When that game came out I was actually a productive person (think the total opposite of me now) in a really tough prep school so no I really never had the time to dedicate myself to it. I just remember all the trouble I had with that fucking mill owner.

I love the Zork games, I've played them all. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is really good but hard (you die easily), and I played quite a bit of Nethack.
I've tried Dwarf Fortress a few times but still have no idea how to play that game.

If you don't mind graphical (illustrated) text adventures, I just remembered I recently played the first part of "Sorcery!" and liked it. A pretty nice adventure game. Although I see it's not available for PC. Only mobile devices.

I haven't played in a good long while, but Medievia was my favorite MUD back in the day.

http://www.medievia.com/whatismed.html

No one has any idea how to play DF, really. The whole point is to do whatever you want.

That said, the interface is about as friendly as a face-punch, although I have recently found some games which are worse. The community's pretty good about tutorials though.

Tips for enjoying DF:
* Use the LNP ([url=http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Utility:Lazy_Newb_Pack]http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Utility:Lazy_Newb_Pack[/url]) instead of the naked game installer.
* Start with http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Quickstart_guide for fort building.
* Start with http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Adventure_mode_quick_start to play the roguelike.
* Search the wiki any time something is confusing. DF has the best game wiki I've ever seen.
* There's tons of mods to tweak the game.
* The forums are incredibly helpful.

It seems there is more to Sorcery, than what I tought. from Wikipedia

Hey

You got a very good reply below regarding the LNP and WIKI and what not, however there are also some brilliant youtube series that explain things as they go.

I have a good one bookmarked at home, however it's probably a little outdated now due to the latest DF releases.

It is well worth the time investment in learning to play :)

Karl

Yeah, and getting stuck in the well and dying a LOT.... That game was SO much fun :)

For me, the most affecting is easily Photopia. The most bizarrely unsettling, Shrapnel. The most fun, very difficult to choose.

I couldn't really find a legal downloadable copy so I just dug through my old games collection and found my Magnetic Scrolls Collection CD. Turns out it works like a charm under Dosbox! I think I know what my next playthrough attempt will be :)

Back then, Hound of Shadow was considered a fantastic text-based adventure (with a supposedly revolutionary parser, according to the reviews of that time). But I never got far enough to confirm it.

I loved games like The Pawn (awesome soundtrack) but wasn't very good at it.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was my first contact with Douglas Adams' work (I real the novels much later), and it was a good contact.

I suppose old Sierra games don't count, but I liked their parser-based adventures (Space Quest, Police Quest, Colonel's Bequest...) better than their later point and click.

I enjoyed Borrowed Time and Mindshadow a lot, and Arazok's Tomb too.

And Crash Garrett was awesome. Great indiana jones flavor in it.

Thanks for this, maybe when I've cleared a little of my backlog I'll give it another go.

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