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On December 07 2010 09:03 trainRiderJ wrote:Nethack is probably older than most of the posters on this site. Have there been many updates to the actual gameplay in the last ten years or has it just been graphical "enhancements"? You really haven't gamed until you run in fear from that purple h 
The last content patch to the game was in 2003. The graphical updates are 3rd part and not official, they pretty much take the core game and just throw up a fancy new GUI on it. I myself play with the "large" tile set which I got from the official website, which looks very nice. The game runs on Vista and 7.
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To my understanding, Rogue was released in 1980, and at least Wikipedia-page says that Moria drew a lot of inspiration from it. I'd argue that "the concept of going down", at least, dates back before it.
But yeah, so many games are based on Moria. Angband on Moria, ZAngband on Angband, ToME on ZAngband and the hundred or more variations of them all...
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Dungeon crawl is great. It's probably the most polished of all the roguelikes with a neat interface and transparent gameplay (fuck reading 200 pages of spoilers in nethack if you want to win).
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Take a look at ToME 4.0.
It's a completely re-designed rogue-like form the previous Angband clones. I've been enjoying it greatly.
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I got an error when starting Desktop Dungeon on Windows 7.
"Failed to initialize Direct Music Audio."
Then, "Unexpected error when running the game."
Then the game closes. Anyone else experience this?
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On December 07 2010 17:39 Megreda wrote:To my understanding, Rogue was released in 1980, and at least Wikipedia-page says that Moria drew a lot of inspiration from it. I'd argue that "the concept of going down", at least, dates back before it. But yeah, so many games are based on Moria. Angband on Moria, ZAngband on Angband, ToME on ZAngband and the hundred or more variations of them all...
That is indeed why they are called rougelike games , because rouge was the original, the inspiration.
Not sure how many hours I've wasted in my life on moria and angband when i was a young lad Play angband if you haven't, it is great. There is still strategy but it is more based on monsters, items , spells and the map. Nethack stratagy is more based on... well nethack is just crazy and has so much too it
Nethack is also great for all the reasons already mentioned by others. Best graphics version is Falcon's Eye Nethack and can be downloaded on source forge here. They have pre-compiled windows versions. Also most distro's of linux already have a package available, "yum install falconseye" or something like that.
http://falconseye.sourceforge.net
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