Jenkem
その目、だれの目?
It was monocled.
as well as prone to mindless frustration either because the verbs were underspecified or overspecified
it's an obstacle the genre simply surpassed by introducing a limited set of, say, twelve verbs (modern adventure games do away with twelve and mostly ever use four at best, treating Open/Close as default actions on doors and Use as assumed action on containers)
also, please don't even try to claim that typing out labels is preferable to clicking on them
Don't be moronic. Using the mouse to click on something is faster than typing out a sentence. All those convoluted steps you're describing together only take a (split) second to do in reality.and yes it is faster to type "use book on shelf" than to mouse to the top of the screen, mouse over the book in your inventory, then mouse over to the shelf and either click again or stop clicking. typing is literally faster
Uhhh... that’s not how people wrote prior to the printing press.Printing press was a mistake, people had to carefully think through every word if they had to punch it in solid rock letter by letter.
People who complain that IF is about guessing verbs have never been exposed to a proper user-friendly parser.
https://af.gog.com/game/eric_the_unready?as=1649904300People who complain that IF is about guessing verbs have never been exposed to a proper user-friendly parser.
Expose this parser to me.
Just play Goblinboy's games.Expose this parser to me.
Printing press was a mistake, people had to carefully think through every word if they had to punch it in solid rock letter by letter.
Verbs are fine for basic physical interactions you'll be doing all the time like picking up stuff and opening and closing things, but the text parser should never have been abandoned for the purposes of dialogue, riddles and puzzles that involve text/numbers.
Don't be moronic. Using the mouse to click on something is faster than typing out a sentence. All those convoluted steps you're describing together only take a (split) second to do in reality.
People who complain that IF is about guessing verbs have never been exposed to a proper user-friendly parser.
Expose this parser to me.
Snail Trek is a good one: https://store.steampowered.com/app/751280/Snail_Trek__Chapter_1_Intershellar/
Don't be moronic. Using the mouse to click on something is faster than typing out a sentence.
Don't be moronic. Using the mouse to click on something is faster than typing out a sentence.
It really isn't. For one click, maybe. For two or more, with some distance between the clicks -- doubt it. There are certain interfaces that are more suitable for mouse navigation (i.e. web pages with links), but in most practical situations using a keyboard is faster, more intuitive and most importantly, doesn't depend on feedback (the mouse's critical design flaw). Maybe try it at work some time.
I don't know how to It was.It was monocled.
Parser games aren't good for the exceptionally lazy. Typing in a bunch of long words repeatedly can be hard work for that type.