That's a fine mechanic, if a bit overused afterwards.
I played the heck out of this one when it was new! Good times. I vaguely remember there was a nuke item that blew up the whole level, including you. There was a secret ending if you used the nuke on the final boss while invulnerable
One of the clues they found was from a survivor from the antagonist's party who had gone in ahead of them. He said the boss-man had kept asking them lots of questions about their youth, where they'd grown up, their hobbies. Just a lot of personal questions. The survivor didn't know why, since boss-man had never taken an interest in them before.
spoiler for my old dnd game
The trick is to walk without looking for anything in particular. If you just walk without a conscious goal, you'll eventually find the room with the macguffin. The antagonist's strategy was to keep them talking about stuff so they're distracted, and not thinking about what they're looking for.
One time in a DND game I had a dungeon with the property "you'll never find what you're looking for". This has a bunch of fun effects. Among them when the players found a spiral stairway around a hole, they tried to find the bottom and, because of the rule, could not reach it. They tried to go back up, and couldn't reach the previous floor either.
So they decided, since they have feather fall, to just jump into the central hole and find the bottom that way.
They fell for an uncomfortable long time. They passed the other party members who had split up (and couldn't find them).
Good times. Players heads were very fucked with.
They did eventually figure it out.
What an oddly specific fix