Mastering nethack was one of my proudest achievements in a way that is incredibly embarrassing, but also the only people who know nethack enough to be properly embarrassed for me are also the people that might understand my pride lol.
After looking this up, I have apparently been playing a remix of this in the form of PixelDungeon, then moved onto the now superior Shattered Pixel Dungeon running 7 challenge mode.
If you’ve played these, how do they compare to Nethack as I won’t be able to give it a go for a few days?
Nethack is the original. It has almost everything. I was playing many years ago when you could use a pickaxe to rob a shop. Then cops were introduced and I kept doing it anyway and collecting rubber hoses. Then you couldn’t dig the walls anymore, so I had to teleport out with my loot.
Don’t read the wiki at first… And try to be creative.
Nethack is bigger, has more stuff, more interactions, takes longer and more systems. SPD is like a distilled version, maybe streamlined even. However I find that the OG with curses interface and ASCII monsters engages my imagination more.
There are NH variants as well (like PD -> SPD). I am trying Unnethack rn as well as evilhack.
Hell yes man. I have an alias in my terminal so I can just type nethack and it connects me to the nethack telnet server where I can play on my account and watch others. Other people are always amazed when I show them this exists. That game is insane.
Disclaimer “autistic PC game” triggered this post.
Am i the only one sinking… ungodly… hours into Nethack?
Mastering nethack was one of my proudest achievements in a way that is incredibly embarrassing, but also the only people who know nethack enough to be properly embarrassed for me are also the people that might understand my pride lol.
Hell yeah! When you click over from “this game is impossible wth” to kicking Rodney’s ass so much that you’d expect him to just give up…
Nice work cracking a tough game!
After looking this up, I have apparently been playing a remix of this in the form of PixelDungeon, then moved onto the now superior Shattered Pixel Dungeon running 7 challenge mode.
If you’ve played these, how do they compare to Nethack as I won’t be able to give it a go for a few days?
Go to nethack.org my friend.
Nethack is the original. It has almost everything. I was playing many years ago when you could use a pickaxe to rob a shop. Then cops were introduced and I kept doing it anyway and collecting rubber hoses. Then you couldn’t dig the walls anymore, so I had to teleport out with my loot.
Don’t read the wiki at first… And try to be creative.
That sounds very interesting and evolved lol. I will give it a go for sure.
Nethack is bigger, has more stuff, more interactions, takes longer and more systems. SPD is like a distilled version, maybe streamlined even. However I find that the OG with curses interface and ASCII monsters engages my imagination more.
There are NH variants as well (like PD -> SPD). I am trying Unnethack rn as well as evilhack.
I really tried but it was just too clunky for me :( Now, Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup on the other hand <333
For me it’s EUV. I can’t stop. I don’t want to stop, but I can’t. I have a very unhealthy relationship with the bastards at Paradox.
Hell yes man. I have an alias in my terminal so I can just type nethack and it connects me to the nethack telnet server where I can play on my account and watch others. Other people are always amazed when I show them this exists. That game is insane.
Haven’t even heard of it, but I’m going to look it up now!