NetHack

“One can't ever get enough nethack and it feels like a BBS. What's not to like?”

“thoroughly enjoying it as a core mechanic of games like Rogue, NetHack and Ancient Domains of Mystery”

“Your favorite roguelike was almost certainly created by someone who did.”

“One of my favorite easter eggs in Nethack was the way a Mailer Daemon would arrive in-game”

“the best way to get the hjklyubn burned in your forehead is to play Nethack”

“NetHack is loads of fun. I have been playing since around 2008 now”

“watched the hilarity begin with the stupid ways to kill yourself”

“3.7 really had developed a bad reputation”

“NetHack is still a lot of fun even for highly spoiled players”

“After reading some of the spoilers and realizing what I would have to memorize to win the game, I stopped playing it.”

“Just pure gameplay, with a richness of interactions and possibilities unmatched by more polished modern games.”

“at some point you just get frustrated, decide enough is enough, and look up whatever spoilers are necessary to beat the game”

“Damn they really nerfed valkyrie. I loved that class.”

“You'll miss the amazing interactions and stuff otherwise, and it is still challenging either way.”

“Nethack has a lot of very specific mechanics and hazards that aren't explained to you.”

“I've been playing this game since the mid 1980s since it was called Hack.”

“Nethack is pretty punishingly difficult even with spoilers”

“after all these years Nethack is still the most memorable game I played”

“always felt all the graphical updates were not worth it”

“Back when I was on undergrad I sometimes managed to get to the castle, but never very consistently.”

“I always feel like I don't understand what's going on, mechanically speaking”

“it has a tutorial, which should actually help increase the player base quite a bit.”

“NetHack is not one of those modern, commercial, online-only games that make it difficult to run old versions.”

“Nethack's always been amazing for the feeling of "the devs thought of everything."”

“which is quite exciting as something for people to play with in tooling, forks, mods, etc.”

“Imagine every level with the sophistication of nethack's "special" levels.”

“libre games gave me that faith back when I saw roguelikes coming (in 2002 with Slashem, Nethack being back and Angband)”

“Play nethack with a simple oneliner: nc nethack.alt.org 23”

“Nethack adds tons of Terry Pratchett references as and homage and it's cool”

“A Roguelike more bound to interaction/exploration/mechanics than combat”

“Nethack/lashem weights MB's and has tons of replayability.”

“began to play games like Angband, Nethack and the like in that era”

“If you haven't you should give the not yet released 3.7 version a try.”

“I still find the game way too long!”

“I find NetHack more enjoyable to play because it has real character/soul/heart.”

“It's best to not call your fork something that could be confused with the original”

“Despite never beating it I consider it to be one of my favorite games.”

“A sysadmin that isn't constantly jacked into nethack is hardly a sysadmin at all.”

“much much too baroque, a confusion of ideas and one-turn unavoidable deaths”

“It's ultra boring in comparison to nethack, pathos or more complex games”