Rant: The circle is now complete

[bitterjesus]

In the beginning, there was D&D, and it was good. Okay, it was alright. Then came AD&D, and it actually was good. Along followed a host of imitators, eventually leading to Nethack. The trend remained the same, however: you rolled up a character, you played it, and if you died, you rolled up a new one. Generations later, along came Diablo, and

Comments

[aj_hyena]

This is why I stopped with 3.0, went grudgingly to 3.5, then stopped.

In other news, I found a game online ("stone soup") that looks pretty much like Nethack, but I can't tell if it's a precursor or a future generation of it.

[damerell]

[missraederle]

hehehe! the geneology of nethack, very amusing :D

[wabbie]

If you're taking recommendations, ADOM is really fun and much harder than NetHack. And it has more than one quest, and some sort of storyline.