 | Home pageGames databaseResourcesUsersVariousAffiliates / Links |  |
posted in tags  threads list I think instead of having a tag "text" and another tag "textplusgraphical", it would be better to have one tag named "textonly" and the tag "textplusgraphical" stays as is.
Games that have absolutely no graphics (early text adventures for example) would get the tag textonly. The tag textplusgraphical stays for games which are heavily text based but have graphical illustrations (e.g. later text adventures). I would like to see the tag "text" removed and the games that are under this tag either be given the tag "textonly" or "textplusgraphical". I'd prefer if text became one of the display types (as it should).
I'd also prefer if interactive fiction was introduced either as a game type or at least as a tag. This is what "text adventures" are anyway. After that determining if the game was graphical or not is usually just the difference between text and raster display types (although some may have actually used the ascii charmap for "images"). Although not exactly, since later interactive fiction games were very graphical and may not even have had the text input interface. - Maybe having a tag/group for interactive fiction is not a bad idea. I like it better than having a new gametype for it because in my eyes it is a subgenre - well, actually the root - of adventure games.
- Stays the problem with the tag "text", which doesn't work well in my opinion and I think "textonly" and "textplusgraphical" work well. - With that display thing I have general problems since UVL existed ^^. It is not possible to choose more than one option. When I have a game like Jurassic Park (DOS), which has half of its levels in SNES Zelda-style (SNES) 2D levels and the other half in First-Person 3D Doom-style perspective I have a problem with display type. And nearly all 3D games still have 2D Raster menus. My guess is that in 1998 when Andrea had planned UVL as just an arcade game list, display was used to distinguish pure vector games like Asteroids (which had a real vectormonitor implemented), from "normal" raster games. - Stays the problem with the tag "text", which doesn't work well in my opinion and I think "textonly" and "textplusgraphical" work well.
Mass tag rename should handle the lingering text instances and rename the group's associated tagname to textonly if it even has a group set up. - With that display thing I have general problems since UVL existed ^^.
Kinda off-topic and incoherent For the rare cases, converting display type to number of checkboxes could work. I'll just dread the day I see someone adding b/w raster to 3D game because it uses some fancy filter to turn the image into grayscale at some points. Or if text is added into display types, people adding text to all games that have text in any manner. Alternatively it could be (text) terminal, but that's gross for some games that don't run in a terminal but are still text-only, like LotGD. | |||
| DISCLAIMER: All image galleries, logos and names are property of the respective authors - This site doesn't make use nor permits the download of copyrighted material such as ISO, game roms, software, music, movies or similar. The site is primarily based on reviews, screenshots and various game details. - Please contact me if you believe your work has been used in a way that may constitute copyright infringement. | |||
by 
by 
by 
by