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kessah
Blood Corsair's
Blood Blind
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Posted - 2008.01.25 17:04:00 -
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Anyone else play nethack? Prolly the most difficult, oldest game still in development there is.
Brilliant game but christ its 100 times more defeating than eve when you die!
Got into it about 2 months ago when i came to work in a programming company and since am the only none programmer in the company i was amazed by this little secret game they all play. 
Its very good.
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Joseph 9
Digital Fury Corporation
Digital Renegades
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Posted - 2008.01.25 17:18:00 -
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I keep comming back to nethack every few years, and I've still yet to complete it. Still it's an amazing game and should NOT be played with those silly little graphical tilesets. Full asci glory or nowt.
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Rawr Cristina
Caldari
Cult of Rawr
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Posted - 2008.01.25 18:01:00 -
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There's hard but Nethack is practically impossible to complete. A game can take many hours and the chance of dying randomly (food poisoning, randomly spawning monsters, no health, curses, etc) is silly high 
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Joseph 9
Digital Fury Corporation
Digital Renegades
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Posted - 2008.01.25 20:25:00 -
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I meant to mention this early but if you like Nethack, try out Zangband, which stands for Zelazny Angband, and is much like Nethack but with even more suff rammed in. It's also quite possibly even harder than Nethack. In general they are both members of a class of games known as Rogue-Like, so anything in that group may be of interest.
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ry ry
StateCorp
The State
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Posted - 2008.01.26 09:53:00 -
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zangband 4 life, yo.
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kessah
Blood Corsair's
Blood Blind
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Posted - 2008.01.26 11:33:00 -
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 Originally by: Joseph 9
I keep comming back to nethack every few years, and I've still yet to complete it. Still it's an amazing game and should NOT be played with those silly little graphical tilesets. Full asci glory or nowt.
 i use the tileset, well it makes my mac looks less like a pc if i do 
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Rawr Cristina
Caldari
Cult of Rawr
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Posted - 2008.01.26 20:55:00 -
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Originally by: kessah
i use ... my mac
...I used to think you were cool 
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Decairn
Caldari
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2008.01.27 02:27:00 -
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Crawl isn't bad either as an alternative. A bit more straight-forward and less odd/random stuff. http://crawl-ref.sourceforge.net/ or play on a hosted server at http://crawl.akrasiac.org/
Also, used to work with one of the devs of nethack. Even he didn't know all the how-to's in it and hadn't ascended himself.
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Aeonosea
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.01.27 14:36:00 -
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The best rogue-like game I've played is URW (UnrealWorld) It's more of a survival-iron age kinda sim. It's really sweet, so if you like nethack and want something more involved than just killing stuff I can definatley recommend it :)
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kessah
Blood Corsair's
Blood Blind
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Posted - 2008.01.28 00:35:00 -
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dont think you could drag me off nethack - anything more and id be afriad it would evolve into WoW and tbh i hate those sorts of games.
Macs > PC's 
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Savesti Kyrsst
Minmatar
White-Noise
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Posted - 2008.01.28 06:30:00 -
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I still play it occasionally, never got all the way though  Died more than a hundred times...
You get teeshirts and stuff with nethack symbols and references out there that are pretty amazing to spot.
Been playing Dwarf Fortress more recently; the adventure mode is more freeform than Nethack but a lot less developed. The Fortress mode is pretty much the most awesome single player game I have ever played, held back by a currently complicated and fiddly interface (it's still in alpha).
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Dern Al'Malik
Minmatar
Strix Armaments and Defence
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Posted - 2008.01.29 13:17:00 -
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Nethack is sweet. It's not even real time but still it gets adrenaline rushing. There's nothing quite like the feeling when you're character is just about to die in level 23 and you try to run away from that big bad D or L. Or the feeling of realizing you just walked into that blue e or are standing on the corpse of yellow c without boots or coming acros a minotaur that uses the corpse of a yellow c as a weapon  . Or dying in the Astral plane, killed by Pestilence (with the Amulet).
Great game. And it's not so random as someone posted. When you've played it a lot and a lot, you can ascend almost as often as not. But when you start playing it you do die a lot from the strangest reasons that seem just random and evil. Like breaking through that castle gate with wand of striking and getting killed by big chunk of metal  . I think I died atleast a thousand times before ascending for the first time.
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