Rajaah's CRPG Blog

Kajiimagi said:

Was 9 the 3d one? Yeah I really felt ripped off on that one. Years later I cheated my way through the game, pretty much had to as much as you got caught in walls/worlds.

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Ultima Underworld 1 and 2 are the 3D first-person Everquest style ones.

I think Ultima 8 and 9 are 3D third-person, after 1-7 being top-down. But it might just be 9 that's 3D. I'm the last person to ask, cause I'm only familiar with what Majuular has covered (everything except 8 and 9 at this point).

Vinjin said:

Ultima brings back so many memories. I started with 2 and loved it. Then finished 3 before going back to play the first one where the villain was Minax.

Ultima 4 was awesome for me and my friends. The four of us were pretty much locked in my room for almost two weeks playing it non stop.

I don't remember much about 5 but I do remember feeling disappointed with 6. And 7 was decent but I can't remember if it was the base game I liked more or the Black Gate expansion.

I was so excited when I got my copy of Ultima 8. Good Lord did it suck. It felt like a completely different game (it was still isometric though). I thought for sure Garriot was gonna redeem himself with Ultima 9 but that was such a buggy, hot garbage POS mess that I never ever even got it to work on my PC.

My brother played it but I remember him telling me something along the lines of "be glad you didn't play it". LOL

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It'd be awesome if Garriot got a big infusion of cash and started work on an Ultima X. Top-down isometric, classic-style, only in HD and with modern game QOL.

In this era of retro games being brought back or having spiritual successors, it seems like a no-brainer to put out an Ultima 10.

General Antony said:

The Icewind Dales are worth a play.

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I agree, and I have both of them. When I left off with the CRPGs I was trying to decide whether to play Icewind or NWN next. Ended up going with NWN and totally fell off with the whole thing. I think if I'd gone with IWD instead I would have gotten a few more CRPGs down at the time. I really liked what little of IWD I played.

IWD1+2, Pillars 1+2, and Divinity 1+2 are all high up enough that I'm guaranteed to run all of them at some point in the not-distant future, whether any of them wins here or not. Probably in that order due to QOL improvements from game to game. That'll probably be my next burst of CRPGs.

Urlithani said:

20 points in Raise Skeleton
20 points in skeletal mastery
10 +/- points in corpse explosion
10 +/- points in Revive
1 point in: clay golem, golem mastery, summon resist, iron golem, teeth.

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How many points in Amplify Damage? I'm guessing that's while leveling, and the list up there are for character creation?

Corpse Explosion sounds fun.