Hi all. on the topic of text addvenchers I remember when I was little
playing eamin on the old apple 2 e pc and also i also remember years later
playing the txt game of hitchhikers guide. I wish that some one would invent
a audio game or something of eamin that would be able to work on windows
since I would like to play that again. from Mich.
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From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 7:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Fast paced games now text adventures
Hi Tom.
with sryth I just got irritated that a character I'd been playing for six
years still! needed to donate hundreds of dollars for in game items, and
often all I got with the new adventures was some sort of short "you fight
this monster then this monster" type of affair. Allt he gm seemed to be
doing at that point was pandering to those who liked to compare stats with
all those raid monsters, and putting in sinks to take your tocans.
Frankly, given that even in 2009 there were 400 paying members, each of
which contributed 20 usd a year, that should've been more than enough to
keep the game going.
This is why I prefer ce, since all the commercial items there are very
carefully balanced and none are necessary at all, or puppet nightmares
where you can pretty much earn the in game currency in spades if you play
anyway. It also helps that puppet nightmares, while it doesn't have a
realistic combat system as you describe, does have a very detailed one
involving three pokemon like creatures battling three enemies. You can for
instance have one of your soul puppet's use a skill which increases the
ennemy's damage to fire, another use a skill on an ally which increases
their magic, and the third with it's increased magic use the firewall
skill to blow your enemy away.
the only problem with pn is that there is no in game battle descriptive
text or descriptive text for the skills, which is actually a shame since
such text does! exist in the columns of skill descriptions and affects
which exist in the games' help system, however when I suggested to the gm
that he make this info available in the game itself he said while hwas
quite happy to make access changes, such increases in text descriptions
would spoil the look of the interface and in his view only be of bennifit
to blind people, (I did point out the prevailance of text based games but
he didn't respond).
a shame, since in the matter of labelling images and such he's otherwise
been great, and the story text to the game is fairly unique.
either way one game which does! have that sort of combat system is the
glulx rpg kerkerkruip, in fact I'd highly recommend it, particularly the
new version which fixes one of the major problems I had with previous
versions of the game and actually lets you gain experience by fighting
monsters, rather than just swap your abilities around meaning that you can
now progress by winning random combats where as before defeating the wrong
monster at the wrong time could actually cost you the game.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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