It was also bundled with a little known FPS game that hit consoles back in 2010.
I don't think it sold very well, so you might not have heard about it. It was called Call of Duty: Black Ops. Published by a small company called Activision.
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Zork is full of [verified] lies
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It was also bundled with a little known FPS game that hit consoles back in 2010.
I don't think it sold very well, so you might not have heard about it. It was called Call of Duty: Black Ops. Published by a small company called Activision.
A few years ago, I found myself with a bit of free time... and I had an idea. Speedruns were popular, so why not a speed run of the most ridiculous genre possible?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bLBy7gQPI
What made things fun was the number of random actions that could mess up a speedrun. (I kept footage of several partial runs...)
A few years later, the video suddenly began getting thousands of views due to Zork being included in Black Ops. YouTube sent me an email inviting me to monetize the video, but as I was using footage from the game, I didn't feel as though I could click the "I own all copyrights" button. Not sure how everyone else gets around that...
I've seen more text adventure speedrun recently, but I like to think I was somehow the forerunner...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bLBy7gQPI
What made things fun was the number of random actions that could mess up a speedrun. (I kept footage of several partial runs...)
A few years later, the video suddenly began getting thousands of views due to Zork being included in Black Ops. YouTube sent me an email inviting me to monetize the video, but as I was using footage from the game, I didn't feel as though I could click the "I own all copyrights" button. Not sure how everyone else gets around that...
I've seen more text adventure speedrun recently, but I like to think I was somehow the forerunner...
poodaddy
Member
Whoa! Is this true? Surely not.....
It's cute that you think everyone has played that game. Plenty of gaffers aren't big on shooters.....
It looks like you get the denial more often if you're already holding a lot of stuff.
Maybe they were trying to model encumberance in a really obtuse way, by making it harder to pick stuff up if you were already carrying a lot.
Shifty
Member
>FUCK THIS SHIT I'M OUT
I only understood you as far as wanting to fuck.
yeah I verified it using textadventures.co.uk what's it to ya
SatelliteOfLove
Member
The older brother of this BETRAYALTON:
I do know the director of the game mentioned on his twitter account there's a tiny (1 in 328 I think? not sure) chance you character do a special move if you just push any button
SirMossyBloke
Member
Are you from the planet Sarcasm?
Frozenprince
Banned
SO MANY WASTED HOURS
The Spoony Hou
Member
Haven't yet played the Zork games (shameful, I know), but good to know.
Au contraire
I wasted many hours, playing the latest arcade ports on a TRS-80.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKFY3AuOLcI
I never had a Commodore PET, but the computer lab at school did; if there was a game, there was a way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNAS-fJpKaE
Good times.
SmiteOfHand
Member
I'm not entirely sure what he means but if anyone on this planet knows about z-machine specifics it is Plotkin.
https://twitter.com/zarfeblong/status/902004165806829569
https://twitter.com/zarfeblong/status/902004165806829569
Coriolanus
Banned
Remembrance
Member
To summarize from what I learned in this thread:
Every object had a weight property and you had a hard weight limit in addition to the semi-random object threshold.
You were much more likely to hit the weight limit by carrying a few heavy things than hit the object threshold by carrying a lot of light things.
If you hit the weight limit you saw "Your load is too heavy". If you hit the randomized object threshold you saw "You're holding too many things".
No one will read this.
SmiteOfHand
Member
^ Thanks for the explanation. I had a feeling that was the case but I've only ever run into the object weight thing trying to do something ridiculous like pick up a house.
Mr_Appleby
Member
Well, now we know why I can't hold all these limes.
DantesLink
Member
First videogame I ever played in a house was Space Invaders on a PET.
djplaeskool
Member
See, the real dick move was in Return to Zork. There's a part very early in the game where you find this plant growing on a cliff. If you pick it instead of transplanting it, something you can't do or know you're supposed to do until WAY LATER, you permanently make your game unwinnable in a very late stage of the game.
Right? That one is straight-up sadistic, and I can't imagine what kind of monster put it in the game.
Guys, its not True. In fact its just a bit of code from Zork 2s Fumble spell and an artifact of the shared heritage of all of the Infocom games, in particular the Zork games.
https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/902237858404196355
https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/902237858404196355
Its more likely than you think.
The Orz
Member
No. No no no. I refuse to believe this. I was the master at the duel. I was...I...
...my life is a lie ;_;
Gonna need a TAS with buffered input.
I never actually played Zork, I did however play the parody game Pork:
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Pork_1_-_The_Great_Underground_Sewer_System_1991
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Pork_1_-_The_Great_Underground_Sewer_System_1991
Remembrance
Member
Turns out no one who knows the Z-Machine really wants to spend hours poring over disassembly output from decades old Z-Machine games unless they absolutely have to.
So... if someone claims to have spent the weekend doing exactly that for fun, maybe not the best authority on the subject.
So... if someone claims to have spent the weekend doing exactly that for fun, maybe not the best authority on the subject.
StrategyFan
Member
if ((OP == False) == False) { return OP == True; }
A hollow voice derides your post.
Basic adventure game practice: Always default to picking the least destructive option. That said, it's also generally good practice when designing an adventure to give some sort of warning in the description when you attempt the destructive option - not necessarily explicit, it can sometimes be subtly - which is much easier to do in text than graphics; I don't know how RTZ presented the issue, here.
It's included in Black Ops 2 as an Easter egg
That's where I played it ^^
Edit: maybe Black Ops 1?