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Adventure died

RPG is just adventure + combat

It's time is coming.
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On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:21:17 -0600, Tahitian pearl
<j63480576@gmail.com> wrote:

Adventure died

RPG is just adventure + combat

It's time is coming.

I don't think any genre is going to die as long as indie games are a
thing.
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Mike S. wrote:

On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:21:17 -0600, Tahitian pearl
<j63480576@gmail.com> wrote:

Adventure died

RPG is just adventure + combat

It's time is coming.

I don't think any genre is going to die as long as indie games are a
thing.

You may be right. Some of those that are polished Slay the Spire,
Balatro I have enjoyed. I like indie as long as it is polished.
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Tahitian pearl wrote:

Mike S. wrote:

On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:21:17 -0600, Tahitian pearl
<j63480576@gmail.com> wrote:

Adventure died

RPG is just adventure + combat

It's time is coming.

I don't think any genre is going to die as long as indie games are a
thing.

You may be right.  Some of those that are polished   Slay the Spire, Balatro  I have enjoyed.  I like indie as long as it is polished.

And of course the Avernum series which I have enjoyed the fuck out of.
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On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:41:47 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, Mike S. wrote:

On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:21:17 -0600, Tahitian pearl
<j63480576@gmail.com> wrote:

Adventure died

RPG is just adventure + combat

It's time is coming.

I don't think any genre is going to die as long as indie games are a
thing.

Agreed.

Besides, I don't think graphic adventure died. It just left the
mainstream. Now text adventure. That died proper. Last one I can remember
is Anchorhead.

Besides, JRPG is quite alive and well. You have a Western perspective on
this, and I'm not sure you're even right there. BG3 may be niche, but it
is a commercial success.
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:00:01 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Besides, I don't think graphic adventure died. It just left the
mainstream. Now text adventure. That died proper. Last one I can remember
is Anchorhead.

Besides, JRPG is quite alive and well. You have a Western perspective on >this, and I'm not sure you're even right there. BG3 may be niche, but it
is a commercial success.

Not to mention pretty much every major game now includes RPG mechanics
of some sort or another. Features that used to be definitive to the
genre --stats, leveling, inventory, etc.-- are now common across
multiple game-styles.

RPG dying? It's arguably more popular than it ever was before.


As for text adventures... even those live on, albeit greatly reduced
in popularity. But there are still commercial releases (Example: "The Filmmaker" on Steam). Yes, many of these aren't 'true' text adventures
(in the classic early-80s sense), as they include some visuals. But
even if you really insist on being a purist, ifdb.org will more than
satisfy your needs. There's a lot of traditional interactive fiction
there, with new games released every year.

But I'm a lot more lenient, and a few pictures and maps don't exclude
a game from the genre, as far as I'm concerned (even Infocom
eventually included those features!) You could even argue that many
'visual novels' are just the latest iteration on the concept.


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On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:39:53 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:00:01 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Besides, I don't think graphic adventure died. It just left the
mainstream. Now text adventure. That died proper. Last one I can remember >>is Anchorhead.

Besides, JRPG is quite alive and well. You have a Western perspective on >>this, and I'm not sure you're even right there. BG3 may be niche, but it
is a commercial success.

Not to mention pretty much every major game now includes RPG mechanics
of some sort or another. Features that used to be definitive to the
genre --stats, leveling, inventory, etc.-- are now common across
multiple game-styles.

RPG dying? It's arguably more popular than it ever was before.

As for text adventures... even those live on, albeit greatly reduced
in popularity. But there are still commercial releases (Example: "The >Filmmaker" on Steam). Yes, many of these aren't 'true' text adventures
(in the classic early-80s sense), as they include some visuals. But
even if you really insist on being a purist, ifdb.org will more than
satisfy your needs. There's a lot of traditional interactive fiction
there, with new games released every year.

But I'm a lot more lenient, and a few pictures and maps don't exclude
a game from the genre, as far as I'm concerned (even Infocom
eventually included those features!) You could even argue that many
'visual novels' are just the latest iteration on the concept.

Oh yeah. By "die," I mean "died in the mass market." I have an install of Inform 7 on my desktop. Interactive Fiction is still very much a thing.
Even the purist, no graphics kind.

The last mass market IF I saw was in Talos Principle 2, as a bit of a
joke and homage. A game within a game.

As I said, I think "Anchorhead" was the last commercially released text
based IF title on Steam. It may have pictures.

Meanwhile, graphic adventures in the style of Sierra still have mass
market releases. They are not by any means "dead."

But everything worthwhile thrives on its own. There's Inform, ADRIFT,
Git, and a newcomer called Twine that I haven't looked into, where people author IF. Beyond that, there's Frotz, the Magnetic Scrolls interpreter,
etc. if you haven't played all the old commercial titles from the 80s. I
even have a bunch of old Scott Adams games in z-interpreter format.

I still vow that I will finish "The Lurking Horror." Someday.
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On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 15:02:18 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

I still vow that I will finish "The Lurking Horror." Someday.

I own the C-64 version of this one. I never finished it either. This
one came with a rubber centipede feelie. :)
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On 2/19/2025 2:21 PM, Tahitian pearl wrote:

Adventure died

RPG is just adventure + combat

It's time is coming.

Eh, I don't think it will die but rather transform. RPG-elements is
already a thing in a lot of other genres. People like being able to
progress as a character.
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On 2/24/2025 1:24 AM, Kyonshi wrote:

On 2/19/2025 2:21 PM, Tahitian pearl wrote:

Adventure died

RPG is just adventure + combat

It's time is coming.

Eh, I don't think it will die but rather transform. RPG-elements is
already a thing in a lot of other genres. People like being able to
progress as a character.

Exactly.
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