NetHack: Still One of the Greatest Games Ever Written

M-Saunders writes: While everyone obsesses about frame rates and polygon counts, there's one game that hasn't changed visually for decades. NetHack may look incredibly primitive today, but it's still arguably the best game of all time, with an unmatched level of depth, creativity and replayability. Linux Voice looks at this fascinating dungeon romp, explaining what makes it great, how to get started with it, and how to discover some of its secrets.

Comments

Re: It's crap

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm so sorry your life was wrecked. Have you tried installing MyCleanPC?

Terrible game

[Anonymous Coward]

If it wasn't for this game, I for one would have fininished my PhD a year earlier. Will nobody think of the students?

Re:Don't foget

[tehcyder]

looked at the sun shining outside, thought about how much the obsession was taking me away from my girlfriend

I don't visit slashdot to read outlandish fantasy stories.

Re:Very adictive but...

[fisted]

I can't imagine anyone using the vi shortcuts (k for up and, going clockwise, u l n j b h and y).

Imagine harder then, I don't know anyone who'd play it on the numpad, sounds rather inconvenient because all the other keys are on the main alphanumeric block.

In fact, I originally started to play nethack in order to get comfortable with hjkl for later use in vi. Worked great. (As an unexpected side effect I got horribly addicted though)

Re:Don't foget

[Anonymous Coward]

I had a bag of holding with EVERYTHING, spellbooks scrolls of earth and MagicBane!, but somehow my bag disappeared

Your post contains the answer to this.

Re:Don't foget

[slaker]

I've said this before on Slashdot, but now is the time that I will say it again: I consider the fact that I have ascended a wishless Tourist more of an accomplishment than my bachelor's degree.

Re:Don't foget

[Greyfox]

And Dwarf Fortress! I still bust out Dwarf Fortress on a pretty regular basis. The last update has some bugs around dwarves getting stressed out and never de-stressing. So I'd end up with a few disgruntled dwarves wandering around my fortress randomly picking fights and crying on people. I guess they're going to address that, but I was starting to think I was going to have to build a fluffy puppy room into all my future fortresses. If a dwarf got too stressed out, I'd lock them in the fluffy puppy room with a lot of puppies, a lot of good food and a lot of good drink. They'd either come out de-stressed or I'd have a lot of dead puppies on my hands. I've never talked about any other game I've ever played quite like that.