Vaults Vanquisher
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Although the central place for design discussion is ##crawl-dev on freenode, some may find it helpful to discuss requests and suggestions here first.
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tealizard wrote:The deeper problem is the roguelike item idiom itself. Identification is just one of many layers that obfuscate the deeper truth that items as understood in roguelike games are inherently tedious and the more you have the worse it gets.
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Siegurt wrote:tealizard wrote:The deeper problem is the roguelike item idiom itself. Identification is just one of many layers that obfuscate the deeper truth that items as understood in roguelike games are inherently tedious and the more you have the worse it gets.
Have you considered the possibility that you don't actually like roguelikes at all, but instead prefer some other genre of game which is roguelike-adjacent? (or maybe you did once, but are now sick of them)
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tealizard wrote:I wouldn't call that a mechanic, so I find this line of argument unconvincing.
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tealizard wrote:Relatedly, hellcrawl has no identification at all. All items are always identified. I rather like it because if a mechanic is not good enough to last a whole game, it shouldn't be in the game at all.
tealizard wrote:The deeper problem is the roguelike item idiom itself. Identification is just one of many layers that obfuscate the deeper truth that items as understood in roguelike games are inherently tedious and the more you have the worse it gets.
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