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Re: How long till rpgs die?

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Ander GM wrote:
> El Sun, 23 Feb 2025 15:02:18 -0600
> Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> escribió:
>> On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:39:53 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,
>> Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:00:01 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Besides, I don't think graphic adventure died. It just left the
>>>> mainstream. Now text adventure. That died proper. Last one I can
>>>> remember is Anchorhead.
>>>>
>>>> Besides, JRPG is quite alive and well. You have a Western
>>>> perspective on this, and I'm not sure you're even right there. BG3
>>>> may be niche, but it is a commercial success.
>>>
>>> Not to mention pretty much every major game now includes RPG
>>> mechanics of some sort or another. Features that used to be
>>> definitive to the genre --stats, leveling, inventory, etc.-- are now
>>> common across multiple game-styles.
>>>
>>> RPG dying? It's arguably more popular than it ever was before.
>>>
>>>
>>> As for text adventures... even those live on, albeit greatly reduced
>>> in popularity. But there are still commercial releases (Example: "The
>>> Filmmaker" on Steam). Yes, many of these aren't 'true' text
>>> adventures (in the classic early-80s sense), as they include some
>>> visuals. But even if you really insist on being a purist, ifdb.org
>>> will more than satisfy your needs. There's a lot of traditional
>>> interactive fiction there, with new games released every year.
>>>
>>> But I'm a lot more lenient, and a few pictures and maps don't exclude
>>> a game from the genre, as far as I'm concerned (even Infocom
>>> eventually included those features!) You could even argue that many
>>> 'visual novels' are just the latest iteration on the concept.
>>>
>> Oh yeah. By "die," I mean "died in the mass market." I have an
>> install of Inform 7 on my desktop. Interactive Fiction is still very
>> much a thing. Even the purist, no graphics kind.
>>
>> The last mass market IF I saw was in Talos Principle 2, as a bit of a
>> joke and homage. A game within a game.
>>
>> As I said, I think "Anchorhead" was the last commercially released
>> text based IF title on Steam. It may have pictures.
>>
>> Meanwhile, graphic adventures in the style of Sierra still have mass
>> market releases. They are not by any means "dead."
>>
>> But everything worthwhile thrives on its own. There's Inform, ADRIFT,
>> Git, and a newcomer called Twine that I haven't looked into, where
>> people author IF. Beyond that, there's Frotz, the Magnetic Scrolls
>> interpreter, etc. if you haven't played all the old commercial titles
>> from the 80s. I even have a bunch of old Scott Adams games in
>> z-interpreter format.
>>
>> I still vow that I will finish "The Lurking Horror." Someday.
>>
> 
> The original version it's free at IFDB. No graphics nor sounds, but you
> get the whole game.
> 
Shortening it to IF is moderately ambiguous.  IF is also an acronym for 
Interactive Fantasies, creators of _The Prisoner_, which I contend was 
the first "tough" game. You are an ex-CIA officer confined to an island 
with 20 buildings, each of which contains a different sub-game. I "won" 
it once (my objective was departing the island - which to me meant 
leaving the buildings behind).  However, there was a bit more to the 
game, except I almost instantly committed suicide by answering a YES/NO 
question wrong.

-- 
Hasbro

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