I've always loved roguelikes, since before I knew what they were called. (Anyone remember a Sega Megadrive game called Fatal Labyrinth?) Somebody at university linked me to the User Friendly webcomic where the characters were always playing Nethack, so I downloaded that and spent six and a half years trying to beat it.
After playing through the hellish endgame multiple times before I finally got my first win, I really didn't want to touch Nethack again for a long time, so I went Googling for other roguelikes. Found Angband from an index page of some sort, and initially downloaded 3.0.9b since I was kind of put off by the beta notice on 3.1.2 until I stumbled over these forums and figured out it was less buggy than I'd assumed. So far, still hooked even after getting one lucky warrior winner.
After playing through the hellish endgame multiple times before I finally got my first win, I really didn't want to touch Nethack again for a long time, so I went Googling for other roguelikes. Found Angband from an index page of some sort, and initially downloaded 3.0.9b since I was kind of put off by the beta notice on 3.1.2 until I stumbled over these forums and figured out it was less buggy than I'd assumed. So far, still hooked even after getting one lucky warrior winner.
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