Parsifal

I can imagine it adding to the game experience (truthfully) but "interactive foliage" made me laugh out loud... It's so much programming and processor power for something that seems so ridiculous. I can imagine a PR guy saying "And when you walk over the grass, it stays trampled!" and the audience going "Wooooow...", acting like they had just seen the light.

#12:
Maybe it's not so well put forth in the interview, but I've read up on his "Storytronics" before, and it seems to me that game designers will create settings and actors and then just let they player loose in the world where they will interact with the other "actors" in an un-scripted way and everything will resolve more like a simulation. At least that's the idea as I understood it.
Sorry for jumping to the conclusion that you mentioned Zork just because it was text based.

#10:
The only game you mention that even comes close are the Elder Scrolls games. The rest of the games are interactive, and they have stories, but they sure don't have an interactive story...
That being said, I love Quake and Half-Life...

#2:
Zork wasn't interactive storytelling just because it showed text instead of graphics. Zork and Monkey Island are both the same kind of games, just that one has graphics and one has text, interactive storytelling is something altogether different, where the player make choices and "act", not solve puzzles.

And also, Chris is talking about interactive storytelling as aimed largely at people who don't play "ordinary" videogames.