Why do you play Angband?

External Since: Apr 27, 2005 Posts: 61

Why do you play Angband?

There was a thread here recently that discussed addiction to Angband
(and similar games).
This prompted me to ask why I play Angband.
I've thought about this and have come up with a few reasons of my
own, but would be interested to see if anyone agrees with me, or has
their own thoughts.

My reasons so far:-
1. To win the game (obvious).
2. To get the satisfaction of character development.
3. To improve on previous game (even if winner).
4. To find new things (eg. artefacts never before found - that's
why I usually play randards)
5. I enjoy the struggle of kit-juggling to get a good combo of
resists/bonuses/activations (esp in NPP)
6. Seeing something dangerous OOD and asking "how could I try to kill
this thing?".

These are generic reasons. My more specific ones are:-
a. I enjoy killing dragons - all of them (baby, young, mature,
ancient and wyrm).
b. I like seeing Wormtongue dead.
c. I love finding !Augmentation before stat-gain is over.
d. When I kill a wyrm and it turns from a D into a pile of
loot/goodies, I say 'BOOM' (really).

What are other players thoughts / reasons ?

Cheers,

tp

External Since: Jul 12, 2005 Posts: 214

tigpup wrote:
> Why do you play Angband?
>
> There was a thread here recently that discussed addiction to Angband
> (and similar games).
> This prompted me to ask why I play Angband.
> I've thought about this and have come up with a few reasons of my
> own, but would be interested to see if anyone agrees with me, or has
> their own thoughts.
>
> My reasons so far:-
> 1. To win the game (obvious).
Yah Wink

> 2. To get the satisfaction of character development.
Nah
> 3. To improve on previous game (even if winner).
I rarely play same class/race within same release, I would only play
again if there were significant changes
> 4. To find new things (eg. artefacts never before found - that's
> why I usually play randards)
Eh. I dont like randarts they are either weaker, too strong or just the
same Wink

> 5. I enjoy the struggle of kit-juggling to get a good combo of
> resists/bonuses/activations (esp in NPP)
Yeah.
> 6. Seeing something dangerous OOD and asking "how could I try to kill
> this thing?".
Lost that wonder Wink

> These are generic reasons. My more specific ones are:-
> a. I enjoy killing dragons - all of them (baby, young, mature,
> ancient and wyrm).
You like killing baby's eh ?
> b. I like seeing Wormtongue dead.
Yes !!
> c. I love finding !Augmentation before stat-gain is over.
Yes
> d. When I kill a wyrm and it turns from a D into a pile of
> loot/goodies, I say 'BOOM' (really).
O K.
> What are other players thoughts / reasons ?

I started with playing Z dead knight amberite and enjoyed it so much
that I got hooked ( really long time ago ) since then new variants keep
adding spice ( now less than before ).
I just died to a Nazgul in XBand and man, that was a good game. The Z
spell book realms are still the best thing out there for magic in my
mind. I loved Ey, it was just too good. 3 winners I have on Ey, I dont
play it any more since there is nothing new and bands tend to age
fast.I am a card flopper, a dice chucker and RPG fan, and *bands are
just the thing for me. Strangely enough because of this I cannot/dont
want to get the hang of nethack/crawl, it is just not band enough Wink

Enough rambling,
T.

>
> Cheers,
>
> tp