Text or graphic adventure?

alkis21 · Mon 07/08/2006 21:26:02

I wish more games would experiment with the idea Leisure Suit Larry 7 used: An icon driven interface *and* a text parser.

Ghormak · Mon 07/08/2006 21:39:43

Quote from: Yoda Man on Mon 07/08/2006 21:25:06
By text adventures i meanÃ,Â pure text- no graphics at all, no music. A vry unrealistic adventure.

You mean like... books?

Preposterous!

Helm · Mon 07/08/2006 21:40:24

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/SANTAELBURRITO/diagram.jpg

Steel Drummer · Mon 07/08/2006 22:21:09

Quote from: Ghormak on Mon 07/08/2006 21:39:43
Quote from: Yoda Man on Mon 07/08/2006 21:25:06
By text adventures i mean pure text- no graphics at all, no music. A vry unrealistic adventure.

You mean like... books?

Preposterous!

Like the very first text adventures- I remember a King Arthur game or something. Yes, kind of like an interactive book.

scotch · Mon 07/08/2006 22:26:59

I'm not sure which I prefer, but one advantage of text based games is I can specify exactly what I'd like to do, for example
> BURN YODA MAN

Esseb · Mon 07/08/2006 22:32:22

"Burn Yoda Man with what?"

Pesty · Mon 07/08/2006 22:56:44

>BURN YODA MAN WITH BURNSAUCE

LimpingFish · Mon 07/08/2006 23:08:06

>pick up key
>I don't understand "UP"
>pick key
>You can't use the "KEY" in that way.
>Quit
>Quit? Y/N
>Y

The death of the text parser. Natural selection in all it's glory.

Radiant · Mon 07/08/2006 23:30:04

> Put everything except the green key in the linen bag
Ok.
> Give it to the squirrel
Which squirrel do you mean, the tall squirrel or the fat squirrel?
> Tall
Ok.
> Tall squirrel, go east then north then throw the bag into the volcano
Ok.

Don't bash parsers until you've played the good parsers.

Steel Drummer · Tue 08/08/2006 00:04:44

Quote from: scotch on Mon 07/08/2006 22:26:59
I'm not sure which I prefer, but one advantage of text based games is I can specify exactly what I'd like to do, for example
> BURN YODA MAN

What does almost everyone here have against me? They ignore the thread of my new in production game and they ignore my Critic Lounge posts.

Ghormak · Tue 08/08/2006 00:33:41

It's not you, it's what you write.

Look at your first post here! You dismiss an entire genre, a genre that has many brilliant games, on the grounds that "typing is SOOOOO annoying!"Ã,Â I mean what the hell!

Steel Drummer · Tue 08/08/2006 00:39:27

I guess it's not my writing, it's my opinion that you have against me. So much for freedom of speech.

I just find text adventures annoying because they are too mucg like books. Why would I want to go on my computer to do that kind of thing? Why not just go in my room and read something?

Domino · Tue 08/08/2006 00:41:27

I remember playing a text adventure game back in the 80's called Cutthroats. Even though it was all text, every room i imagined in my head, and the game became alot of fun, although very tough as i never finished it.

I guess with text adventures you can imagine whatever you want. I kept picturing the island i was on as the island of Sweethaven from the movie Popeye. Now that is strange.

If i can remember correctly, there was somebody following me across the map in the game, and i started to get scared because i didn't know what was gonna happen.

So, i have had great times with both genre of adventure games. Oh, the memories....

Shawn

Steel Drummer · Tue 08/08/2006 00:47:10

I dunno. I guess text adventures just aren't my thing. I do remember the black cauldron being kinda fun for a while, but it got hard since you didn't know what you were supposed to do.

Pesty · Tue 08/08/2006 01:14:18

Quote from: Yoda Man on Tue 08/08/2006 00:39:27
I guess it's not my writing, it's my opinion that you have against me. So much for freedom of speech. :(Ã,Â
I just find text adventures annoying because they are too mucg like books. Why would I want to go on my computer to do that kind of thing? Why not just go in my room and read something?Ã,Â

Freedom of speech is the ability to state your opinion without being punished.

Freedom of speech is not stating your opinion and having everyone who hears it automatically agree with you.

I'm sorry, Yoda Man. You have been eaten by a grue.

Steel Drummer · Tue 08/08/2006 03:28:37

Quote from: Pesty on Tue 08/08/2006 01:14:18
Quote from: Yoda Man on Tue 08/08/2006 00:39:27
I guess it's not my writing, it's my opinion that you have against me. So much for freedom of speech.
I just find text adventures annoying because they are too mucg like books. Why would I want to go on my computer to do that kind of thing? Why not just go in my room and read something?

Freedom of speech is the ability to state your opinion without being punished.

Freedom of speech is not stating your opinion and having everyone who hears it automatically agree with you.

I'm sorry, Yoda Man. You have been eaten by a grue.

One time I spoke out against homosexuals and it seemed like the whole forum was burning against me. So what if I don't like text adventures? Come kill me, see if I care.

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Tue 08/08/2006 03:33:15

Quote> Put everything except the green key in the linen bag
Ok.
> Give it to the squirrel

I doubt any parser would be intelligent enough to know what 'it' is.

thewalrus · Tue 08/08/2006 03:38:01

Well, it's like this..... some of us didn't have the luxury of having graphical adventures at first. They just didn't exsist. Sooooo, at that time if you wanted to play an adventure game it was text and that was that. I personally consider Zork to be one of the best adventure games ever. And when I say adventure, I mean adventure, I would hardly consider Zork an IF game.

Thewalrus

Goo, goo, ga, joob!!!!!!!

MrColossal · Tue 08/08/2006 03:45:29

Quote from: Yoda Man on Tue 08/08/2006 03:28:37
One time I spoke out against homosexuals and it seemed like the whole forum was burning against me. So what if I don't like text adventures? Come kill me, see if I care.

While I have no idea what you're talking about with the homosexuals I just want to emphasize Pete's point.

Yodaman, you can and you did write that you don't like text adventures, and people disagreed with you. That is freedom of speech at work. While the term doesn't really apply, as Pete pointed out, you were not censored and your posts were not deleted. You have the freedom to say you don't like text adventures for whatever reason.

No one is going to kill you. I don't even know how we would.

Pesty · Tue 08/08/2006 04:00:14

Quote from: MrColossal on Tue 08/08/2006 03:45:29
No one is going to kill you. I don't even know how we would.

Especially seeing as how he's already dead, having been eaten by a grue.

Should've brought a lantern with you, Yoda Man. Then maybe you would not be in this predicament.