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PAX South 2017: MetaArcade – Old-School Text-Based Adventures Meet Modern Content Creation a Columns

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited February 2017 in News & Features Discussion

imagePAX South 2017: MetaArcade – Old-School Text-Based Adventures Meet Modern Content Creation a Columns at MMORPG.com

If you're a gamer and a child of the '80s like me, you probably spent a fair amount of time curled up with Choose Your Own Adventure books. If you're super-nerdy, you might have gotten into some of the more advanced titles that added actual gameplay systems – dice, combat, equipment, etc. – beyond simple decision-making. My favorites were the ones based on Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and Car Wars.

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  • ArtwolfArtwolf Member UncommonPosts: 48
    Zoooorrrrrrrrkkkkk!
  • DeathtognomesDeathtognomes Member UncommonPosts: 155
    edited February 2017
    every few years there is a small movement to try to bring back these "text" adventures with some new spin or other. It's an extremely small niche and anyone with even the slightest form of bad eyesight will avoid it like a plague.
  • jonp200jonp200 Member UncommonPosts: 457
    Some of the Tunnels and Trolls solo content was just fantastic. I remember falling into the "Pit of Endless Nothingness" (Sic) and getting this description, "Although your character isn't dead, he isn't much fun anymore.." The humor was dry and really funny.

    I also miss some of the pen and paper tournament dungeons that would translate pretty well into some of the current software. Tourney content was timed and hard; usually tied to character aspects to meet with success; e.g. having a druid morph into an eagle to reach something and also be healed by the ability to recover hit points... that kind of thing.. Made for a real challenge.

    Seaspite
    Playing ESO on my X-Box


  • BanegrivmBanegrivm Member UncommonPosts: 262
    The only thing that would make this more awesome would be if we could do these things as a group with our friends. I'd totally love that! As is, this sounds like it's going to be hella fun! I will totally try this out.

    Banegrivm
    Leader of the 1st Fist of Light
    www.1stfistoflight.com

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