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I had a magical moment yesterday, looking at the Steam Sale and tempted to buy Dying Light: The Beast, and it hit me that I have the original Dying Light in my backlog.

Eight hours later, it's safe to say I really like this game, and spending zero dollars is pretty nice too.

What's everyone else playing?

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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 33 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Nethack. Been playing for 30 years and still never ascended. This time I'm fully kitted out and I'll be damned if I don't get a win!

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Downloaded it because of this comment. An good starter guide / tutorial you can recommend?

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh wow, you are going to spend a lot of time on the https://nethackwiki.com/, there's also a tutorial on YouTube that goes into the basics. First tip is: dying is fun! Just experiment a lot in the beginning. Start out with a dwarven valkyrie, that's the easiest class/race to play.

In the beginning you're just going to learn the controls and get used to visually id monsters and items. I don't know which version you play, I can recommend one with a visual GUI, I'm an ASCII purist myself, but the interface for vanilla Nethack is just brutal. There are variants like Fiqhack and Dynahack that come with a bunch of QoL improvements like separate windows for message history, inventory, stats et c.

It takes a very long time to learn and master (as evidenced by my 30 year journey), but there is just something to it, it is so well thought out and it has been continuously tweaked over almost 40 years, and sees plenty of people still playing it.

There's a nethack subreddit that I would recommend checking out when you have questions!

Welcome, and go with Tyr!

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago
[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm pulling for you over here! I never made it past the fortress right after Medusa.

Imagine my great sorrow when I discovered that turning Perseus back to a man didn't make him tame! 🥺

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hahaha! First run ever that I got a wand of wishing and genuinely have nothing more I need, so I wished for a blessed figurine of an Archon and applied it, and he spawned with Demonbane and just mows down monsters like it's nobody's business. :)

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"What do you get for the guy that has everything?" 😂

Mr. "Platinum Yendorian Express" over here!

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago
[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

i finally beat DCSS once, after playing it constantly for a year

[–] Azathoth@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I adore Nethack; there is so much to discover! Although, most of it is stuff that kills you. My first ascension was with the very reliable human Valkyrie.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah it's ridiculously deep. Like I said, I played it for 30 years and I still learn new stuff all the time when I read the wiki or watch videos, like "damn! Had no clue, that is pretty smart, what a bizarre mechanism but it's perfectly logical when you think about it" hahaha!