Ultima 7

by **Jizaboz** » Wed Mar 03, 2021 10:04 pm

Fuck yeah. Murder investigation in Trinsic.

I have beat the original and the side quest thing but have not done Serpent’s Hold yet.

Also still to do:

Eventually beat ultima 5. U5 introd me to IBM compatible games when I was 11 or 12 and blew my mind, dudes.

P.S. if you really get into this you should join my Ultima Online shard(s)! No pressure. Hell, we aren’t even paying taxes in Obsidian shard lately.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:58 pm

I don't know what it is, but I love the beginning of this game and just walking around and talking to people.

I also love the fact that you can sorta figure out what everything is, but if you don't know you can click on an item and the game just tells you what it is (bottom right corner, for instance).

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Mar 03, 2021 8:24 am

Playing this in stretches this week has been the most calming thing going on in my life. What a classic!

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Feb 28, 2021 9:16 am

Ok, time to bump this and give it another shot.

by **Jizaboz** » Thu Sep 19, 2019 7:16 am

RealNC wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2019 9:56 pm
Jizaboz wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:55 pmHe directed it lol. The whole ordeal is confusing.
There's a TV in U9 that plays "E. A. Sports. It's in the game."

No so confusing after all.

Man that looks really bad. The weird part is the UI and general look of it is very close to a “low res” version of SOTA haha. Why they would go that direction with the new game is beyond me.

I also notice one TV plays an ad for Ultima Online 2 which was never released. The combination of “development hell” and the existence of the already thriving Ultima Online at the time probably sucked a lot of life out of U9

by **RealNC** » Wed Sep 18, 2019 9:56 pm

Jizaboz wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:55 pmHe directed it lol. The whole ordeal is confusing.

There's a TV in U9 that plays "E. A. Sports. It's in the game."

No so confusing after all.

by **Jizaboz** » Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:55 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2019 6:33 am
Jizaboz wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:03 pm “What’s a Paladin” is also a loading message in Shroud of Avatar :)
Are they trying to own that? They are trying to roll with it! I think Garriot had nothing to do with 9 though right?

He directed it lol. The whole ordeal is confusing. And so is Shroud of the Avatar. It’s like Ultima theme meets 2nd Life with combat or something. I was into it at first but now not so much.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Sep 18, 2019 6:33 am

Jizaboz wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:03 pm “What’s a Paladin” is also a loading message in Shroud of Avatar :)

Are they trying to own that? They are trying to roll with it! I think Garriot had nothing to do with 9 though right?

by **RealNC** » Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:31 pm

Jizaboz wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:03 pm9 I only briefly played and then quit due to it playing like shit in Windows 98. It probably still does in all operating systems.

That's good! I was not so fortunate. If I had a time machine, I'd go back and sabotage my PC before my past self installed the game.

by **Jizaboz** » Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:03 pm

“What’s a Paladin” is also a loading message in Shroud of Avatar :)

9 I only briefly played and then quit due to it playing like shit in Windows 98. It probably still does in all operating systems.

by **RealNC** » Tue Sep 17, 2019 7:20 pm

Tdarcos wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 2:57 am
RealNC wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2019 1:08 am
Jizaboz wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2019 11:04 pmAll hail to Lord British!
What's a Paladin?
...

"What's a Paladin" is just a famous quote from Ultima 9. When an NPC mentions the Paladins to the Avatar, the Avatar replies with "what's a Paladin?" It was the moment in the game where people finally realized that Electronic Arts had ruined the Ultima franchise.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Sep 17, 2019 10:43 am

Tdarcos wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 2:57 am
RealNC wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2019 1:08 am
Jizaboz wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2019 11:04 pm All hail to Lord British!
What's a Paladin?
It's the guy who lives at the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco, going out and solving people's problems. He had a business card, "Have gun, will travel Wire Paladin, San Francisco" over an image of a knight chesspiece. Ran on TV and radio back in the '50s.

Seriously, the 12 paladins were the "twelve foremost knights of Charlemagne's court, comparable to the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian romance.'

Didja ever play any of the Ultima games, Commander?

by **Tdarcos** » Tue Sep 17, 2019 2:57 am

RealNC wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2019 1:08 am
Jizaboz wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2019 11:04 pm All hail to Lord British!
What's a Paladin?

It's the guy who lives at the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco, going out and solving people's problems. He had a business card, "Have gun, will travel Wire Paladin, San Francisco" over an image of a knight chesspiece. Ran on TV and radio back in the '50s.

Seriously, the 12 paladins were the "twelve foremost knights of Charlemagne's court, comparable to the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian romance.'

by **Jizaboz** » Mon Sep 16, 2019 9:29 pm

I finished it a few months back but it would have been impossible to do so without a walkthrough.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Sep 16, 2019 6:56 am

So, I wanted to read that article later so I posted it here. Something stopped me from playing through U7, I get to the same spot each game. And I am sure I lost my save game.

But I keep thinking that something is missing with the RPGs I play today. First, the intro text is universally AWFUL. It's like a genre condition.

I do really, really hate the U7 font. That part does not help.

by **RealNC** » Mon Sep 16, 2019 1:08 am

Jizaboz wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2019 11:04 pm All hail to Lord British!

What's a Paladin?

by **Jizaboz** » Sun Sep 15, 2019 11:04 pm

All hail to Lord British!

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Sep 15, 2019 1:26 pm

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by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 9:41 pm

The map has been great. I am able to identify where I might want to go in this absolutely crazy world, a world that was never intended for me to enter.

There is an Iolo and a Dupre as well. What kind of an Avatar are ya, ChainGangGuy? What I guess I am asking is if you steal from the townsfolk. In the game. I absolutely do. Out of the game.

by **ChainGangGuy** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 5:02 pm

I vaguely recall playing Ultima VI for the PC ages ago.

I want to say Iolo was there. Maybe a Dupre?

Was the giant map helpful to your cause?

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