/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4377985
Rogue

>>3582662
>Are you suppsed to press s on every square?

I use it sparingly depending on my hunger. My approach is to explore each floor and hope I find the stairs down and then look at the map. If there are any huge gaps missing or paths not taken.

Then judging by my hunger and how far down I am I decide whether to go check if there's something good there or keep going. Generally if food isn't a problem I'll check it out. There's a chance of some good loot and in the event I run into something nasty, it's good to know about it to avoid on the way back up.

The thing I love about these games is that moment of decision. Because it can easily be game deciding, but you have no way of really knowing. Going searching for that potential lost room might lead to something incredibly useful or it could be fruitless and just weaken you enough that it eventually causes your doom.

You don't know what will happen and no guide anywhere can tell you. Many times looking back you won't even be able to tell if you made the right decision or not. An analog for life very rare in games. It's what makes Rogue and it's children so very special.

>>2720583
Yeah, they mostly talk about new roguelikes, no one there really cares about or plays Rogue. Also there's constant infighting. This is just to continue the discussion of /vr/ related ones.

I just got cornered by a Centaur, woo!

>>2695917
Patience and knowing when to turn tail and run are the two fundamentals of getting good at roguelikes.

That said, this run sucked. It started off pretty promising, I got a 2H sword and ring of slow digestion pretty early, but then didn't find much else in the way of useful magical items.

Floor 7 had boatloads of rattlesnakes and by the time I got out my strength was down at 6 or something shitty like that. I was also full of inventory and foolishly dropped some armor I wasn't using. Because on floor 8 I ran into an Aquator I couldn't get away from and it took so long to kill, my armor was pretty much destroyed by the end. Then a Centaur had me for lunch.