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I lost a couple years of life to playing MUDs a while back. Still occasionally log on, the ability to type commands makes it much easier to have a complex game

by qdog 15y ago

I lost a couple years of life to playing MUDs a while back. Still occasionally log on, the ability to type commands makes it much easier to have a complex game and environment, but not so much with the pretty pictures. Luckily, I've sworn off Blizzard since they sued the bnetd guys, so D3 isn't a concern for me.

rkalla 15y ago
Swearing off Blizz won't save you; it'll just be Valve then or EA or Mojang or Zynga... they'll get you eventually :)
- qdog 15y ago
  I play minecraft with my son, who's 10, but it doesn't appeal to me that greatly beyond playing with him. Dwarf Fortress and Crawl, on the other hand, can end up sucking hours of my day if I'm not careful.
  - joshu 15y ago
    Crawl?
    - qdog 15y ago
      http://crawl.akrasiac.org/ http://crawl.akrasiac.org/ It's a Rogue-like game. The learning curve is rather steep, but worth it imho.
      - joshu 15y ago
        > The username and password are both joshua This freaked me out for a second.
  - etcet 15y ago
    The great thing about roguelikes is that you can only play them so long before you decide to make a random map generator, and then a line of sight algorithm, and implement A* pathfinding and suddenly you're making your own.