How good is this Game, Heroes and Adventurers?
As a 28 year Veteran of Roguelikes (I cut my teeth on Hack & The Amulet of Yender - and yeah, I'm Old) I judge this game to be a Crazy 88 (%).
For anyone who is currently running Beta 21 with no problems, you are truly blessed. Tell everyone Sir Jaded, the Knight in Tarnished Armour says hi. Not everyone has the benefits of being blessed...
I love this game. But It's a Hard Love. The Darkgod giveth and the Darkgod taketh away. My Betas are infused with the Spirits of Loki, the Coyote, and Athena. I now run Offline for the most part, but for the two days I had fellow Adventurers busting their thoughts in my lower-left, It was so awesome I could nearly see the Darkgod himself.
I know he walks amongst us. I see the flickering of his shadow.
Then I have to remind myself that this game is a Beta. When I do though I smile, because even as a Beta how good is this game?
I see the Machinations of Darkgod and I see his vision. When I fret about the lack of Documentation in my life regarding this, considered and appropriate opinions are only a Forum away.
And the Betas! They keep on coming! I get a few Hardcore Characters going and boom! The world is revised. For the better. My old characters watch an all-encompassing wave of Magnetism commit them to the Recycling Bin (aka: the Cataclysm). For the New World is Better.
And though my ToME4 engine coughs, splutters, cuts out, and denies me the running opinion of my peers...I am (**&%#@% hooked.
(Bows at midnight before a small fire of wood and gemstones. A shooting star grazes the firmament, unseen. A drop of blood from a hard-bitten lip bells the moss.)
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What kind of problems are you
What kind of problems are you having? ToME's been very stable for me this release, although it certainly complains alot. Many of the LUA errors end up being harmless as far as i can tell... just skip them and keep playing!
28 years of rogue-ing! Someone buy this guy an ale!
Tis only a flesh wound
It's decent some of the time. Glad to see you're still having fun :)