_I_ was alive in 1977 LOL This video was EXCELLENT! It's good to finally have "proof" that Nemesis was not originally gonna be a Zork game. Which is why all the humor seems so tacked on.
So despite them being much older, I actually grew up playing the original text Zork games instead. Even though they came out back when my dad was my age in college, it turns out text games are pretty easy to bring over from system to system-- there's no graphics! So as technology got better and he had to get a new computer/upgrade to the next big Windows OS (whatever it may have been each time), Dad used a program called WinFrotz to get the Zork games running on each new machine (along with the other Infocom text games he had). So even though Activision had axed Infocom and buried the Zork IP by the time I was old enough to be playing games, I was still able to enjoy the Zork text games well into the modern day into my adulthood. I actually never even knew about the original Zork existing in Black Ops until I met my boyfriend, who was a COD fanatic back in his youth lol But I never got to experience any of the 3D Zork games. Dad, turned out, *did* have the CD for Grand Inquisitor... but he had lost the box it was in, and by the time we found it, we just couldn't get it to run nicely on the computers we had. Though, when I finally saw screenshots of the game online, I was turned off by them, because the world of Grand Inquisitor wasn't how I personally had imagined the world of Zork when playing the text games. I have to wonder if that was a factor at all in their overall sales, or how well they retained original fans from the text era :/ Though from what it sounds like from your video, it seems their real demise was Activision being Activision, and the fact that eventually, the concept of 3D FMVs got stale. But watching this was really interesting! I was able to catch several references to ideas and events from the text Zork games, and it's clear that a lot of love and passion was put into them, especially Grand Inquisitor. And it's neat knowing that they're now all available online! The wonders of the 21st century lol If I had one critique on the video, I'd ask that you add "3D" to the title before "Zork," because while *all* the Zork Adventure games (text and otherwise) were influential in their own ways, you only really focused on the 3D ones. Minor nitpick though-- great job on the video! (Edited for easier reading)
I like to think that the third game you looked at started off with a bunch of alternate takes recycled from the opening scene of David Lynch's Dune film from the 80s where that actor discusses galactic politics with a giant foetus in a water tank.
Aw Ty for that, means a lot when this is my lowest viewed video haha, but yes I shall dw, I like mixing it up with niche stuff as well as more well known games here and there 🫡
@@ShadohFyre I was honestly pretty baffled at the view count. Videos like this tend to do fairly well based on what I've seen, so I'm not really sure what went on in this case. That's great to hear that you'll keep doing stuff like this, though! It really was an interesting video.
Thanks for going out of your way to tell us you're the sort of person to have a "life partner." I find we don't get beaten over the head with _nearly_ enough of that in every form of modern entertainment.
Say what you want about Zork Nemesis but that game is pure atmosphere with an absolutely gorgeous soundtrack.
_I_ was alive in 1977 LOL This video was EXCELLENT! It's good to finally have "proof" that Nemesis was not originally gonna be a Zork game. Which is why all the humor seems so tacked on.
So despite them being much older, I actually grew up playing the original text Zork games instead. Even though they came out back when my dad was my age in college, it turns out text games are pretty easy to bring over from system to system-- there's no graphics! So as technology got better and he had to get a new computer/upgrade to the next big Windows OS (whatever it may have been each time), Dad used a program called WinFrotz to get the Zork games running on each new machine (along with the other Infocom text games he had). So even though Activision had axed Infocom and buried the Zork IP by the time I was old enough to be playing games, I was still able to enjoy the Zork text games well into the modern day into my adulthood. I actually never even knew about the original Zork existing in Black Ops until I met my boyfriend, who was a COD fanatic back in his youth lol
But I never got to experience any of the 3D Zork games. Dad, turned out, *did* have the CD for Grand Inquisitor... but he had lost the box it was in, and by the time we found it, we just couldn't get it to run nicely on the computers we had. Though, when I finally saw screenshots of the game online, I was turned off by them, because the world of Grand Inquisitor wasn't how I personally had imagined the world of Zork when playing the text games. I have to wonder if that was a factor at all in their overall sales, or how well they retained original fans from the text era :/ Though from what it sounds like from your video, it seems their real demise was Activision being Activision, and the fact that eventually, the concept of 3D FMVs got stale.
But watching this was really interesting! I was able to catch several references to ideas and events from the text Zork games, and it's clear that a lot of love and passion was put into them, especially Grand Inquisitor. And it's neat knowing that they're now all available online! The wonders of the 21st century lol
If I had one critique on the video, I'd ask that you add "3D" to the title before "Zork," because while *all* the Zork Adventure games (text and otherwise) were influential in their own ways, you only really focused on the 3D ones. Minor nitpick though-- great job on the video!
(Edited for easier reading)
Very interesting read! (and noted, I added the 3d in the title)
Zork is the reason I don't go into completely dark rooms. I don't want to be eaten by a grue.
I like to think that the third game you looked at started off with a bunch of alternate takes recycled from the opening scene of David Lynch's Dune film from the 80s where that actor discusses galactic politics with a giant foetus in a water tank.
exactly
algorithm, notice this man already!!!
Please keep making more videos about obscure series/titles like this one. 🙂
Aw Ty for that, means a lot when this is my lowest viewed video haha, but yes I shall dw, I like mixing it up with niche stuff as well as more well known games here and there 🫡
@@ShadohFyre I was honestly pretty baffled at the view count. Videos like this tend to do fairly well based on what I've seen, so I'm not really sure what went on in this case. That's great to hear that you'll keep doing stuff like this, though! It really was an interesting video.
This does not have enough views
are you using VSDC to edit?
nah Vegas 18!
@@ShadohFyre awesome, cheers
and keep up the good work, you'll be huge before you know it :)
Thanks for going out of your way to tell us you're the sort of person to have a "life partner." I find we don't get beaten over the head with _nearly_ enough of that in every form of modern entertainment.