Hi tom.
well I wasn't in the same position as yourself in wanting the latest and
best thing, since for years I'd always had my choices been limited, indeed
for me playing games like Sryth and legend of the green dragon in text
(which i did long before I discovered audio games), was largely my first and
very welcome experience of rpgs.
what I've always loved in games is exploration and discovery, and while I
was quite happy finding that in text adventures and brouser mmorpgs, it
wasn't something that occurred to me when looking at the original games to
play offline list over at whiestick back in about 2004. i admit I didn't
check out many of the games in detail, but was concerned that many seemed to
be things like chess, cards etc, which i didn't really see the point of
playing on a computer since they wouldn't give the same experience.
I wouldn't say playing audio games changed my priorities, indeed when I am
in a serious gaming mood I still play games like shades of doom, lone wolf
or some of my low vision accessible ones like Turrican or mega man, however
I did realize there was such a thing as different forms of games for
different periods of time and different feelings, which is really something
i largely missed, since even with marrio or mega man I'd generally sit down
and evote serious attention, and while occasionally i'd play something like
tetris while reading a book on tape, this would be less frequent and
generally i'd prefer something like Tetris.
Even now, while I will gladly play alternative games depending upon what I'm
doing, i generally want something a bit more complex with challenge
atmosphere and exploration when i'm in the frame of mind to play a serious
game and discover new things.
fortunately audio games exist to suit man y different moods now, albeit I'd
love to see a few more with full exploration like shades.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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