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Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 4:28 pm
by 378
No boo for text adventures. Oh no. In addition to being a ZZT and MZX fan, I am also a fan of the old text adventures. Inform is a wonderful program nowadays that I've had fun with creating my own text adventures. Oh, and Adam Cadre rules.

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 11:08 pm
by 68
uhh zork 4evr

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 11:40 pm
by Zephyr
like moonpie or something wrote:uhh zork 4evr

Yay!i! I love that game. Quite hard tho.

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 1:16 am
by 110
ZORK HAS NO GRAPHICS, I WOULD MUCH RATHER PLAY ADOM WITH THE MANY COLORS AND GRAHPICAL IMAGES

But seriously, Rogue isn't a very good example of a roguelike. It's so very simple, like, say, Town, whereas ADOM would be i don't know some other game like frost or psyche

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 1:17 am
by Commodore
all of the early zork games were really hard. Part of the reason the newer generation of gamers are turned off by older adventure games, is they don't know/want to use a pen and paper.

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 1:57 am
by Zephyr
Yea, (When I was a wee lad) I finally learned from my father that you have to make a map of the game to get far.

"What?! A game that makes you think???! I just want to KILL!"

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 12:33 pm
by 48
Commodore wrote:all of the early zork games were really hard. Part of the reason the newer generation of gamers are turned off by older adventure games, is they don't know/want to use a pen and paper.
I'm one of the older generation of gamers and I don't want to use a fucking pen and paper. I made the effort with the Zork games, but that was it.

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 3:15 pm
by MadTom
So, how old do you have to be before you're one of the "older generation" of gamers?

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 10:58 pm
by Commodore
we all know it's a genralisation

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 4:45 am
by Ryan Ferneau
That reminds me: Kroz is Zork spelled backwards.

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 10:32 am
by Zenith Nadir
no shit

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 2:33 pm
by Dr. Dos
:( I never noticed actually.

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 8:53 pm
by 46
snarfoogle wrote:But seriously, Rogue isn't a very good example of a roguelike.
Uhhhhhhhhhh. . . . . .what

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 7:41 am
by 378
Having to use a pencil and paper is what made Riven (and it's predicessor, Myst. But Riven was better. :D) so enjoyable for me, personally. And why I'm playing Silent Hill 3 with the puzzles on hard. (And dang, that Shakespear puzzle was a doozy right off the bat.)

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 5:25 pm
by Zenith Nadir
I loved Myst.

No, really, it was excellent. If horrifically time wasting.