On Fri, 09 Jan 2004, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > >Hi, > > > >This may seem like a lame question, but, here I spend most time > >conducting computational biophysics for drug design and I could do with > >some kind of distraction so I don't keep on working during breaks. I > >have ALWAYS avoided games on my workstation but it was suggested they > >may provide a necessary distraction. > > > >Can anyone suggest a good game that isn't just mindlessly shooting > >stuff. Say a good adventure with nice graphics that requires some > >thought? > > nethack and Omega come to mind. KQ is decent and Adonthell seems as if > it would be decent (I'd play it except for the fact it LAGS my > computer). You might also want to check out FreeCiv and FreeCraft. For other 'roguelikes' don't forget: ADOM ( free as in beer, not speech ) Dungeon Crawl Slash'em ( nethack variant ) Angband and variants For non-roguelikes, I either end up playing old RPGs on an emulator (zsnes, etc) or (recently) I've been playing a lot of xscorch. -- icq: 34583382 | Nethack 3.4._3_ is out! http://www.nethack.org jabber: dasunt@theoretic.com | "And how can man die better / Than facing msn: dasunt@hotmail.com | fearful odds / For the ashes of his fathers / yim: tsunad | and the temples of his gods?" ~ Babington
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