MicroProse Announces Knights of Frontier Valley Which It Describes as “A Challenging, Old-School-Inspired Roguelike RPG”

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MicroProse has partnered with Adamant Studios to create a new procedurally generated RPG which harkens to the good old days of PC gaming.

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Micro who? You know that company that everyone thinks disappeared a long time ago.

Joking aside I think this looks kind of interesting. Nothing majorly new and nothing wrong with that but potential to be well made.
 
I still have no idea what "roguelike" even means. But for a long time I had no idea what "soulslike" was either, then I figured it out and learnt to avoid it like the devil.
 
MadMummy76 said:
I still have no idea what "roguelike" even means. But for a long time I had no idea what "soulslike" was either, then I figured it out and learnt to avoid it like the devil.
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... to the internet! Meaning of Roguelike ...

I don't recall ever having played Rogue itself, but way back in the early days, I extensively played Nethack, which is one of the archetypal variants. I even dabbled and wrote a few scripts for it. These days, people would call that modding. :)
 
Ditchinit said:
... to the internet! Meaning of Roguelike ...

I don't recall ever having played Rogue itself, but way back in the early days, I extensively played Nethack, which is one of the archetypal variants. I even dabbled and wrote a few scripts for it. These days, people would call that modding. :)
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Sounds just like regular RPG to me. The generic description isn't really a substitute for experiencing it.
 
I admit that I tend to occasionally look up roguelike/soulslike just to remind myself of what they are and neither tend to stick with me. I guess I just never really got into either type.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
I admit that I tend to occasionally look up roguelike/soulslike just to remind myself of what they are and neither tend to stick with me. I guess I just never really got into either type.
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Not realy my thing either, I did play some Hades but never got very far b4 I got bored
 
Yeah the constant restarting from Level 1 gets to me
 
Denpepe said:
Not realy my thing either, I did play some Hades but never got very far b4 I got bored
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Hades was the only roguelike that had some kind of appeal to me, but I dropped it before too long. No matter what genre a roguelike is in, be it something like Hades or a 3rd-person shooter like Returnal or something else, I just can't get into roguelikes of any kind.
 
I am still not clear on what a roguelike is.
 
I'm not sure if any of us truly are either nor do I feel confident that most of the folks who use that description really know as well.
 
DrezKill said:
Hades was the only roguelike that had some kind of appeal to me, but I dropped it before too long. No matter what genre a roguelike is in, be it something like Hades or a 3rd-person shooter like Returnal or something else, I just can't get into roguelikes of any kind.
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Enter the Gungeon and Wizard of Legend are two others that I remembered trying, and yeah I couldn't get into those either.
 
"Rogue" like and "Souls" like seem to dominate the gaming definition world lately.
 
Grimlakin said:
I am still not clear on what a roguelike is.
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I think the general idea is no saves, if you die you start over from step 1. Basically a PITA. I have a love/hate affair for Hades.... the music, artwork, gameplay is so good. But the boss battles SUCK. I have never completed it, even on the easiest setting after more than 100 runs. Not being able to save is a serious downer. It will let you "pause" if you clear a level, before moving on to the next, but get killed again and POOF back to start.
 
I had no idea MicroProse still existed. I seem to recall a bunch of C64 strategy games.
 
Start over from Level 1, but you get to carry over power ups or character levels or something, so there is some carried over improvement between runs. So you do get stronger/more capable over time but you always start back at the beginning.

Like a forced repetition. I’m not a huge fan but can tolerate it in small doses.
 
Ahh so like vampire. I guess that can be fun for that style of game to be enjoyed in 30 min bites.
 
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