I played Ultima 2,3,4,5 and 9. All were great at their time, also the latest one Ultima 9. You only had to play it years after it was released because it was so buggy and hardware hungry when it shipped first. I still find the story/atmosphere in Ultima 9 very dense and better than in recent roleplaying games.
Anyway i'm looking forward to Neverwinter Nights 2 and hope that they improve on the story/quests. At least they promised and hopefully i will have some time then... :O)
Hmm some of the old adventure and roleplaying games really were like good books. They fed your head and were full of ideas! This isn't very widespread in todays games. Only a few ones succeed in this category. I miss those games with well thoughtout story/dialogues...
A lot of the recent roleplaying games are exaggerated and so genre typical facile. I've experienced better, serious and adult like stories when playing paper roleplaying. Same with the newer adventures. They all lack the mind prickeling puzzles.
To be fair you could relativise this, as some of the old games were only great because they were more abstract and therefore left more room for imagination. You also saw those games with virgin child eyes but in the end i would still say that a lot of the old games had more flesh around their bones.
Half-Life-2 was a great game in my opinion. Valve is able to bring this intensive feeling.
Anyway i'm looking forward to Neverwinter Nights 2 and hope that they improve on the story/quests. At least they promised and hopefully i will have some time then... :O)
Hmm some of the old adventure and roleplaying games really were like good books. They fed your head and were full of ideas! This isn't very widespread in todays games. Only a few ones succeed in this category. I miss those games with well thoughtout story/dialogues...
A lot of the recent roleplaying games are exaggerated and so genre typical facile. I've experienced better, serious and adult like stories when playing paper roleplaying. Same with the newer adventures. They all lack the mind prickeling puzzles.
To be fair you could relativise this, as some of the old games were only great because they were more abstract and therefore left more room for imagination. You also saw those games with virgin child eyes but in the end i would still say that a lot of the old games had more flesh around their bones.
Half-Life-2 was a great game in my opinion. Valve is able to bring this intensive feeling.