Zork is an Role Playing Game!

[mirrorshades]

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http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/blog/2 ... ler-times/

I think Zork was appealing because in many ways it felt like a fantasy role-playing game. There was magic, treasure to be found, monsters, and of course a sprawling dungeonesque environment. Yeah, your character didn’t possess stats, nor did you level up, but so what? You were playing a role—the curious adventurer. Why does everyone insist that in order to be considered a role-playing game you need volumes of numbers, and experience points, and so on…they’re called role-playing games, not number-crunching-analytic-games!

w00t!

 

[GoldLeader]

What is this Zork and where is he hiding?

 

[psycojester]

*Goldleader is eaten by a Grue*

 

[GoldLeader]

What is a grue?

 

[psycojester]

The grue is a sinister, lurking presence in the dark places of the earth. Its favorite diet is adventurers, but its insatiable appetite is tempered by its fear of light. No grue has ever been seen by the light of day, and few have survived its fearsome jaws to tell the tale.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

See:

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/blog/2 ... ler-times/

"See" is not a allowed verb. Please re-phrase or just use "Look".

"Look: http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/blog/2 ... ler-times/"

I'm sorry, what would you want to Look at?

"LOOK AT:

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/blog/2 ... ler-times/"

Ha ha ha!!!

"LOOK AT THE FUCKING http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/blog/2 ... ler-times/ page!"

Was it so hard to lose the unallowed symbol ":"?

"GO NORTH"

You fell off a cliff. Press any key to restart.

Choices. Consequences. Wonderful union.

 

[mirrorshades]

What is this Zork and where is he hiding?

http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

 

[pkt-zer0]

What isn't an RPG these days?

 

[psycojester]

Fallout

 

[aries202]

No, Zork is NOT an rpg, it is (mostly) a text-adventure game which, btw, is 30 this year (I think??)

and a grue is something that will eat you if you don't have any lights turned on when you go exploring. Unfortunately, noone has ever seen a grue - since they are afraid of the - light.

so

> you're standing outside a Vault.
> vault 101
> I don't understand 101???
> you see a mailbox to the north
> go north
> open mailbox
> what do you want to open it with?
> Fatman
> Incorrect
> Fat Man
> There's no Fat Man here
> open mailbox with fatman
> congruent error
> use science skills
> you don't have any sciense skills
> go south
> you enter the dark vault and is eaten by

a grue-some rpg named Fallout 3.

 

[glasnost]

Confirmed, survived grue spottings have been reported since 1997, courtesy of Zork: The Undiscovered Underground.

...and Mark Blanc had a hand in writing it, so it's extremely canonical.



Zork was my first game, and while I've witnessed the rise and fall of my interest in other gaming mediums, text still holds all its appeal. GUIs don't interface to my brain as well as natural language parsers (something Infocom did good early work in)

 

[Hümmelgümpf]

See:

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/blog/2 ... ler-times/

"See" is not a allowed verb. Please re-phrase or just use "Look".

"Look: http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/blog/2 ... ler-times/"

I'm sorry, what would you want to Look at?

"LOOK AT:

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/blog/2 ... ler-times/"

Ha ha ha!!!

"LOOK AT THE FUCKING http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/blog/2 ... ler-times/ page!"

Was it so hard to lose the unallowed symbol ":"?

"GO NORTH"

You fell off a cliff. Press any key to restart.

Choices. Consequences. Wonderful union.

Ah... Sweet, sweet memories...

 

[Oarfish]

Later text adventures did introduce RPG elements I remember enjoying the Price of Magick