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

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Originally posted by A Black Falcon
I started it? Hardly... you are the one who said that text adventure games aren't games, bringing new life to a fading debate... you seem to now be trying to take back your comments that they aren't games, but you said they are not electronic games (seeing how you compared them to board games, I see no other way to interpret that...). Absurd. Monkey Island and Zork 1 really aren't very different by most ways I can measure them, so saying they aren't in the same genre and category makes no sense at all. Dictionary games are really irrelevant... plus, you can usually find a definition to support whatever position, as seems to be the case here.

OK, so now a game that plays very, very similarly to another game is, irregardless, in a totally different genre? That "logic" is bizarre and ridiculous... but I won't go over that again. You clearly refuse to see any form of reason.

They are similar in many ways, but the omission of any interactive visuals in the text-based games makes it so that they cannot be considered as video games. Call them whatever you want, I don't care. You're still wrong. :shake: Like most of the debates I have with you, this is going nowhere. There is no point in continuing this thread.