everyone loves to laugh at how comically granular/detailed Dwarf Fortress is (and rightfully so!), but i feel like NetHack doesn’t get enough attention because it is just as funny. for example, one of your most essential tools for surviving the early floors is to check the readme/wiki and notice that one of your, no joke, literally 134 keybinds is “engrave”. pressing that button prompts you to write a word or phrase on a nearby surface, either by etching it with a dagger, blasting it with a wand, or just writing in the dust with your finger. if you write specifically the word “Elbereth” on a tile, you can stand there without most monsters being able to touch you.
the word “Elbereth” is not referenced or explained anywhere in-game. you are expected to know it from having read Lord of the Rings. you can really tell this game originally released in 1987 sometimes
“Vegetarians can reverse genocide gelatinous cubes for the intrinsics once they can defeat them and take the acidic corpse damage” is such a good sentence
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#playing Nethack is fun but reading Nethack guides is even more fun #Nethack #games #my childhood #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
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