Forum Overview :: NetHack :: Nethack is everything bad about cRPGs in your face with none of the good.

[quote name="Mischief Maker"]Good cRPG traits: Interesting plot? NO Beautiful Graphics that save you the effort of "imagining" your surroundings? NO Complicated but realistic rules system whose weighty numbers are crunched in seconds? NO "Save" feature? NO Bad cPRG traits: Monsters that pop up out of nowhere? YES Encumbrance? YES Items that need to be "identified?" YES Identification function limited to a few randomly scattered scrolls that you MAY NOT EVEN GET? YES "Feeding" your character? YES "Poison," "Curse," and other status afflictions that stick with you after combat and may be permanent like herpes? YES Enemy types "level up" as you do? YES Randomly generated dungeons whose layout makes no sense? YES Impossible to play without first reading a gamefaq? YES Shitty Interface? YES And the main thing that made me drop the game forever: Randomly placed "secret doors" that you know are there, but require you to hit the "search" function over and over as your character slowly starves until he wins his random "Wisdom" check? YES[/quote]