Make sure you understand and are up to the workload they require before building a game around them.
In some systems they require a lot of work. The two major strengths of this game, options and exploration come with some caveats. That’s how I spent those hours and hours in my childhood but thanks to the huge pool of character choices and expansive world while it was frustrating to never make progress it was still fun exploring.
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As the difficulty ramps exponentially the money drops remain static, eventually making fighting enemies w/o exploits a negative sum equation forcing you to grind endlessly or to use one of a handful of money exploits (steal it from a town, clean out dungeons, create, strip and delete characters, or grind forever at level 1)  to improve your characters.Īdd to this the fact that almost everything in the game is a secret and all the NPCs in the game are apparently cryptography experts and without a guide explaining how to proceed, the game boils down to creating parties, running them into the ground as they advance, then trying again. Simple right? The problems in that formula however start immediately. On every odd level, newer harder enemies spawn. Even with maxed out stats and the best gear in the game anything beyond the first few tiers of enemies will destroy your characters easily unless you use the battle strategy outlined in the exploit guide linked above.įurther, to get the stats necessary to cast the best spells, to buy decent equipment, and to recover your characters if they get killed (see: monsters destroying you w/o exploits above) takes TONS of money. You have to collect the four marks, the silver horn, and the four cards, then infiltrate Exodus’ castle and defeat him. Ultima 3 has the following basic plot: The king summons your band of four adventurers and asks you to defeat the evil Exodus. It was the 55 character choices (some of them clearly superior to others) and it’s two large worlds to explore with teleporting moon gates, towns that appeared and disappeared, dungeons, seas and hidden temples that kept me playing the game again and again for years.Â
While by today’s standards some of these character creation systems are very limited, in their day, their selection of possibilities was staggering. In addition most of the Ultimas had either a robust or free-form character creation system that allowed for dozens of different character choices. For the most part, Ultima’s popularity was due to it’s sandbox style play which allowed you right off the bat to go anywhere and do anything in it’s massive game worlds.
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Ultima Exodus was the 3rd of the Ultima Series of games, for a long time considered the best series of computer RPGs.
For those of you who want to go back and complete this classic adventure, you can find an excellent shrine with all the info you need to play the game and an exploit guide that explains how you can complete it in under two hours online. Despite the fact that it’s a video game, there are still pertinent lessons to be learned from it. One of the games I found there that I had loved years ago was Ultima Exodus. Go nuts. I’m not sure of the legalities of emulators though, so go nuts at your own risk. I found a while back. For the NES junkies out there like me, Nesfiles is a site that allows you to play emulated NES games in your browser.
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