Hello everybody!
Welcome to this, my first, totally uneventful entry. I don't expect to update this thing very often. I'll probably just randomly pop in with bits of trivia or neat things I've found, maybe chapters of my Sims sagas from time to time, etc.
For now, I'd like to just tell all of you about a piece of awesomeness I have just discovered. It is called Desktop Dungeon. I am intrigued by the idea of Nethack, and have had some fun with it (naming my pet cat "Bugnut", turning into a werewolf and dropping all my stuff, kicking a sink and having an irate Incubus come after me...) but it is just TOO FUCKING EASY TO _DIE_. Therefore, I had been looking for a similarish game--randomly-generated dungeon with deadliness and an oldschool feel--but simpler. With graphics (I know, any ASCII-purists out there are gonna be on my ass about that one, but I have a hard enough time telling what's going on in Nethack even when I _can_ see it properly) , but simple ones, some deadliness, but a _chance_. And not so complicated and random that everything you just learned becomes useless within five seconds, when you die and it all resets.
I searched and searched and searched, and I tried a LOT--Dungeon Crawl, ADOM, Deadly Rooms of Death, Angband and a Discworld variant, Discband, Dwarf Fortress, the original Rogue and Hack, Valhalla...none of them were quite it. All too hard, or hard to see.
(Although, I do have to give shoutouts to Larn and Castle of Winds. Oh, and the original Rogue, oddly enough. Those are my other favourites.)
And then...I found Desktop Dungeon. It is not perfect, as it is a bit TOO simple....my main problem is that the dungeon only has one layer. One screen, and when that's filled, that's it. No more to explore. But I _like_ exploring. One of my favourite things to do in any open-ended game is "OOH! Where does _this_ lead?" and then promptly wander out an open airlock.
Other than that, however, if you ever wanted to just delicately dip your toe into the whole Roguelike genre, ever so slightly, Desktop Dungeon is it. It's got enough difficulty to be interesting, without making you completely tear your hair out.
In other news, can somebody please drag me away from The South Park Character Creator before I hurt myself?
Please?
;)
...Notorious