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Games that did procedurally generated content best?
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runnin_blue
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Diablo 1 for sure. Amazing.
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Deleted member 22576
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Eldritch is pretty dang neat!
Spelunky is great for sure, but games like Isaac and Rogue Legacy lost a lot of their charm once I started seeing the individual pieces instead of the bigger picture. I guess that's what I get for putting hundreds of hours into Isaac, but the game felt a lot smaller once I had seen every room multiple times over and over again.
YankeeDonB
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ADOM - played it on and off for 10 years and never got old. Enough structure in the world to keep it from being pure chaos, but enough flexibility within the general framework to lead to never ending crazy emergent situations.
Nethack and dwarf fortress are in the same league, but ADOM's world spanning adventure sets it apart I think.
Nethack and dwarf fortress are in the same league, but ADOM's world spanning adventure sets it apart I think.
anothertech
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Dwarf Fortress is pretty amazing for that. But no one will play it because of the aesthetic I'm guessing.
plagiarize
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I was going to day something similar about Audioshield, but I'm not sure if it's cheating in a way.
What aesthetic
TheCongressman1
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My personal favorite is Minecraft. I can't tell you how many times I've been in awe while exploring that game.
Sure they could have, but that's not to say they aren't fun or a good addition.
One big gripe of mine is that they were pretty predictable in their structure. Set of rooms you can skip if you want, go down main hall, another set of rooms, boss. Go down the elevator and do it all again. It's a far cry from an actual labyrinth.
Sure they could have, but that's not to say they aren't fun or a good addition.
One big gripe of mine is that they were pretty predictable in their structure. Set of rooms you can skip if you want, go down main hall, another set of rooms, boss. Go down the elevator and do it all again. It's a far cry from an actual labyrinth.
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this, Spelunky is the king of kings
Squirrel Killer
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Lactose_Intolerant
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It is like looking at the matrix after a while.
paragonpro
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Is this fun for people?
LordRaptor
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no, literally nobody has ever played or enjoyed dwarf fortress, great post
stan423321
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Yeah, while Worms isn't particularly "amazing" with its randomness, it's solid, obvious, and not gimmicky. I guess it's similar in Minecraft in that regard, except I don't like Minecraft so who knows.
I play with nicer fonts and a full screen but yeah. Dwarf Fortress is one of the best games I've ever experienced.
deriks
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I don't like Minecraft too, but we have to admit that this game nailed procedurally generated stuff. You see and you can do procedural shit. It's impressive
Dwarf Fortress - possibilities are immense, I'm just not good enough to actually have "fun" 
Minecraft - this is specifically for the landscape and cave generation which I hope NMS will usurp just in visual fidelity alone.
Invisible Inc. - Game is always a joy to return to. Missions may be fairly linear, but the layouts always provide the right amount of harrowing challenge. I never feel cheated by the level design or NPC placement.
bonus:
Left 4 Dead - not really procedural, but the AI "director" for mixing up every game you play made that game.
Minecraft - this is specifically for the landscape and cave generation which I hope NMS will usurp just in visual fidelity alone.
Invisible Inc. - Game is always a joy to return to. Missions may be fairly linear, but the layouts always provide the right amount of harrowing challenge. I never feel cheated by the level design or NPC placement.
bonus:
Left 4 Dead - not really procedural, but the AI "director" for mixing up every game you play made that game.
GearDraxon
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For me, Spelunky's level generation is the ideal: varied, with "familiar-looking" elements that never become stale. After hundreds of hours, I can guess what a room is going to be like, and I'll likely be close-but-not-exactly-right.
The real genius is how every level is completable with the starting gear. You don't *need* any of the items to succeed. Given the complexity of the systems and their interactions, I'm always amazed by this - and it serves as a reassurance as you play: "nobody has ever seen this exact combination of dangers*, but it *can* be done, no matter what gear I have."
*except for the Dailies, of course.
Pretty much everything is better/more refined in the HD version. I played a ton of the original, but Derek's book makes it pretty clear that the original had some limitations.
The real genius is how every level is completable with the starting gear. You don't *need* any of the items to succeed. Given the complexity of the systems and their interactions, I'm always amazed by this - and it serves as a reassurance as you play: "nobody has ever seen this exact combination of dangers*, but it *can* be done, no matter what gear I have."
*except for the Dailies, of course.
Pretty much everything is better/more refined in the HD version. I played a ton of the original, but Derek's book makes it pretty clear that the original had some limitations.
YankeeDonB
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After you play for a while, your brain starts subbing in embellished imagery for the ASCII symbols. Oh, shit, a D !
And yeah, it's very fun if you get into it, basically no game with animation and real graphics has the same depth, complexity, and possibility for procedural interaction and emergent hijinks.
JustSomeone
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Diablo 2 without a contest
Faster than light
yes, that was the joke lol
There are still purist that prefer to play like that, but most people play with tilesets, so it looks a little more like this:
(I haven't followed DF in a few years so I don't know what tileset is the most popular now)
YankeeDonB
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I find tilesets for ASCII games irritating -- they still don't look good, and they make it harder for imagination to fill in, so, paradoxically, I find them to make the games feel uglier.
StrangeRoboMemory
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Nethack, one of my favs ever. The interface may be ancient, but it's got so many surprises and so much intense action, because you never know what's next. I've been playing it for over ten years and haven't beaten it.
Based on my love of Nethack, I should really play Spelunky, recently got it in a Humble Bundle but haven't tried it yet.
Based on my love of Nethack, I should really play Spelunky, recently got it in a Humble Bundle but haven't tried it yet.
Sums it up better than I could. I want to post a wtf is this gif...lol
I like Terraria. Havent played Splelunky enough.
There are still purist that prefer to play like that, but most people play with tilesets, so it looks a little more like this:
(I haven't followed DF in a few years so I don't know what tileset is the most popular now)
Oh, ok. This is more like it...lol
Big fan of the game but I agree with this to a T.
StrategyFan
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age of empires and various follow-ups
it's not really content like roguelikes, but having random maps with exploration instead of build orders basically saved strategy gaming from the curse of starcraft
it's not really content like roguelikes, but having random maps with exploration instead of build orders basically saved strategy gaming from the curse of starcraft
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