Fantasy Game Debate
15-Jul-88 18:03:49
Sb: #172-Fantasy Game Debate
Fm: Henry Colonna 74726,3216
To: Steven Bennett 70046,441
I agree – the betrayal idea sounds pretty neat. There are even neater things
in Ultima V – the nonplayer characters move and walk around in the game, have
jobs, etc. The text parser is much better. There is an underworld.
I don't think that the "morality" was sickeningly sweet. Some of the choices
were hard choices, as the opening of the game (which, I think, quite frankly,
is brilliant) shows.
I personally want a game that allows me to be "bad". But it doesn't bother
me that I won't finish a game where I am "bad" – at some point I will have to
pay the price.