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rajjinni
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What do you think about text-based RPG's?

Post Mon Feb 18, 2002 2:44 am
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ZORK!!!

Text based RPGs... are... um... old.



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Post Mon Feb 18, 2002 1:42 pm
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Joey Nipps
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Post Tue Feb 19, 2002 4:57 am
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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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If you are interested in some of the Interactive Fiction and perhaps interested in authoring some yourself, here are a few links to get started (there is also a newsgroup dedicated to IF).

http://ifonline.net/info/index.php

http://www.ifarchive.org/

This one has software to author multiplayer text IF games.
http://www.robin.rawsontetley.btinternet.co.uk/iage/

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They might be quite enjoyable on WAP. Do you know any?
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always move forwards, never backwards
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