I've been around this culture for a long time. I was on Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, and now HN. I've ascended in NetHack more than 10 times (and beaten a bunch of other Roguelikes as well). I've heard about the Infocom games repeatedly over the years.
I've tried to play Zork several times and I just don't get it. Every single time I end up in the maze of twisty little passages and I give up. What am I supposed to do? I tried dropping various objects as breadcrumbs and mapping the damn thing on graph paper... well, it turns out to be non-Euclidean. WTF is that? Is this tedious, bizarre exercise supposed to be fun? Will somebody help me get it?
I've been around this culture for a long time. I was on Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, and now HN. I've ascended in NetHack more than 10 times (and beaten a bunch of other Roguelikes as well). I've heard about the Infocom games repeatedly over the years.
I've tried to play Zork several times and I just don't get it. Every single time I end up in the maze of twisty little passages and I give up. What am I supposed to do? I tried dropping various objects as breadcrumbs and mapping the damn thing on graph paper... well, it turns out to be non-Euclidean. WTF is that? Is this tedious, bizarre exercise supposed to be fun? Will somebody help me get it?