u/saulofcinder

I have been wanting to really get into them for a while now. The reason I'm making this post is because the way I see it, I would need to put in quite a lot of time in both to truly see them for what they are, and if they happen to be my thing, I want a nudge to see where I should start. After all my browsing, I ended up narrowing the games down to DCSS and Cogmind.

I have played Caves of Qud for a week or so, but spent many hours in those days. While I loved it, I was super confused on why it's considered a roguelike, it really felt like an open-world RPG with roguelike gameplay, which made it tedious to play on permadeath mode since you're essentially playing a relatively difficult (knowledge-based) RPG for the first time on perma-death mode. I will definitely be going back to it in the future, giving it a break for now.

For the two games mentioned, I would like some comprehensive thoughts on both or either one of them, depending on which you played. I value replayability, fun/fair challenge with many options self-imposed challenges, emergent gameplay (this is a big one). Tell me as much as you can about either game you played, what you love/hate, random details you would like to share, etc.

One last thing, controls are out of consideration, I got the hang of Qud very quickly using keyboard only with vi keys.

Thanks

Hello, I'll be getting a keyboard between soon and a few months, I have some questions.

1. How is the piano/keyboard visualized? Do you visualize intervals or scales? If both, what would you look at in a certain scenario and why? I've played guitar for just under a year and I mainly viewed the fretboard through an intervallic lens on Perfect 4ths tuning, while also knowing scales all over it. Wondering how it compares to piano in that regard, and how I should approach it.

2. For the first 2-3 months I want to prioritize practicing scales, chords, arpeggios and reading notation. I would feel a lot more comfortable going into learning a piece if I have those down at a somewhat decent level. I would like a recommendation of a good resource where I could learn them in all keys with proper technique, fingerings, etc. It would be better if the resource already assumes that I have a fair amount of music theory knowledge, so I can focus fully on the piano stuff.

3. What I'm looking for in a keyboard: full-sized, weighted keys, sustain pedal compatible (maybe middle pedal too, but I'm not exactly sure of it's usefulness), headphone jack, midi, budget around 400-700 euros. I'm willing to pay higher in that range for greater quality of playability. Shallow browsing lead me to Roland FP30x, let me know if that's a good one and maybe some extra recommendations.

I feel like I have some more questions but I can't really think of them right now, I'll ask another time.

Completely my fault, I got spoiled for who the mole is in TTSS. Just wondering how hard of a hit my enjoyment of the book is going to take. Though it surely is a bummer, one of the main reasons I'm excited to read Le Carre is the prose and literary quality, also the density and the patient nature of his books (or so I heard).