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@november yess I love Subnautica’s air system! I tried playing that game in the past but I had hunger/thirst turned on and I felt kind of aimless and got bored, but I wonder if I’d feel differently with hunger/thirst turned off

@CIMB4 omg really? I’d be curious to hear about some of them because I didn’t know that was a thing at all

@andyeff I love that Valheim tried this tbh. the game never really called out to me to be played but I was always kind of curious about it for this mechanic in particular, because it seems like a fantastic way to implement eating in a game

@fargate oohh thank you for the ping! this is such a cool character design and I’m ngl he’s pretty hot too. I also love the design of his demonic-looking tattoo

@sudo_EatPant ooh I love that! there’s a survival-horror game that does a similar thing called Frostbite: Deadly Climate where the meter running down is heat, but early on you unlock an infinite source of heat (a room with a space heater) and you can always return there to warm up again - which creates some really satisfying cycles of tension and relief as you slowly explore the area around you but are always able to return to safety when you need it

I think I’d enjoy survival games a lot more if:

• they didn’t have hunger/thirst mechanics
• or, hunger/thirst was only expended when doing actions so there wasn’t a constant time pressure
• or, hunger/thirst was paused while you were at your base so it was only a problem when you were searching outside of your base for more supplies

but omg having an omnipresent time limit that is refilled through constant tedium is so incredibly stressful and unfun to me

I find languages that don’t have methods cursed because you end up with a bunch of nouns (data structures) but you have to read the entire codebase, and have a very good understanding of the language’s core features, to understand what verbs (functions) you can use on them

I find languages that only have methods cursed because sometimes you want a verb that doesn’t operate on any particular noun, or you don’t want to go through the entire ceremony of defining a new type of class and then instantiating it just to run one function or to get the answer to one question. so you end up with code that is incredibly convoluted and boilerplate-y and obfuscates what you’re actually trying to express

I find Rust incredibly cursed because it found a way to have both functions and methods while keeping as many of the disadvantages of both as possible

@kasdeya gonna start referring to Mario Party 3 as "my favorite roguelike"

@nycki it has random powerups but they only combine in ways that you’d see in a really bland RPG - like you can increase your crit chance and also increase your crit damage which is technically a synergy but like c’mon lol. they are random though which is kinda Isaac-like

@nycki I’m ngl I don’t think people even mean that it plays like Binding of Isaac anymore. I think the word “roguelike” has been flanderized to the point that it means “procedurally-generated levels and permadeath” and everything else has been lost. like what the fuck does Hades have in common with even Binding of Isaac other than that there’s (kinda?) permadeath, and a little bit of random level generation?

@kasdeya There are remarkably divergent opinions on what makes a roguelike for a genre that has its criterion of inclusion right in the title.

(though tbh, that's probably part of the problem. Even ignoring the fact that most players of modern roguelikes probably aren't aware Rogue is an actual video game and thus have no frame of reference, like Rogue in what ways? It really is an open question.)

Video game genres are fun cus they tend to be named rather straightforwardly after either gameplay features, place of origin or in relationship to canonical games and you'd think that would mean sorting games into categories is easy and reasonably objective, but in practice you just sort of run into every single edge case scenario at once.

my new criteria for whether something counts as a roguelike is if it has a scroll of identify, which itself needs to be identified

(this is a joke but I’m ngl I think identifying items is an important part of what makes a roguelike a roguelike. in fact I think it’s actually more important than the game being grid-based or turn-based. like Binding of Isaac feels like it’s right on the borderline of being a roguelike to me)

so it turns out that Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is extremely good. my previous experience with roguelikes has been POWDER (I was briefly kind of obsessed with it lol) and Angband (my first impression was “oh wow they took all the fun stuff out of POWDER”). but my first impression of DCSS is “oh wow this is like POWDER except ridiculously user-friendly and with all kinds of QoL features and what might be the best tutorial I’ve ever seen in a game”. it’s even open source