unreal world

[Timo Pietilä]

Originally Posted by debo

FWIW I really want to play this -- the viking thing sold me from first glance

Just FYI, that has nothing to do with vikings. Older and more powerful civilization, namely Finnish one. That is why I said I have seen those guys. I really did mean that.

[debo]

Originally Posted by Timo Pietilä

Just FYI, that has nothing to do with vikings. Older and more powerful civilization, namely Finnish one. That is why I said I have seen those guys. I really did mean that.

Even better!

[taptap]

Originally Posted by Timo Pietilä

Imagination makes a lot better visuals than reality.

I used to say this too, but then I realized for me it is exclusively the story that matters, I don't actually visualize anything when I play in ASCII.

[Derakon]

Originally Posted by taptap

I used to say this too, but then I realized for me it is exclusively the story that matters, I don't actually visualize anything when I play in ASCII.

I don't visualize anything either; I just view Angband as a highly complex board game. Enemy symbols represent their stats, nothing more.

[taptap]

Originally Posted by Derakon

I don't visualize anything either; I just view Angband as a highly complex board game. Enemy symbols represent their stats, nothing more.

Oh no, I play Sil to relax. I do play Go at other times when I have sufficient concentration

[Derakon]

Mm, I meant "complex" in the "many rules" sense more than in the "strategically/tactically deep" sense. Compared to practically any board game Angband has a lot more "content" (in the sense of uniquely-specified entities), but I'd certainly agree that playing Go or Chess or even several more modern games (Agricola, anyone?) would be more intellectually demanding.

For what it's worth, I also think of the Civilization games as being complex board games. Even moreso than Angband is, really, if only because the opposition are all "players" themselves.