Do you have a "main" roguelike?

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  • runequester
    Apprentice
    • Mar 2012
    • 54

    Do you have a "main" roguelike?

    It seems that a lot of Roguelike players have 1 or 2 "main" roguelikes they play, while also playing a rash of others now and again.

    Do you have a main game you return to? (obviously given this forum, the answers might be skewed but eh )
  • Djabanete
    Knight
    • Apr 2007
    • 576

    #2
    Chengband, Vanilla town mode, with a bunch of bizarre code-of-conduct restrictions. (No pets, no dual wielding, no quests, no selling, and dive in 10-level increments.)

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    • Antoine
      Ironband/Quickband Maintainer
      • Nov 2007
      • 1010

      #3
      Based on this poll, 100% of players play Chengband in Vanilla town mode with a bunch of bizarre restrictions.

      A.
      Ironband - http://angband.oook.cz/ironband/

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      • Magnate
        Angband Devteam member
        • May 2007
        • 5110

        #4
        v4, Sang and Crawl. Sil any year now. Returning to FA, Un and NPP when I've retired and have more gaming time.
        "Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The Beatles

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        • buzzkill
          Prophet
          • May 2008
          • 2939

          #5
          1st, DaJ and Steam (and Brogue).
          2nd, NPP and FA (though I haven't played FA in ages, since tiles started acting up).
          3rd, RePos. I've only played two or three times but really liked it, and achieved one of my few near wins.
          www.mediafire.com/buzzkill - Get your 32x32 tiles here. UT32 now compatible Ironband and Quickband 9/6/2012.
          My banding life on Buzzkill's ladder.

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          • Narvius
            Knight
            • Dec 2007
            • 589

            #6
            1) Steam
            2) V 3.0.9b
            3) ToME 4.x.x
            4) My own in-development RL.

            And often weeklong bouts of other variants or roguelikes. I once played Crawl for two months without ever touching Angband, currently I'm kneedeep in NPP and tried ToME 2.x.x for like the first time in ages recently. I also recall having had a great time with Entro in the past.

            I also liked Sil, but the restrictions were too incompatible with my regular mindset.

            Also, ChessRogue. That. Was. Fun.
            If you can convincingly pretend you're crazy, you probably are.

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            • Roch
              Adept
              • Oct 2008
              • 104

              #7
              Currently Cheng, which has a hugely challenging mid-late game. Others that I like and may never win are Z-plus and Steam.

              Past favorites include ToME 2.x, Vanilla, and Pos.

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              • runequester
                Apprentice
                • Mar 2012
                • 54

                #8
                Mine is Angband and Dungeon Crawl, though I will play bouts of BRogue and Frozen Depths inbetween to shake things up.

                Keeping track of commands takes a few minutes though. In BRogue I keep hitting Q for potions

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                • Malak Darkhunter
                  Knight
                  • May 2007
                  • 730

                  #9
                  1. Vanilla 3.3.2
                  2.FA, Sang, Oangband
                  3.Quickband and probably going to be minimal band.

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                  • Therem Harth
                    Knight
                    • Jan 2008
                    • 926

                    #10
                    ToME 2... I just keep returning to it.

                    I do kind of like V, but gameplay is frequently too... err... vanilla for me. You ask me, it needs more classes. LOTS more classes. And more magic realms, random quests, item and ego item types, totally unbalanced T2 style randarts, monsters, maybe terrain... Umm... Yeah. Suffice to say V doesn't have enough variety for my liking.

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                    • will_asher
                      DaJAngband Maintainer
                      • Apr 2007
                      • 1124

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Therem Harth
                      ToME 2... I just keep returning to it.

                      I do kind of like V, but gameplay is frequently too... err... vanilla for me. You ask me, it needs more classes. LOTS more classes. And more magic realms, random quests, item and ego item types, totally unbalanced T2 style randarts, monsters, maybe terrain... Umm... Yeah. Suffice to say V doesn't have enough variety for my liking.
                      Sounds like you'd be someone who might like DaJAngband.
                      Will_Asher
                      aka LibraryAdventurer

                      My old variant DaJAngband:
                      http://sites.google.com/site/dajangbandwebsite/home (defunct and so old it's forked from Angband 3.1.0 -I think- but it's probably playable...)

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                      • Therem Harth
                        Knight
                        • Jan 2008
                        • 926

                        #12
                        Would that it would compile on Linux! :P

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                        • Mikko Lehtinen
                          Veteran
                          • Sep 2010
                          • 1246

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Therem Harth
                          Would that it would compile on Linux! :P
                          Seconded! If someone manages to compile DaJ on Linux, please start a new thread about it.

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                          • AnonymousHero
                            Veteran
                            • Jun 2007
                            • 1393

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Mikko Lehtinen
                            Seconded! If someone manages to compile DaJ on Linux, please start a new thread about it.
                            Add "z-queue.o" to the end of ZFILES in Makefile.src. (Well it compiles, but there are lots of warnings. The makefile, erm, "structure" is pretty inscrutable with manual dependencies, so dependency tracking will also definitely be off.)

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                            • debo
                              Veteran
                              • Oct 2011
                              • 2402

                              #15
                              I haven't touched another roguelike (or another videogame) since I discovered Sil :P
                              Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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