By no means is this a bad game, but it's incredibly random. Rolling an 8 sided die is about the same as a session of FTL, since you can and will lose plenty of games purely because you don't happen upon things that you require. I've played many roguelikes but i've never played one anywhere near this random - I can win a game of nethack, dungeons of dredmor, tome4 etc 90% of the time but such a feat in FTL requires abuse of one of a few specific overpowered ship models. I'm guessing most of the hype comes from people who aren't roguelike players or people latching on to the "old school+space" tags. It's not anything special, although it does fill a niche that no other game really does right now, being a roguelike where you fly a spaceship around.
