StaceyPowers Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 Anyone here enjoy text-based games? Like MUDs, old Infocom single-player games, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanC Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Yeah, I like em. Only played A Dark Room on iOS and a few old-school ones on Amstrad way back when. The Zork series should make a comeback on Switch or phones. StaceyPowers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaphoneStallone Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 How does it work? I'm really not familiar here. Is it where you control a character through text, or is this full on RPG forum stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaceyPowers Posted October 28, 2018 Author Share Posted October 28, 2018 3 hours ago, MegaphoneStallone said: How does it work? I'm really not familiar here. Is it where you control a character through text, or is this full on RPG forum stuff? It's where entire games are text-based inputs/outputs. Like you read a description of a room, then you type "northwest" to walk "northwest" to another room, and so forth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o-o Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Like Monkey-Island? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaphoneStallone Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 3 hours ago, StaceyPowers said: It's where entire games are text-based inputs/outputs. Like you read a description of a room, then you type "northwest" to walk "northwest" to another room, and so forth. Oh, cool. Doesn't sound like my sort of thing - but cool. 1 hour ago, o-o said: Like Monkey-Island? From the description Stacey gave it doesn't seem like Monkey Island at all. Monkey Island you select dialogue via clicking predetermined quotes...Not to mention all the clicking on objects etc you click. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alyxx Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 As someone who regurarily play tabletop RPG's over Discord and Telegram I absolutely love text games. StaceyPowers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaceyPowers Posted October 29, 2018 Author Share Posted October 29, 2018 20 hours ago, MegaphoneStallone said: Oh, cool. Doesn't sound like my sort of thing - but cool. From the description Stacey gave it doesn't seem like Monkey Island at all. Monkey Island you select dialogue via clicking predetermined quotes...Not to mention all the clicking on objects etc you click. Here's an example of what I mean: Completely text-based =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yarik Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 I don't think that I have played any text-based only game. Basically, I don't like to see text only when I'm playing something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaphoneStallone Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 3 hours ago, StaceyPowers said: Here's an example of what I mean: Completely text-based =D Wow. Looks interesting. I'm not sure it's something that could hold my attention. But cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaceyPowers Posted October 29, 2018 Author Share Posted October 29, 2018 (edited) 59 minutes ago, MegaphoneStallone said: Wow. Looks interesting. I'm not sure it's something that could hold my attention. But cool. It's actually very immersive. After a while, you kind of forget you're reading and typing. It's hard to beat the graphics engine of the imagination. You can think of the mulitplayer ones (MUDs) as kind of over-glorified chat rooms where the "rooms" are virtual locations with descriptions, all interconnecting into whole lands. You can hang out and talk, create new buildings or landscapes, engage in combat, attempt to take over the world, whatever. Edited October 29, 2018 by StaceyPowers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alyxx Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 I love text adventures since it's similar to when you play tabletop RPG's (at least my kind of games) where you have to imagine a lot of what's going on. StaceyPowers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Farrell Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 I haven't played this type of game in ages! I would love to get back into a few different games like this if I knew where to get the games. StaceyPowers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katri Marcell Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 I've never played a text based game but if you have any recommendations send them my way. I'm super intrigued to try them out 😛 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
