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Message: [QUOTE="RustySK, post: 345956, member: 1411"] What exactly are we talking? Real-time action combat in the the vein of Grimrock/Vaporum? Or am I thinking of the wrong kind of dungeon crawler? Thinking about it, I gotta admit, I'm not sure what even makes a game a dungeon crawler specifically, that term has become pretty diluted over the years - to me it still means DRPG or blobber, am I out of touch there? In any case, to keep it in general terms, I think it's essential to nail the exploration aspect in a DRPG to me. Both atmospherically and especially mechanically. I want to feel like I'm actually exploring a long-forgotten crypt or whatever and I always appreciate it when scrutiny and attention to detail is rewarded in games like that. Be it via visual details like spying a hidden path or seeing traps before they get sprung on you, or (maybe even better) through recognizing locations or hints in the dungeon that were alluded to in dialogue/quest logs/lore or whatever and getting some kind of reward for that. Oh and it's pretty important not to spell this kind of thing out to the player. Bonus points if the game lets you keep notes or make your own map! Beyond that... personally I appreciate it when there's some sort of resource management element to this kind of game, too. If I can just leave and return without consequence, I stop taking the experience seriously - at that point I might as well be playing a more generic action game that's actually built to account for the lack of consequence through a more short-format structure. For an example of this kind of game, check out Strahd's Possession/Stone Prophet. Old, clunky and absolutely not perfect by any means, but they're still my platonic ideal of that kind of experience, warts and all. [IMG width="208px" height="236.272px" alt="https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/564797-ravenloft-strahds-possession/map/18852?raw=1"]https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/564797-ravenloft-strahds-possession/map/18852?raw=1[/IMG][IMG width="428px" alt="https://thekingofgrabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ravenloft-stone-prophet-pc-wide.png?w=1038&h=576&crop=1"]https://thekingofgrabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ravenloft-stone-prophet-pc-wide.png?w=1038&h=576&crop=1[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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