No.100
What was everyone's first Roguelike? Mine was Angband installed on my iMac by my dad when I was about 7 or 8. I think when farmer farmer asked me about his dog that I just killed I got too sad to continue playing.
No.101
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Pic related was my first one. I'm so sorry.
I was so shit at it that I couldn't even complete it, either. Despite it having no perma death and the estimated completion time for the average person was only 50 hours and not months like roguelikes. Don't worry, my taste and skill has improved now. At least I can still feel superior over people who's first roguelike was fucking Pokemon Mystery Dungeon.
No.102
>>101oh shit, we should have a curse of the great curry god general and invite vita gen over here
No.106
Probably pokemon mystery dungeon like that other anon said, or maybe one way heroics
I'm sorry
No.107
ADOM, liked it so much that Roguelikes are about almost all I play now, next to spacesims and a few building games
No.109
Linley's Dungeon Crawl. Watching it become gradually worse and worse after each StoneSoup release was particularly painful.
No.117
My first was Alphaman. I was about 12 at the time. I never really completed it, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
No.118
NetHack, myself. I guess I started off strong in that regard, or perhaps very weak.
No.119
Good ol' Powder
No.123
My first experiences with roguelikes were probably with dwarf fortress adventure mode. By extension, Dwarf Fortress was my first ASCII game.
No.125
Nethack when I was in middle school. I remember playing it on the school computers because teachers couldnt look past the scary white text on black background.
No.126
I remember playing Falcons Eye a few times as a kid because it was the only interesting game which was preinstalled on my parents pc.
Needless to say I was completely shitty at it, maily because i couldnt understand a word english back then.
My first real introduction was Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Im not ashamed its a great game for beginners and gave me a lot of joy.
Im currently playing IVAN, Stonesoup and Brogue.
No.131
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please don't be too mad
No.132
nethack tiles when I was in high school. around 2008. I couldn't do asci. I love the depth of these games, the amount of random shit you can do. I played stone soup as well. But Nethack takes the cake so far. New to this board though, lurking eagerly. Just downloaded cataclysm.
No.133
>>100moria on amiga 500 I got from my brother
No.134
>>131Wasn't your first roguelike because it's not a fucking roguelike.
That's like saying Counter Strike was your first RPG. It's just not correct.
No.138
Hack (precursor to Nethack) on Amiga. never got very far always starved to death or died of food poisoning.
No.142
>>138I played a hack port for the i-platforms back when I was about 10 or so, I loved it so much I ended up downloading Desktop Dungeons, IVAN, Nethack, and Rogue onto my computer and spending days failing at all of them. I always died of too much shit in my pack
No.144
Dark Cloud but actually NetHack I think
No.173
Hard to say. I was born in 1990 and played a lot of those shareware demo discs growing up. I had a SNES and N64 and no internet until at least 1998 or 1999, so I was stuck with them. I'm not sure which one was first, but I played ANSIDUDE, Reaping the Dungeon, and Castle of the Winds… Honorable mention goes to Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol (although it was a crawler and not a RL)
No.174
>>134>>131>That's like saying Counter Strike was your first RPG. It's just not correct.CS has RPG elements. We could avoid a lot of arguing by saying that
>>131 meant it was his first game that had
RL elements.
I feel this distinction is going to lead to a lot of fighting on this board.
No.181
>>119POWDER MASTER RACE
>>134More like saying Battlefield 3 was my first tactical shooter.
No.193
I remember playing one on my parents' old dinosaur back in the 90's, buck hell if I can remember what that damn thing was called.
First one I can name was Nethack, tiles version.
>>144Oh, thank fuck I'm not the only one who remembers that.
No.227
>>173You're the first person I've ever met to have played that. Any idea where it can be found or if it can even run on windows 7?
No.228
Castle of the winds. The first one was essentially a demo for the second part if I'm correct.
No.229
Nethack!
No.230
>>173>>227seconding this, it looks cool as fuck
No.235
>>227>>230Look for any website that offers DOS downloads?
I mean shit, it runs on DOS, there's probably no way it runs natively on Windows 7 or Vista.
No.236
>>228COTW1 was pretty complete on its own. Although the second one had a character importer and picked up pretty much where it left off. I never played it much though.
>tfw finding the Utility Belt in C1's store in the second town>tfw like 14 slots for potions, scrolls, wands No.247
First one I played was Nethack with tiles, which I played a lot during my senior year of high school. I forgot how I found out about it, though.
No.267
Gauntlet in arcades (think that counts)
No.313
It was so long ago…I am sure I played some back in the day but I honestly can't think of anything off the top of my head. I'll have to go through my library at some point.
The earliest one I've played in recent times however (within the last 10 years) was Decker.
No.338
Nethack
No.339
>>267Makes me wonder if anyones ever made a roguelike based on Gauntlet
No.343
>>107My first roguelike was the original roguelike… Rogue
No.344
Rogue.
I found out about IVAN when I was 16, around 2006, and decided I'd try the original genre-definer before playing it.
No.347
Is hellmoo considered a rougelike?
No.348
>>100Prospector.
I have to admit, being trapped on an alien world while my spaceship is teleported into untraversable terrain completely surrounded by mountains while hallucinating due to biological agents in the atmosphere and having fucking Apollo shooting lightning at me from on high sort of left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
No.356
nethack.
It was in 2006 when I was first learning about GNU/Linux. Nethack was in the games repository. At first I was like "What the hell is this?!" the rest is history.
No.360
It was simply called "adventure", it came on a bootleg 5 inch floppy. It would have been 88, i played it on a computer with no hardrive and a screen with only two colours.
No.364
ADOM was my first
No.367
>farmer farmer
He grew farmers?
No.378
Nethack
Couldn't even get past the third floor without starving or dying.
A few years later, I played Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and beat that.
No.390
Probably DF adventure mode, if that counts
No.446
The first one I can remember was Temple of Apshai on my Atari 400. But there were other "adventure" games before it with most of the roguelike elements.
I spent a great deal of time enjoying Hack on my Amiga 1000 in the early 80s.
No.447
No.518
>>131Never understood the hate on Roguelites. Christ.
Anyways, my first roguelike was ADOM. Played it religiously for the better part of a decade. Still fire it up occassionally with all the new stuff. Good times.
No.562
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, but I play Nethack a lot now.
No.563
>>518Probably because retarded douchebags keep trying to redefine a 30 year old genre because they want their stupid indie game to look "cool"
My first roguelike was Nethack. First time playing it was on a system lacking a numpad. Suffering was had.
No.680
DoomRL. Yeah, I was late to the party.
No.681
>>680still a great game to start with
No.699
Castle of the Winds though I mostly just watched my dad play it because I was terrible.
No.701
Some weird obscure slavshit i forgot the name of. I only remember that it had hilariously ineffective torches, had vending robots selling food and every time you descended there was a short flavor text describing your character delving further.
Was pretty cool, even though i had no idea "roguelike" was a genre.
No.734
Mine was Nethack. I suck so I still haven't beat it haha
No.791
My first roguelike was Shiren the Wanderer for the NDS. Hopefully, someday, a full patch for its sequel will be avaiable.
>>109What is the defenitive version then?
No.804
ZAngband and PernAngband. Moved onto ADOM and no other roguelike has grabbed me as hard for the last 15 years.
Roguelites, on the other hand…
No.812
Nethack with ascii. It was absolutely frustrating and I loved every second of it. Never beaten it to this day but still play it regularly.
>>109Seriously, Linley's dungeon crawl needs a proper fork that doesn't suck. Something that still has awesome nasty stuff like scrolls of forgetfulness in it. I love playing it but sometimes it just crashes randomly, once it actually corrupted my save…
No.930
Nethack back in Middle School.
No.933
Hack on Amiga but I was 6 and couldn't speak english.
Nethack would be my proper first roguelike about four years ago, followed by SLASH'EM, wich I like a bit better.
I have beaten neither and it's been a while since I played them.
>>360Sounds like you've played the Atari 2600 game ported to PC.
No.962
First one I ever tried was Nethack, first one I ever really loved was DCSS.