Nethack: The Greatest Game You Will Ever Play

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28 points·jdeseno··10 comments

Having beat Nethack five times I can't say it's not a great game. That said, there are a lot better games, and even many better roguelikes. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is my recommendation. It's insanely difficult, but in a better way than Nethack (you get killed when you make tactical mistakes, not when you trip down stairways, get crushed by drawbridges, run into various insta-kill monsters, etc). Not that I want to discourage anyone from trying Nethack... it's just not the best introduction to the roguelike genre.

Surprisingly stylish site given the game itself.

Is this a joke or not? I'm sorry, I can't tell.

It's not that the game is bad, it's just that it won't appeal to the same people the website design appeals, for example.

And it's a very strange game.

Who does that website design appeal to? I found it hard to read. It looks like a one-page spread in a magazine that I'd have skipped over.

People who like fancy graphics and typography?

Wow, only 35k users?

I used to think 'Nethack' was multiplayer over the Internet - the 'Net' bit - but it doesn't appear it is. Is it?

No, there's limited interaction by means of 'bones' files if you play on the same host.

If you die and certain conditions are met, you'll leave your corpse, all your items, and a ghost for another lucky (or unlucky, given that whatever killed you will still be around) adventurer.

There do exist some multiplayer roguelikes, Mangband http://www.mangband.org/ is probably one of the most well-known/popular.

I know it's kind of a spiritual successor, but Dwarf Fortress might just take the cake...

I'm suddenly tempted to give SLASH'EM another go.

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