Text adventures

[TheReturnofDMD]

Anyone actually prefer Text Adventures to Graphic Adventures, or at the very least like them? I think that it's sad text adventures fell out of popularity, because adventure games are in essence interactive stories/novels and text adventures really make this concept clear--And because you don't see anything, it makes you use your mind more (both to imagine what the scene looks like and also to figure out what to do; there are no ''hotspots'' or anything). I think the narrator in Sierra graphic games was a holdover from the text adventure days. I mean in theory, with games like KQ5 and KQ6 the graphics were advanced enough that you didn't need a narrator really, but it added that ''story/novel'' like feel.

Text Adventures should've been the future of fiction--I don't mean as video games, but as the next step in novels/book writing. A truly big and expansive and well written text adventure would be specially cool if someone like Steven King wrote one--Just imagine that, an interactive Steven King novel, watching the horror unfold and you be a part of it.

[Baggins]

You were eaten by a grue...

Seriously love Zork. Probably the only text series I ever got into.

[KatieHal]

Text Adventures should've been the future of fiction--I don't mean as video games, but as the next step in novels/book writing. A truly big and expansive and well written text adventure would be specially cool if someone like Steven King wrote one--Just imagine that, an interactive Steven King novel, watching the horror unfold and you be a part of it.

That's basically how I feel when reading a book--part of the story as it unfolds. I never really got into text adventures, personally, and I enjoy having graphics when I'm playing a game. There is a small but dedicated text adventure/interactive fiction community out there, though. A co worker of mine is into that.

[wilco64256]

I would say that text adventures do often include their own particular type of hotspots.  Often you'll see something like this:

You are in (room).  You see (stuff).

You also see a bucket on the ground.

You also see a doorbell.

Certainly there are still plenty of things you have to search around to locate so it's not all super-obvious, but they do still frequently have some fairly obvious things from time to time.

I do like text-based MMO's - Gemstone in particular.

[Rosella]

Oooh, I was REALLY into Achaea for a while, a fabulous text-based MMO. Other than that though, I can't say I was all too into text games. They seemed to have a different flavor of puzzles that didn't click well with me.

[LadyTerra]

You were eaten by a grue...

Seriously love Zork. Probably the only text series I ever got into.

^_^  I remember Zork.  There was this gaming class I took in college, and when the professor asked if anyone had ever heard of Zork, my boyfriend and I were the only ones who raised our hands.  Damn whipersnappers...

My favorite has to be Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  It's just so bizarre, and Douglas Adams himself did most of the writing.

[Baggins]

Well any of the infocom stuff is great really. I own all of them, just never had the time to complete them.

I have finished most of the Zork games and a few games from the spinoff series (occur in the Zork Universe). Enchanter trilogy, and Wishstone I think were the names of those games, its been a while. The latter game was made by Brian Moriarity IIRC, who would later go on to make Loom.