Comment on RPGs for people who don't like RPGs
tal@lemmy.today 1 year agoTraditional roguelikes have brutal difficulty and grinding is effectively not a thing you can do.
Ehhh. You can definitely grind in Angband.
A number of traditional roguelikes, like Nethack or Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, have a finite amount of food available that forces you to keep moving. But not all.
Knusper@feddit.de 1 year ago
Yeah, I was wary making such sweeping statements about the genre, because I’m sure, there’s oddballs, but I didn’t either want to talk just of DCSS + Shattered Pixel Dungeon, which I’ve played more of…
And DCSS used to have food. They removed it some versions ago. What stops you from grinding, is that there’s a rather limited number of (non-respawning) enemies/XP.
tal@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Ah, fair enough. I haven’t played it in quite some time, and it’s notable for the developers doing gameplay revisions.