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You might want to check out the games from the IF Art show, which were explicitly puzzleless. Galatea and Exhibition are two I can certainly recommend, and I think The Fire Tower was also nice.
2023-08-27 · 1 year ago
🌲 Half_Elf_Monk · 2024-02-19 at 20:22:
I feel the same way about some (though not all) moderns games. I wonder how much of that feeling is due to a shift in cognitive habits on our culture's part. There's less wonder in the world. Sometimes IF can solve that by good description, or modern games by a fancy new feature. Either way, for me the best solution is fasting from games for a while, and then coming back with a 'hunger' for it.
The Tedium of Gaming — My problem with most modern games is the extreme boredom that overcomes me when I watch someone playing. The age of increasingly realistic rendering has brought with it the real-life tedium of getting from place to place, combined with the chores that need to be performed (missions, etc)... Having made it my life's goal to _not_ have to do what some jackass tells me to do, why would I let a game boss me around? Interactive fiction games, especially adventure-like games...
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