No Sleep, Must Click & Drag

[cos]

Seeing Sleep No More for a second time last night evoked xkcd Click and Drag. I was expecting to see many of the same scenes and settings I saw the first time, with a better understanding of what was happening. I was not expecting what actually happened: spending the majority of my time seeing scenes and settings I hadn't even known were there the first time. And even though I visited at least one floor this time that I know I never ventured onto at all last time, I also know there's at least one more floor I still haven't been to. Maybe more than one.

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[kirin]

Man, I'm pretty sure this sort of experience would drive the story-completionist in me (long nurtured by video games where time more or less stands still until you trigger the next major plot point) absolutely nuts.

[cos]

Which Infocom games did you like, and which ones drove you nuts? :)
Do you play nethack?

[kirin]

Man, it's been a long time since I played Infocom. I suspect I played them quite slowly, and was driven nuts by anything with a turn limit.
I have played Nethack, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if I've spent more time looking at spoilers and descriptions of other people's run-throughs than actually playing.

Don't get me wrong, I do love exploring giant, detailed worlds. It's when I'm under a time constraint (or threat of an imminent demise that would remove me from where I'm exploring) that my eye starts to twitch...