Hi there GoG! I posted here before but well..... I was still pretty awkward and not that vocal then in my request (As far as I remember it was like a paragraph tops), Anyway a little backstory on why this particular kind of game.

Back in my younger days I was terrible at these kind of games (Dark Setting, Unfairly Hard, and Incredibly Punishing) as a matter of fact, I disliked these games, everytime my brother booted up Resident Evil or Castlevania SoTN I'm often bored to tears on how tedious it gets, and once it's my turn I just give up before things start actually getting hairy "Oh my! Those Zombie Dogs are too fast! You play it Big Brother", "I keep getting beaten by Slogra, can you do it for me Big Brother?" I was more of a turn based RPG fellow, despite only being in the first grade I played Final Fantasy Tactics and Chrono Cross in between playing games like WWE Smackdown and Crash Bandicoot :P

Skip a few years and we just got a PC, it wasn't powerful so despite being somewhere around 2006 so the games we had were Diablo II, it had RPG elements and a class system, I was hooked, unfortunately I was terrible at this game, got my butt handed to me as soon as I get somewhere and then I guess I gave up..............

FAST FORWARD to me in Highschool, new PC, still terribly low end, my parents and I moved back to their hometown since the space in our apartment was far too small for all 8 of us, my siblings were left to finish college and I finally had the PC all for myself.............. and I didn't know crap about where to get games, yeah I experimented, I was hooked on MUGEN for a while, then I got into emulating my old PSONe Games, but eventually I burnt out. Things felt too easy, too unrewarding. Then, deep in the cavernous depths of the Local Disc Directory, there was Diablo II again, taunting me, mocking me. So I booted it up and started anew I thought to myself, "I was struggling against this?, Psh this is fun! Crap I died, welp time to give it another go!" Back then I was still a notorious save-scummer, died? Time to reload, EVERYTHING MUST GO EXACTLY AS PLANNED, I didn't learned my lesson till I learned how to pirate games (I'm not proud of it, but I might as well clear it up or you'll get confused once you see how inconsistent my Steam Account is from my accounts here), as my computer was still low-end I was often cruising around MyAbandonWare.com, downloading DOS Games in various ROM Sites (I really loved Adventure Games, I still do) but then, one afternoon, bored out of my mind, feeling defeated with my PC not even able to run Castle Crashers with a decent frame-rate. I decided to myself, "I'll just DL the next cheap looking thing I see in "Insert Crack Site" " and by chance I DLed Dungeons of Dredmor, my first real introduction to Rougelikes, it had a crazy difficulty curve, a decent lot of equips, and it gave me the first crazy feeling of being depressed yet still being eager enough to do it some more. As I started out my losses weren't that big, most of the time I couldn't even get off the first floor, then I improved. I started getting better when I lost, I really lose it IRL, sometimes I go for weeks not playing anything because of how severe my loss was ("DAMNIT! 50 LEVELS, 10 HOURS ALL LOST!") but then I started getting numb to it, to the point were I was actually kinda sorta excited (Uh, no not that kind of excited. I like videogames but I don't like videogames THAT much) when I lost kinda like "Cool, I wonder how I'm gonna go about my next playthough? Maybe a Vegan Tourist Viking Mathematician?" Fast forward a few years later I've finally gone legit. Got all my games on Steam, haven't pirated anything for months now, it was the Steam Winter Sale, got a few games from there (Some which were just spurs of the moments, some I enjoyed, some I regretted) but funny enough it wasn't till months after will I remember how much I enjoyed roguelikes till I chanced upon FTL, heard a lot of rave reviews about it, so I bought it, booted it up and mere minutes later I'm in space with my crew, on a mission to warn the Empire about an approaching Rebel Fleet, my first try my crew and I got horribly murdered, the next we were roasted alive, after that suffocation, but then I managed to actually reach the destination............ and then got my ass handed to me....... and it wasn't till my 3rd time that I managed to finally beat those Rebels. I was content, I didn't get any games for a while (Got a few from sales here and there), then I got Dungeon of the Endless, and damn was it painful, tears were shed for how many of my crew mates died in my ineffective efforts to escape, and like with FTL and DoD (Which I still regret not having bought legitimately, I don't want to beg for it since I want to buy it on my own) I retried till I managed to finish Too Easy Mode, then it was the high road to Easy Mode, the challenge was amped higher and even more tears flowed (To this day I still struggle continuing beyond the ninth floor on Easy Mode)

Anyway, why this particular game when there are tons of other Roguelikes? Well, The first time I saw the designs and the basics I was interested, then their new feature on how your party members will develop certain quirks throughout your questing piqued my curiosity, then I saw it in motion. Needless to say I was sold. Its aesthetics were worthy of being in something in a Vertigo Comic. The grim depressing tone in the dark ages felt like a nice change of style compared to the last few games I played. And the praise I've heard about how approachable and how "For the gamers" the devs were really made me want to get this game even more (Coincidentally Amplitude, the guys behind Dungeon of the Endless are also a very community driven team, that's one of the factors that sold me to that game) unfortunately alas, Steam Wallet Codes aren't exactly sold in many retailers here, and things like credit cards, banks with online accounts weren't exactly commonplace here, so I can only really get games whenever I'm able. The first time I was set to buy DD, I was so desperate that I bought one off a retailer near my Uni that had outrageous price charges (Basically something like $13 for a $10 Steam Wallet Code) because the one I go to just stopped stocking codes, but alas, I reaalllly wanted it. So I bought it. Why haven't I bought Darkest Dungeons with it? The same day my friend also was planning to buy a Steam Wallet code to buy Torchlight 2 since it was on sale at the time, and like me, he reallllly wanted it. Alas, once he got to the usual place where we buy Steam Wallet Codes (The one that stopped stocking :( ) there was none. So I bought it for him and gifted it to him since I guessed that it only goes on sale every once in a while and Darkest Dungeons isn't going anywhere soon................... shortly after the Square Enix sale happened and I lost all my money to games my current PC can't even handle (Except Hitman, that games loads of fun). Then I guess after that, I didn't really had that much cash left. I'd buy another code but I'm still looking for another retailer with a pricepoint a bit similar to "then" retailer ($10 code for $10.25)

I'm sorry if this dragged on too long so here's a TLDR

TLDR;Used to love simple games till a certain Roguelike gave a taste for futility and was taught to look at the bright side of defeat. Would buy own but local retailers are outrageously priced.

My Steam Account (Feel free to add me if you want to go MP on Dungeon of the Endless or TF2)

EDIT: Wow, I didn't realize I typed in this much, now I'm even more wary that people will actually read this.

EDIT 2:I just realized I was typing in Diablo "III" instead of "II" wow, now that' s a doozy. Sorry, been watching a few streams and I got myself confused. That was embarrassing for me, guess I got the eggs on my face.

EDIT 3:Man, I am just losing it here. I just realized I never actually linked my Steam Account :/ , sorry it's Finals Week and my brain is barely functioning when I get home.