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Final fantasy 7

Title is misleading since you can have a command-line interface and still have graphics, e.g. King's Quest I.

I'm trying to get through Infocom's Starcross right now. Not sure I would say it's a good game so far... the limitations of the implementation back then worked better for lighthearted whimsical stuff like Zork than hard-ish science fiction. But I'm enjoying it.

I played a DOS game as a kid called Sir Guy Gallant. a text mystery.

Fun, but I wrote over the floppy as an idiot child and now I don't have it. It's hard to find, especially since the title is the name of a famous legend.

>>3713343
nevermind, apparently I should try harder
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Sir_Guy_Gallant__The_Deadly_Warning_1993

>get ye flask

>>3713352
You are likely to get your bike stolen by a nigga.

>>3713323
>Zork

Every time I see that title I REEEEE the fuck out.
Only played the later, Return to Zork. But fuck that game and everyone who made it.

>>3713323
Infocom games are the shit. Planetfall, Stationfall, Hitchhiker's Guide, A Mind Forever Voyaging, and the Zorks. Your imagination is so much more alive when you don't have a visual aid.

I don't know if you consider nethack's ascii graphics to qualify or not, but that is one of the best games I have ever played. You don't know terror until a purple h is bearing down on you (and I'm not talking about dwarf kings).

>>3713323
I always liked the Scott Adams adventure games. I had most of them on cartridge for the VIC-20 BITD.

>>3713352
You can't getteth yon flask

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>>3713327

Lurking Horror was so fucking good.

>>3713750
Honestly beside a few games I would say Infocom games not the shit but simpl shit. Trinity, Enchanter, Suspended and Planetfall can be argued to hold up. Bureacracy is funny if not actually all that good. A Mind Forever Voyaging was so dissapointing once you figured out it was all just an autistic excuse to REEE over Reagan and Christian conservatives. (disclaimer: i'm neither american, christian nor an economic liberal)

Legend Entertainment, for all it's attempt at graphics, is when classical text adventure-style games really became great imo.

>>3713323
Galactic conquest is great fun with 3~4 other people.

>>3713352
>You can't get ye flask!
>I'm certainly not going to tell thou.
>Graphics schmaphics...for sooth!

>>3714557
A Mind Forever Voyaging is definitely overrated for the sake of it being high-concept, kinda artsy, and political-minded, even though the premise is fairly stupid when you think about it and the politics are simplified and preachy. It's interesting for being different but does not belong on all the must-play lists it makes.

I think you're too hard on the rest of the catalog though. Zork 2 has some great puzzles, the other games in the Enchanter trilogy (Sorcerer and Spellbreaker) are also quite good, and Wishbringer is rather polished for such an old game. Infidel is also worth playing--I beat it without any hints and it has some cool Indiana Jones-ish puzzles that are fairly clued. It's a lot more grounded than a wacky Zork-type game.

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>>3713323
Bureaucracy is great fun