Re: Announcing: Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal

[jonadab@bright.net (Jonadab the Unsightly One)]

dylanw@demon.net (Dylan O'Donnell) wrote:

> Yes, actually. Not convoluted sentences like the one above, usually,
> but three or four word commands like HIT TROLL WITH SWORD or PUT JEWEL
> ON PEDESTAL; I'm _used_ to being able to say things like that with the
> expectation that, even if they don't work, the game will understand
> what I'm trying to do. It's jarring (even if perfectly reasonable, as
> in the case of games from this era) when it doesn't.

Yeah.  First time I played Adventure, I couldn't figure out how
to "kill the dwarf with the axe".  I mean, throwing an axe is 
not, last I checked, a normal way to use that weapon.  You
hit something with it.  (Swing might have worked, but I didn't
think of that.)  I eventually got frustrated and typed "throw
axe" meaning throw it across the room in dispair -- and wow,
that was what I was supposed to do all along.  But that's the
wrong way to have to get there.




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