I've been watching a long retrospective on Ultima Underworld: Stygian Abyss on Youtube.
I quite liked the game, I bought it new when it was published and played it quite much. I never finished it, though - it was a long game and got quite hard in the end.
The video made me think about how the game has quite a lot of freedom, but also responsibility. The maker of the video talks about how you can make the game unwinnable easily.
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Ultima Underworld and Ultima Ascension were particularly memorable fantasy RPGs in the 90s.
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@MollyNoise that's a great point, I've been playing video games since #HammurabisCode in say 1977 and fleshing out the main character in terms of family has never been a focus. "The Player" in #SidMeiersPirates rescues his family members but they only generate information and change the ending, anonymous Avatar in #UltimaUnderworld, orphaned child of a wizard in #BaldursGate , Duke in #DukeNukem who may also be an avatar of violence.
A damn good point that!
Les studios #LookingGlass c'était #UltimaUnderworld, #SystemShock, #Thief... et puis #TerraNova, infiniment moins culte et sans doute à raison. Il y avait là tout de même un petit quelque chose de fascinant, dans ces maps gigantesques qu'on parcourait en mecha pour accomplir sa mission, donnant l'impression qu'on avait une liberté d'approche totale. Je sais que quelques mois avant #Daggerfall ça m'avait donné des vibes d'open world assez vertigineuses.
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