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Counterpoint: Nethack. Sometimes the best games take a (long) while, and may never be finished.

chongli 11y ago
Funny you should mention NetHack as the latest version, 3.4.3[0], was released on the 8th of December, 2003. I'd say it's a pretty good call to consider it finished. [0] http://nethack.org/v343/release.html http://nethack.org/v343/release.html
- riffraff 11y ago
  there are a ton of forks of nethack, and basically the dev team seems to have disappeared[0], so I wouldn't consider it finished as much as "AWOL". [0] ok, not really, the nethack4 faq mentions 'The development team who worked on versions 1 to 3 of NetHack (the DevTeam) are still working on it (although there was no real evidence of this until 2014), but they don't release their progress, meaning that the situation is effectively the same as if they'd been doing nothing.'
  - chongli 11y ago
    Yeah, I'm aware of the forks and of the empty promises from the devteam. Should a new official release appear, I'll happily retract my statement. What I don't see is very much momentum toward establishing a proper successor fork a la Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup.
    - ectoplasm 11y ago
      SporkHack was good for a while, harder than 3.4.3 at least. Sometimes updates actually make things worse. I like Brogue 1.7.2 a lot more than 1.7.3 for example. You should try that game if you haven't already, it does so many things well!
      - chongli 11y ago
        I love Brogue; ascended it many times. I'm currently hooked on Tales of Maj'Eyal (along with 5 of my friends).
- haakon 11y ago
  The last few news items on http://nethack.org http://nethack.org indicates the code is still being worked on and NetHack 3.5 is in the works.
- SwellJoe 11y ago
  It's just taking a (long) while.
AdieuToLogic 11y ago
I remember a friend of mine introducing me to Nethack and telling me that part of the fun was "hacking the game." So I downloaded the source, inverted application of damage, and recompiled. To that, my friend said "no! the hacking is supposed to be about manipulating the data files..." I replied, "my way was easier." Thanks for mentioning Nethack and reminding me of this :-).
- ableal 11y ago
  "Username is appropriate", as they say in another venue.

Funny you should mention NetHack as the latest version, 3.4.3[0], was released on the 8th of December, 2003. I'd say it's a pretty good call to consider it finished. [0] http://nethack.org/v343/release.html http://nethack.org/v343/release.html

riffraff 11y ago
there are a ton of forks of nethack, and basically the dev team seems to have disappeared[0], so I wouldn't consider it finished as much as "AWOL". [0] ok, not really, the nethack4 faq mentions 'The development team who worked on versions 1 to 3 of NetHack (the DevTeam) are still working on it (although there was no real evidence of this until 2014), but they don't release their progress, meaning that the situation is effectively the same as if they'd been doing nothing.'
- chongli 11y ago
  Yeah, I'm aware of the forks and of the empty promises from the devteam. Should a new official release appear, I'll happily retract my statement. What I don't see is very much momentum toward establishing a proper successor fork a la Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup.
  - ectoplasm 11y ago
    SporkHack was good for a while, harder than 3.4.3 at least. Sometimes updates actually make things worse. I like Brogue 1.7.2 a lot more than 1.7.3 for example. You should try that game if you haven't already, it does so many things well!
    - chongli 11y ago
      I love Brogue; ascended it many times. I'm currently hooked on Tales of Maj'Eyal (along with 5 of my friends).
haakon 11y ago
The last few news items on http://nethack.org http://nethack.org indicates the code is still being worked on and NetHack 3.5 is in the works.
SwellJoe 11y ago
It's just taking a (long) while.

AdieuToLogic 11y ago

I remember a friend of mine introducing me to Nethack and telling me that part of the fun was "hacking the game." So I downloaded the source, inverted application of damage, and recompiled. To that, my friend said "no! the hacking is supposed to be about manipulating the data files..." I replied, "my way was easier." Thanks for mentioning Nethack and reminding me of this :-).

ableal 11y ago
"Username is appropriate", as they say in another venue.