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Joe Redifer

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Re: What are your favorite videogame genres?
« Reply #30 on: June 29, 2007, 09:28:44 PM »
Phoenix Wright is not a point and click game.  I barely even touched the touch-screen at all when playing though PW2.  All I did was read text and choose options.   Kind of like JB Harold Murder Club.
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FM-77

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Re: What are your favorite videogame genres?
« Reply #31 on: June 30, 2007, 01:42:15 AM »
Phoenix Wright is definitely not a point and click game. The original GBA release featured no pointing and clicking (with a stylus anyway, hehehe). :P It's all text. A text advenure can be a text adventure even though it features graphics and isn't in black and white.
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Re: What are your favorite videogame genres?
« Reply #32 on: June 30, 2007, 03:09:15 AM »
A text adventure is not allowed to have graphics, that's why it's called a text adventure. Introduce graphics to the game, and it's no longer a text adventure but simply an adventure game.
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Joe Redifer

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Re: What are your favorite videogame genres?
« Reply #33 on: June 30, 2007, 11:17:38 AM »
I consider a "text adventure" game to be a game where the gameplay is handled through text (as opposed to an onscreen character that you control).  Everything concerning actual gameplay happens through the text.  An adventure game could cover so many categories if we go by Nödt's definition.  It could refer to Final Fantasy, Phoenix Wright, Castle of Illusion, Snatcher, Grand Theft Auto... all games where you go on an adventure.
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Kitsunexus

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Re: What are your favorite videogame genres?
« Reply #34 on: June 30, 2007, 11:34:07 AM »
Quote from: Joe Redifer on June 30, 2007, 11:17:38 AM
I consider a "text adventure" game to be a game where the gameplay is handled through text (as opposed to an onscreen character that you control).

So how come you don't even mention ZORK?  HUH!?
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Re: What are your favorite videogame genres?
« Reply #35 on: June 30, 2007, 11:42:59 AM »
Quote from: Kitsunexus on June 30, 2007, 11:34:07 AM
Quote from: Joe Redifer on June 30, 2007, 11:17:38 AM
I consider a "text adventure" game to be a game where the gameplay is handled through text (as opposed to an onscreen character that you control).

So how come you don't even mention ZORK?  HUH!?

Cuz only spastics like Zork.
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Joe Redifer

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Re: What are your favorite videogame genres?
« Reply #36 on: June 30, 2007, 12:13:23 PM »
Because I've never played or even heard of Zork.  Zork can go to hell.
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Re: What are your favorite videogame genres?
« Reply #37 on: June 30, 2007, 12:16:17 PM »
Quote from: Joe Redifer on June 30, 2007, 12:13:23 PM
Zork can go to hell.

Damn it, you beat me to it!
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Re: What are your favorite videogame genres?
« Reply #38 on: June 30, 2007, 12:37:53 PM »
You guys haven't heard of Zork? I'm not sure if it was the first text adventure game, but certainly the first popular one. I haven't played much of it since I suck at it.
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Joe Redifer

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Re: What are your favorite videogame genres?
« Reply #39 on: June 30, 2007, 01:21:27 PM »
I'd rather read a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book than play a game like Zork.  And I'm completely illiterate! 
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Re: What are your favorite videogame genres?
« Reply #40 on: June 30, 2007, 02:36:18 PM »
Quote from: Keranu on June 30, 2007, 12:37:53 PM
You guys haven't heard of Zork? I'm not sure if it was the first text adventure game, but certainly the first popular one. I haven't played much of it since I suck at it.

I'm fairly sure the first popular text adventure game was the classic Colossal Cave.

"You are lost in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike."
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Kitsunexus

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Re: What are your favorite videogame genres?
« Reply #41 on: June 30, 2007, 02:41:39 PM »
XYZZY!
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Re: What are your favorite videogame genres?
« Reply #42 on: June 30, 2007, 02:55:47 PM »
When I was a kid in the '80s our family computer was a Kaypro 4. Very limited graphics capability, and only shades of green for color.

So I had my fun playing lots of text adventures, Colossal Cave included. That and the first Zork were my favorites. I think my parents had the entire Infocom text adventure collection.

Around 1990 we finally got a IBM/PC clone with VGA (!!) graphics and that opened the door to a whole new realm of gaming.
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Kitsunexus

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Re: What are your favorite videogame genres?
« Reply #43 on: June 30, 2007, 05:12:18 PM »
Anybody remember the Lurking Horror? No text, but on the Amiga and some PCs, there was SOUND!!

If I can find a better host than Savefile, I'll upload the scream. It's a VERY disturbing scream.
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Joe Redifer

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Re: What are your favorite videogame genres?
« Reply #44 on: June 30, 2007, 05:19:10 PM »
What was that game for the Saturn that had no graphics or text whatsoever, only sound?
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