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Gibbering Poster <a@a.com> roared:
> "Jim Ward" <aaaa> wrote
>> I have been playing roguelikes like ADOM, Nethack etc off and on
>> for the past few years. What I want to play is an easy, laidback
>> game. I can deal with permadeath, but I want a game that you can
>> just wander around, level up a lot, get new equipment, etc, but
>> not have to worry a lot about instant death attacks etc.Are there
>> any like this?
> Both Nethack and Adom are easy once you play them enough... By
> easy, I mean that you can win about 1/5 games with the easiest
> race/class combo...
Make that 1/1 with any race/class combo for Nethack. Don't know
about Adom.
> I've actually won with the last 2 Adom characters I rolled.
With 3.4.0 (when I last properly played Nethack ■), the last 8
games were 7 ascensions, and one very stupid death that could easily
have been avoided (if I'd been smarter). The dead one was the
supposedly easiest role, even. More detailed, that's my last 8
proper Nethack games:
Hea Gno Mal Neu Archie,ascended
Cav Dwa Mal Law Grinder,ascended
Ran Elf Mal Cha Shight,ascended
Sam Hum Mal Law Nikúya,ascended
Rog Hum Mal Cha Sneak,ascended
Wiz Hum Mal Cha Warlock,ascended
Val Dwa Fem Law Mythar,killed by a gas spore's explosion
Cav Gno Mal Neu Grimface,ascended
The other 4 3.4.0 characters (before these) had died of
demotivation; I got bored with the characters themselves fairly
quicky and got deliberately careless, suicide really. So I then
decided to try the roles I hadn't ascended before, which are the
first six you see here.
I've got another character (Hum Kni Fem Cha, Erika) parked
somewhere, bored with Gehennom and life in general. Thus (though
some of the gameplay/'rules' of Nethack got on my nerves, too) I'm
playing something else now.
■ I did get the chance to play online last year, but having
forgotten much by then, and with a different interface and view and
not being at home, it was rather newbie-ish. But all I'm saying is
that if you know the game it's easy, not that it is easy for newbies
(or bad memories).
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