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HoloDust on 16 April 2023
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Kakadu18 said:
HoloDust said:

I wanted to write something about your remark about Ultima, what is arguably THE most influential video game IP of all times (if you know anything at all about VG history), but I'll just leave it at "No comment".

Adventure on the Atari 2600 is more influential. Wizardry is probably more influential.

Both very influential, no doubt, especially Wizardry for Japanese developers. All 3 trying to bring some aspects of tabletop RPGs into computer games (eventually it all goes back to D&D as most influential gaming IP in last 50 years).

But Ultima, as a franchise, did so many things that defined and influenced developers over its span and on so many levels (from overworld and openworld, to morality, to NPC's daily routines, to emergent gameplay, to MMORPG model with Ultima online) that is a shame that so few people know about it, and such a shame that there are no remakes, given how ahead of its time some of those titles were, and how much still some of those titles could teach modern developers.