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rajjinni
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Joined: 03 Feb 2002
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Location: California |
What do you think about text-based RPG's?
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Mon Feb 18, 2002 2:44 am |
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EverythingXen
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Joined: 01 Feb 2002
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Location: House
move east
Location: East of House
You see a mailbox.
Check mail
There is no new mail.
east
Location: Path
exits: east
East
Location: Path...
ZORK!!!
Text based RPGs... are... um... old.
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Mon Feb 18, 2002 1:42 pm |
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Joey Nipps
Orcan High Command
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
Posts: 849
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Text based games (now called interactive fiction or IF) have a small following. The vast bulk of people are far too lazy for these types of games to appeal.
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Mon Feb 18, 2002 3:51 pm |
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Danicek
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Joined: 15 Dec 2001
Posts: 5922
Location: Czech Republic |
quote:
On 2002-02-18 09:51, Joey Nipps wrote:
Text based games (now called interactive fiction or IF) have a small following. The vast bulk of people are far too lazy for these types of games to appeal.
And are you? 
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Mon Feb 18, 2002 3:53 pm |
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EverythingXen
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I play a play by e-mail RPG based on Star Trek. It's fun because I'm a writer. I was referring to the old 'east east east east north north search pickup all east east attack' text based games from the 80s and on MUDs.
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Mon Feb 18, 2002 5:06 pm |
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Joey Nipps
Orcan High Command
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
Posts: 849
Location: Outer Space |
Danicek, as much as I hate to admit it - yes I am  .
It is not JUST the lack of graphics that bothers me in much of the IF - it is that few that I have found have the open style (such as in Gothic) that I prefer. As well, the fighting I have found in IF just isn't very compelling (at least for me).
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Mon Feb 18, 2002 8:31 pm |
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Danicek
The Old One
Joined: 15 Dec 2001
Posts: 5922
Location: Czech Republic |
quote:
On 2002-02-18 14:31, Joey Nipps wrote:
Danicek, as much as I hate to admit it - yes I am .
It is not JUST the lack of graphics that bothers me in much of the IF - it is that few that I have found have the open style (such as in Gothic) that I prefer. As well, the fighting I have found in IF just isn't very compelling (at least for me).
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Sir Markus
Counselor of the King
Joined: 11 Jan 2002
Posts: 369
Location: Columbus, Ohio USA |
A really nice free multiplayer CRPG, Realms of Despair, is quite a bit of fun, but no graphics. Been playing this game for a couple of years on and off. During peak hours they have between 300 and 400 players on at once, tough to learn, but worth the effort.
http://www.game.org/main.html
Ancient Domains of Mystery (A.D.O.M.) is a fun single player text based game, and free.
http://www.adom.de/
'Curses' by Graham Nelson is a very good game, but not so much a CRPG, this is more like the Infocom series, but it's still free.
http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/inform/biblio/works.html
And the original 'Adventure: Colossal Caves' is at this link, again a text based adventure, but more of a CRPG than some text adventures.
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10035-100-871531.html?tag=st.dl.10001-103-1.lst-7-1.871531
Just a few suggestions, all free.
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Tue Feb 19, 2002 3:48 am |
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Logan
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Joined: 14 Feb 2002
Posts: 7
Location: Chicago |
quote:
On 2002-02-17 20:44, rajjinni wrote:
What do you think about text-based RPG's?
I feel they are a step back in time rather than a continuation forward.
IMO
Sure, they are great fun for those that enjoy them and I don't begruge them that.
But some people today are also enjoying a lively game of PONG. I don't. |
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Tue Feb 19, 2002 3:51 am |
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rajjinni
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Joined: 03 Feb 2002
Posts: 3
Location: California |
quote:
On 2002-02-18 09:51, Joey Nipps wrote:
Text based games (now called interactive fiction or IF) have a small following. The vast bulk of people are far too lazy for these types of games to appeal.
You apparently haven't heard of the current text-based games out there that have hundreds of thousands of registered users (Gemstone III and DragonRealms, to name a couple)....... |
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Tue Feb 19, 2002 4:05 am |
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EverythingXen
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Compared to the hundreds of thousands that play console and computer games (or the maybe 50,000 - 100,000 that play RPGs)... a few thousand users IS a small base.
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Tue Feb 19, 2002 4:57 am |
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Joey Nipps
Orcan High Command
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
Posts: 849
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Thank you EverythingXen - what he said . I did NOT say nor did I mean to imply that there weren't people who enjoyed them. In fact, I said at the start that IF was alive and well - just not in large numbers.
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Tue Feb 19, 2002 1:37 pm |
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Nik
Captain of the Guard
Joined: 14 Feb 2002
Posts: 194
Location: Romania |
They might be quite enjoyable on WAP. Do you know any? |
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Mon Feb 25, 2002 1:36 pm |
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Shrapnel
Rocket Scientist
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
Posts: 1325
Location: Newark, NJ |
always move forwards, never backwards |
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