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Re: Shareware roundup by Bananadine 09/09/2007, 6:31pm PDT
Mischief Shai-hulud wrote:

And in case I never mentioned it here before, in my interests of proving again and again that Nethack has been outdone a million times over, here's the freeware game Notrium a robinson crusoe in space survial game utilizing (rather messily) the Crimsonlands engine.


I was just gonna post something about Notrium if nobody had but Mischief Maker of 2006 is on the case it seems. I think your comparison to NetHack is way wrong though. When I first played Notrium I felt like I was snorting a distilled mixture of NetHack, Pikmin, and Crimsonland, and for maybe four hours I was totally high on it. God damn what an awesome first section of a game that was--it provided NetHack's sense of freedom, combined with visually flavorful settings and arcade-ish fightin' action. Then I died for the third or fourth time, and started over for the third or fourth time (I was playing totally hardcore), and realized that I was just doing the same thing over. I have restarted NetHack dozens of times, and every time it is fun. But Notrium is a one-shot puzzle... albeit a really fricking awesome one. It is a fundamentally lesser game, and everyone should play it anyway.

Mischief Shai-hulud wrote:

Don't bother playing anything but the human.


That's for sure.
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Shareware roundup by Mischief Shai-hulud 04/15/2006, 9:30pm PDT NEW
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        Yeah, I've long since moved it to my "puzzle" subfolder NT by Mischief Minesweeper 10/06/2006, 11:18am PDT NEW
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    Re: Shareware roundup by Bananadine 09/09/2007, 6:31pm PDT NEW
 
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