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Either Nethack is broken, or I honestly, truly suck at PC games by Alternate789 03/30/2003, 11:05pm PST
Mischief Maker wrote:

I'll be reviewing nethack in about a week, but I don't have much time to play the actual game. I was wondering if anyone off the top of their heads could list some things about Nethack that suck for me to look out for.

Things I already know suck about it:
-No Plot (The entire point of an RPG)
-No Graphics or Sound (A minor complaint because there's plenty of frontends available)
-Shitty Interface
-You need to feed your character
-1/3 of the items in the game WILL CURSE YOU and aren't identified.
-You always have to waste time waiting for your pet to catch up or the gods will be angered.
-Every level there's at least one room or hallway where you suddenly have to stop and hit the "search" button 20 times to reveal the "Secret Door" you GODDAMN KNOW IS THERE until you either give up, starve to death, or luck out and reveal the door. (This was the game-killer for me.)
-The strength of the randomly generated monsters is directly tied to your current level (So much for that feeling of escalating power)

Those are the main ones I could think of. Anyone got other points to throw on the bonfire?

If anyone ever gets to the point where they find the amulet of Yendor and beat this crap game they need to comb the Cheetos out of their beard and take a good look at their life (and its obvious pointlessness). This game is fucking impossible. The only way to have any chance in it is to have an unspeakably thorough, encyclopedic knowledge of it, or be the luckiest man alive. You should mention that 1/3 of the 1/3 of items that are cursed will fuck up your game beyond the point of recovery. Even if you aren't killed by mundane items (of death), you will die in this game. Around the 5th to 8th levels, the game will randomly generate a method of killing you unless you have an arcane knowledge of special combinations of items and incantations and keystrokes that can save you memorized.

So basically, you can piss of the hard-core Nethack players by proving that if they're at a point in their life where they can be considered (or worse, consider themselves) "hard-core Nethack players" they're pathetic losers.
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What Sucks about Nethack? by Mischief Maker 03/30/2003, 10:27pm PST NEW
    First five minutes were boring by foolio 03/30/2003, 10:39pm PST NEW
        Nethack is an old Unix console game played with ASCII by greybears with suspend NT by ers NT SB 03/30/2003, 10:52pm PST NEW
    Are you trying to troll the whole fucking universe? by Zseni 03/30/2003, 10:42pm PST NEW
        Translation: "Such Power..." NT by Mischief Shai-hulud 03/30/2003, 10:55pm PST NEW
            HURF FUCK U BUDDY by Zseni 03/30/2003, 10:57pm PST NEW
        Re: Are you trying to troll the whole fucking universe? by Jhoh Creexul 03/31/2003, 12:22am PST NEW
    Either Nethack is broken, or I honestly, truly suck at PC games by Alternate789 03/30/2003, 11:05pm PST NEW
        Re: Either Nethack is broken, or I honestly, truly suck at PC games by curst 03/31/2003, 9:14am PST NEW
            SAVE SCUMMER!! by mark 03/31/2003, 10:20am PST NEW
                Re: SAVE SCUMMER!! by Zseni 03/31/2003, 10:47am PST NEW
    Re: What Sucks about Nethack? by ydrt 03/31/2003, 1:24am PST NEW
    Put me down for this: by conflictNo 03/31/2003, 2:08am PST NEW
 
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