KeighnMcDeath
RPG Codex Boomer
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO THIS THREAD!
You aged OK. How has the number of platforms aged for a single game? Going through games like Ultima, Phantasie, Wasteland, Temple of Apshai, etc and I see some are on many platforms that play slightly different or have a different interface. Ultima 3 with mouse on Amiga or MAC vs AppleII and c64 for example. Some DOS variants I still find inferior or uglier except load speeds (again look at Ultima 3 and Phantasie). Some of the nostalgia might depend on what platform you first played it. I have seen many people tout the NES ultima as AWESOME and ehen I first saw soneone bring a Nintendo Power to school and I saw sone of the screenshots I thought it looked cool. Jump to my first time trying the game at a used game store in near 2000 and I went BLEH. Go to me trying NES ULTIMA: EXODUS on emulation and I was glad I didn't but the overpriced used cartridge.
Now said game has been hacked and even has people taking the engine and making new games from it. Go figure. The NES game will always have bad flicker and I find the pacing a little off compared to c64. The music... ugh. I's love to see a NES hack that had the c64 sid music. Still, I played through it once. I never tried the rebalance modification hack.