Iolo

Didn't turn me off. I never judge games by box art and never will. On the other hand, I had been paying attention to the development of the game so I bought it as soon as I could (which was actually online from Amazon since the local stores were sold out of it).

Whoa! Maybe I should sign up! But which am I? A lamer, or a wanker? hmmmmmmm? Whoever said they needed to be mutually expensive?

It is a great injustice that Bio needs to answer for, in this life or in the next. How were thieves screwed?

(What about Bard, Ultima, etc? Anyway going from comedian) Seinfeld

That's why I am not there.

It's also turn based, has destructible environments and you control a squad (like in JA or FOT I guess). Later on you get laser weapons and PanzerKleins (power armor) just like everyone else did back in WW2. (It's an alternate history WW2 actually) I am thinking of picking it up. It is getting good reviews on GameSpot and elsewhere.

Classic Rock Led Zeppelin in particular

Iolo :D

Paladin

Horsies

Posting while drunk is fun. Until you start babbling incoherently and noone has any idea what you are talking about. :ph34r: Of course I have never done that. I had beer for lunch myself.

Daffy

Each new Ultima game in the series pushed the envelope and that was always a trademark of the series. But Ultima 8 was a big divergence from the formula with you being on a different planet with a different magic system. I don't think Iolo, Shamino or the others were around either. Did the game allow parties? Was the world as large as Ultima 7? To be honest I never played Ultima 8 that much. The graphics looked good but the addition of jumping and jumping puzzles didn't go over with a lot of people. After the masterpiece that was Ultima 7, it stands to reason that many people expected the envelope to be pushed more but instead Richard Garriott wanted (or perhaps EA did) to broaden the market a bit by trying to appeal to a wider audience, at the expense of alienating some of the traditional audience. Was the environment still as interactive in Ultima 8 as in Ultima 7? I don't think it was. I certainly don't agree that graphics style is more important than gameplay. You can have both but if I had to choose I would choose gameplay. How many references to the previous games were in Ultima 8? It really seemed to me to be a very different game than the previous games in the series. An experiment perhaps but Garriott I think eventually indicated he would go back to roots more in Ultima 9 (and I am not sure that he did). I never played Ultima 9. The biggest complaints I hear is that the graphics engine ran very slowly and the game was buggy. Not sure if it had a party either and they didn't go with the original ending as planned for the storyline either. The fact that the game's lead designer changed one or twice during development must not have helped it.

Jessica Urquhart, formerly the lady who did the news postings for Black Isle back in the good old days.

Spamscape Navigator

sarcastic

Maybe try the Infinity Engine Mod Squard forum at Interplay's forums.

Well his comments about how Silent Storm wasn't selling well (he said 24,000 copies?) and that Nival the developer would go out of business soon were unnecessary and not true. Just going by the sales rank on Amazon, I would say Silent Storm is selling reasonably. TOEE (okay so the fact that it was D&D obviously helped) was turn based and was a number 5 seller on NPD numbers for two weeks of the first month it came out. Turn based games can sell, at least more than what he was implying. He could have handled the situation better than that as there were many Silent Storm fans there.

Personally, I'm tired of "action" RPGs. I want a real RPG again.

dragons

smell

Sounds like an Adventure game.

apples

If the person has two, it's called a split personality in English. Sounds intriguing.

Boron (the fifth element on the Periodic Table)