Why are you not playing Zork?!

[ErwinGodfrey]

I thought the internet was the place where you could share personal information and not be judged?

Ha ha ha, not even close friendo, but thanks for the Zap pic, I very much enjoy Futurama.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[lacktheknack]

I thought the internet was the place where you could share personal information and not be judged?

Ah, no. It's the place you're free to not care about being judged.

 

[Penguinis Weirdus]

I couldn't ever for the life of me get past the troll in the basement

I think you have to attack it with the sword you find in the house or you give it the packed lunch you find in the kitchen

OT: I'm not playing as I'm not in my Linux partition where it is installed... that and the map I nicked off the web has been lost/deleted/eaten by grue

 

[Rack]

Pick up sword.

I don't know what an "Up" is.

Get sword.

You don't have the sword!

Obtain sword.

I'm sorry I don't understand.

No, never liked text adventures. Even when you could wrestle them into doing what you want the puzzles used a kind of moon logic that make Gabriel Knight look positively sane.

 

[Bostur]

I don't play it because I'm too dumb to complete it. And I also prefered the Enchanter/Sorcerer/Spellbreaker spinoffs that had some more depth and were a little more modern as far as text adventures come. The Zork series is very barebones in its puzzles and flavour text.

I prefer adventures with narrative puzzles instead of mechanical puzzles. The Zork series get very mechanical sometimes with mazes that needs to be navigated and Myst style contraptions.