• Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Did you play any games past ultima? It pioneered a laundry list of features that game are still using.

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        17 days ago

        Well, pretty much everything in Ultima was either innovated or popularized there. It came out in 1980, there really wasn’t a lot before it with any kind of complexity.

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            16 days ago

            Mostly the open world.

            III was a bit more influential with:

            • tiled graphics
            • party combat (Wizardry also had it)
            • time travel

            But each game from the Ultima series was additive, and Ultima also pulled from Akalabeth, so it’s hard to pick a specific game to be “most influential.” Is it Ultima I because it started the series that largely standardized CRPGs? Or is it Akalabeth because its success led to Ultima?

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              16 days ago

              And that’s why I had a problem with this from the start as Ultima 1 really wasn’t that ground breaking compared to others but by 4 you have an unspoken karmic system that tracks level advancement that blew my mind as a kid once I realized that was a thing.

              Ultima absolutely pushed significant boundaries but I have a hard time saying it was more influential than tetris.