An old favorite of mine is Magic Carpet 2. Introducing base building to an action game was a bold move. It is difficult to explain to modern gamers that in the MS-DOS era games were not intuitive to play. Having fun required reading the instructions and climbing the immediate difficulty cliff to play.
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Holy smokes, I love the Ultima series! Never expected this, this will be awesome to listen to!
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After seeing the amazing job Majuular has been doing for the past year going over the Ultima games in extensive detail I have to say this announcement was a surprise. I was there when Ultima was new. 3 blew me away with what it achieved at the time. There would be no JRPGs without that and Wizardry. I can still play Ultima 4 thru 7. 7 holds up extremely well wand I would rather play that then many games now simply for the story which no Final Fantasy has come close to frankly. But Ultima 1 and 2 are pretty rough but extremely interesting historically. Seeing this would be one of the more interesting runs this year. It's one of the most important series ever made both for RPGS and Online RPGs and it's sad that after Ultima 8 it completely fell off a cliff and is now dead thanks largely to EA.
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I don't play a lot of western games from the 80s, but I went through quite a few Japanese games, primarily eroge, from the 80s and 90s. Rance and various PC-88 and PC-98 stuff. It's always cool to see the roots of the culture, and origins of styles and mechanics that eventually come to mega-franchises like Persona.
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Its kinda crazy that Ultima completely died at the start of the 2000s. A series with not just one, but multiple games that were so groundbreaking they changed the game industry as a whole, and yet it feels like barely anyone has even played any of them nowadays.
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As someone who finds games like Morrowind a bit too old for me to enjoy personally, I commend you, Lore. Covering Ultima 1 is basically gaming archeology.
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Ive have sucumbed into buying the old games to try them out , even more so after learning that Wizardy pretty much was one of the first rpgs that inspired the whole thing and not Dragon Quest. Although I do set a line , im not going to play the wire frame ultima / wizardy games , nor the text ones either
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I specifically think back to games like the original Metroid, Legend of Zelda, Alone in the Dark, and Resident Evil.
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Had fina l fantasy 1 on nintendo and thought it was too brutal, the not hitting dead emenys was crazy. Actually played through and beat it recently and itnwas crazy good. I used the manual thisnplay through, the one that came with the game, it's almost needed
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Lorerunner
Today we're covering a grandpa of gaming; Ultima 1 (the 86 version specifically).
Anyone else ever derive enjoyment from going back and poking at these older (and I mean OLDER) games? Y'know, games that arguably aren't good but are interesting, especially in how they have historical significance to video game development and/or culture?
I think for myself part of the enjoyment is knowing that I don't HAVE to play it (or beat it, for that matter). That I have that ripcord of being able to quit at any time.
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