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What do you like best in games with lots of text?
Mika
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6/26/2015
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What do you like best in games like Fallen London, that are mostly text?
I really like playing games that have a big text component, like the mobile game 80-days, or the old text-adventures.
What I like most I think is the creativity that is possible with text, the originality with which the game is written, the humor of text even in serious games.
Or maybe the idea of combining reading and playing a game, I'm not sure ^^
What is your reason for playing these games? Do you like them better then 'normal' games, with mostly animations?
Just curious why other people play ^^
edited by Mika on 6/26/2015
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Little The
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6/27/2015
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I like the things that only text can do; character thoughts, metaphors and allusions, special word choice and imagery. Text can be a pretty constraining medium (especially with modern games' emphasis on shiny graphics!), so you might as well use it to its fullest.
I feel that way about books too though... For games specifically, I do like the choice aspect, but that's not unique to text-based games. I mostly just go with the flow and see if the story grabs me.
Oh, but one thing I definitely don't like is puzzles. Trying to solve a puzzle when you can't actually see the thing you're solving and have to fumble through a text parser is absolutely awful and I don't know how people do it. If you use choices like in FL, it's not much of a challenge at all, since recognition doesn't use the same mental skills.
edited by Little The on 6/27/2015
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Catherina
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6/26/2015
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Well, I'm still kind of finding out how things work in this game. I'm fairly new to text based games, but I really love it so far. I love the freedom that comes with it. There is so much to do and I can decide how I want to play entirely. I'm still not entirely sure how I want to do that, but I'm eager to play on.
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