Lurker > crossfiyah

redrocket posted...

I mean you could channel it in a positive manner by actually voting and making civil arguments in favor of your choices!

I don't believe in voting.

redrocket posted...

bro, why dont you bring some of that energy to the actual rushmore topics

I don't like to cause problems.

Mr_Crispy posted...

Rogue
Nethack
Ancient Domains of Mystery
Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer

it's not like "rogue" was a single commercial game. It was a game that a bunch of students/faculty programmed independently their own implementation of the general concept on university mainframes. There's a commercial version of "rogue" rereleased on steam for example, but it came a lot later and isn't the same as the original.

really now, people using "roguelike" wrong is pretty infuriating and there should have been separate Roguelike and roguelite rushmores since there's dozens of branches actual roguelikes (particularly if you're being flexible with the definition and include Mystery Dungeon series games and games imitating Mystery Dungeon games). It's not really like "metroidvania", where the confusion is at least understandable since "metroid" is in the name when the term typically refers to games more like SotN. It's literally just supposed to literally mean a game that's like Rogue but it's pretty much turned into fucking Ingsoc doublespeak to mean a game that's not remotely like rogue. Like Card Quest is tagged as a "roguelike deckbuilder" even though it isn't really either thing.

Is it an rpg that has turn based grid movement like rogue? then yes it's pretty fair to call it a roguelike. Is it say a platformer or other genre game that just has randomly generated levels? then it shouldn't be called a roguelike.

It is not infuriating.

What is infuriating is having two different names for basically the same genre.

Just call them all Rogues ffs.

redrocket posted...

My vote in that topic was literally

Go
Chess
Checkers
Backgammon

Come at me, bro

How are you even able to find your keyboard amidst the piles of Magnum PI VHS tapes and TV Guides you saved for no reason.

jcgamer107 posted...

Well it's a 'Rushmore' so not surprising that older games made it in. Scrabble and Go are questionable imo but Chess and Monopoly were always (deservedly) locks. And if you weren't here to vote, no bitchin'.

Older games only made it because the people voting here don't know any newer games.

I think Settlers of Catan is hot garbage but it invented modern Eurogames and should be on the list. Pandemic Legacy is the reason legacy games reinvented campaign board gaming and still holds up. Dominion essentially invented the deckbuilder genre. Twilight Imperium is a fucking legend in and of itself.

Those four are a far more accurate Rushmore of the hobby.

Ya'll wanna talk Rushmores where the average person knows the top 4? Games that didn't age well:

"Uhh uhh...Madden 2004....Call of Duty Black Ops....uhh....Angry Birds....wait whats a Chrono Cross?"

Nobody voting Rogue has ever played Rogue. Bunch of posers.

It's literally what my 80 year old grandmother would have voted for if she knew how to type anything but her email address in the search bar.

Just popping in extremely late to say:

"Board Games: Chess, Monopoly, Scrabble, Go"

I hate literally every one of you that contributed to this abject failure of a result on day 57.

Rushmores that got it wrong

Do this so I can vote for Board Games for that one.