Comment Re:nethack (Score 1) 341
I also did play it on-and-off and not non-stop, but it's not only about the difficulty.
A difficult, but repetitive game (Demons' Souls, Prince of Persia trilogy) will make you angry and quit the game. In SAngband (NetHack is more random in this aspect) almost every death makes you angry, but at the same time you know exactly what happened wrong and you learn not to do it again. However, instead of backtracking a few steps and trying again, you start over again from zero, in another completely randomly generated world.