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You get power ups as you progress and lose them when you die. A lot of the game is figuring out which combinations of power ups have good synergy. If you excus
by henryfjordan 4y ago
You get power ups as you progress and lose them when you die. A lot of the game is figuring out which combinations of power ups have good synergy.
If you excuse the lack of procedural generation, it is not much different than other modern roguelike games like Hades or FTL.
Depends on where you draw the lines I suppose.
- qu4z-2 4y ago> You get power ups as you progress and lose them when you die. That's every shmup!
- baq 4y agoYeah Vampire Slayers is a fantasy themed shmup but it has nice persistent upgrade mechanics which are rougelite-like. Also it’s just addictive, punches way above its weight.
- djur 4y agoI think every single aspect of the traditional roguelike definitions can be bent, even permadeath, but procedural generation is the exception. Different runs need to give you different situations and different choices to make, and procedural generation is the only way to do that.
- mcv 4y agoYeah, without procedural generation, it becomes just like any other game where you just have to learn the right path to take. Because these are very hard games where you're most likely never going to see the end, the start already needs to be interesting and different every time.
- dolni 4y agoSo Diablo and Path of Exile are roguelikes?
- djur 4y agoDiablo started out as a graphical roguelike, with turn-based combat and permadeath. David Breivik says they removed the permadeath when they decided to go realtime (good call). I personally wouldn't call Diablo a roguelike but it's a very close relative. When it came out people commented that it was basically big budget Angband.