trying to jack off posted:

loom is cool

Cubone posted:

Zork I would say is a little different, because I think it's like that on purpose. instead of incompetence and needing you to read the game designers' mind, Zork that knows what it's doing is wrong, but it's toying with you. it's a bit like I Wanna Be the Guy- the point is that it's unfair, and the fun of it (if you like) is tangoing with the unfairness and this kinda smug persona of the all-knowing designer.
I actually really like Zork lol. it's deeply flawed, but there's a playfulness to what it's doing

mysterious loyall X posted:

the early sierra games and infocom games, especially zork since that was their very first game, were directly inspired by stuff like the colossal cave adventure, which gave you text descriptions of rooms, a text parser for interactions, and killed you nonstop. everyone at infocom went to mit and had access to the pdp-10s and poo poo which is what the great cave adventure was designed on in like 1976, and thats what the original zork ran on (it was "released" in like 1977 or 78).

Odddzy posted:

Tangential but since we're on the subject of text adventure games, check this one out (free): https://dwheeler.com/anchorhead/

It's a Cthulhu horror game where you play a woman that moved to a fishing town with your family. The game happens over a few days. Besides the infocom games this one stuck with me. It won a lot of awards.

Wormskull posted:

You were there. Old.

mysterious loyall X posted:

uh it would be epic to be an ancient mit hacker? now of days computer programers go durrr hurrr gpt4 make me the basedest uncuckest fancial recognition program disguised as a match 3 game and then clap their seal flippers and say ork ork ork while jeffery epstein feeds them fish.

mysterious loyall X posted:

uh it would be epic to be an ancient mit hacker? now of days computer programers go durrr hurrr gpt4 make me the basedest uncuckest fancial recognition program disguised as a match 3 game and then clap their seal flippers and say ork ork ork while jeffery epstein feeds them fish.

mysterious loyall X posted:

uh it would be epic to be an ancient mit hacker? now of days computer programers go durrr hurrr gpt4 make me the basedest uncuckest fancial recognition program disguised as a match 3 game and then clap their seal flippers and say ork ork ork while jeffery epstein feeds them fish.

mysterious loyall X posted:

uh it would be epic to be an ancient mit hacker? now of days computer programers go durrr hurrr gpt4 make me the basedest uncuckest fancial recognition program disguised as a match 3 game and then clap their seal flippers and say ork ork ork while jeffery epstein feeds them fish.

mysterious loyall X posted:

uh it would be epic to be an ancient mit hacker? now of days computer programers go durrr hurrr gpt4 make me the basedest uncuckest fancial recognition program disguised as a match 3 game and then clap their seal flippers and say ork ork ork while jeffery epstein feeds them fish.

mysterious loyall X posted:

uh it would be epic to be an ancient mit hacker? now of days computer programers go durrr hurrr gpt4 make me the basedest uncuckest fancial recognition program disguised as a match 3 game and then clap their seal flippers and say ork ork ork while jeffery epstein feeds them fish.

mysterious loyall X posted:

uh it would be epic to be an ancient mit hacker? now of days computer programers go durrr hurrr gpt4 make me the basedest uncuckest fancial recognition program disguised as a match 3 game and then clap their seal flippers and say ork ork ork while jeffery epstein feeds them fish.

Odddzy posted:

Tangential but since we're on the subject of text adventure games, check this one out (free): https://dwheeler.com/anchorhead/

It's a Cthulhu horror game where you play a woman that moved to a fishing town with your family. The game happens over a few days. Besides the infocom games this one stuck with me. It won a lot of awards.

mysterious loyall X posted:

uh it would be epic to be an ancient mit hacker? now of days computer programers go durrr hurrr gpt4 make me the basedest uncuckest fancial recognition program disguised as a match 3 game and then clap their seal flippers and say ork ork ork while jeffery epstein feeds them fish.

Tokyo Sexwale posted:

my dad used to bring home all sorts of weird dos games and I have forgotten a lot of them but I don't think I'll ever forget trying to figure out how to play this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maVsU8Yyu4g

Tokyo Sexwale posted:

my dad used to bring home all sorts of weird dos games and I have forgotten a lot of them but I don't think I'll ever forget trying to figure out how to play this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maVsU8Yyu4g

quote:

The background story is told by a 64-page novella with 19 chapters written by Rupert Goodwins.

Steve is in love with his attractive coworker Emily. Unbeknownst to Steve, Emily is possessed by a daemon named Zelloripus who was banished to Earth, stripped of most of her powers, and trapped into a human female due to unspecified crimes done to other daemons. Emily sees a chance to let someone else suffer and stifle her boredom. She tricks Steve to take three pills she has mixed to "cure his flu". While the pills do cure him, they also grant Zelloripus access to his body and mind. His dreams become both more lucid and strange, each one getting more intense and painful. Steve's psychiatrist does not understand what causes the dreams, and neither does Steve. He refers him to a neurosurgeon. After his health dramatically declines, Steve undertakes brain surgery in an attempt to stop the dreams. Under an anaesthetic, he slips into one more dream, possibly his last.

Tokyo Sexwale posted:

rip bicyclops, got stung by a man-sized wasp and his head blew up

Pablo Nergigante posted:

Tokyo Sexwale posted:

my dad used to bring home all sorts of weird dos games and I have forgotten a lot of them but I don't think I'll ever forget trying to figure out how to play this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maVsU8Yyu4g

Arch Nemesis posted:

There were some fun text adventures in game club s1 if you're looking for recs. Superluminal Vagrant Twin sticks out in my memory but they were all cool

Autisanal Cheese posted:

Oh that rings a bell, where can I find that thread?

Autisanal Cheese posted:

Oh that rings a bell, where can I find that thread?

mysterious loyall X posted:

someone made a mouselook + wasd movement patch for ultima underworld 1 and 2 its pretty impressive.

https://github.com/JohnGlassmyer/UltimaHacks

uu1+2 aren't like super clunky compared to other looking glass studios hits like good ol system shock and other antedeluvian dos pieces of garbage, but its nice you can toggle it on and off + wasd works wether mouse look is on or your using the old mouse movement pointer mode.

mostly tho i wanted ot psot the intro which i had forgot about. hell for all i know i had a floppy version with no speech at all idr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW-Eo2Y8PmQ&t=199s