text is graphic... How can you level up and explore and gain ranks without levels or a world or even body sprites or any graphic of the sort. Unless its all text and you just read whats going on and dont see it.

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We're talking about the graphics used to build a playerworld, not those that make up Windows. As I've said before: Obviously all playerworlds need some graphics, but their nature and quality are not as significant as those of the scripts.

Because that's the only medium available to them?

It is all text, hence the reason it's called a text-based RPG...

Text is only graphics if you make it to be, otherwise it is just a visual means of communication.

Go play a good MUD. Then you won't be complaining that everything needs graphics.

Still graphic is fun to make. The better the graphic the more fun it can be. I read books its like a text rpg.

In actual text RPGs (MUDs), too, though, you can level up a character, play trivia, etc. You don't always need graphics for gameplay, even though some games are better with graphics. Others can be more fun without them.

Yeah text RPGs can be fun a game is no fun without scripts but its not fun without graphic neither both must be done properly to make a great game.

lol you sure are right donald. A game sure wouldnt be fun without scripts! Now would it?? haha of course not!

Especially considering no script = no game!

and no graphics = no game either (even a txt based game has gfx if computer based)

DOS

point: you could have a whole screen with just txt and it could still work :\ hell fullscreen a program and just have txt in it, there!

A text-based game consists of text and nothing more.

They can be. You just aren't thinking the same thing I'm thinking about it. Graphics have just as much potential to be as powerful as programming, that is, if you are skillfull enough to use it.
And why not? They sure do define the game. What difference the graphics are is what makes the user interpret what type of game it is. If it's side-scrolling graphics, then the user can assume the game is going to be side scrolling. Programming just merely adds to gameplay
No, it would be a totally different game visually. Gameplay could also be affected, depending on how the visualization affects the player.
I know, but it's still visual, and it's still represented via graphics, wether or not it spawned from a mathematical equation.

dos / text games are still gfx when displayed on screen ... and you can argue all you want but they still are graphics

Text maybe be applied to the screen, but that doesn't mean it is graphical.

The text isn't graphics? All the fonts you use are images, no? They may not be detailed, but they are still made up of pixels.