I don’t do much of the imaging while playing, I tend to imagine various stuff happening to my survivor when I’m not playing.
Like your survivors sleeping and your thinking about his dreams lol (When you quit you began to dream his dream lol)
At the moment I’m kind of split, swapping between ASCII and tile sets, more so since downloading the latest version, which has a tile set I actually quite like, because to me it suits the atmosphere more. I think it begins with M or something, and there are two sizes of it.
I’m finding that the tile set is easier on the eyes, but it does make my imagination lazier, whereas ASCII might encourage my imagination more (making the game better), but only if I can be bothered investing the time to learn and automatically know what everything is.
Like some others though I do find the ASCII a bit ugly. And I’m not too keen on the ASCII tile sets. But I believe that it is possible to change the ASCII font, so I’m wondering if it might be worth switching to another, nicer-looking font?
MShock32 and Mshock24 
My personal preference!
I still play Angband and DF in ASCII but for CDDA between the huge amount of items to sort through, the open world, and the colors, I just can’t handle it. Gotta have some tiles, if only to keep me sane.
This. I play with ASCII and while playing I think more about tactics and planning but when I take a break I sit and think about what happened. One time, still early in the game I needed two shots with a browning blr to bring down a brute. The first was a grazing hit for 6 damage and the second one a headshot for 156! Right after that turn I sat back and pictured what happened. The first bullet only ripping its ear off, then I clumsily push and pull the lever while thr brute stomps towards me in rage until the second really lucky shot goes straight through his face
It’s those little episodes that manifest in my mind. Like that one time my motorbike’s wheel broke in the middle of nowhere and I had so spare tire. All of my supplies were in that trunk so I had to look for a new one and I walked until a I found a road and on that road there was a motorbike wheel in perfect condition. So much relief!
Depends on what I’m doing.
I’m probably not going to imagine shooting a horde with loads of guns but I’ll probably envision shooting a hulk with my Ruger.
I tend to see everything in third person though, and I never get a good look at my character, it’s just a blank body, sometimes with a beard, my weapon, my most distinctive clothes on my torso (Usually a trench coat.) and whatever is on my head.
MShock32 and Mshock24 My personal preference![/quote]
That’s the one! Love it. It’s the only one (in my opinion) where the author has tried to make the tiles nice and scary, where the zombies look nasty, and the protagonist kind of fits the game (the protagonists in the other tile sets seem to be these odd little guys who seem a bit out of place).
I think I’ll do a bit of an experiment, and try to use imagination to the full in both ASCII and Mshock tile set modes, and see which one gives the better results, because that’s what makes Roguelikes so fun for me (along with the infinite replay value of course).
I guess that reading couple’a novels, horrors or otherwise, can help you make sense of fictional characters. On the other hand, a bunch of people tend to get frustrated after getting “betrayed” when another bunch of people turns the franchise around and starts making royalties. I guess there are a couple (or more) reasons to it.
SFB
The so-called “Shit For Brains” argument makes for all those hard-core Comic-Con fans that trample over every next Marvel motion picture for the sake of whatever religious text-in-picture there is in a wrapper next to a shoebox. These guys dip green bottles just to bleach them because they lack any important (general) life and artistic skills to help them with (over)active, childhood imagination.
The ‘E’ Factor
One of the greatest, dark divinations - The Embarassment Factor - is perhaps one of the best-kept secrets of the Western socio-economic structure. Therefore, when an individual uses his/her imagination only to share something, makes some sort of a fan artwork or just puts on a costume - he or she gets mocked by a group. In the light of humor and misunderstanding the implied individual (“just a fan”) is left with nothing but a stranded feeling whilst “the gang” continues to strive for perfection and, don’t let it be forgotten, greater social acceptance in their lives. Whether “the group” hits a brick wall or learns from their mistakes decades after is not really substantial because the “E” factor remains in the air.
The Internet Overdose
It’s only a matter of time before you meet someone who’s hooked up on the web .
It’s a blunt statement, but these few you’ll eventually meet emphatise with online content irregardless of the commercial aspect, or any other revenue a website often has. Besides being completely oblivious to any community-wide issue or, in fact, human and social needs, they will most often agree to disagree over something. This is not because they know better or because someone who’s hard-working has “lost his/her touch” but simply because they’re yet unsure and have “just another web meeting” right away. They’re indecisive, non-coherent and have trouble incorporating various signals that come from the media into their lives. Needless to say, they have no imagination whatsoever but tend to manipulate facts and informations at a great pace.
To conclude this brief expose,
Any sort of imagination you have is good imagination .
Just don’t let it steal the best out of you. 