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The Golden Mage
City Guard
Joined: 23 Mar 2002
Posts: 133
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the role playing forums are fun and their texted-based. |
Sun Apr 21, 2002 2:05 am |
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Jaz
Late Night Spook
Joined: 20 Jan 2002
Posts: 9708
Location: RPGDot |
Right Golden Mage. I like them text-based, and I also liked Zork. Sheesh, the parser...! Now that was some ability to interpret things. You could do nearly anything!
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Sun Apr 21, 2002 9:41 am |
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The Golden Mage
City Guard
Joined: 23 Mar 2002
Posts: 133
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Wow thx the realms of despair game is cool.  |
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Sat Apr 27, 2002 2:28 pm |
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Azkiel
Eager Tradesman
Joined: 14 Apr 2002
Posts: 42
Location: Montreal |
While it's not a 100% pure RPG, it's more a Diablo's grandfather, I found
nethack really fun to play. The complexity, depth and replay value greatly
surpass most, if not all, modern day games. If you're bored one day, I
greatly suggest you take a look, just take the time to read the docs before
playing.
Original text version
http://www.nethack.org
Graphical version
http://www.hut.fi/~jtpelto2/nethack.html
IMHO I prefer to play the text version, but I can understand people being
"scared" by it, so I included the link for the GUI version.
I can't count the number of nights I spent on this game... |
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Sat Apr 27, 2002 4:34 pm |
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spritex
Village Dweller
Joined: 06 May 2002
Posts: 18
Location: Helsinki, Finland |
quote:
Originally posted by Logan
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.
The so called IF or "Interactive Fiction" means more or less "text adventure games". Not RPG with stats and fighting and such. But games with stories and puzzles.
Second, I don't really agree about that step backward thing. Text adventures allow for problem mechanics that simply can't be implemented in 3D graphical systems. How do you "smell" or "feel" in a graphical game, for example?
Also, they are more like books compared to graphical games that are more like movies. Do you think books are somehow backwards?
Anyway, somebody already posted the links about the if archive. Just know that there are still very good games being produced (99% of the free), up to the Infocom standards and even better.
There is also a yearly competition which gets dozens of short game entries each year.
These games make you think hard and good ones can immerse you just like Morrowind or whatever. |
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