Interactive fiction experimental principle: The player should never be incentivized to skim text
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There is an unacknowledged skill in playing parser games- efficiently skimming text while holding another problem in your head
Another related problem is the tendency of the player's haphazard traversal of the gamespace to create a long repetitive lexical record
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Current approaches: -Terser presentation of basic info while still feeling "lexical" -Distinction of player "utterance" from "tire-kicking"
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This is one of the reasons I find free exploration somewhat of an anti-pattern in games. It can become deeply tedious.
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The other reason is it sacrifices authorial control for no substantial return.
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