A surprising monster ommission

[fall_ark]

There's also a surprising lack of (were)wolves and bears.

Good thing we don't have bats though. I shudder at the thought of an enemy having dodge...

[The Avatar]

Oh god. That'd be AWFUL. Also, there's Ents (or some form of evil tree), SPIDERS (in a ton of fantasy games), and wargs. Mummies to, perhaps?

[Lujo]

I'm actually glad there's no spiders and bats - theyre the biggest fantasy cliche ever, as can be withnessed by "Goddamned bats" and "demonic spiders" TV tropes pages. The words "bat" and "spider" lost all meaning and are labels for specific types of monsters.

The roster is a bit unortodox, but seenig how popular goats are that seems to be a good thing. I actually discovered Super Meat Boy after Desktop Dungeons, so the Meat Men felt really weird when I first saw them ^^

[TigerKnee]

The Rusalka and Succubus DD monsters are surprisingly ugly because they're palette swaps of the Medusa.

[gjaustin]

Lore! Fun!

First came across a Rusalka in Quest For Glory IV. That series always had really cool lore references.

Me too! I still name all my Paladins in game Piotyr, because he's awesome.

[Darvin]

First came across a Rusalka in Quest For Glory IV. That series always had really cool lore references

I never could get the 4th game in the series to work...

[gjaustin]

First came across a Rusalka in Quest For Glory IV. That series always had really cool lore references

I never could get the 4th game in the series to work...

It has some of the most hilarious bugs of all time. Especially the one where the timer until the final boss kills you keeps running during his death animation. If it runs out he'll immediately resurrect and kill you.

And the best part is that the animation is based on real-time, but the death timer is clock cycles! By the time the game released, there were already computer with fast enough processors to make it impossible!


It's playable now with DosBox, as long as you're willing to accept a crash every 15-30 minutes. It's worth it though, since it's the best game in the series, even with the bugs.

[Darvin]

It has some of the most hilarious bugs of all time.

Less then hilarious when the same bug would kill my game at the same place ~10 minutes in every time...


On the main topic of this thread, I'm wondering if we're going to see Spiders show up in some fashion given some of the subdungeons appearing.

[The Avatar]

Freaking spider temple. Spiders could be a DLC thing. A cool effect would be slowing your next hit when your "webbed".

[Darvin]

Slowing the player is definitely an under-used effect. Easily cured by smacking a meat-man, though, so I'm not sure just how dangerous it'd be in the general-case.