06-08-2003, 09:58 AM
Hail Meat,
You also forgot that no graphics can take the place of a black screen when it comes to being fearful of grues ;) I have Zork, Zork II, Zork III, Zork Zero, Beyond Zork, Return to Zork and Zork Nemesis - I heard Zork: Grand Inquisitor was pretty good, because it returned to the roots of the series, but never tried it out. Return to Zork was OK, but Zork Nemesis was so bad that it permanently turned me off graphical Adventure games for good: it was everything that people hate about the genre, amplified by a magnitude of 10! Oh, and I believe Beyond Zork (or maybe it was Zork Zero - my memory isn't great on things like this) had a few basic graphics in it, but at the core it was still a text-based game - and all the benefits of such were present :D
Oh, and for a bit of a laugh, here's how I worked out how to do commands in these games ;) I was typing anything that came to mind, but nothing would work. In the end, I got POed and typed `bite me': the response from the game (try it sometime :P ) suggested to me that it must work on some kind of a verb-noun parser, so I tried `look house', `go north', etc. I finally (after something like 20 minutes of trying) got it :)
You also forgot that no graphics can take the place of a black screen when it comes to being fearful of grues ;) I have Zork, Zork II, Zork III, Zork Zero, Beyond Zork, Return to Zork and Zork Nemesis - I heard Zork: Grand Inquisitor was pretty good, because it returned to the roots of the series, but never tried it out. Return to Zork was OK, but Zork Nemesis was so bad that it permanently turned me off graphical Adventure games for good: it was everything that people hate about the genre, amplified by a magnitude of 10! Oh, and I believe Beyond Zork (or maybe it was Zork Zero - my memory isn't great on things like this) had a few basic graphics in it, but at the core it was still a text-based game - and all the benefits of such were present :D
Oh, and for a bit of a laugh, here's how I worked out how to do commands in these games ;) I was typing anything that came to mind, but nothing would work. In the end, I got POed and typed `bite me': the response from the game (try it sometime :P ) suggested to me that it must work on some kind of a verb-noun parser, so I tried `look house', `go north', etc. I finally (after something like 20 minutes of trying) got it :)
May the wind pick up your heels and your sword strike true.