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What do you play with?

ASCII
Graphic pack

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the great fool

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Graphics (or lack of) Poll
« on: December 14, 2010, 04:31:07 am »
Just curious  ;D

I tend to use the original ASCII graphics, there's just something satisfying about downloading the vanilla straight from the site and playing it a minute later.
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Keita

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Re: Graphics (or lack of) Poll
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2010, 04:31:50 am »
ASCII, I eat graphics for breakfast.
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Re: Graphics (or lack of) Poll
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2010, 04:57:24 am »
I play both.

Now what?
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Keita

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Re: Graphics (or lack of) Poll
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2010, 04:59:05 am »
Which do you prefer?
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Re: Graphics (or lack of) Poll
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2010, 05:50:28 am »
I use the ASCII. I tried to use a graphic pack but it killed my FPS.
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Re: Graphics (or lack of) Poll
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2010, 05:58:42 am »
I'm a wuss, so I use graphic packs in order to get a slight idea of what's going on.
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Re: Graphics (or lack of) Poll
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2010, 06:01:28 am »
I use ASCII.  By the time I knew of the existance of graphics packs I'd already gotten so used to ASCII that I didn't want to change it.
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Max White

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Re: Graphics (or lack of) Poll
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2010, 06:02:00 am »
ASCII.
I found the ascii graphics to be overwhelmingly hard to understand... Until I found the 'k' key, and then I quickly learnt what symbols meant what.
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Urist McMalaclypse

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Re: Graphics (or lack of) Poll
« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2010, 06:06:30 am »
ASCII. Simple, elegant, beautiful.

I've been conditioned by years of roguelikes, though, so I'm biased. Yes some of the graphic packs look okay, but ASCII just calls to me.
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Re: Graphics (or lack of) Poll
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2010, 06:10:45 am »
ASCII.My first few times were with the Mayday pack,then I found out the TRUE power.
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Re: Graphics (or lack of) Poll
« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2010, 06:16:59 am »
I usually use graphics, but since mayday haven't updated his pack in a while, I've been stuck with ASCII for a while and stopped noticing the difference  :D
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Re: Graphics (or lack of) Poll
« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2010, 06:25:43 am »
I tried the graphics packs for a while and went back to ascii.

I prefer the level of detail ascii gives. I spend less time trying to figure out exactly what I'm looking at.
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Re: Graphics (or lack of) Poll
« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2010, 06:26:43 am »
I'm a graphics guy, I find ASCII pretty hard to get around knowing, and it kinda hurts my eyes.



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Re: Graphics (or lack of) Poll
« Reply #13 on: December 14, 2010, 06:40:10 am »
Quote from: IpunchFaces on December 14, 2010, 06:26:43 am
P.S. Please don't melt my house down

Well I wasn't planning on it, a lot of cool people use graphics packs! That is untill I read you live in a house, not a hole in the ground like the rest of us.
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Keita

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Re: Graphics (or lack of) Poll
« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2010, 06:50:38 am »
Quote from: Max White on December 14, 2010, 06:40:10 am
Quote from: IpunchFaces on December 14, 2010, 06:26:43 am
P.S. Please don't melt my house down

Well I wasn't planning on it, a lot of cool people use graphics packs! That is untill I read you live in a house, not a hole in the ground like the rest of us.

This XD

But seriously, I just used ASCII so much that I'm more confussed when useing a graphics pack. Which is annoying as there are some really good look ones out there.
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