Agreed! it's awsome! I'd also considder replaying Dreamhold, Babel, and LAsh as well, sinse they were all also great in the plot department.
In fact, on a related discussion point, lash was designed specifically to be replayable, sinse there were a number of possible endings to the game, some more or less pleasant, as well as a variety of things in the game which you could only really do if you knew where you were going the first time around, ---- Eg, visiting locations or mucking about with objects you had no reason to. I will warm people who are considdering trying out the game though, certain scenes of Lash are really! not pleasant. Babel has a few horror film esque sections, but Lash really takes things quite far in a realistic and deffinately not nice way. but sinse historical slavery in 19th century America plays a major part in the game, it's not really going to be pleasant. also, Lash is unique for another reason. Playing with a synthesisor is entirely appropriate to the setting and theme of the game, sinse you are giving textual orders to a robot in a high radiation area, who is then describing it's surroundings to you. (no I did not make a gramatical mistake, play the game through to the end and you'll understand why). Anyway, enough rambling! Beware the Grue! Dark. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken the Crazy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 7:57 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Replayability, accessibility, and such > The only text game I'd play again is Worlds Apart, just cuz it was that > good. > Ken Downey > President > DreamTechInteractive! > > And, > Coming soon, > Blind Comfort! > The pleasant way to get a massage--no staring, just caring. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Zachary Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:29 AM > Subject: [Audyssey] Replayability, accessibility, and such > > > > Hiya, > This is just my two cents on replayability of games and the like, a topic > which has been brought up recently on here. > Dark, I agree with your assessment > about interactive fiction. Unfortunately, there's little > replay value in most of it, though to be fair I am not quite sure > what could be done to add any, short of some randomness, which always > creates problems when a programmer of IF tries it I've found. > > An alternative to interactive fiction are the roguelike games I play a > lot. > There is even a Zcode > version of Rogue, the original > and simplest > game of this genre. These games sacrifice > plot and > such for > totally randomized > areas, challenges, etc. > If you can play them at all, they're worth the trouble. > > I am actually surprised not more blind people get into these, but then > again > I guess > that accessing them isn't so easy as it used to be. > > Strategy games, like SoundRTS, especially with multiple players, have > replay value as well. > I've been waiting forever > for an audio version of Civilization or the like. I wish > wholeheartedly that a developer might try this concept someday. > > Anyway, I hope this might be some food for thought. If you're interested > in > roguelikes, there's a good article in early Audyssey somewhere, around > Issue > 3 or 4. Thanks, Michael, for that one. > > All the best, > Zack. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Boo! Scare away worms, viruses and so much more! 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