Great quotes - an IFDB Poll
by aaronius
RSS FeedPost your favorite sentences/excerpts from games in the comment field. Especially lovely if they are from deeper in the game than the opening text, although all are welcome.
| For a Change, by Dan Schmidt 4 votes "Opening, and..." [+]"Opening, and...: "The sun beats overhead, lending brightness and warmth, both long distant from the land you know."" ( - Full review) --Lance Cirone... "The sun has gone...." [+]"The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." --JDC... "The opening..." [+]"The opening lines: my favorite three sentences in IF." () --Caleb Wilson... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol...  Vote for this game | |
| Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling 2 votes "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue." [+]"It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue." --Ant-Fan... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Jinxter, by Georgina Sinclair, Michael Bywater 2 votes "> LOOK AT KEYRING..." [+]"> LOOK AT KEYRING The keyring is a marvellous device which enables you to lose all your keys at once, instead of one at a time. With this one, you could lose a yellow plastic key, a rusty key and an iron key." ( ) --Eriorg... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Death of Schlig, by Peter Timony 2 votes "With atom-splitting precision, you gently push the ham towards the spinning blades." [+]"With atom-splitting precision, you gently push the ham towards the spinning blades." ( - Full review) --Wade Clarke... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Lance Cirone... Vote for this game | |
| Echappée Belle Dans Les Contrées du Rêve, by FibreTigre 1 vote "(Excerpt from the..." [+]"(Excerpt from the license text:) "Inform est une machination infernale enfantée par Graham Nelson le Grand Ancien. Les contes maudits nous rappellent que JL Pontico l'informaticien dément est responsable de la traduction de ces librairies monstrueuses en langue francaise. Enfin, ce jeu a été conçu sous l'impulsion de fanatiques sectateurs de cultes interdits du forum de la fiction interactive http://ifiction.free.fr Qu'ils soient maudits et qu'Azathoth garde leurs âmes dans les profondeurs de son chaos nucléaire." (Excerpt from the game:) ">attendre Les secondes, instruments cruels de Yog Sototh le Maître des dimensions, vous cinglent de leur silence alors que vous attendez, absent dans vos réflexions. Vulnerant Omnes, Ultima Necat."" ( ) --Eriorg... Vote for this game | |
| Cragne Manor, by Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna, Adam Whybray, Adri, Andrew Plotkin, Andy Holloway, Austin Auclair, Baldur Brückner, Ben Collins-Sussman, Bill Maya, Brian Rushton, Buster Hudson, Caleb Wilson, Carl Muckenhoupt, Chandler Groover, Chris Jones, Christopher Conley, Damon L. Wakes, Daniel Ravipinto, Daniel Stelzer, David Jose, David Petrocco, David Sturgis, Drew Mochak, Edward B, Emily Short, Erica Newman, Feneric, Finn Rosenløv, Gary Butterfield, Gavin Inglis, Greg Frost, Hanon Ondricek, Harkness Munt, Harrison Gerard, Ian Holmes, Ivan Roth, Jack Welch, Jacqueline Ashwell, James Eagle, Jason Dyer, Jason Lautzenheiser, Jason Love, Jeremy Freese, Joey Jones, Joshua Porch, Justin de Vesine, Justin Melvin, Katherine Morayati, Kenneth Pedersen, Lane Puetz, Llew Mason, Lucian Smith, Marco Innocenti, Marius Müller, Mark Britton, Mark Sample, Marshal Tenner Winter, Matt Schneider, Matt Weiner, Matthew Korson, Michael Fessler, Michael Gentry, Michael Hilborn, Michael Lin, Mike Spivey, Molly Ying, Monique Padelis, Naomi Hinchen, Nate Edwards, Petter Sjölund, Q Pheevr, Rachel Spitler, Reed Lockwood, Reina Adair, Riff Conner, Roberto Colnaghi, Rowan Lipkovits, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Scott Hammack, Sean M. Shore, Shin, Wade Clarke, Zach Hodgens, Zack Johnson 1 vote ""Now I can..." [+]""Now I can finally confess my truth," she tells your exposed kidneys. "I think reading about lion sex is kind of nice actually."" ( - Full review) --Lance Cirone... Vote for this game | |
| To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest 1 vote ""I began to have..." [+]""I began to have my doubts about Mr. Booby almost as soon as the balloon had made its ascent from Berkeley Square."" --aaronius... Vote for this game | |
| In a Manor of Speaking, by Hulk Handsome 1 vote ""The cement is..." [+]""The cement is cemented in the bucket! That's what cement does!"" ( - Full review) --Lance Cirone... Vote for this game | |
| Curses, by Graham Nelson 1 vote "The bomb scene" [+]"The bomb scene: "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." - Ronald Reagan" --mjhayes... Vote for this game | |
| Best of Three, by Emily Short 1 vote ""I only want to..." [+]""I only want to speak at one end of a whispering gallery without knowing who stands at the other end -- if there is anyone at all."" ( - Full review) --Lance Cirone... Vote for this game | |
| The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt 1 vote "Where to begin?....." [+]"Where to begin?.. The opening text is the most famous quote, but my favorite one is probably "Tunking brolges can glake your stam of the halpock. Much of the stam is in abvating things on your own, and the brolges will abvate things for you. Are you sure you want to tunk the brolges?" - when you discover the game has in-built hints, but they, too, are in Gostakian." ( - Full review) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |