Spelunkin' With Scoops: Spelunkin' With Scoops: 01/30/2014

Binding of isaac is such a great game. I'll pretty much watch anyone play it. Possibly while playing it myself.

Don't forget one of the oldschool roguelikes, Tales of Maj'Eyal (used to be known as Tales of Middle Earth), which is also on Steam!

I've played that thing for a good while now, still haven't remembered to buy it on steam though, I'll have to rectify that right now. That and dungeon crawl stone soup are probably my favorite modern roguelikes (actual roguelikes, not roguelikelikelikelikelites or whatever the accepted term for any game with anything even resembling any of the design sensibilities of things like nethack etc). Oh, and obviously dungeons of dredmor is fantastic too, just a shame the hotkeys are all wrong.

Yes, all of those are GREAT choices. I've put so many hours into Dungenon's of Dredmor and they have a bunch of fun expansions out now too.

I think I barely made it past the first stage haha. Really hard to figure out without looking at a wiki, but a very cool rogue-like platformer nonetheless.

@patrickklepek

You make this S*** look EASY!

Censored for the kids :)

I feel like that would be really weird. Thematically they're similar, but there are so many obtuse puzzles in La-Mulana that Patrick would get stuck on.

Spelunky is pure mechanics and reflexes and situational awareness, once someone tells you/you look up the silly number of steps involved in getting to Hell. On the other hand, La-Mulana would just be streams upon streams of Patrick wandering aimlessly or looking at some puzzle and scratching his head until the chat tells him how it works.

However, Patrick does like equating things to Dark Souls as of late, so the part in La-Mulana where you die and die and die until you learn how to efficiently get to where you're trying to go might appeal to him? Even though that's more of an "every NES game ever" thing than a "Dark Souls" thing.

As much as Patrick has come around on turn-based games as of late, Fire Emblem: Awakening and new XCOM are far more polished, streamlined, and easy to get into compared to ToME or Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. I really can't imagine him investing the time required for either. He had zero interest in Etrian Odyssey IV, which I know is not entirely similar, but based on that I'm pretty sure Patrick has little interest in games that are just a stock fantasy dungeon crawl. Those games don't have the zeitgeist around them that Spelunky does.

Dungeons of Dredmor is more beginner friendly, but even then I can't imagine Patrick thinking it was lively enough to stream. DoD takes a loooooong time, especially with how clunky the crafting is. Also, saying the hotkeys are "wrong" in an entirely turn-based game is like saying Dvorak is "wrong" because you learned Qwerty first. If the game isn't real-time, I don't see how the hotkeys can ever be "wrong", unless one of the hotkeys is "hold down both shift keys while pressing F6 and backspace simultaneously".

Anyway, if I had to guess, Patrick is far more likely to play the roguelike-likes such as FTL or The Binding of Isaac. Or try to beat Risk of Rain with Alex.

My first foray into hell went about as well as Patrick's second but WHO CARES I FINALLY MADE IT TO HELL NOW I CAN FINALLY STOP PLAYING THIS GAME WOOHOO!

Unlike Patrick I don't think I'll ever actually beat Yama. Getting to hell was my final goal.

I'm sure some psychology major is watching Patrick impale himself and writing up their thesis at this very moment.

Am I going crazy, or this at least the second time where I've totally seen the shotgun laying on the ground after Patrick sacrifices himself with the Ankh, and he completely ignored it?

@quarters:

You can't get out of the head to go grab it.

@pyromagnestir: Oh, okay, so you're just stuck within that radius? That makes more sense then.

Dude, you need a compressor. Or just shout way less. You are killing my neighbors.