Anyone playing NetHack?

[Uller]

The other day my brother pointed out to me that NetHack is "still around". A quick google search landed me at www.nethack.org. I grabbed it and installed. Still as addictive as ever!

For those of you who don't know what Nethack is, it's an open source "RPG" (if you can call it that) that's been around since the early 80s. Basically, you create a character (just choosing role, race, gender and alignment) and it plops you in a randomly generated dungeon full of monsters, puzzles and treasure. Exploe Dungeon. Kill monsters. Get treasure. Gain Level. Repeat.

My friends (and my brother) and I got this game via 'sneaker net' (a floppy disk of dubious origin) circa 1987. We played it for hours and hours. I don't know why.

Don't expect much graphically. Originally the UI was just a map drawn in ASCII text. By the time we got it (and it still is like this) it had some actual graphics (although pathetic). But if you can get past the graphics, it is actually a lot of fun....

Maybe some day someone with two much times on their hands will create a d20 version. (d20Hack?)

Enjoy.

 

[PeterMikelsons]

Hours and hours? Try months. (Never even got the amulet, grrr.) If you value your time, please don't download Nethack. I'm pretty sure I could have finished grad school a year earlier if it weren't for that d@mn game. ASCII "graphics" didn't (and don't) bother me a bit.

 

[Uller]

Hours and hours? Try months. (Never even got the amulet, grrr.) If you value your time, please don't download Nethack. I'm pretty sure I could have finished grad school a year earlier if it weren't for that d@mn game. ASCII "graphics" didn't (and don't) bother me a bit.

Mwahahahahaha!!!!

On the nethack website someone referred to it as "GradeWrecker 3.4".

Bad graphics don't bother me either as long as they don't take away from the game. In the case of nethack, it works because the graphics are so primative that everything is really left to your imagination. If someone stuck a 3D rendering engine in there that really wasn't up to snuff, it would simply distract you.

 

[javapadawan]

Anyone playing NetHack?

Well I am now!

Btw, this game rules. Thanks for sharing... I think...

 

[jhallum]

Bah, Angband!

The other day my brother pointed out to me that NetHack is "still around". A quick google search landed me at www.nethack.org. I grabbed it and installed. Still as addictive as ever!

For those of you who don't know what Nethack is, it's an open source "RPG" (if you can call it that) that's been around since the early 80s. Basically, you create a character (just choosing role, race, gender and alignment) and it plops you in a randomly generated dungeon full of monsters, puzzles and treasure. Exploe Dungeon. Kill monsters. Get treasure. Gain Level. Repeat.

My friends (and my brother) and I got this game via 'sneaker net' (a floppy disk of dubious origin) circa 1987. We played it for hours and hours. I don't know why.

Don't expect much graphically. Originally the UI was just a map drawn in ASCII text. By the time we got it (and it still is like this) it had some actual graphics (although pathetic). But if you can get past the graphics, it is actually a lot of fun....

Maybe some day someone with two much times on their hands will create a d20 version. (d20Hack?)

Enjoy.

Nethack? Nethack? I'd have to say that ZAngband is much more addicting:


www.thangorodrim.net



Actually, having played both, they are both equally addicting. It's a wonder I ever made it through any school whatso ever.

 

[MaxKaladin]

I didn't play nethack much, but I had this game called "DND" in high school. I bet I could still dig up a disk somewhere if I really tried. It probably wouldn't be any good anymore though. (The disk, that is.) I seem to remember one of the dungeons was called "Telengard" or something like that. I remember finding a magic 'slot machine' somewhere near the entrance and earning gobs of gold and, because XP was gold based, gobs of XP. I was rediculous level by the time I gave up on it.

 

[Mynex]

I didn't play nethack much, but I had this game called "DND" in high school. I bet I could still dig up a disk somewhere if I really tried. It probably wouldn't be any good anymore though. (The disk, that is.) I seem to remember one of the dungeons was called "Telengard" or something like that. I remember finding a magic 'slot machine' somewhere near the entrance and earning gobs of gold and, because XP was gold based, gobs of XP. I was rediculous level by the time I gave up on it.

Oh my god, I had SO forgotten about this game! Telengard rocked (for it's time. )... Did a quick search.. guess what? Someone is reworking it!

Telengard

Addition: I just installed this and gave it a whirl... just as cheesy as I remember it! This is awesome!

 

[Uller]

Oh my god, I had SO forgotten about this game! Telengard rocked (for it's time. )... Did a quick search.. guess what? Someone is reworking it!

Telengard

Addition: I just installed this and gave it a whirl... just as cheesy as I remember it! This is awesome!

Yeah. I had Telengard. Very similar to Nethack.

 

[shadowlight]

You can also download NetHack for Pocket PC... Never a dull moment in dull meetings again!