Hi Dark, Yes, I for one have to agree with your points you raised about interactive fiction games. As you pointed out once you solve the puzzles the games lose allot of their hold on you and the act of playing some of the parts of the game become redundant and even down right boring after a while. /Even big RPG games like Sryth are like that when you are starting out fresh trying to build up character skills, powers, etc to venture into the unexplored areas of the game which take serious MR, Stamina, etc. However, as you also pointed out games, especially a game like Sryth, can have allot of replay value as long as the game is maintained and new adventures are added to the basic game to explore and carry out. I've actually thought about creating my own RPG game engine similar to the concept of Sryth but with a totally different theme and story line. For example, I think an RPG game that takes place in the classical Greek period would have huge success with blind gamers. The classical Greek period of writing, the time of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, has had huge literary success in books and on TV. Hercules, for example, has been a legendary hero for thousands of years. The Greek gods and goddesses Ares, Diana, Athena, Zeus, Hades, and so on have continued to be popular characters even though their respective religions died out ages ago. Some of the Greek characters are the forerunners of modern Sci-Fi. For example the Old Man of the Sea, the Greek god Proteus, could change his physical form. In the Odyssey Proteus turns into a lion, pig, serpent, leopard, and so on. If you ask me he is the prototype character for modern shape-shifting characters such as Odo on Star Trek Deep Space 9, Zam in Star Wars Attack of the Clones, and other Sci-Fi movies and television shows. Anyway, the point is that particular time period is fertile ground for an RPG where you want a young male or female character to start out as a nobody in the game world and turn into a legendary somebody. Perhaps depending on your initial character setup your character will be half-human and half-god which would give you powers to train and work on so you could actually battle super enemies like the Titans and minotaurs. Just sitting here thinking about it I can imagine a believeable and interesting start to such a RPG adventure. You are a young man or woman and raiders from the north come and burn your village to the ground. Your family is whiped out and you escape with some gold coins, a leater back pack, and perhaps your fathers old dagger or sword. From there it is up to the player to decide how the character evolves, grows, gains new skills, gains better weapons, special powers, and weather or not the character turns out to be a heroic character or becomes a super villen.
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