Subj : Re: Retro shooters
To   : bbsing
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Mar 23 2022 10:21:55

  Re: Re: Retro shooters
  By: bbsing to Arelor on Wed Mar 23 2022 02:35 am

 > DCSS (dungeon crawl stone soup), I get tripped up with all the complexity sometimes. So a nice brainless shooter is a fun adventure.

I prefer Brogue to DCSS myself :-) Not that DCSS is too complex. The dungeon branching and such is supposed to be part of the fun since you are supposed to figure out which branches you can
visit and which branches will get you annihilated.

What I don't like much about DCSS is that in latter versions there are not many winning strategies for each build. You just train your offensive until you can crush anything you run into then
you train defense and then side abilities. Mostly.

Hexen does not have character builds or complex stats, but it certainly has branching levels. A BIG part of the game is revisiting levels in order to find keys and items to progress through new
areas of the game.

So yeah, if you want to turn your brain off for half an hour, Doom and Heretic are much better :-P


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