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Fantasy Game Debate

    15-Jul-88 18:03:49
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.