Hi Zack,
Perhaps it wasn't intentional, but sometimes it can seem that way when
a command that seems perfectly logical to me doesn't work only to
discover the game expected it to be phrased a different way. I was
never sure if that was intentionally done that way or seems obscure
because the autho
Thomas et al,
I’m not sure i agree with the notion that authors implement guess the verb
puzzles deliberately. Some early games might have done so, as would games
parodying the difficulty and absurdity of those—Scott Adams is a prime example.
In general though, I think that such stuff fell out o
Hi Jim,
I often think that is intentional on the part of the author to make it
difficult to guess the correct command. Some find such guess the verb
situations as challenging, but I find it just annoying when I know
what I am suppose to do but can not tell the game what to do because
it has to be
Hi Thomas,
You got that right! and as I said to Lisa, some of the interpreters were better
than others. But it sure often was frusterating trying to figure out the
correct verb, syntax etc even when you knew what you needed to do.
BFN
Jim
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Hello Jim
I'll have to try it out. but first I have to find a iF interpreter. I
have a win 7 64bit cp now and I haven't been abel to find one that can run
on my pc with out shutting down on me.
bfn
James
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Hi Thomas,
You know if I had read the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy book I might
have known what to do with a babble fish.
BFN
Jim
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Hi Thomas,
I'm sure that many complex puzzles have stumped me. Some simple ones as
well. And then there are the puzzles that just make no sense.
Say that you are playing Leather Goddesses and you
NOw that bable fish was a good thing.
Lisa Hayes
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Hi Lisa,
No, I don't believe that I ever played MoonMist. Might have given it a try,
but don't remember. It has been a long time since I played any of those games.
You know like since I had a dos computer where they worked correctly with a
dos screen reader. I have down loaded the TTS Win
