At what point did you realize that the best style of RPG is the Ultima perspective?
At what point are you going to move out and get a job?
>>4070229Already did that about 7 years ago.
>>4070176Honestly I prefer a wider rectangular view-screen verses a square oneMakes it feel less claustrophobic
>>4070176>Garriot was such a shit programmer he couldn't even add a transparency channel to his mediocre game
>>4070176>Ultima perspectiveI.D.K. what you are talking about. This is the only Ultima perspective I know of.
>>4071151Anon this is the RPG board, not the larping board.
Single player Tibia when?
>>4070176>>4072411Isometric > Oblique >>> flat topdown
>>4074649miss that lil' sheisse like you wouldn't believe
>>4072411>>4074649
>>4070176>Avatar>Shamino>Iolo>Duprethe greatest line-up in RPG history. the Dream Team
>>4072434>anon, this is the RPG board>>4070229>gets visibly upset when people talk about RPG's
>>4074804Is that unicorn giving him a blowjob?
>>4070176>Ultima perspective?i think Dragon Quest games look good ....i never played them.i played some of the Exile games made by indie Spiderweb but never beat any of them. they were very much copying the U6 UI for ages.
>>4074649its weird that Maple Story got an offline NDS game before this.
>>4074649I'd kill for single player Runescape.
>>4070176Around 1994 when I played my first RPG, Exile.
>>4084632AFAIK it's really easy to host your own private, configurable server with hundreds to a few thousand bots
>>4085386>Around 1994 when I played my first RPG, Exile.Longshot here, but early-mid 90s RPG question:I have ancient memories of playing a game (likely the demo or shareware first act) of a game very similar to Spiderweb games (may even be one, not sure). Top down, party creation, turn-based. I remember exploring the different biomes of the world map, and what I distinctly remember was a jungle area with headhunter enemies/NPCs. Does this ring a bell at all? *drools*
>>4085551It wasn't Geneforge or Avernum?
>>4085551>>4085705Ultima spinoff: Savage Empire.it's on GOG.... so you can pirate it
>>4085877>pirating a free game Bet you thought you were real smart there.
>>4085877>Savage EmpireBest box cover art of the whole Ultima-related series.
>>4081864>gay>also a fag
>>4070176When I started playing Qud.
>>4083626The mushrooms are phallic enough for me to believe it
>>4085935
>>4078892>give Iolo triple crossbow>he manages to shoot every other party member in the back in one attack
>>4085551WarWizard?
>>4087564yes .western games used to have SEXO.>>4087599that's just the U7 combat mechanics.>>4085918GOG hides the sauce files of the DOS games now, and uses DOSBox Staging which is full of bloat and slow.so it's easier to just get an torrent or something of the original DOS files, if you run your own DOSbox.
>>4070176I’m not white. Only white people enjoy strange games like ultima, moonring, caves of qud.
>>4096230>GOG hides the sauce files of the DOS games nowWATWhy would they do that?
>>4096348That's not true, I've never met a white person who liked caves of qud. Not even slavs
>>4096383i dunno? easier file management? they mostly seem to pak it all into an ISO file and rename it "something.game" or whatever, then load it from with some config file in DOSbox.
>>4098379>then load it with some config file in DOSbox.
bump
>>4074649For some reason tibia and that other game that's like this make me feel nauseous but other stuff like ultima doesn't
>>4084632https://2009scape.org/site/game_guide/singleplayer.html
>>4112001Yo thanks anon!
>>4072411>>4074649This is fucking hideous... gaming learned from this.
>>4084632Runescape is tranny dogshit>>4096348>caves of qud>white?
retroslop, just go trash all your consoles at this point
What is the best version of Ultima IV? DOS or UX4? what options do I have for music? Can I use midi emulators like Munt?
>>4114154skipping the "gameplay" and just watching the maj video like everyone else
>>4114590based
>>4096348White guy here. I don't think many liked ultima compared to other titles. In my experience it felt like a shitty pc game and I had to repair my weapons constantly and all this other tedious crap. I do put up with a lot of tedious crop from playing koei games for thousands of hours though. Maybe I should give it a 2nd chance. For what its worth I only played the original nes version.
>>4114590Cringe
>>4114590>Youtuber makes well researched videos about obscure game series>this gets people interest in the games >this upsets retardsWhy are you people like this?
>>4116200I don't really hate people getting into them this way as it was honestly how I went into them myself.Being a bit younger than most people here I assume I had heard the name Ultima often as an inspiration to a lot of games, but those videos introduced me to the world more and I then sought out the games, playing Ultima IV, V and VII. I think the part that bothers people is that a lot of people wouldn't play them like I did, but would rather parrot the opinions of what that youtuber fed them.
>>4116200does it get people interested in playing Ultima or does it mostly create armchair experts that love to tell you not to play the games? who try to shut down discussion of gameplay whenever possible?
>>4116303>gameplaywhere
>>4116200>obscure
>>4116200U4 isn't obscure though? it was revolutionary.
>>4070176when I played certain SNES games
How do you avoid dying if you start as a Shepherd in IV? The ground around your starting position is poison. Sure, if you die you end up teleported in front of Lord British, but I was wondering if there's another way to leave the ghost town without you keeling over.
>>4071151Doesn't seem like so
>>4117439lol i cant imagine actually playing this shit
>>4114154Unironically the Sega Master System version is really good.
>>4087599You have played the game, I see.
>>4127639Because you have no imagination.
>>4111866Tibia comes off as slop.even MUDs have more charm than knockoff UO.
>>4070176Overworld mechanics are great!Are there any times where the overworld sucks for a game?
>>4129212When it's an overworld where 30% of the map contains important hotspots and the remaining 70% of the map is empty, unused or simply used to travel between the important areas. No secret shrines or hidden away structures, nothing at all to see or do
>>4129353yeah dead worlds suck.kills the aura.
>>4072411this shit looks like it was flipped 90°
I've been thinking a lot about this specific style of old RPG.Where should I go to play these old ones? And are there any modern interpretations of the same formula?
>>4130518Nox Archaist would be the best place for a beginner to start, then work backwards to the real retro games.
>>4130518Play Ultima IV then Ultima V. There is no game like Ultima V, sadly.
>>4129212Is that actually what Zelda 2's overworld looks like? Jesus that's bad.
>>4070176Never, since I always knew this.
>>4088518I still play this game in dosbox-x. janky and crashes often but I keep coming back to it.
>>4117341another game I still play. imo the 80s and 90s of computing/console just have a certain tier of awesome. I spend too much time in koei games just dinking around or trying things.
