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by lIl-IIIl
350 days ago
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The engine doesn't understand natural English. It only understands the hard-coded words. The game author forgets to include some common verb or an uncommon spelling, and oops, an otherwise great puzzle is now very frustrating. There's a reason "Guess the verb" meme exists. There's even a satire game on this concept: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=35arqepm2q92hcqu |
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Your comment coudn't be more outdated since the Curses! release for the ZMachine in 1993.
The v5 machine release was much better than the v3 one, and the v5-V8 ones allowed semi-complex phrases with indirect object pronouns after a previous entered phrase and much more.
Go play Anchorhead and compare it to a z3 machine game from Infocom, or any game made it with Puny Inform.