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Has anyone here heard of NetHack (download here)? It's a wicked fun game, and everything just works together. Like, imagine this:
You just killed a floating eye, a low-level relatively easy monster. You ate its corpse and gained intrinsic telepathy, which allows you to see monsters anywhere on the level - but only when you're blind. To take advantage of this, you put on a blindfold, but you just tripped over a pile of items which you couldn't see! That pile contained a corpse of a cockatrice, which instantly turns any creature it touches to stone. Luckily, you were wearing boots and gloves, so you can safely pick it up and wield it as a weapon, and laugh as the legions of monsters before you transform into statues and part before your feet. Unfortunately, the ground below you suddenly gives way and you fall into a pit trap! You lose your hold on the cockatrice corpse and it falls on your unprotected head...

This game is awesome.

Uh, yeah. Sounds a little fast paced.

Nethack is awesome. I was hooked on it about a year ago. Its been around for some time as well (it started as an ascii game).

It is deemed the best translation of D&D ever. I wish though that you could play it without having to have an animal sidekick though.

I think if the semantics of that game were plugged into a 3d interface it would be collossal.

cheers for bringing it up!
-D

Alex: The whole game is turn-based, actually, so it's rather manageable. However, I've been in some incredible firefights; just ask the guy who fought a pack of bloodthirsty werewolves with an elvish dagger. >.>

DannyM: Actually, you can. I assume you're playing Mac OS X NetHack Tiles Patch 3.4.3. Go into the documentation folder and open NetHack Defaults. After "menustyle:partial,", add "pettype:none," without the quotation marks and drag that into your Library:Preferences. Incidentally, however, pets are very useful for curse-testing items and killing stuff for you while you're low-level. So unless you routinely find altars on DL1, think twice before doing it!

Seriously, if you haven't played it, you should try it. You get used to the huge amounts of keyboard shortcuts after a while, and it's really exciting.

sounds like a crazy dream... with elements fitting together in a way that makes too much sense to make sense, while not making any sense at all.

<3

I starved to death on the first room. D=

Nightblaze Wrote:I starved to death on the first room. D=

WTF? You could pray to your god if you're below Weak, eat monster corpses, most roles start with food from the get-go, and you can easily find prepared food scattered around. If you're truly desperate for food, you could zap stone to flesh (if you know it) at a wall to create a huge chunk of meat, you could kick your pet to death and eat its corpse, or you could even quaff from fountains and drink potions like there was no tomorrow. HOW do you exactly starve to death on the first room?

chinkeeyong Wrote:

Nightblaze Wrote:I starved to death on the first room. D=

WTF? You could pray to your god if you're below Weak, eat monster corpses, most roles start with food from the get-go, and you can easily find prepared food scattered around. If you're truly desperate for food, you could zap stone to flesh (if you know it) at a wall to create a huge chunk of meat, you could kick your pet to death and eat its corpse, or you could even quaff from fountains and drink potions like there was no tomorrow. HOW do you exactly starve to death on the first room?

Yuck! I think I'd rather starve! :P

I think I agree with Alex, I would rather not have to eat flesh-turned stone.
Actually there was only one hallway and it led to a dead-end (never thought about searching) So I just ran back and forth till I died, and I didn't spawn with any food. lol