TBOMRG: Text-Based Online Multiplayer Roleplaying Games
About these games and how the rest of the world are missing out.
If you think of multiplayer gaming, the first thing you normally think of is a group of geeks sitting in a room with computers all around them playing games. That normally is not the case. The people who play these games are normally people who have reasonably paid jobs, work quite long hours, just like the rest of us, but when they come home, prefer to sit on their computers playing a text based game.
I think it is fair to say that most text based games are based around sci-fi legend Star Trek, and it’s many deviations. It is a global craze that has makes this gaming platform so unique. To be able to play, you have to be able to read text, and use your imagination to create this gaming platform into something that you can sit at and play for hours at a time.
As an online gamer that I have been for many years, I have been involved with several text based games over the years, and each time, I have found them to be more interesting and inviting than their graphically centered counterparts. Whilst I do enjoy playing graphically centered games, they do not leave anything to the imagination, meaning that you cannot be creative, or provide yourself with your own entertainment. This is something which makes most text based games so wonderful, and provides them with a platform which any gamer can really make their own.
So in essence, it is my humbled opinion that the text based online multiplayer games provide much more for players to do, and therefore much more enjoyment for players than their graphical counterparts.
What do you think? Are graphical games better than their text based counterparts, or do you agree with me?
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Good article!… And, being a writer, I’m into the text based games, of course!
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True. Text based games probably don’t get as much credit as flash games, but in my gaming experience they usually have a better planned story line. Good write.
I dont play text based games often but i think you have a good point
Nice… this is fantastic… Good point!
I think text based games are pointless. I’ve never tried it but it doesn’t sound fun. But nice article.
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I’ve never heard of them, I play WoW though