Apparently the prompt that you were carrying too many items was a random chance, and you could just try again.
https://twitter.com/icculus/status/901568322021593088
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Zork is full of [verified] lies
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Apparently the prompt that you were carrying too many items was a random chance, and you could just try again.
https://twitter.com/icculus/status/901568322021593088
GhostTrick
Banned
Context ?
Oracle Dragon
Member
Wow really? Could this have been changed in later releases? I swear if I had too many things it would stay that way no matter what I tried. I'll have to check again it's been quite a few years since I played it last I may be misremembering.
The text adventure game, Zork. I'm not sure what other context I can provide.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Ban him for being young IMO
GhostTrick
Banned
KojiKnight
Member
This line of text would be a good place to start honestly.
It took me a few moments to remember what Zork was since it came out when I was little and I never spent any time on it. There are a lot of users here younger than me.
You Are Standing In An Open Field West Of A White House, With A Boarded Front Door.
There Is A Small Mail Box Here.
You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
lucebuce12
Member
What the shit, WHY?
Crayon
Member
And they are not affected by this devastating turn of fortunes.
Professor Lexicovermis
Member
That's... actually hilarious.
Crayon
Member
I FUCKIN KNEW IT!!!
Fuck.
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Any more dirty laundry to air this morning? Maybe the monster rancher cd generated monsters where random?
UpUpDownDown
Member
Wow.
Was too young to even notice that. Lmao
Was too young to even notice that. Lmao
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
That's a fair assessment of most Infocom text adventure games, really.
I remember getting the Zork hint book and seeing those fucking maze exits that changed directions between rooms.
The original Street Fighter 2 had random input windows for special moves.
IAmtheFMan
Member
Wtf. This changes everything.
Next thing you'll tell me is that there's no such fucking thing as a grue.
Next thing you'll tell me is that there's no such fucking thing as a grue.
capitalCORN
Member
Might be worth something if it's the original @ good condition.
CharminUltra
Member
WTF D:
PdotMichael
Banned
But that would be only one lie.
It might still be full of lies if you get unlucky.
semiconscious
Member
...Diablo 3 item property value rolls are the result of a single stored seed value for the item, put through a pseudorandom function based on the property type (critical hit chance, attack speed, whatever). As a result, there isn't necessarily any seed value in the number space that results in max values for all rolls, and the hunt for a perfect copy of a given item isn't necessarily achievable.
Fortunately they added the mystic which allows rerolling an affix type+value using a second stored seed, and recently primal ancient items which have max values for their rolls.
- dug into save editing on PS3 a while ago
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
What?
No
I hope whoever did this got eaten by a Grue
No
I hope whoever did this got eaten by a Grue
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Glass Shark
Banned
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In Super Mario Bros. 3, the idea you can get different items in the Toad Houses by picking one of the three chests is an illusion as what item you get is only decided by the game after you open a chest.
Frozone
Member
I just picked up this entire series because it's one of the games that led me to where I am today.
However, that isn't entirely true. If you got too many items that put your weight > 100, then you'd always get the too much weight message. But yea, I guess any total weight under 100 would get you this message. The real question would be how much did each item weigh, and how often would you get this message if your total weight WAS under 100? I'm playing Zork 1 now and have several items in my inventory and never got this message yet with very few items (i.e. sword, lantern, etc..) that seemed unreasonable.
However, that isn't entirely true. If you got too many items that put your weight > 100, then you'd always get the too much weight message. But yea, I guess any total weight under 100 would get you this message. The real question would be how much did each item weigh, and how often would you get this message if your total weight WAS under 100? I'm playing Zork 1 now and have several items in my inventory and never got this message yet with very few items (i.e. sword, lantern, etc..) that seemed unreasonable.
Hesemonni
Banned
Ban you too then.
This is talking about the random function in the z-machine virtual machine, which is defined here: http://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point1/sect02.html#four
You don't need graphics to look good.
(Second screenshot is from Kingdom of Kroz. Kroz is Zork spelled backwards.)