I'd pay for a text based game. THey're fun if they have detailed descriptions, and if fighting, detailed fight descriptions.
On May 5, 2010, at 12:58 AM, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hello gamers, > As many of you might remember several months ago I began designing a > gamebook style roll playing game called Legends of Etherea. When I > originally drafted the plans for the game it was to be a text based > gamebook adventure system very much in the spirit of Dungeons and > Dragons using similar rules, classes, races, etc. While the game's > story and map isn't yet complete it was going to have various towns, > cities, forests, and dungeons to explore. However, over the past > couple of months I am growing concerned that this style of game isn't > something that would do well financially. Especially, since the > release of Entombed. > Basically, what I am aiming at is over the last few years graphical > roll playing games like Final Fantasy and Xenogears have become hugely > successful titles all but making the old text based interactive > fiction systems that I personally like seam like a joke to most > mainstream gamers. Now, I'm beginning to see the same thing happening > more or less to the accessible games market as well. It is like why > bother playing text based roguelike games like Nethack or ADOM when > you can start up Entombed and wander around a dungeon doing basically > the same thing complete with Sapi support, sounds, and music. I can't > help but feel that Entombed has just raised the expectations of any > new and future roll playing games to new heights. Its like who would > pay $35 for a text only roll playing game when you can purchase > Entombed for $40 which comes complete with sounds, music, Sapi > support, etc. It makes the idea of writing and selling text only roll > playing games seam laughable. So I can't help but feel like the time > for text based games of any kind have just gone the way of the > dinosaur. > Earlier tonight when I was going through my e-mail there was a post > from Michael on the Heroes of Ardania thread. He asked if the game > came complete with sounds and music. That really got me thinking about > my own project. It seams that justabout everyone now expects sounds, > music, and if the player is sighted, killer graphics, to make a game > worth their time. Otherwise the game is considered to be inferior to > the games with graphics and sounds. So the question is how many of you > still actually like text based games like me, and how many would be > willing to pay for such a game? > understand I'm not necessarily against games like Entombed, I could > create something like that, of course, but I also have a good idea how > financially and emotionally exhausting such a title would be to me > personally. It would take ten times longer and be ten times harder to > create just because I'd have to purchase more sound packs, license > music, program all the extra code for sound, speech, menus, whatever. > So I don't know that I'm up for anything that complicated at the > moment, but I could do it if it were more financially successful. So > I'd like to hear your thoughts. What do you expect, like, etc in a > roll playing game for the computer? > > Thanks. > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
