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Even though I'm an old head, I never played any of those early PC RPGs like Ultima or Wizardry since I was a console kid. I've always been curious about them though. I've been watching a YouTube series by Majuular he's been working on for months and months where he's playing through all the Ultima games and doing retrospectives including information on the development and all that. It's really interesting IMO. It really feels like it was the bleeding edge of RPG gaming back then that I totally missed out on.
One of my favorite bits of gaming history is how much Japan apparently loved those old Western RPGs. The first JRPGs from the likes of Square and Falcom took obvious inspiration from them + D&D, and there were even Japan-exclusive Wizardry games made after the series ended in the West.
Falcom supposedly got sued for ripping off the Ultima III manual to make character artwork for Xanadu, their biggest hit at that point.
100%! I knew that D&D was influential on gaming from things like Baldur's Gate, but I didn't realize just how much of an influence it had not just in the US but in Japan as well. The divide between CRPG and JRPG was very narrow back then.
Yeah I never got around playing anything like Wizardry, so im curious about the gerne. Amberland 2 is very much oldschool inspired but a tad cleaner/ more user friendly . You have fast travel and other things that make it more modern in some aspects.
Yeah! I never heard of it, but I like the look. I might have to check it out. I'd like to get into blobbers more.