I enjoy Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup played in the terminal with ASCII graphics. I wonder whether there are other hidden gems out there which don’t get attention because they are “ugly”?
I enjoy Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup played in the terminal with ASCII graphics. I wonder whether there are other hidden gems out there which don’t get attention because they are “ugly”?
Yeah especially Dwarf Fortress. The gameplay:graphics ratio is over 9000
That’s improved now, though, with the steam release. Before the Steam release I exclusively played DF with Ascii graphics. Honestly, I thought it was pretty.
https://nailbar.io/random/df/df_siege_01.png
I LIKE ASCII graphics done well. It tried playing the version of Stone Soup that uses tiles and couldn’t do it.
Samsies. The ASCII mode is just so clean looking. It’s clear at a glance exactly what’s happening. And they put a ton of work into making colors/capitalization/characters consistent, so you immediately know something about a monster, even if you never met it. For example, birds are lower case b, rodents r, ruminants and other large herbivores Y (yak), etc. Then the color gives a sense of the elemental theme of the mob. Demon ratings using numbers with 1 being the most dangerous. It’s very clean in how it presents information.
It does have a certain charm. I never really played that much tbh, my favorite part was reading the sagas of fortresses on the forums. Those were always so unpredictable and hilarious.