View Single Post
Old 04-26-2004, 06:28 PM   #8
prof1515
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Illinois
Posts: 791
prof1515 will become famous soon enoughprof1515 will become famous soon enough
Send a message via AIM to prof1515 Send a message via Yahoo to prof1515
Personally, I believe text-based games will long be superior to graphical games because of the limitations of the graphicals' interface.  With a MUD, I can type the following:

emote runs his hands through his hair before wiping the sweat off of his forehead with the back of his hand.

In a graphical, unless it has a wipe array of available action commands, this wouldn't be possible.  Even it it were, there are always actions a graphical probably couldn't enact:

emote stands perfectly still at the sound of the scream, not even breathing as the hairs on the back of his neck rise and a single bead of sweat runs down his forehead, over his nose and disappears into his slightly parted lips.

Even if this could somehow be coded into a graphical without making the command structure hopelessly complex, it might not even be detectable (with any degree of subtlety) in a graphical.

No, I suspect that text-based games will be the superior system for RP, even if not the most popular.

Take care,

Jason
prof1515 is offline   Reply With Quote