What's an adventure? What's a Quest?

[Nick Burns]

Someone in this forum has got me extremely pissed.

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Wait, you mean your text-based adventure games? If you put those in the same category as regular PC and console games then you've proven how ignorant you are. You don't seriously consider those computer games, do you?

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OB1, you are the ignorant one. If it weren't for text-based games then you wouldn't have these high graphics games that you have today. Interactive fiction defined modern computer games and many people still play them to this day. MUDs and MUSHs are still active, and Im envolved in a few of them. Get rid of the graphics on any game and you've got a text adventure. Think of it this way: Windows is a graphical interface for DOS; Modern PC and Console games are graphical interfaces for text adventures. If you had any programming experience, you would see my point, but you probably won't.


Oh, and I consider Zelda an RPG, just not an RPG that most of you are fimiliar with. I have been into DnD and other RPGs for a good part of my life and I can tell you that, while it doesn't have ALL the part of an RPG, it has alot of them. It has the main quests and even side quests (the hidden caves where you can gamble, or the ones that have either a choice of a heart container or medicine.) Alot of you are comparing Zelda to better known RPG's like FF and DnD. But if you break it down to its simplistic parts, you will find it has alot more RPG elements than you might realize.