Started giving this old version a whirl just to satisfy my curiosity, so far I like the feel of this old game, I elected the version that had more bugfixes and ui improvements over the first one. The game brings me back a lot of the moria feel to it, which that was a game I couldn't set down for long. It dosen't have the better ui and options that the newer versions do, but I feel there is alot that we can learn from it. Thanks Timo and Kaypy for bringing my attention to this one.
The game is much more unforgiving, you really have to pay attention to what is going on, the game is not set up to "take care of the character" as I call it, for the first levels and town. Shops have random inventory, you have no guarente of what they have in stock, if your stat drained you are going to have to struggle through it till you find a potion to restore it, or the store sells it. There is no examine item command, you are going to have to pay attention to what an item does. "this can be painful". But other than that it feels pretty good. I had to run it in dosbox, but was a good move I have true full screen on a 23' monitor.
The thing that I have gatherd from playing this old version kind of tells me what has happend with angband over the years.-We truly have made it to easy. What has happend Is over the years we have slowly added more and more options to make it easier and more convient to the player. It became easier to ID equipment, It became easier to find health potions, It became easier to restore drained stats, and expereince. Store prices became way to cheap. But most of all character race became to powerful on certain races. High Elf-hobbit, they were giving powerful abilities from birth over top their racial benefits.
I'm sure not everyone agrees with my theory, and that is okay, post how you think the game has changed. For the Better or For the worse? Maybe we can all get on the same page with angband.
The game is much more unforgiving, you really have to pay attention to what is going on, the game is not set up to "take care of the character" as I call it, for the first levels and town. Shops have random inventory, you have no guarente of what they have in stock, if your stat drained you are going to have to struggle through it till you find a potion to restore it, or the store sells it. There is no examine item command, you are going to have to pay attention to what an item does. "this can be painful". But other than that it feels pretty good. I had to run it in dosbox, but was a good move I have true full screen on a 23' monitor.
The thing that I have gatherd from playing this old version kind of tells me what has happend with angband over the years.-We truly have made it to easy. What has happend Is over the years we have slowly added more and more options to make it easier and more convient to the player. It became easier to ID equipment, It became easier to find health potions, It became easier to restore drained stats, and expereince. Store prices became way to cheap. But most of all character race became to powerful on certain races. High Elf-hobbit, they were giving powerful abilities from birth over top their racial benefits.
I'm sure not everyone agrees with my theory, and that is okay, post how you think the game has changed. For the Better or For the worse? Maybe we can all get on the same page with angband.
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