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NetHack

Game » consists of 7 releases. First released on Jul 05, 1987

Inspired by Rogue, NetHack is an ASCII-based RPG in which the player must navigate the Mazes of Menace in search of the Amulet of Yendor for his deity.

Have you ever finished Nethack?

#1 Posted by Immuniity (241 posts) - 3 years, 11 hours ago

Its been around for 26 years, so its not like you havn't had the time. Have you ever recovered the amulet of Yendor and lived to tell the tale?

#2 Posted by LutonHatter (308 posts) - 2 years, 11 months ago
#3 Posted by DEVILinIRON (30 posts) - 2 years, 9 months ago

I have been playing it for at least ten years and I have never been close to beating it.  But that is what makes this game great!  Spoilers be damned!  I refuse to read them.

#4 Posted by EarlessShrimp (1157 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

I've gotten I think halfway through Gehenomm, but that's about it, and that was only getting lucky and getting a bag of holding, amulet of reflection, Cleaver and Stormbringer, and a few other artifacts.  I've been playing since middleschool so... eventually I will!

#5 Posted by Dagbiker (6408 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

No, but the fun part about nethack, at least for me wasnt playing it, it was programing it. I programed a nethack clone from the ground up.

#6 Posted by MikkaQ (9753 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

Oh hell no. I can't finish any roguelikes, I'm absolutely hopeless.

#7 Edited by EarlessShrimp (1157 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago
@Dagbiker: That must have been a tremoundous undertaking for one guy.  I think that's better than beating nethack.
 
@MikkaQ said:

Oh hell no. I can't finish any roguelikes, I'm absolutely hopeless.

I wouldn't say hopeless... I would say not quite dedicated enough?  I mean for nethack I've spent years with it and I know I haven't learned everything there is yet, but a good part of it I still have locked in my stupid brain.  That get's me at least to medusa's lair every time. 
#8 Posted by ArbitraryWater (9214 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

Nope. I can't muster the patience to finish what is considered an "easy" rougelike (Dungeons of Dredmor), so the ultra-hardcore, ultra-WTFness of Nethack has never appealed to me.

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