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From: ceforma@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Christopher E. Forman)
Subject: Re: Infocom: Best Game?
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 16:55:49 GMT
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Dan Harrington (dharrin@casbah.acns.nwu.edu) wrote:
: Depends on your preference for stories, but I have loved Trinity and the
: Enchanter series.  Trinity's message is amazing, and each of the Enchanter
: games builds and builds as you learn more, until the end is just a major
: climax.  I think I was really jumping out of my seat in those 4 games when
: I got to the very end, just to see what would happen.  AMFV comes very
: very close as well.

Couldn't agree more.  Trinity, AMFV, and the Enchanter trilogy are Infocom's
very best work.

: The Zorks are very good, but tended to piss me off a little with the
: repetition in collecting treasure, or making your way through the maze, or
: whatever.  I liked them a great deal, but I think I was just glad they
: were over at the end.  Not as much of the excitement as in the above.

If you're talking about the original Zork Trilogy here, I'll concede your
point, but Zork Zero and Beyond Zork were large enough and varied enough
to keep my interest until the very end.  They had no mazes, and the
treasure-hunt was taken several steps further than in the Trilogy.  BZ and
ZZ also had a far larger storyline than the ZT, which spread out a single
story over three complete games.

