Alkarl
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Angband is not a good introduction to gamesI think that what can help the new crowd discover the classics is to play a modern rogulike with an ASCII mode, and really switch to that mode after some time. The brain of a modern gamer should hopefully quickly adapt and understand that the graphics are the just for representing the stuff in the game world and need by no means be photorealistic, and the UI of the roguelikes will prepare one for anything.
That said, I struggled a bit with the mouse interface in the mind-bogglingly awesome Ultima Underworld 1, when I played it for the first time just a few years ago.
I think he meant Nethack or ADOM.
Even still, I think you either have a predisposition towards them or you don't. I personally can't think of any common threads between people who are only recently discovering a love for these old crpgs. I suppose a distaste for all things modern gaming has brought us could be one. Maybe a certain level of nostalgia. I started gaming with a Nes and Atari, plus I might have played the original Prince of Persia way back on some EGA pc. I would have been 3.
I bring this up cause I had a friend who was really into roguelikes, ascii ones even, but I could not get him into classic crpgs. Kid was about 5-6 years younger than me. So, I guess it isn't always a graphical consideration.