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Going Rogue - Part 02

Here we are! Ben's first (and only?) attempt to conquer Rogue!

Ben attempts to beat the original Rogue. Will he succeed?

Dec. 29 2020

Cast: Vinny, Ben

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Rogue

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Amulet of Yendor?

Better protect that from Werdna and Trebor.

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Ben playing difficult games and Vinny providing color commentary has limitless potential. Hope to see more videos like this series.

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Throw 45 minutes of dead air on the end for a fun GBI box vote.

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Edited By ripelivejam

This is the rogue?

I'm also so digging the git gud community surrounding this game that suddenly crawled out of the woodwork. :|

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(doesn't look at runtime) excited to watch this video while I eat my whole lunch

(Still unwrapping sandwich) wtf?

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Edited By nomiconic

never played rogue but it seems like, especially when you're fighting a monster or in a dark room, it would be good to take a second between button presses and see what's going on. super fun series so far though good luck ben

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@uninvincible: Well he gave the reason it just wasn't really thought out.

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I didn't realise that you could get to the good ending so quickly, this must be where far cry 4 got its inspiration.

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OK, I'm hooked. Who made the intro? I love it!

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Hobney nnooooo

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I took the day off anticipating this at minimum 1 hour run, lets see how this goes.

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Ah, so the true Rogue beings!

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A perfect start.

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Loving the effort to make a well designed series intro.

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Hahahaha. That was awesome.

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Edited By functionparty

Haven't watched yet, but I'm sure the 9:10 runtime just means Ben beat the game very quickly!!

Edit: Is changing armor just 1 turn? Could tote the leather armor around + swap it in for As. I bet that's what he'll do on run #2.

I'm on board to watch this for >13 episodes. More "practice sessions" in between real runs, maybe??

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Throwing my hat into the fold. A word of advice: If it happens in D&D 1e, it happens here. Including Wraiths stealing levels, slimes dividing to slashing, etc.

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HOT TRACK ALERT

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Maybe it's an issue for those with bad internet, but I would vote for adding minutes of nothing at the end of every episode of this series video so the length is always at least 60 minutes. That or find a way to hide the video length when I hit play.

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@tomba_be: I'd bet dollars to donuts they recorded them all sequentially in a few days and have had them in the can for at least a week.

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I love this intro so much, but if you continue to document every run, how many videos until the intro ends up being longer than the actual run? I've never played Rouge so I don't know the average number of runs it takes.

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this exact thing was going to happen eventually, lol

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Superb first run...worth it just for the laughs.

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lmao 9 minutes

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I can't believe Ben was the boy who beat the video game Rogue in only 9 minutes!

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Queued this up as I was going for a run and didn’t get past two blocks before it was all over. Good stuff :)

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Vinny "we're gonna keep these to an hour"

Me: *checks time of video*

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Lmao perfect start

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If you guy's are still soliciting what should count as an "official" run i think a minimum time of 30 minutes should be one of the rules,
I'm just worried we'll get 12 more 3-10 minute episodes at this rate :)

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"Well,"

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This is superb. When this run is over, I am totally up for old school text adventures.

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Dead because of an errant keypress while not noticing your health going down. Now we're rogueliking.

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Edited By spudnickator

Might be worth padding the length of the video out with something so we can't tell how long the run is straight away.

Edit: >____> thatll teach me to comment before watching

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Incredible

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Here's some advice, Vinny has no memory and has very little confidence in it. If he suggests something, it's okay to be skeptical.

And I love Vinny.

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Aw, well.. it was a good... effort?

Heads up, I think you're getting hit more than you need to by walking around to line yourself up with an enemy. You should use the Home/End/PgUp/PgDn keys to move and attack diagonally.

Better luck next run!

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lmao that discord call

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Wait wait wait...GB is hosting AGDQ now!? I can't believe it took Ben only 8 minutes to beat Rogue.

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You might need to allow Ben to do an extra run in an episode if he dies than 20-30 minutes in, because these games can be cruel and arbitrary at times - especially to a novice.

That said he was being lazy and sloppy here moving around while letting monsters get a bunch of free hits, so he kinda deserved it. Remember you can move and attack diagonally using the numpad.

I thought this was the idea right? wasnt there supposed to be a discussion of what constitutes an "official run" or not? I would say under 20 minutes or under 5 floors shouldnt count as an official run.

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Having this content would have saved Quibi!

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@sa_drone said:

Man these intros are goddamn amazing.

And they last longer than the game does. lol

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This was perfect and this should definitely not count as a real run. We'll need a mercy rule for things like these or the next couple episodes will all be sub 20 minutes.

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Ben, the thing that you discovered with the numlock is that if you type a number and then a direction, you will move in that direction for that many turns (no matter what). So you spent 564 turns running right at 2:00 in this video, even though most of it was running into a wall.

For the most part, using this feature is a bad idea except with very small numbers. It is almost always better to use the 'f' key and then a direction, which will move you in that direction until you 'find' something (e.g., run into a wall, move next to a door, see a monster).

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Heck yeah

This rules

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Vinny has a great Ork voice going at the start of this.

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This is high art

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The intro for this series is next level amazing. Kudos.

Also Rogue is hard, and playing sloppy will get you killed.

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This is going to be a great series. While i've never dipped into Rogue, i have played a lot of DCSS, and a little bit of Sil and Moria. The chance of Ben even seeing the amulet of Yendor, much less ascending, in 13 runs is astronomically low. I'm here for every single moment of this.

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This was good as hell, but I really need to avert my eyes from the runtime next episode.