Ruffiana wrote on Jan 22, 2012, 05:31:
I stopped thinking in games when they evolved beyond text-parsing. Both in how to solve the problems presented the game but just as often how to construct a command with the right nound and correct verb that the parser would understand.

King's Quest took us almost a year of experimentation before we thought to type the word "dive" while treading in the bottom of the well. In contrast, The Black Cauldron took me less than a day to complete. By the time King's Quest V was out, and introduced mouse-clicking, it was all downhill. Adventure games became more like playing Where's Waldo, looking for the most unique item in a scene to be clicking on so something would happen.