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| 15 OCT 2002 at 3:47pm |
JoYSorcerer Apprentice
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Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Hmm... not playing as much as I would like, but the last one I really played was Guilty Bastards, which was very good I think.
I started looking at some of the competion entries, but I haven't really played anything yet.
JoY
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| 15 OCT 2002 at 4:37pm |
TimKIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | IF (especially the IFComp entries) is a fertile ground for good coffee-break adventures. Photopia by Adam Cadre is of course a ground-breaking piece of story-based IF. But there are other story-based coffee-break IF adventures from IFComp that are also quite compelling. Off the top of my head, last year's winner, All Roads by Jon Ingold springs to mind.
I generally wait until after the IFComp voting is complete, then I look at the ratings of various reviewers who seem to have the same tastes as I. Pick off their top-scoring games for an editor's choice list, as it were, of enjoyable coffee-break adventures.
-TimK
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| 15 OCT 2002 at 5:24pm |
The Terror of the Wolf part 3Schattenjger
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Joined: 11 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Hmmmm....
As a genre, they tend to be very difficult in that you often end up screaming at the computer whenever you spend an entire game becomming accustomed to one system for talking to characters, and then another game uses something completely different and you're stuck. Gah.
But aside from that, IF tends to be a breeding ground for true creativity and unique genre-busting games. One of my favourate types
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| 15 OCT 2002 at 5:58pm |
CerberusPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Some of the old commercial stuff are my favorites - anything by Magnetic Scrolls (like Jinxter) or Infocom, (like Hithchiker's guide to the Galaxy, Zork, etc - although there are *lots* I never got round to playing).
I haven't played much of the IF competition stuff, apart from those with a horror theme since that genre works really well in text if done correctly!
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| 16 OCT 2002 at 12:36am |
LancelotIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Hi,
I think also that Magnetic Scrolls games were the best in the world! They gave you such a huge interactivity, such a force for your imagination that you never find any more in current games. The sad thing in the interactive fiction that it died without usig up all of its power...
I just recently changed some mails with Bob Bates, the designer of Infocoms Arthur Quest for the Excalibur, who said he would be also happy to do an other text adventure, but there is no interest any more in the genre...
It would be an amazing project to revitalize it, wouldnt be?
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| 16 OCT 2002 at 1:54am |
| Deleted User | Click this:
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/lgop.html
Or read this:
"The year is 1936, In the United States, a new miracle fabric called nylon is becoming popular, the Great Plains continue to suffer from a severe drought that is turning the region into a Dust Bowl, Alf Landon is running for President, Victor Hess is receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering cosmic radiation, Gone With the Wind is the best-selling novel, and steak is twenty-five cents a pound. Elsewhere, black track star Jesse Owen is embarrassing Adolph Hitler by winning four gold medals at the Olympic Games in Berlin, Edward the VIII of England is abdicating the throne to marry a commoner, the Spanish Civil War is beginning to heat up, and the Leather Goddesses of Phobos are completing plans to invade the Earth and turn it into their private pleasure world. "
Yeah!!
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| 16 OCT 2002 at 2:44am |
OmniaIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | I like practically anything by Emily Short or Ian Finley.
I tried out insanely tense "Babel" and was hooked. His "Kaged" was also excellent.
"Galatea" by Short is sheer genius as is "Pytho's Mask" and "Best of Three". "L.A.S.H." by Paul O'Brien is also great. I enjoyed "Photopia" as well. Great game.
For more try, Baf's Guide to the IF Archive http://www.wurb.com/if/index
and Short's own page,
http://www.wurb.com/if/index
Happy typing,
Cheers, Omnia
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| 16 OCT 2002 at 11:56pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | i've played dozens of txt advs (that's how i used to know them... the IF name is very new to me) in the past... i might still play a few now and then... Level 9 was the top for me... Magnetic Scrolls was a close second... my fav was probably Ingrid's Back... i loved that game
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 17 OCT 2002 at 12:08am |
collectimaniacIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | What is the IF Comp thing? I've just gotten into the old Text adventures again and lots of the games listed in the post I haven't heard of. I've mainly been doing Infocom games. THX
Kimmie
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| 17 OCT 2002 at 12:12am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | and lots of the games listed in the post I haven't heard of you can find lots of free/abdware txt advs at The Underdogs... check them out
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 17 OCT 2002 at 12:33am |
collectimaniacIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Aya_Brea
Thanks! I'll check it out.
Kimmie
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| 17 OCT 2002 at 3:22pm |
| Deleted User | The first IF I played was Anchorhead, and it's still my favourite of the genre. It's creepy, it has got a solid backstory and plot, it's really long, and has a fantastic ambience and environment. The writing's excellent, the NPC's vivid, the puzzles logical and fair. It's really big, but I found next to no bugs. Great IF game, great adventure game, great game.
Best puzzle ever: Spider and Web. And I figured it out, all by myself.
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| 17 OCT 2002 at 4:36pm |
TimKIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Aya_Brea, a good site for IF is Stephen Granade's Brass Lantern. Also, to find information on a certain title, see Baf's Guide to the IF Archive, which includes listings for the IFComp entries (since they're archived in the IF Archive ).
-TimK
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| 17 OCT 2002 at 6:44pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Spider and Web was brilliant and really innovative. I loved it.
What I really like about IF is that the game authors are not afraid to experiment and take on difficult subjects (such as child abuse - yes, I'm thinking of Cadre).
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| 17 OCT 2002 at 8:44pm |
NellieSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Unity (17 OCT 2002 3:22pm)
Best puzzle ever: Spider and Web. And I figured it out, all by myself.
/me is impressed.
[b]£1bn -[/b] Amount British government has pledged to paying off debt of poorest nations over next 10 years.&&&&[b]£5bn -[/b] Amount British government has already spent on Iraq campaign.
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| 17 OCT 2002 at 8:57pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | Thanx for the links TimK... i've already visited Brass Lantern in the past but had forgotten it and the 2nd link is great! boy i have so many txt advs i haven't played and so little time on my hands!
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 17 OCT 2002 at 10:23pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Here's an interesting question: what's the craziest piece of IF you ever played?
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| 17 OCT 2002 at 10:30pm |
The Terror of the Wolf part 3Schattenjger
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Status : Online | Here's an interesting question: what's the craziest piece of IF you ever played?
'Pick up the phone booth and die'.
Because the first thing you want to do is pick up the phone booth This is crazy enough because... who is going to try to pick up a phone booth in any other IF?
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| 17 OCT 2002 at 10:32pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | I'm having a hard time answering my own question. Some of Cadre's stuff is pretty insane (Shrapnel comes to mind), but there is so much more... I will have to think about it.
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| 17 OCT 2002 at 10:58pm |
| Deleted User | Craziest game: Shade. Freaky. In a good way.
Nellie: You're making me blush. The one I'm impressed by is Andrew Plotkin, the guy that came up with the puzzle.
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| 21 OCT 2002 at 2:17pm |
DavidGilbertIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Unity (17 OCT 2002 3:22pm)
The first IF I played was Anchorhead, and it's still my favourite of the genre. It's creepy, it has got a solid backstory and plot, it's really long, and has a fantastic ambience and environment. The writing's excellent, the NPC's vivid, the puzzles logical and fair. It's really big, but I found next to no bugs. Great IF game, great adventure game, great game.
Yay! Anchorhead. I betatested this game way back when and I still think it's awesome. My main claim to fame regarding Anchorhead was coming up with the putting-all-the-keys-on-one-keychain thing.
<-- beaming pride.
I played a ton of IF in college because I had a very old computer. Now I don't have as much patience for it. arn these newfangled graphical adventures! They've lowered my attention span!
-Dave
&&--Dave
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| 21 OCT 2002 at 11:25pm |
Mike_ASorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | My IF heyday was back on the old C-64. I loved them. The first game I ever played on a PC happened to be Zork 1 at a friend's house. First game of any kind I ever beat was Pirate Adventure. Ah, the days.
I play some now, off and on. Through the wonders of PilotFrotz, I generally have at least one game on my Palm at a time so I can play when I get stuck waiting anywhere, on the train to work, in boring meetings - last week I played 9:05 while in a reduntant meeting and enjoyed it very much. I'd say my Palm was largely responsible for my return to IF.
Or go fishing. [i]- MI2 [/i]&&Okay. [i]- Me[/i]
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| 22 OCT 2002 at 8:30pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By DavidGilbert (21 OCT 2002 2:17pm)
My main claim to fame regarding Anchorhead was coming up with the putting-all-the-keys-on-one-keychain thing.
* Unity is impressed
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| 22 OCT 2002 at 8:46pm |
| Deleted User | My first comp was a Texas Instruments 99 4a.
I played all Scott Adams Adventure international games,
like Savage Island, Pirate Island, Ghost town and so on.
I think that Scott made those long before Infocom en Magnetic scrolls.
"so what's your point?"
I don't know. When I read about all those hero's like Al Lowe, Roberta etc., I think that Scott Adams is a little bit forgotten, altough he's one of the real starters of it all.
He's my hero.
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