Got home, got manual, got disappointed!

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by Leif_-:

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Originally posted by Kelan:
Oh, and weren't the old Ultima games great, Leif? I remember saving months worth of money as a young teenager so that I could get Ultima III and then IV. Those were great adventures.

Actually, I only ever played V - which I thought was quite good, but not a particularly great game.

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A shame, you should have played Ultima IV. For my money, it was the best of all the Ultimas. Attaining (and keeping) the virtues in order to progress was a novel approach. You could lie, steal, murder, and be a generally nasty person with great rewards - but you needed to act virtously to succeed, and it was so easy and tempting to slip.

Beats those games where you are a generic good guy/bad guy by miles.

[condors]

from that era of games i personally favored wasteland (lots of fun with a bb gun)

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Leif_-:
*sighs* Oh, for a return to the golden era of computer games - back when the Amiga was Queen of World and games actually came with large, well-written manuals (and extras.) The likes of Ultima V, or Flight of the Intruder - or even Eye of the Beholder.

Yeah, tell me about it. In my day, the measure of a good manual was the ability to render a man unconcious with it by whopping him upside the head with it. Bet you can't do that with manuals today, and games today are supposed to be more complex. You'd think they'd warrant a bigger manual.

[Taqwus]

Now, the _EU_ manual was pretty goofy. T'was a good history pamphlet... but it largely omitted details on how to play the game.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Taqwus:
Now, the _EU_ manual was pretty goofy. T'was a good history pamphlet... but it largely omitted details on how to play the game.

The Victoria manual makes the EU manual look good by comparison. Paradox really needs to hire a professional manual writer, or better yet a writer with strategy guide experience (such writers tend to have more attention to detail).