Let's Play Moria - Episode 1: Who Moria? UMoria!

[@dorkyguy3743]

This is such a time warp back to my childhood. My brother and I spent soooo much time in Moria, sparking my love of D&D to this day.

[@roguelove5807]

I would have been an addict had I known about it as a child.

[@BallerDan53]

I used to play it too around the age of 7. I was terrible at it but it was fun. my favorite class was the half-troll. I think it was the only one I could stay alive with for a decent amount of time haha

[@rimka3754]

Finally. I found a person who explain how to play this game. clearly and easy to undarstand. Thanks you!

[@roguelove5807]

No problem :)

[@JoseAntonioMachete]

amazing, how many hours and how much fun this game still brings to many of us traditional roguelike lovers. Recently, I started to write short stories or my runs, and it's so gratifying.

[@roguelove5807]

Short stories? That's very cool. Lemme know if they're online where I can check em out!

[@JoseAntonioMachete]

@@roguelove5807 I write in spanish, and I can send them to you if want! I share those stories with my group of friends too, they like to read them =)

[@franciskelly5147]

Having played a version of this game somewhat recently, I can tell you from experience that you can get all of your stats to 18/00 eventually. Monsters encountered on Dungeon levels 20-30 will drop potions that can permanently increase a stat, and you can take your time and farm those levels long enough to get like everything to the max, if you want to grind for that long. That said, those stats are not the only limiting factor in the game. If you're, say, a warrior, there will be a hard limit on your ability to use some specific magic items, a wizard would be able to use some things that a warrior cannot, even if they both have maximum Int scores. The shovel (+0,+0) (+1) is a shovel that gives +1 to digging. The first two stats in the first set of parentheses are combat stats like any melee weapon, the second set of parentheses denotes digging. So it's a magic shovel, which explains why it was 200gp. Also you have to haggle, as far as I know, and Charisma effects that to some extent, from what I remember.

[@lafayana2872]

This was the first computer game I ever played. When I was a student I played this on the Atari my brother had given me, and I would spend hours in Moria! I LOVED this game! Just yesterday an old friend reminded me of the name Moria, which I had completely forgotten...

[@roguelove5807]

It's still among my favourites, although my first time playing it was only a couple of years ago.

[@lafayana2872]

I will definitely install Moria again, now that I found it. 😀

[@alliantdevil]

Just stumbled across your channel. Great video and intro to umoria. This is definitely one of the better explanations to the game I've seen on KZbin. I look forward to watching the rest of the series, keep it up!

[@roguelove5807]

Thank you!

[@netstreamer]

Used to love Moria, moves over to Angband a while back which I play often to this very day.

[@LuisYu]

i love this game. spent 2 years in grad school playing it.

[@roguelove5807]

Definitely one of my favourites!

[@edvin8581]

I remember playing this on my fathers old computer

[@tomt5745]

moria, my next next best version :)

[@monumentalley7606]

I played this game in 1987-1988 on my brother’s Tandy computer. I spent sooooo many hours on this game.

[@roguelove5807]

Time well spent, IMO!

[@LiciTheCrawler]

Hey, I just found out about your channel through reddit, keep up the good work!

[@roguelove5807]

Thanks!

[@sugarpolecat4781]

"you are a credit to the family" That human was a heavy from TF2! Yay

[@erichalfabeez]

I remember spending a lot of time on this game. The best I ever did was getting to depth of 3750ft with a Paladin. After you get to a certain depth, the de-buffs from the higher level monsters become extremely punishing and if you get too many in quick succession, that's the end. Well hey there's always the god-mode code if you wanna get down to the bottom floors and fight the Balrog. I would suggest using a Gnome Ranger if you want to do that. Also bring multiple copies of all the spellbooks too as backup.

[@The_Wandering_Nerd]

Sure it looks ugly, but after a while, you don't even see the ASCII. All you see is blonde, brunette, Balrog...

[@JoseAntonioMachete]

well, to me, ASCII visuals are poetry in motion...

[@canary11141]

I watched all 158 episodes and learned about quasits and Quylthulgs. May you be Half-orc named Sharkom.

[@roguelove5807]

Well done, sir! The next time I play such a game I'll try to get a Half-orc going and name him Sharkom in your honour!

[@canary11141]

@@roguelove5807 Lol! Thank you for responding to this. I hope that you can reboot and take care of Balrog and the ancient dragons and also I hope you can reboot Morgul if you feel up to it?

[@roguelove5807]

@@canary11141 I likely won't record more videos of either, since there's so much more ground to cover - but there are other Angband and Moria variants out there!

[@canary11141]

@@roguelove5807 OK, I understand-- I will look into Angband and Moria variants at some point, and incidentally there are other KZbin Rogue Moria gamers. Thank you for your communications!

[@pointcache]

Awesome vid, style, clear concise to the point.

[@russellg3775]

good use of, 'obsequious,' kudos to you!

[@BallerDan53]

The first lord of the rings game definitely beats the latest one 😅

[@roguelove5807]

Agreed!

[@yan-amar]

This should be taught in History class :)

[@roguelove5807]

Hahaha!

[@canary11141]

Behold! King Kinerathio, keeper of Wilson.

[@joseflanagan77]

131 Likes and No Dislike. Not so bad for a video from 3 years ago. Cheers guys!!!

[@canary11141]

My Half-orc name shall be Illffiitroukijjyaw.

[@canary11141]

I shall be an Imperial Sardauker from planet Dune!

[@tomt5745]

here we go.. a long journey ahead :)

[@PontiacCZ]

I have dowloaded the umoria.exe (v5.7.15) and the walls are displayed using hash signs which is not as comfortable as the walls in the video. Is it possible to change the character used for rendering walls?

[@smbhax2000]

Not in that official version, I don't think. There are Moria variants that do--The one used here--he links it in the video description--and well, the one I know is Donnie Russell's SDL version, which has a different visual look. It's also based on an older version of Moria.

[@franciskelly5147]

You can "save-scum" the windows version of umoria, if you're so inclined. When you die, or at any time you want to go back to your last saved position in the game, you simply close the window that umoria is running in (using the windows "x" button on the upper right of the window the game runs inside of). This stops the game without saving and when you reload again, it will start you at your last saved position. You can avoid death this way even if the game throws up the "you died" screen. Just don't enter any text at the prompt and don't hit enter, close the window and you'll be fine. You'll lose whatever progress you had since your last save, so save early and often.

[@roguelove5807]

NEVER. Win on one life or do not win.

[@canary11141]

I shall be Outraem the Half-troll!

[@kosterix123]

I played this like hundreds of hours. Probably 1000s.

[@babycloud1597]

How hard do you think it is to learn (I have experience with dwarf fortress)

[@kosterix123]

@@babycloud1597 Don't bother with moria then, it is far too simple for you. After DF everything is trivial. The greatest part of moria for me is the so-called collective memory. You encounter something weird in a deep cavern and pressing lowercase l brings you some partial knowledge on the creature's attack behavior and other properties. For example a mushroom that does not deign [sic] to pursue mortals.

[@kosterix123]

umoria (this version) works perfectly in Windows 7. I also had it on atari ST - but the screen was too white. I also ran it on nintendo ds, but lost the way to redo it. EDIT it was actually called Angband, for ppl that thought moria was too easy. I never found the amulet at the bottom though.

[@roguelove5807]

Curiosity - could you get your character to run in this version?

[@kosterix123]

@@roguelove5807 you mean like posting a stream or what?

[@roguelove5807]

@@kosterix123 I mean I was unable to utilize the run command in UMoria 5.6 (though I've gotten it to work in other versions). So every single step is a keypress, instead of being able to cruise down corridors. Wondering if it's a universal deficiency of the version.

[@kosterix123]

@@roguelove5807 I believe I half-remember preceding the actual command with something. So 9T for tunneling 9 times and so on. dot-left for running until something like a corner. The /? key combination should explain everything, but it does require some reading.

[@kosterix123]

@@roguelove5807 filename is called angband-2.68

[@canary11141]

I played Moria on the VAX in college.It was fun.

[@roguelove5807]

It remains one of my favourites!

[@kosterix123]

@@roguelove5807 vax implies canary is quite old. I have never even seen a vax.

[@canary11141]

Your name shall be Xaeratraytiolm.

[@canary11141]

You shall be Half-elf Oungleatreby, from Xanth.

[@roguelove5807]

Xanth! Man, haven't read those books in a long time!

[@canary11141]

@@roguelove5807 Yes, I read the Xanth series in my highschool days and it definitely fired my imagination of D&D and fantasy in general. I remember Smash Ogre and the gap chasm dragon fight. Thanks for the memories!

[@canary11141]

Lets see Emperor Lichs.

[@messenger3478]

Wish I could fullscreen this.

[@roguelove5807]

The game itself? Or the video?

[@messenger3478]

@@roguelove5807 The game itself.

[@roguelove5807]

@@messenger3478 Ah. You can right click at the top and expand the font size to reach nearly full screen.

[@messenger3478]

@@roguelove5807 I did that, but it broke the game. I used a work around to fix it. Just wish the game actually has a full screen mod. Windowed mod is destracting.

[@PontiacCZ]

I am already stuck at 13:00 - examining things. I play the online Moria www.myabandonware.com/game/moria-27f/play-27f and when I type "x", I get: "But you are wielding no weapons." :-)

[@roguelove5807]

There may well be two different command sets - there were in my version. You can switch between roguelike commands or Moria's natural command set. If you go to the Help screen by pressing ? it'll show you how to toggle between the two. Likely then it will work for you. (Or else you have caps lock on?)

[@PontiacCZ]

I see, the '?' has helped. The L letter is for looking in my command set, X is for weapon exchange (hence the message). But there is no clue in the help list about how to switch command sets.

[@roguelove5807]

@@PontiacCZ It might be (from memory), press = to bring up an options menu and look for the option in there.

[@PontiacCZ]

That helped, using = I entered the options and changed "Rogue like commands" to "yes". Now the "x" examines. Thank you very much! :-)

[@roguelove5807]

@@PontiacCZ In that same menu there's a place where you can toggle how the walls appear, I believe.

[@One_man_army_247]

#moria_gamer

[@SchizoidPersonoid]

I wish I could use the numpad but it's using YUHJKBN and it's fucking awful

[@roguelove5807]

Yeah, I'm never a fan of vi keys. Though I find I get used to them fast in any game that demands them.

[@ImThePrizeXY]

Who's the fool who decided to make the game use permadeath??

[@One_man_army_247]

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