![]() ![]() ![]() I never liked the Wizard's harrassment as you climb back up the dungeon, level by level. I did reach the Astral Plane a few times, but I never actually ascended as far as I can recall, but frankly, after the Castle level, the game gets kind of boring and unfair for me. Sometimes I played in Wizard mode, but I enjoyed save-scumming immensely, and it allowed me to get quite far, especially to the Castle and drawbridge level, and even sometimes down to Gehennom. Yeah, I knew all the spoilers by heart, I knew the secrets, I had access to the rumors and the Wiki, but I had some bad habits that led to YASD every time, such as hoarding everything in inventory, melee attacks when ranged would be better, not making much use of spells or magic, and I would often forget that I was carrying a particular item that would be perfect for a particular situation, so I'd die with it still unused. I played Nethack locally, and save-scumming was the only way that I could make meaningful progress beyond the noob levels. ![]() I probable could have fixed it but it made the game hilarious, every play through containing a mad dash through level 2 and fervent usually unanswered prayers that the infernal thing would not follow you to the next level. But now my nethack install is tainted with Juiblex, the faceless evil, on dungeon level level 2. it normally lets you find what killed you and a chance to get your stuff back. but nethack, when you die, writes a bones file with what you had on what level and what killed you. I never did beat the game, but My most memorable experience was once when I was messing around in wizard mode(a sort debug/creative mode to try things out in) and summoned a high level demon for grins and giggles, which promptly killed me. I always thought of it like being a monk or wizard, journeying forth armed with the hidden secrets of the world. It's cheating of course, but it is the fun sort of cheating. For me the funnest way to play nethack was with a copy of the source nearby. ![]()
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