Minecraft? *guffaw* Get real, you fucking rubes.

[Obs]

So, I hear a bunch of you people like indie games like Minecraft. That's cool, that's alright. I do, too.

So why the fuck aren't you assholes playing UnReal World RPG? What's that? You've never heard of it? Well, what the goddamn shit, let's fix that right now.

What is UnReal World RPG?

UnReal World RPG (URW) is a single-player roguelike RPG in a low fantasy setting based on iron age Finland. The goal of the game? Not to die. The basic premise of the game is that you have to survive by living off the land by means of hunting, fishing, agriculture, you name it. Are you looking for an RPG where you can dress up in a big, shiny set of armour and kill a whole bunch of assholes with your two-handed sword? Keep walking, because if you try out a fight against more than one enemy in this game, you're gonna get your stupid ass a faceful of fucking murder. The key word is realism, and every second you spend not thinking "how will this lead to me not dying?" is one second spent on digging your own grave with a backhoe that moves at the goddamn speed of light.


Okay, but what can I do in URW?

What can't you do? Okay, you can't go killing orcs or build a twenty-storey high dick out of pure gold like in Minecraft. You can't go murder random people gangland-style like in Morrowind (<3) or whatever.

What you can do is kill a reindeer with bows and arrows (which you made yourself out of wood you cut yourself), make a cloak out of its skin, roast its meat over an open fire and eat it, then go sleep in a shelter for the night.
You can also build your own log cabin and live there, surround the house with traps, and spend your days fishing pike from a nearby lake.
You can also join a village and contribute to the community by planting vegetables in exchange for shelter.
You can also stock up on food, build a raft, and then paddle your way around the game map, shooting birds with your bow and arrow for shits and giggles.

Wanna hear what I did last night? At midnight (in-game), I managed to sneak up on a sleeping bear, shoot arrows into its legs so it started bleeding and couldn't run far, eventually collapsing from exhaustion and pain, ran up to it, and whacked it in the face with a homemade club until it died. Then I took its meat, went home to my house, hung it up and smoked it. I did this because winter's coming up and I need a larder to keep from starving to death, which is a very real danger a lot of the time in this game, along with freezing to death, and accidentally eating a poisoned mushroom like the dumb piece of shit you are. And if you end up dead (which you will at least a couple of times before you get the hang of it), tough shit. Reroll, start over. All the stuff you had before you died, like the house and the livestock and shit? Gone forever.

That is how hardcore this shitfaced fucking psycho of a game is.


Okay, Obs, that sounds cool and all, but I'm a sociopath who can't enjoy a game unless I get to kill human beings in it.

Get help.

But, alright, there is fun to be had in this game for you. See, there are these assholes called the Njerpezit. They're ugly-ass motherfuckers who will attack you on sight because they're foreigners who are only there to kill and enslave dipshits like you, and the only way to get rid of them is to kill them dead.

Of course, you can also make a sport out of hunting them down and shooting them in the back with arrows when they're alone. You only want to fight them when they're alone, though, because as soon as you get surrounded by three or four of them, you might as well stop playing and go to yoga practice so you can literally kiss your ass goodbye.


Alright, but what does it look like?

BEHOLD:
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/36/urho.jpg

What's going on in this picture is my man Urho of the Kuikka-tribe (a nomadic hunter-gatherer type of folks who generally live in big skin tents called kotas) is chilling around his log cabin, which is by a lake where he fishes a lot (not as much lately, though, since the lake froze over).

You may notice my homeboy Urho is pretty hurt - that's because while he was out hunting, a wolf just fuckin' snuck up on him and jumped him. He managed to fight it off with his club, but not before it clawed and bit his shoulders, ripped his chest, and bit him in the fucking eye. This game does not fuck around.


That is ugly and I remain uninterested.

Fucking die.


You won me over. Where can I get this game? Do I have to pay for it?

For the current version (3.13), you'll have to pay $3. For this version, and all updates for a year, $10.

Here's the site: http://www.jmp.fi/~smaarane/urw.html

Here's a guide for new players (though it's more fun if you just dabble around with it for a while and get the hang of it on your own): http://unrealworld.wikia.com/wiki/New_Player_Guide

Now go shoot a squirrel in the neck or something.

[Susurrus]

Looks pretty cool. inb4 minecraft fan storm though.

[Sasha]

thats an brilliant post, not that i will join but you for sure sound a lot more convincing than the minecraft peeps.
so this is the internets version of primitivism i guess

[Obs]

thats an brilliant post, not that i will join but you for sure sound a lot more convincing than the minecraft peeps.
so this is the internets version of primitivism i guess

No, primitivism is the Internet's version of primitivism.

[Tablo]

Love roguelikes. Will need to check it out.

[Tenka]

This survivalist hippie stuff is at least as bad as minecraft. Also, roguelikes suck and this one seems exceptionally irritating among them.

[Blackscare]

Also, roguelikes suck and this one seems exceptionally irritating among them.

Fuck you so much.

[Tenka]

Fuck you so much.
No rly, what sort of enjoyment can be gained from a game where you spend most of your time trying not to die, in a world of uninspired 2D (if even that) graphics? I suppose the open-endedness with random map generation and different routes your doomed character can take and such is amusing for a time, but it all seems like a huge waste of time to me. To each their own.:rolleyes:

P.S. Elona is at least 3x better a roguelike than crap in the OP, and is free.

[Obs]

No rly, what sort of enjoyment can be gained from a game where you spend most of your time trying not to die, in a world of uninspired 2D (if even that) graphics? I suppose the open-endedness with random map generation and different routes your doomed character can take and such is amusing for a time, but it all seems like a huge waste of time to me. To each their own.:rolleyes:
You're just mad because you keep dying. But yeah, I'll admit roguelikes aren't the thing for instant gratification.


P.S. Elona is at least 3x better a roguelike than crap in the OP, and is free.

Did you try it?

[Tenka]

Did you try it?
Elona, yes. I played it for a short time when I didn't have a functional 3D graphics card and had gotten bored of Daggerfall. It has animu graphics like old (SNES-era) Japanese console RPG's and seemed overall more entertaining than this... stuff. Of course I am averse to roguelikes as a genre on account of their pointlessness and how much time they waste, but I felt it germane to mention one I thought sucked less.

[#FF0000]

oh dude fuck yes. I played the demo for this way back when and then somehow forgot about it. Fuck fuckfucfkcufkcfck this was an awesome game.

[Obs]

Elona, yes. I played it for a short time when I didn't have a functional 3D graphics card and had gotten bored of Daggerfall. It has animu graphics like old (SNES-era) Japanese console RPG's and seemed overall more entertaining than this... stuff. Of course I am averse to roguelikes as a genre on account of their pointlessness and how much time they waste, but I felt it germane to mention one I thought sucked less.

Well, it just seems like you're making a lot of judgements without even trying the demo of this game.

[Tablo]

Of course I am averse to roguelikes as a genre on account of their pointlessness and how much time they waste, but I felt it germane to mention one I thought sucked less.

You could say all games are a waste of time and pointless. I don't see how roguelikes are more pointless or more of a waste of time.

[Obs]

Hell yeah, just caught one of them Njerpez motherfuckers walking around on his own. Shot him in both his calves and once in his stomach, casually walked over to him as he was lying on the ground, cut his throat and waited for him to bleed out. Fuckin' prick.

Kuikka-tribe ain't nothin' to fuck with.

[Sensible Socialist]

I've never liked games based on realism. I don't want to log on to a game and have to tend to my characters every worldly needs; I have enough trouble getting food in real life, no need for me to be starving in the woods trying to coax a squirrel close enough so I can grab it. Instead of joining a community in the game, or exchaning vegetables for services in the game, or exploring in the game, I'd rather be building connections with others doing those same things in the real world. I play games to blow the heads of enemies, practice a bit of sniping, and maybe along the way hold a fast food restaurant hostage. You know, the usual.

[Sun at Eight]

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/) is the only roguelike I have really (even addictively) enjoyed, but it doesn't try to be realistic, only fun. It's graphical version comes with all sorts of features for making the game easy to use, but hard to win. Also, it comes with a built-in tutorial, which is an amazing feature that shouldn't be sacrificed for the sake of being l33t. And it's free open-source software.

When I saw the subject, I thought this would be yet another Dwarf Fortress post, but props to the OP for finding an obscure Finnish game that actually sounds interesting. The only block to me is that I find "abstracted realism" really really hard to get into. By this I mean that it's realism with all the consequences but none of the fun.

[bcbm]

$10 wtf

[Broletariat]

I'd enjoy it if I knew how the eff to sleep. I'm sitting in my shelter and I tried both the _ and . buttons but neither one made the guy fall asleep.


Edit: figured it out, extended commands ftw.

[Il Medico]

Seems like a badass game.

[khad]

When I first read this, I thought you said to pay you $3, which made me ecstatic because I thought you programmed the thing.

Sadly, it looks like I was mistaken.

So few leftists actually engaged in actual projects. Out of all the talk in the LGP group (check my tendency), only one group is still active and making progress.

[Tablo]

Yeah, $10 is way too much when the vast majority of roguelikes are free. I would pay $5 max and preferably $2 or less.

[Obs]

When I first read this, I thought you said to pay you $3, which made me ecstatic because I thought you programmed the thing.

Sadly, it looks like I was mistaken.

Oh, yeah, I can't program a thing, I'm afraid. I'd still say it's worth the money.

[Dr Mindbender]

I'd recommend the Entropia universe. It is actually possible to make tangible money by playing it.

Also its free to play. Problem is your computer needs to be pretty hi-spec.

[Rafiq]

Game looks like a shart sandwhich

[Kamos]

Unreal World :wub:

I never thought I'd find a fan here. Who are you on the official forums? (I'm Styx.) And I have a lifetime registration to it, so hell yeah! Problem is, I've played that game so many times that anything other than HHA in winter tends to get too easy... But hopefully the new version will add more challenge (which will then keep me hooked for a few more weeks/months/whatever) with the new combat system and whatnot.

[scarletghoul]

http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/newsfeed/000/125/387/minecraft.jpg?1306006518

[Broletariat]

Lol this game is great, I got like 20 pounds of cooked fish to start with, then I got an adventurer to cut down trees and we're building my cabin, I run out of food, adventurer becomes food, rinse repeat.

This is the precursor to Capitalism.

[Obs]

Guys, if you got the game, don't be afraid to post some stories on here.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Haven & Hearth was good. i felt like i wasted too much time though. waiting.... waiting....

[Tablo]

Haven & Hearth was good. i felt like i wasted too much time though. waiting.... waiting....
Sooo true. It always helped me to do other stuff(revleft) while waiting on H&H stuff.

I hope we can play together again in the future. :thumbup1:

[Rusty Shackleford]

i dont know if i have the patience for that game. unless there was like 5 people or something at the commune. lonewolfing it makes shit so difficult. division of labor is a must!

[Tablo]

I totally agree. I think they devs are trying to make it a little less tedious. It is hard to find people willing to play a game like it.

[Nuvem]

Obs, thank you for this post introducing this game. I had never heard of it before and after reading about it I downloaded the free trial. After a couple of fucked up deaths first by drowning and then by starvation, I've gotten a grasp on the basics and I'm already totally in love with this 2-dimensional bit of programming. Cheers, comrade.

[bcbm]

this game is kind of fun

[Imposter Marxist]

I had an intense fight with one just now, I had just killed a stag, he ran at me, and I shot him in the arm, sending his mace to the ground. We proceded to beat each other with various weapons until he ran like a little rat.

This game is hardcore. After you know, my first four characters died of starvation.

[Nuvem]

So there I am, living on the edge of a small village of tribe-less vagabonds beside a medium-sized lake mid-continent. I have a cozy double shelter, some basic tools and a decent store of roasted pike. It's mid June, so I'm not too worried about it going bad just yet, but I have one glaring problem: my axe is a handmade stone-headed axe and it takes 3-4 hours to cut down a full-sized tree, which is just too strenuous on my time and energy. So I strike out to find a trader or another village, perhaps larger, which could perhaps have someone willing to trade me a higher quality metal axe of some kind. I have a couple of fox pelts to trade along with my shitty stone axe and I'm confident that if I find someone, they'll gladly make the trade.

I head northwest and find myself in swampy moorland. It rains incessantly and it's quite draining on my energy; I become exhausted and can't stand, only crawl- I continually fall asleep only to wake up minutes later because of the pouring rain. I'm picking up a cold and things look bad. Suddenly, I spot a stag in the distance. With a longbow and 8 arrows, I'm confident I can fell the beast despite my poor state, and it would provide a fine pelt and enough meat to feed me for a week (I couldn't carry all 700 pounds of meat). It was too good to pass up, so I pocketed my broad knife and knocked an arrow, took aim from a prone position and shot the stag solidly in the shoulder. It howled in pain and turned to run, but was still in range for another shot; I missed. He took flight and I gave chase, still too cold and exhausted to stand up, crawling in pursuit and hounding his footprints in the wet moor soil. He came within range again and I shot off another arrow, missing; he seemed to be confused, turning in circles and running sporadically. After a lengthy chase, I found the poor beast cornered, having run into a moor pond. I chased the beast onto a small inlet stretching into the water and drew my knife. I attacked it viciously and it made no attempt to fight back as I gave the killing blow.

Frozen, exhausted and ill, I crawled back to my shelter with 150 pounds of stag in tow. I've since recovered from my malnutrition and slept well, but I've developed a flu and I'm quite concerned for my health. Still no replacement axe.

[Rusty Shackleford]

ok so that sounds pretty good. great story there.


is the time realistic as well or does an action happen in an instant whilst elapsing time?

[Obs]

story
That sucks, man. Glad you're all right now, though - North is a bad direction to go if you want shops. You gotta head southwest for that, down towards the Driik. It's a long walk, and you should probably just borrow a house in the village, smoke some meat and prepare for the trip that way instead of trying to build your own house with a stone axe. If you can be done with about 100 pounds of smoked meat by late August or early September, go for it. You could also postpone it until October, but I guess that would force you to either move permanently to the Driik area or at least stay at a village there over winter.


ok so that sounds pretty good. great story there.


is the time realistic as well or does an action happen in an instant whilst elapsing time?
When you perform an action that takes a long time, it runs at increased speed, and you have the option to cancel in the middle of it all. Ten hours in-game while performing an action (like building a wall or something) takes probably about two minutes.

[Imposter Marxist]

How do you borrow a house to smoke meat? How long will the meat last if you smoke it? Also, what seniario do you start in? I like the "Bad hunting trip" one

[Obs]

How do you borrow a house to smoke meat? How long will the meat last if you smoke it? Also, what seniario do you start in? I like the "Bad hunting trip" one
You just go into a house and hang up some meat. Smoked meat lasts about four months in my experience.

[Tenka]

You just go into a house and hang up some meat. Smoked meat lasts about four months in my experience.
In Elona (http://homepage3.nifty.com/rfish/index_e.html) you can buy your food in stores and sell sexual favours in order to afford doing so.:cool:
Sorry, just wanted to provide a link to that mighty similar (but free) game which I found more tolerable and even marginally less un-civilised.

Now I'm going to feel ashamed for spreading these detestable things.

[Obs]

In Elona (http://homepage3.nifty.com/rfish/index_e.html) you can buy your food in stores and sell sexual favours in order to afford doing so.:cool:
Sorry, just wanted to provide a link to that mighty similar (but free) game which I found more tolerable and even marginally less un-civilised
Quit threadshitting

Also I just tried that game. What the fuck is that shit

[Tenka]

Quit threadshitting

Also I just tried that game. What the fuck is that shit
I don't think anyone would like it who's not a tasteless jRPG-loving weeaboo loser. Re:threadshitting,
you have my sincerest apologies and I will not post in here again. :blushing:

[Tablo]

I like Elona, but that game is sooooo fucking impossibly hard.

[Obs]

I don't think anyone would like it who's not a tasteless jRPG-loving weeaboo loser. Re:threadshitting,
you have my sincerest apologies and I will not post in here again. :blushing:
For someone who talks that much shit, you really need thicker skin

[synthesis]

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/36/urho.jpg

Your character looks like White Jesus

http://www.gifsoup.com/imager.php?id=430779&t=o

[bcbm]

marginally less un-civilised.


pretty sure the game is explicitly about being un-civilised you run aound int he goddamn woods hunting nd fishing and shit

[Metacomet]

I couldn't even figure out how to walk around.

[Obs]

I couldn't even figure out how to walk around.

Arrow keys. Left and right to turn your character, up to move in the direction you're facing, down to move backwards. You can see where you're facing because that's where there's colour.

[Broletariat]

So after a few games of a hilarious couple of deaths resulting from being overconfident, I'm finally in the swing of things. I've got roughly 200~ pounds of smoked meat in my 2 space cabin, 1 space for the fireplace. I've got roughly 8 trapfences out, some of them rather long, I just checked one and found a bear.

I proceeded to shoot the bear in the face with 13 arrows before it died, 4 of those arrows hit the bear in the fucking eye. How do four arrows fit in a bears eye @[email protected] There's also some nasty njruahrjgahrgjkargpitz sneaking around the area where I have traps, hoping they fall into a pit.

[Broletariat]

Turns out, there's a njreriarpitz village across the river where I settled, I've got roughly 400 pounds of meat smoking atm and about 100 pounds of hide i'm working on tanning, I make clothes with bear fur because it's the warmest, and scrap the rest for cords for smoked meat/extra arrows, not that I need anymore considering I have like 39.

Pro-tip easiest way to get arrows, trade with a hunter and offer a wooden bowl, you can get like 14 arrows for one bowl. Marx's LTV does NOT hold in this game.

Still haven't encountered any njraoirgaorgpitz, though I did fall into one of my own trap pits, but it's not my fault, the game spawned me on top of that, eff yew game.

[Broletariat]

Jesus christ, two large reindeer in one trap fence.

Also, I just got 24 arrows for one wooden bowl, sweet christ.

Maybe this game is a touch easy >_>

[Kamos]

Jesus christ, two large reindeer in one trap fence.

Also, I just got 24 arrows for one wooden bowl, sweet christ.

Maybe this game is a touch easy >_>

Yes, it is, to be honest. Well, unless you play with certain restrictions or under certain challenge scenarios. I think that it was back around version 3.00 that the endgame has suddenly gotten much easier due to various factors. I've made many suggestions already as to how the endgame could be made more difficult or more contentful but no dice so far. I suggest you try and play a winter game in Hurt, Helpless & Afraid, starting from the northern area of the game, when you feel like you want some challenge.

[bcbm]

when can i get a gun?

[Kléber]

there's no pvp? what is this a single player game??i dont even. if you want an old game with a steep learning curve where you can do a lot of shit, play ultima online for free on a private server, some of them have hundreds to a thousand clients on simultaneously