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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.
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.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
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)
CLI paste? paste.pr0.tips!
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.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K