Why is there no love for text adventure games on this sub?

Why is there no love for text adventure games on this sub? Think the first game i ever played on a home computer was the Hobbit and from there on i really enjoyed the genre. Grew up playing most of the Level 9 classics like Red Moon, Dungeon Adventure etc. Even created a couple of games myself, one of which i sent to Derek Brewster of Crash magazine. He didnt like it very much but told me not to give up. Went on to play most of the Magnetic Scrolls games like Thieves Guild and the Pawn. I know they're not everybody's cup of tea but its a shame they arent talked about more often. Just wondered what your favourites were?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Cause this board is Ganker with a different paint job, should have found a way to make the topic “text adventures vs something else” so that people would uncontrollably seethe and pick sides, 400 posts minimum

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      fbfp

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Ah yes, fbfp, meaning, "first best first post"

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >this sub
    Bureaucracy, A Mind Forever Voyaging and Planetfall for me btw

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    DON’T KNOW HOW TO “FRICK” SOMETHING

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      play Moist

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Give us good games to play of them and explain why the text adventures are worth our time.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >on this sub
    Literally have a nice day.
    Even if it's bait, have a nice day.
    jannies do your fricking job for once

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      You should have a nice day. He’s writing about actual retro games rather than gay fricking fake retro like Metroid prime and halo that people shit this place with

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >’
        Get the frick out of here reddit chink

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        well said

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    The closest I've ever got to beating one was Radical Dreamers. I think this genre is fascinating, but they're probably one of the least accessible genres on all of retro gaming.

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm barely old enough to remember when NES was still supported let alone text based computer games. It is pretty crazy to me that Oregon Trail has been around since the early 70s

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because we're not all jaded 100 year old boomers
    nah jks i liek Drug Wars :3

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I tried a DOS port of Colossal Cave Adventure and got filtered

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >on this sub
    it would seem text adventure fans are huge Black personhomosexuals, so that answers the question and I am reading no further

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >sub

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I like the sierra adventure games that are like a hybrid txt but you get to move your character around. I’m too old barely for true txt adventure. My entre into games was police Quest 2 and kings quest 3.

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I played a bit of Zork as a freshman in high school, after being exposed to the genre in a Kingdom of Loathing parody quest.

    Didn't get far but I think I'd appreciate them more now.

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Zoomers can’t read
    Might have better luck on the Ganker subchan

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I've seen threads about text adventures and IF pop up from time to time. I got into them through the non-commercial IF games in the 90s. First one I played (but never completed) was Curses.

    Some really short and small games that are suitable for beginners:
    9:05
    Shade
    I-O Interstate Zero
    The Baron
    Photopia
    Rameses
    A lot of these are very experimental though, bordering on pretentious or are hardly even games (like Rameses) but they're good starting points since they're short.

    And some longer I liked:
    Lost Pig
    Spider and Web
    The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet
    Christminster

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      forgot to mention you can get all these games at https://ifdb.org/
      and you need an interpreter to play them. Some can be played directly in the browser though. But it's better with an interpreter, like Gargoyle, so you can save properly. Gargoyle can be used to play old Infocom games too.

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    get ye sub

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is the fact that you spend so much time just figuring out which basic words the game actually understands meant to be part of the experience or taken as a really unfortunate limitation of the technology at the time?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Limitation. The later games generally have a lot more words they understand and accept than earlier games. But even then sometimes developers forget to implement certain turns of phrases.

      It's a limitation born out of the freedom that text adventures give you though. The freedom to try anything imaginable. Which can result in a lot of frustration and "guess the verb"-puzzles when badly implemented, but also puzzles that require a lot more creative thinking when implemented well. And requiring more creative thinking than what was possible in later point-and-click games for example, where the possible actions gradually became more streamlined but also more limited.

      But generally, the newer the text adventure game is, the less frustration and the more words it understands.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I used to play the freebies that would pad out C64 covertapes. They tended to stick to GET/TAKE, USE, TALK, N, S, E, W, etc. The problem games were the try hard ones that thought they had cracked natural language parsing and wanted you to have a conversation with the interpreter. Far better to play games that understood they were just text based interfaces to move and interact with interactables.

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Leaving the "sub" issue alone, the truth is that there are few people on this board who grew up playing games pre-1990, it's just the demographic. Very little discussion of old arcade games or home computers unfortunately, and what's worse is the Millennials here shitting on the systems they're not familiar instead of realising that its just a matter of the year that you were born.
    t. Xer

  19. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Level 9 was pretty shit tbh. Their only really good game was Snowball.

  20. 10 months ago
    Dave

    Because this place is full of consolegays masturbators. They actually think N64 is a good console.

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