Re: 'People like to hate EA, I don't know why'

On Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:31:01 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:50:41 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
.../v wrote:
>

Of the games I paid for as a youngun, I consider Elite the best, only
rivaled by (you'll probably laugh at this) Zork III.

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No laughing at that. I remember playing Spellbreaker in my high school
computer lab. My teachers looked at it and said, "Yeah, go ahead."
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Zork III was ahead of its time. It was totally possible to screw the
pooch and think you were making progress. You'd even get points!

Now I'm having "Zork III" flashbacks. Oh god, that fucking mirror box
puzzle!

"Spellbreaker", though, was the game that pretty much convinced me I
was done with text-adventures. It's not that it was a bad game, or
even that hard, but its difficulty seemed more mean spirited; just to
be hard because it was expected to be hard. Meanwhile, other games
were starting to focus more on story and narrative, pushing the idea
(one I found more attractive) that it was the journey that made games
interesting. It wasn't the last text adventure game I played, but it
was in symbolic in that it ended my era of seeing text-adventures as
my primary genre.