They probably weren't thinking about U7 specifically, but almost every Western gamer above the age of 28 probably has played a couple of Ultima games.I highly doubt the GTA programmers were inspired by U7 when they were programming.
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I wanted to think so too.Originally Posted by rama
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They probably weren't thinking about U7 specifically, but almost every Western gamer above the age of 28 probably has played a couple of Ultima games.I highly doubt the GTA programmers were inspired by U7 when they were programming.
Right, because if anything validates the existance of a handheld piece of shit, it's taking those shitty handheld games and placing them on a screen big enough so that the inherent flaws of the software is visible to all humans. Including Ray Charles.
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U7 has to be one of my favorite PC games ever. One of my fondest memories of that game was killing everyone in the town you start out in, piling their bodies in an abandoned building, and taking all of their possessions to furnish "my" house. I even killed the performers outside of the town for kicks. Stuck a baby in my backpack, even- because I could. Or maybe it was because the game glitched, hard to tell...
That's what open-ended, non-linear games are all about. GTA folks can stick that in their pipe and smoke it.
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It's possible the Lord British IS inspired by Ultima. Ultima and Wizardry (in addition to nethack and angband??) are/were quite popular in japan. There were several japanese developed Wizardrys, as well as Ultimas ported to various consoles. Hell, a new Wizardry just came out last year.
On the other hand, maybe they just named it the Lord British for no reason :P
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Back in the day, Ultima had an incredible impact on the gaming scene. Ultima II was decent, but it was Ulitma III that broke away, smashed all competition, and showed what one could really do with an RPG. Incredible at the time.
Between Ultima III, Sundog, and Questron (a brilliant SSI RPG), even the mid-80s offered some gaming heaven at home.
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I thought it was going to be about Lord British himself and how he got the shaft.
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He continues to get the shaft as we speak.
He needs to man up like Jeff Minter. Ditch Lineage and just do his own thing. He could frontier professional independant game development.
As much as I wuv Minter...
I'm not sure his "smoke a lot of dope and make a few cellphone games and maybe a console game every other year or so" plan really fits the lifestyle of Lord British.
I personally regret not getting into the standard Ultima series. They've been around me the whole time and I've never bothered... even watched 4 get played a few times but never tried it out.
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