On: The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text...

[MikeTheGreat]

This is reaching back a bit, but Old Man Murray had a great article about adventure games that seems relevant.[1] OMM was talking about graphical adventure games, but I think a lot of it applies to pure-text games, too.

[1] http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html

[anthk → MikeTheGreat]

On graphical adventures, they got killed by Tomb Raiders and alike. Suddenly, you can kill people and solve great puzzles in detailed environments.

Oh, and games like Parasite Eve, Resident Evil... which basically merged graphical adventures, action games and RPG mechanics in a single release.

[arijun → MikeTheGreat]

Great read, and somehow exactly parodies the post you are responding to.