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From: david@starsoft.hou.tx.us (Dave Lowrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: ULTIMA VI ??
Message-ID: <david.0625@starsoft.hou.tx.us>
Date: 30 Mar 91 18:59:25 GMT
References: <1991Mar28.153148.9912@cc.newcastle.edu.au> <1991Mar28.140804.21291@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <10643@mirsa.inria.fr>
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In article <10643@mirsa.inria.fr> beust@avahi.inria.fr (Cedric BEUST) writes:
>
> In article <1991Mar28.140804.21291@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, am66@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Alexander Maldutis) writes:
> >...
> >     Good sound, good graphics, real-world object system ("If you can touch
> > it, you can use it" to quote the box blurb), party members act independently.
> > What I don't like, however, is the constant scale of the world - in the
> > previous Ultimae, a town was an icon on the map, and would then load in
> > when you went in.  Now, you just walk right in.  Ditto for dungeons.  While I
> > certainly appreciate the change in dungeons, this feature has the effect of
> > making the world seem a bit smaller than the previous ones.  In addition,
> > you lose the pleasure of finding secret stuff on the periphery of the towns.
>
>   I thought so when I first played Ultima VI (on a PC, booooh...) but the game
> quickly took on me and I didn't even think of it after one hour of play. And
> I've been playing Ultima since the very first, so I know it a little. I was
> very impressed by the graphics (VGA 256 colors), and I'm afraid the Amiga
> won't be able to be as good. But I'm eager to play it again.
>

My impressions about PC Ultima VI:

  o If you don't have a hard drive, it is EXTREMELY SLOW!!!! It reads
    from disk constantly, even in the middle of battles.

  o If you don't have EGA or higher, forget it. The graphics are too
    complicated to be rendered well in 4 colors.

I took my copy back to the store, as I determined that it was unplayable
on a floppy based CGA system.

While it DOES look nice on EGA/VGA, I kind of miss the old klunky
graphics. It was the game play that I really liked.

I hope they do justice to the Amiga when (if?) it is released.

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