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i guess i might be alone in the universe on this but i really really loved typing in actions in adventure games.

it felt more like you were really interacting inside some artificial construct when you got to ‘move’ your character from place to place and ‘input’ what you want to do instead of just point+click. i miss it.  am i the only one? lol
...i guess i must be since otherwise there would be some games out there… or are there?

i know of cypher the recent all text adventure, and thats cool.. i want to try it out soon but what id really love to see is something with amazing modern graphics and a typing interface. when i come back to old sierra games i always love how you get to type your way through everything..

anyway.. so am i the only one who misses typing? lol i guess everyone else just thinks of the negative side of not being able to come up with the correct commands.  it was tedious at times for sure, but that was part of the fun! (:

You might want to check Façade out. It’s not really an adventure - more of a conversation simulator - but it’s still a neat effort.

Fien - 17 February 2013 06:44 AM

There’s an active IF community with lots of great, free games. Probably some with graphics too.

Oh, yes! There are almost 500 games with the tag Graphics in the Interactive Fiction Database. “Amazing modern graphics”, though? Probably not so much

I don’t know if you are alone on that part, but, I do really miss the old “use verb” of the old games. the smart cursor for games now and highlighting the “hotspots” makes so many games too easy.  For example, Day of the Tentacle was so good in that you had to use the look, talk, push, pull, close, open verbs.  I miss that.

I remember hearing that Spaceventure might have a text parser.
That would be neat if it was true.

I think you’d like Trilby’s Notes, by Yahtzee. It’s pixelly and has a text parser and reminds me of those old 80s pre-point-and-click adventures.