some mmos are up there, but i think aoe 2 is probably one of the most played games still kept active.
RuneScape is now 24 years old, though it basically remade itself twice.
wow is 21 years old
ultima online is still going after all this time, that one’s 28 years old now.
a few old old games like colossal and Nethack still get updated i guess, but i had to look those ones up. I’d heard of colossal cave adventue, a text based adventure game. makes me wonder how ai dungeon is doing these days…
Nethack is a ascii graphics based roguelike. some articles claim that’s the oldest still updated game.
NetHack is still under active development as we speak. There were 5 commits pushed in the past 2 days. Over the past month there were 148 commits to NetHack-3.7 (the current development branch), 197 files have been changed and there have been 5,136 additions and 4,251 deletions.
The NetHack Wiki has a nice summary of the changes coming in NetHack 3.7.0. For comparison, NetHack 3.6.0 was released in December 2015. I’m hoping 3.7.0 will come out this year, so that we might get in just under 10 years between major releases!
I have been playing off and on since 2009. It’s a game I will always come back to, I love it so dearly. Despite its reputation for brutal difficulty, I find it very cozy and relaxing to play, probably because it feels as familiar as an old pair of slippers by a warm fire. For people who know how it works inside and out, the game is not particularly difficult, although there remain some rather stubborn random deaths that can hit anyone (especially early traps) and are almost impossible to avoid.
Definitely do check it out! But if it’s your first time ever playing NetHack be forewarned: the game does not mess around with beginners, it loves to bounce them! So don’t beat yourself up! That’s just NetHack doing its thing!
Maybe I can finally get around to beating it this year. Closest I ever came was a basically unkillable wizard but I couldn’t quite find the stuff I needed to start the ascension attempt.
huh, i didn’t realize it was that old. so yeah, there’s a decent number of mmos still getting updated from a little over 20 years ago. wow is one of the younger of the one mmos in that category for sure.
There aint many 26 year old games that still receive regular updates.
some mmos are up there, but i think aoe 2 is probably one of the most played games still kept active.
RuneScape is now 24 years old, though it basically remade itself twice.
wow is 21 years old
ultima online is still going after all this time, that one’s 28 years old now.
a few old old games like colossal and Nethack still get updated i guess, but i had to look those ones up. I’d heard of colossal cave adventue, a text based adventure game. makes me wonder how ai dungeon is doing these days…
Nethack is a ascii graphics based roguelike. some articles claim that’s the oldest still updated game.
NetHack is still under active development as we speak. There were 5 commits pushed in the past 2 days. Over the past month there were 148 commits to NetHack-3.7 (the current development branch), 197 files have been changed and there have been 5,136 additions and 4,251 deletions.
The NetHack Wiki has a nice summary of the changes coming in NetHack 3.7.0. For comparison, NetHack 3.6.0 was released in December 2015. I’m hoping 3.7.0 will come out this year, so that we might get in just under 10 years between major releases!
I have been playing off and on since 2009. It’s a game I will always come back to, I love it so dearly. Despite its reputation for brutal difficulty, I find it very cozy and relaxing to play, probably because it feels as familiar as an old pair of slippers by a warm fire. For people who know how it works inside and out, the game is not particularly difficult, although there remain some rather stubborn random deaths that can hit anyone (especially early traps) and are almost impossible to avoid.
damn, i might have to check it out
Definitely do check it out! But if it’s your first time ever playing NetHack be forewarned: the game does not mess around with beginners, it loves to bounce them! So don’t beat yourself up! That’s just NetHack doing its thing!
You will die often. After a while you will die less often.
Yeah I love nethack and Wazhack (a graphically updated version by one of the devs that gets updated every once in a while).
Maybe I can finally get around to beating it this year. Closest I ever came was a basically unkillable wizard but I couldn’t quite find the stuff I needed to start the ascension attempt.
If you aren’t using spoilers then you’ll want to talk to the oracle. She knows everything!
WoW has a bit of Theseus ship thing going on.
honestly, most mmos that are still getting updated after that long do. one more point for aoe2 it’s still very much the same game
As an old player of UO long ago the newer version of UO looks fascinating, but I just don’t have the energy or focus anymore to do all that.
FFXI just got new endgame content and it’s older than WoW
huh, i didn’t realize it was that old. so yeah, there’s a decent number of mmos still getting updated from a little over 20 years ago. wow is one of the younger of the one mmos in that category for sure.