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With Zangband, you invest -days- or -years- of your life working on one quest after another, and to what end? 'Zod died of old age, level 32 monk, 18,902,311 moves'. At the end of 30 minutes you have wasted 30 minutes. You continually go down the dungeon looking for nasties and as you find them you have to work out strategies for dealing with 'em.Ĭompare that with your average First Person Shooter - Quake3, or Unreal Tournament - there you biff it out over 10-30 minutes, and see how you go. It may be said of any game or endeavour 'it is a waste of time and effort', but for Zangband, it is a truly ferocious waste of effort.

So you start again, looking for a reliable light source, start to collect all those neat items, have to kill the pesky dog. You can play with your character for hours, days, weeks, months, years!! and then have him trip over some trap and 'boom' you're dead. They get a speed bonus at higher levels, which can be combined with the speed bonus that monks get as well - View image here:. or actually, I have been wanting to try a Nature Monk for a while, to get to use that spell that allows me to attack all adjacent squares once. I think I will try a Vampire Death Monk now. I should add that I am kind sad now because my Highelf Life Monk has just been eridicated by the Ultimate Dungeon Cleaner (a type of Golem represented by a gray lowercase 'g' that I inadvertantly confused for a simply stone golem, which is also represnted by a gray lowercase 'g'). Probably the closest game I have played as extensively was Starcraft, but its a distance second. Mostly I was just curious if there were other arsians out there that, like myself, have played Zangband (and its predecessors) more than any other game that has ever been out.

ANGBAND MONSTERS WINDOWS

Another cool feature is that you can open up lots of windows and position them however you like across your monitor, or like in my case if you have two monitors, you can have many windows spaning both monitors. In fact, in my frequent waits for good games to come out, I always find myself reverting back to Zangband to pass the time.Īs you can see, there are some basic tile graphics that you can use, but the games is much better just using ansi graphics. I have been playing Zangband for years and years. Further, the amount of character custimization is not even remotely matched by any other comerical game out there. Zangband also modified the magic system so that the spells were loosely based off of Magic The Gatherings notion of majic realms.

The neat thing about these games is that they are based off of the Tolken world (amongst many other sources) for their monsters, races, weapons, etc. Then I remember playing Moria, which was modified into a game called Angband and finally into the best current variant of Angband (in my opinion), Zangband. After Rogue came out, there was a game called nethack, and I think Larn showed up at the same time. The first of these games I can remember playing was called Dungeons and Dragons (I think, as it was based directly offa dungeons and dragons the role playing game). Generally they are freeware and have been written not only by a single person, but in a fashion similar to Linux, by the community at large.Īges ago, the game of Rogue (while not actually be the first of its kind) pretty much revolutionized this type of game. If you are not familiar with these types of games, they are text-graphical based. I was curious if there was anyone else out there that had an obsession with these types of games.

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