Revisiting 'Zork': What We Lost in the Transition to Visual Games

Re:Revisiting 'Zork': What We Lost in the Transition to Visu... by dkarl on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @01:10PM (#2706191)

That's like saying, "Yeah, I jumped into the Iliad at the funeral games for Patroclus, and I just don't get it: it didn't have an impact at all." Duh.

Actually, my point was just the opposite. You can appreciate a passage from the Iliad or a scene from a movie without context. Not fully, but there's something there.

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Re:Revisiting 'Zork': What We Lost in the Transition to Visu... by scott_s on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @03:50PM (#2707002)

I think the analogy falls apart because with both books and movies, you just watch or read them. Since games are interactive, watching a cutscene without any of the prior interaction is, I think, substantially different from reading a passage in a book without having read prior passages.

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Re:Revisiting 'Zork': What We Lost in the Transition to Visu... by boredguy8 on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @02:20AM (#2708606)

There's as much 'there' in, say, the 'never let go' of "Titanic" as there is in FFVII. You being obstinate does not an argument make.

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