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Quick Look: Rogue Legacy

Hey Patrick? I'm no doctor, but I don't think being upside down is a genetic trait.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Jun. 22 2013

Cast: Vinny, Patrick

Posted by: Drew

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Rogue Legacy

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This looks AWESOME. Awesome, awesome, awesome.

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I was totally expecting a Donnie Darko reference... thanks Vinny!

This seems awesome.

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@zevvion: The Berlin interpretation is madness in today's modern world of Roguelikes. Today's roguelike is a game where you start with nothing (Except maybe some options that may customizable like your ship in FTL or your research like in Don't Starve) and build yourself in a relatively short order with items you find and experience you gain. I believe very firmly that accelerated progression combined with the reality of permadeath (e.g. you will lose everything, don't value it) is core to what a Roguelike now is.

Rogue Legacy has no building in short orders, everything in Rogue Legacy builds over the course of countless playthroughs. One could accurately say you go through a run in Rogue Legacy solely to get enough gold to upgrade yourself once you die. You hoard your gold. You want to get just enough to get the next thing. Just like how in 10000000 you want to do well enough to do the missions and get enough gold, wood and stone along the way to buy as many upgrades as you can. Same principles.

I recognize the difference. I am not saying Rogue Legacy is a true roguelike. But it does have a few elements of it. But just like with music, at some point I think labeling every single difference by calling it an entirely new genre is crazy. The avarage gamer couldn't possibly keep up with all the different genre's. I believe it's more effective to just assign multiple genre's to a game instead of creating a new one for each combination that has been made.

It's easy to identify this game as a 2D hack 'n slash platformer with roguelike elements. They call it a 'Roguelight' on their own site. I also think that gets the point across pretty nicely.

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I really dislike that running animation

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this game looks fantastic

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I was very uninterested from the description and screen shot.

Halfway through the quick look, I've already bought it.

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Bought it. Seems very nice.

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I just...love this so much. Yet ANOTHER weird little indie game Giant Bomb has sold me!!

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@kenobi said:

Cool, this is a buy.

Edit: Found this.

You can get it at discount and a steam key here:

http://www.roguelegacy.com/

Edit: Discount done, but I think it's still worth the price. I still say buy from the site and support the dev directly.

Went to the site and I don't see where to buy it?

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This is awesome and makes me wish I had a wired 360 controller.

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I bought this game, and immediately regretted it. All I wanted was my money back, but I kept playing and eventually I started liking it.. :P

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@rorie said:

Man this game looks nuts. Will have to try it out.

man rorie, you just really blend in/go incognito with the comments in a weird way! guess it's by being so active in posting in comparison to the rest of the staff.

you can always tell a milford man. :D

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Of course Patrick laughs at the dyslexia trait. Of course.