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Spoony Experiment reviews of the ultima series...

Author: Gileathane Dragon (---.dyn.iinet.net.au) Date:   07-10-10 02:47 Starting from Akalabeth :) He's done Ultima 1, and Ultima II's coming up - good for a laugh - the Ultima 1 review cracked me up. http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/07/04/ultima-0-akalabeth/ Edit by Dominus: direct link to all his Ultima reviews http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/game-reviews/ultima-retrospective/

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Author: DrCode (---.mentorg.com) Date:   07-13-10 20:11 Loved it when he called the phone # to report his win.:-)

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Author: Dominus  Date:   07-14-10 09:39 yeah, the Ultima I review is great! http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/07/04/ultima-1-the-first-age-of-darkness/ I just can't stand going to Spoony's site... it's to much of a time killer :) -- Read the documentation and the FAQ are your friends! There is no excuse for not reading them! RTFM Read the Rules! We do not support Piracy/Abandonware/Warez!

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Author: Guest (---.tbcn.telia.com) Date:   07-15-10 14:40 His mouth is mermerizing, it's something with the upper lip :D Looking forward to the next one

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Author: TDI (---.versanet.de) Date:   07-15-10 15:27 I wasn't aware of the early ultimas being so "liberal" with science fiction elements. I tried to play a few of them once, but I got frustrated and quit because I would always get poisoned and had no way of curing myself so I would always eventually die.

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Author: Monotremata  Date:   07-15-10 20:31 God the food thing was more annoying than anything. At least by Ultima IV and V they got it right.. I never heard of this guy before but man those two reviews were hilarious. Cant wait til he rips apart Ultima II now hehe.. If he thought the first two were a clusterfuck of sci-fi and fantasy elements wait til he gets time travel and light swords thrown into the mix!! Morbius/Monotremata Dragon -==(UDIC)==- Since 1992!

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Author: agentorangeguy (---.facultystaff.eku.edu) Date:   07-16-10 17:14 A bit of a AVGN ripoff, but the ultima reviews are hilarious. Now, how in the world does Ultima canon explain away all those rocketships and phasers, etc? If the bones of Zog are still around, ya have to wonder why the Britannians haven't come across an ancient shuttle lol. I know people have made assumptions to explain them, but I don't recall anywhere in the series that explains where they went to?

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Author: Guest (---.tbcn.telia.com) Date:   07-17-10 11:41 Well they have, in the field next to Britain in U7 BG for instance.

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Author: agentorangeguy (---.facultystaff.eku.edu) Date:   07-19-10 16:06 Ohhh yeah... I totally forgot about that thing! the wing commander reference I guess

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Author: Petrell  Date:   07-20-10 11:56 Ultima II: Revenge of the Enchantress review is up _____________ Obsibian Dragon -==(UDIC)==-

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Author: VisElEchNon  Date:   07-21-10 19:49 Wow, he's just plowing through these... http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/07/20/ultima-3-exodus/

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Author: VisElEchNon  Date:   07-21-10 19:51 >:( Let's try that again http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/07/20/ultima-3-exodus/

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Author: Guest (---.tbcn.telia.com) Date:   07-21-10 22:21 Nice

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Author: Guest (---.pools.arcor-ip.net) Date:   07-23-10 11:20 A small update ;-) : http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/07/23/ultima-3-exodus-breaking-news/

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Author: Guest (---.pools.arcor-ip.net) Date:   08-05-10 23:20 This has nothing to do with Ultima, but I think that for every RPG (and therefore Ultima) fan his review of Mazes & Monsters might be interesting nevertheless. It's hilarious at the least: http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/08/01/mazes-monsters/

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Author: El Guesto (---.csbnet.se) Date:   08-16-10 07:23 Part4 seems to be taking forever :/

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Author: El Guesto (---.studat.chalmers.se) Date:   08-21-10 17:39 No. 4 is out! http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/game-reviews/ultima-retrospective/

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Author: Monotremata  Date:   08-21-10 18:00 Yes! Motorhead playing during the closing credits! Cant wait for V to come out now.. Morbius/Monotremata Dragon -==(UDIC)==- Since 1992!

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Author: Korneluk (---.222-56-74.mc.videotron.ca) Date:   08-22-10 00:31 4 is out!? I ma going. Although, I am looking forward to the ones I played the most, part 7 I&II. I've been reading http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Ultima%20VII/index.html which is a walk-through of sorts with written commentary that can be pretty funny. ...I second the DragonStrike review being good. Great I'd say, if you know D&D. I was hurting by the time it ended.

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Author: Korneluk (---.222-56-74.mc.videotron.ca) Date:   08-27-10 02:00 I feel like he's losing steam here. :(

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Author: MV (---.static.tpgi.com.au) Date:   08-27-10 04:34 Yep, seemed like it was done for the hell of it. Pretty underwealming compared to the others.

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Author: ziga (89.142.51.---) Date:   08-27-10 18:07 lol @ space shuttle rage but seriously, what was LB thinking when he put space shuttles into a medieval fantasy game?

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Author: ziga (89.142.51.---) Date:   08-27-10 18:11 oh @!#$ the lord of the rings scene made me blow milk all over my keyboard...

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Author: Dominus  Date:   09-19-10 13:15 http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/09/19/ultima-5-warriors-of-destiny/ next one is up. Much better than the 4th one. -- Read the documentation and the FAQ are your friends! There is no excuse for not reading them! RTFM Read the Rules! We do not support Piracy/Abandonware/Warez!

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Author: Korneluk (---.222-56-74.mc.videotron.ca) Date:   09-19-10 18:19 Had some funny moments, but left me with an odd feeling, in that he wasn't actually tearing the game into bits, but making me want to play it...nicely done! I've tried it a couple of times, but never got anywhere. I'll definitely give it a real shot when I have the time.

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Author: Monotremata  Date:   09-19-10 21:03 YAY finally my favorite of the series gets the Spoony treatment hehe. I loved the screenshot where he tells Blackthorn to eat a dick when he asks for the Mantra of Honesty hehe.. Morbius/Monotremata Dragon -==(UDIC)==- Since 1992!

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Author: Guesto (---.csbnet.se) Date:   11-02-10 15:09 No 6.seems to be taking forever

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Author: Dominus1 (---.dsl.telepac.pt) Date:   11-02-10 20:10 I think spoony had some health problems

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Author: El Guesto (---.csbnet.se) Date:   11-14-10 15:37 Ultima 6 is finally up!

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Author: Korneluk (---.222-56-74.mc.videotron.ca) Date:   11-15-10 16:38 had some good moments. I agree with spoons feelings on the abysmal viewing window, and the beef jerky. U7, I've always been able to come back and enjoy playing, U6, seemed a bit of a chore. Finished it once and tried again about 6 or 7 times. I liked the story but it surely could be tweaked somewhat. Wished he would have spent less(0) time with his live-action chuckles and more in the game. He didn't mention wanda, smith, nicodemus... or the silly answers alot of NPC give you, where you might ask them something they clearly have knowledge of, but because it's not the right key word, they claim ignorance. Anyhow, looking forward to U7.

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Author: Monotremata  Date:   11-15-10 19:59 Ive had the same feelings replaying U6 too.. 4, 5 and the 7s are always fun to come back too but everytime I replay 6, Ill play it for a few days and then just drop it. The interface wasnt bad (I remember my jaw dropping when I first saw it on my IBM) but yeah the inventory management SUCKED big time. U3 is another one I cant seem to get into anymore. I finished in like 92 or something after I got the Ultima Trilogy but Ive never been able to go back and replay that one either.. Just too tedious and slow I guess. Morbius/Monotremata Dragon -==(UDIC)==- Since 1992!

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Author: Dominus  Date:   11-15-10 21:37 http://www.ultimaaiera.com/blog/spoonys-review-of-ultima-6-not-entirely-fair/ A discussion on this is under way on the Ultima Aiera article on this review. -- Read the documentation and the FAQ are your friends! There is no excuse for not reading them! RTFM Read the Rules! We do not support Piracy/Abandonware/Warez!

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Author: Crowley  Date:   11-18-10 09:13 Hey, Chuckles broke the rules of the game himself when he said "again"!

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Author: agentorangeguy (---.facultystaff.eku.edu) Date:   11-18-10 16:35 I don't think there is an ultima fan alive who HASN'T killed chuckles in some fashion. There were a lot of cool things about U6 he didn't mention. You could get drunk, you could take those mugs/glasses/bottles and throw them and they'd smash. Still working on the U6 Exult converstion BTW.. just finished up Bucs Den :)(minus NPC usecode for them at the moment.).

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Author: Korneluk (---.222-56-74.mc.videotron.ca) Date:   11-18-10 23:08 ^^ screenshots please, good sir!

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Author: agentorangeguy (---.facultystaff.eku.edu) Date:   11-19-10 18:26 What is the best way to take them in exult? I've been meaning to learn how to do that so i can post some.

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Author: El Guesto (---.csbnet.se) Date:   11-19-10 18:33 You could just as well use the printscreenbutton on the keyboard and paste it in paint

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Author: agentorangeguy (---.facultystaff.eku.edu) Date:   11-19-10 19:40 i thought about that but i wasn't sure if it would be bigger file-wise or not, but I'll do that soon.

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Author: Guesto (---.ias.bredband.telia.com) Date:   12-26-10 19:15 7 is taking its sweet time as well

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Author: Crowley  Date:   02-02-11 13:32 Hey, it's up now! http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/02/01/ultima-7-the-black-gate-review/ No surprises there. I do agree with him that the story isn't as nuanced as in the previous two games. "Big evil guy is trying to take over the world and you have to stop him." Not as thought-provoking as overthrowing an oppressive government or settling a war with strong ideological conflicts behind it. Yeah, I know I'm oversimplifying.

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Author: guesto (---.csbnet.se) Date:   02-02-11 19:06 about time, guess serpent isle will be out by summer

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Author: Dominus  Date:   02-03-11 16:13 To me it seems like neither the Underworlds nor SI will be reviewed. The end scene points to Pagan :( The review was made with Exult, the face stats give it away :) -- Read the documentation and the FAQ are your friends! There is no excuse for not reading them! RTFM Read the Rules! We do not support Piracy/Abandonware/Warez!

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Author: MV75 (---.static.tpgi.com.au) Date:   02-04-11 12:30 I thought the hour glass on the cursor and the expanded view, AA, etc gave exult away. :D Anyway, that one was pretty good. :)

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Author: Dominus  Date:   02-04-11 18:03 yes, those two things gave it away, too (even though I wonder how you get the hourglass... later on in the review the hourglass is gone) :) -- Read the documentation and the FAQ are your friends! There is no excuse for not reading them! RTFM Read the Rules! We do not support Piracy/Abandonware/Warez!

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Author: dag (---.pppoe.wtnet.de) Date:   02-05-11 04:54 Although I really like this review, I'm disappointed, because Exult wasn't mentioned :-/

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Author: Crowley  Date:   02-05-11 08:23 Spoony has announced along with a bunch of other things that he'll be doing Serpent Isle in March. I guess Underworlds will get a brief look similar to Worlds of Ultima.

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Author: el guesto (---.ias.bredband.telia.com) Date:   03-26-11 21:05 Now updated with 2 videos of ultima underworld

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Author: Mark Mitchell  Date:   03-27-11 03:02 Yeah, I don't think he completed UU2. Nothing about the other worlds, which were the whole point of the game. BOooooo

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Author: TDI (---.versanet.de) Date:   03-31-11 15:53 Wow. The Underworld 2 video is unbareable to watch. I had to stop it after just one third. It seems he's just bitching and being negative to be funny or something. Also, the plot and voice acting of UW were not bad at the time. He's nitpicking at everything remotely unsatisfactory and hardly mentioning all the great parts at all. Failing to mention all the parallel worlds in UW2 eliminates any credibility that he even bothered to play the games correctly. I don't like Sweeney reviews no more.

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Author: Scythifuge  Date:   03-31-11 16:32 UW II is the only one out of the two that I never completed. Not that it was difficult, it was just one of those situations where I got about a third of the way through the game, and things came up. Such a span in time would mean that I have to start a new game, and I have some other games to complete first. Though I plan on playing the Ultimas in order on my custom 486 & displayed on my LCD TV..I think that that will be awesome! Though I do agree that Spoony is overreacting and he admits that he sucks at the game. Perhaps he was having a bad day.

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Author: Skutarth (not logged in) (---.resnet.txstate.edu) Date:   03-31-11 18:20 TDI: Underworld's voice acting certainly is at the level of mediocrity when compared to its contemporaries. That's the problem, though: all the voice acting was @!#$ back then. You might as well not have it if it's going to be terrible. His complaints for that are still valid.

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Author: TDI (---.versanet.de) Date:   03-31-11 18:57 I disagree. He might as well have complained about the pixelated graphics and billboard 2D characters, but if we didn't have shitty 3D then, we wouldn't have incredible 3D graphics today. If we didn't have shitty plots then, we wouldn't have Dragon Ages and Mass Effects today. If we didn't have shitty voice acting then... you get the idea. Whatever you start with will usually be low quality, but you've got to start somewhere.

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Author: Skutarth (not logged in) (---.resnet.txstate.edu) Date:   03-31-11 22:46 TDI: While CGI may not have advanced as fast as it did without video games, it definitely would have continually improved over time. The reason 3D sucked early on was because it was used for the most part as a gimmick; Everybody was doing it, and thus started the 3D craze. People naturally got better at it. Voice acting and plots would have evolved either way just due to the fact that game development budgets have increased exponentially. While the "pixelated graphics and billboard 2D characters" were mostly products of technological limitation, both voice acting and plots could have been much better sans budget limitations. There really haven't been any actual innovations for either. Movies like The Godfather did perfectly fine for both quality of acting (including voices) and plot, and that movie came out 20 years beforehand! The quality of the acting itself is what sucks -- not the quality of the PCM used to reproduce it. The reason the voice acting sucks is because they didn't have any money to hire real voice acting talent. In fact, I bet most of the voice acting for the cutscenes is done by the programming team and Richard Garriott. Not exactly cream of the crop, is it? It might actually have been less painful to read text instead of hearing it reduced to complete garbage by its final voice-acted presentation.

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Author: Scythifuge  Date:   04-01-11 00:40 Baron Almric from UUWI is voiced by Richard Garriott.

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Author: Dominus1 (---.static.xdsl-line.inode.at) Date:   04-01-11 06:27 Good discussion on this at aiera http://www.ultimaaiera.com/blog/spoony-reviews-ultima-underworld-the-stygian-abyss/

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Author: TDI (---.versanet.de) Date:   04-01-11 16:45 I really should make the leap to Aiera for my Ultima-Fix one of these days... @Skutarth, I know what you mean, but games had a development process, just as movies had. Just because we had Godfather movies before Ultima doesn't mean that games could have been able to mirror that kind of plot and voice acting quality at the time. The budget as you say is a very good reason for this. It took time for games to become big business as movies and until then you had to work with what you had.

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Author: Dominus  Date:   04-01-11 22:24 yes, you really should take the leap to Aiera. Plenty of news all the time and mostly good and interesting discussions on stuff. The kind I wouldn't allow here but participate over there :) -- Read the documentation and the FAQ are your friends! There is no excuse for not reading them! RTFM Read the Rules! We do not support Piracy/Abandonware/Warez!

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Author: El Guesto (---.csbnet.se) Date:   05-27-11 20:47 Serpent Isle review is out

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Author: El Guesto (---.csbnet.se) Date:   05-28-11 07:00 I have to say I agree about the combat, which of course goes for U7 as well. It's just random and meaningless, I wish U7 had better combat

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Author: Funster (---.carolina.res.rr.com) Date:   06-08-11 00:55 I've been following Spoony's reviews for a long time. I've never been interested in Ultima since the only one I really knew was U6 on the SNES which was a hassle to play. After the BG and SI reviews, I had to pick em up. For the first time in my life I am finally playing these bad boys.

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Author: andar_b (---.hsd1.ca.comcast.net) Date:   06-08-11 02:07 Good luck with them! They're good fun, even after all these years. I loved the Spoony review of Mazes and Monsters, it was hilarious.

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Author: Guesto (---.ias.bredband.telia.com) Date:   06-09-11 16:34 I find SI easier to get into. The plot is more linear and "in your face" so it feels more engaging in that sense. At least for me who never played them when they came out

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Author: Monotremata  Date:   06-19-11 21:05 Man I have to go find this review of Mazes and Monsters now hehe. I just barely got around to watching the U7 review just now.. At the beginning when hes talking about having to upgrade his computer just to play the new Origin games.. Is it just me or does the guy on the Crusader box look JUST LIKE one of the Clone Troopers that would show up yeeears later in Attack Of The Clones??? Morbius/Monotremata Dragon -==(UDIC)==- Since 1992!

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Author: Guesto (95.80.51.---) Date:   08-28-11 16:20 Did he die or something?

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Author: DominusMobile2  Date:   08-28-11 17:03 Look at his site, the last thing he did was on the 24th, he just takes some time with the Ultimas -- Read the documentation and the FAQ are your friends! There is no excuse for not reading them! RTFM Read the Rules! We do not support Piracy/Abandonware/Warez!

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Author: Oisín Mac Fhearaí  Date:   08-30-11 01:45 Yeah, the Final Fantasy reviews took a long time too. It does take a long time just to play the games, let alone write a lengthy and (purposely) OTT critique. Looking forward to the SI one now! I'd probably have to agree with the combat feeling a bit meaningless. Although it might feel like that in RL anyway. Recently tried the highest combat difficulty with Exult and it was waaaay tougher, so that's interesting - armour and careful training (and sneaky tactics like moving out of range and placing caltrops in front of NPCs, or even cheaper - putting them to sleep) become more important. On that note, some of the U7 pages on the web suggest that armour merely reduces the probability of being hit, rather than reducing the damage taken directly. In Exult (actors.cc@2745) it does seem to reduce the damage, which seems more intuitive; I'm assuming those webpages are wrong (or I'm wrong and didn't understand the code, equally likely).

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Author: Kensu (---.wi.res.rr.com) Date:   09-01-11 01:29 I'm curious about how the U8 review is going to be. The trouble is that, unlike U9, Pagan COULD have been a great game if it was finished. What's there is pretty damn good, it's too bad that there isn't more of it. (I mean, seriously, compare the NPCs and their conversation branches to the ones in SI. For christ's sake, you can get Marsten to tell you every last detail of his life when you first meet him in the catacombs before he even bothers to ask who you are.) And because it's driving me mad: what IS that purple Planescape box behind Noah? The others look like they're just the regular campaign setting box, but I've never seen a purple one before, and I didn't think any of the other Planescape material was boxed...

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Author: Paulon (---.jetstream.xtra.co.nz) Date:   09-01-11 03:00 Re Planescape: I think it's Planes of Conflict, the third large boxed set in the Planescape line after the original set.

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Author: DominusMobile2  Date:   02-01-12 09:50 The U8 review is up. Follow the link in the 1st post. Haven't watched it yet - but on Aiera WTFs verdict is that it's again pretty unfair ;) -- Read the documentation and the FAQ are your friends! There is no excuse for not reading them! RTFM Read the Rules! We do not support Piracy/Abandonware/Warez!

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Author: Kensu (---.wi.res.rr.com) Date:   02-03-12 04:01 I'd say it's pretty fair. He doesn't mention how revolutionary it was for the time, and how nothing like it had been seen before at that point. He also doesn't mention that the conversation system is better, and what NPCs there are are much deeper than the ones that Ultima 7. However, he does take a lot of effort to get the point across that Pagan WAS UNFINISHED, so I'll forgive his rancor (especially because it made the review pretty funny. The 1812 Overture part was hilarious!) I do wonder something though... In all those years when they were "working on Ultima 9" (which invovled through away complete engines and changing team members, to the point where at the end the only person still on the team from the old days was RG himself), why the hell didn't it ever occur to them to first go back and FINISH ULTIMA 8 instead?

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Author: DominusMobile1  Date:   02-03-12 06:30 Never go back and U8 was officially done and sold. No one would have given any budget to finish u8. And it wouldn't have sold... -- Read the documentation and the FAQ are your friends! There is no excuse for not reading them! RTFM Read the Rules! We do not support Piracy/Abandonware/Warez!

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Author: Scythifuge  Date:   02-03-12 07:50 According to an Origin associate that I spoke to on the phone back in the day, the plan was to create a CD-Rom Special Edition that would have added world interactivity, SVGA graphics, new quests, etc. The backlash prevented this from happening, along with "The Lost Vale."

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Author: TDI (---.versanet.de) Date:   02-03-12 21:01 I'm inclined to agree with a lot of the review; the god damn jumping, the exploding chests and books, the insta drowning death... what he didn't mention is how back in the day the frustration of these deaths was amplified by the insanely long loading times. Some of the things he mentioned didn't disturb me at all that mutch, like the predominance of grey architecture and grey dungeons filled with skeletons and zombies. Pagan is just a relatively small island, so how much variety can there be? I took them for a feature of the generally morbid setting. I didn't have a grudge with the combat. It's not great and it feels as clumsy as the entire movement system does, but it did have it's exciting moments. I don't agree about the complaints regarding the magic system and the plot. The magic system and plot are some of the best things about U8. Refreshingly unique and interesting, if not very well executed. And I'm a little put off that he didn't mention the best thing in U8. The music and "the moods" it sometimes conveys at various moments in the plot are great. For such a mediocre, frustrating game experience, I have a lot of memorable moments playing U8.

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Author: El Guesto (95.80.51.---) Date:   02-04-12 17:49 Wow, that review took a while

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Author: Crowley  Date:   02-05-12 16:33 He mentions romance subplot that was left dangling, apparently with Darion's daughter. I wouldn't call that a romance, since Darion was trying to marry off his daughter and she wasn't interested. And wasn't she seeing the farmer's son before he went to become a theurgist? What bothers me much more is the potential romance between Devon and Mordea's servant being left dangling. If you speak to her, she is all smitten by Devon. You'd expect something to come from that once Devon is revealed to be the legitimate ruler of Tenebrae, and he moves into the palace so now they see each other every day. But nope, the servant's dialogue doesn't change!

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Author: Wxnzxn (---.superkabel.de) Date:   05-30-12 13:35 Well, here it is, part I of U-IX: http://spoonyexperiment.com/2012/05/29/ultima-9-ascension/

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Author: Wizardry Dragon (---.cpe.net.cable.roger) Date:   05-30-12 22:05 I don't think he was angry enough for this to be a genuine Ultima 9 playthrough. Cheers, Peter M Dodge aka Wizardry Dragon

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Author: Kensu (---.wi.res.rr.com) Date:   05-31-12 03:21 Well, Wizardry Dragon, he hasn't really even gotten started yet. :D Looks like this is going to be a good and long one, like the Final Fantasy X one. (and btw, the disembodied voice at the beginning was actually Hawkwind and not the TimeLord, right?)

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Author: Paulon (---.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz) Date:   05-31-12 07:47 There's a note in the game saying that Hawkwind is the Time Lord.

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Author: Crowley  Date:   05-31-12 16:50 Specifically, I think it was the note with the Time Stop spell in the Abyss which was signed "Hawkwind, The Time Lord".

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Author: Wizardry Dragon (---.cpe.net.cable.roger) Date:   05-31-12 17:23 Hah, Origin/EA laughs at your expectations of continuity!

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Author: Monotremata  Date:   05-31-12 22:56 So LB was a fan of weird 70s psych/prog rock I take it?? Morbius/Monotremata Dragon -==(UDIC)==- Since 1992!

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Author: Kensu (---.wi.res.rr.com) Date:   06-01-12 00:58 Does anyone else remember the name of Lord British's cartographer who drew the Ultima III map, but died before he could fill in the names? Yep, Hawkwind!

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Author: VisElEchNon  Date:   07-09-12 19:45 Heh... heh heh.... lol... And I'll probably do that in 10 minutes when I'm done downloading the thing...

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Author: Kensu (---.wi.res.rr.com) Date:   07-15-12 00:39 He doesn't do the source credits at the end of this one like he usually does. Does anyone know where that clip of the two gods fighting comes from? I'm thinking Xenoblade Chronicles, but I could be wrong...

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Author: agentorangeguy (---.29.23.98.dynamic.ip.windstream.net) Date:   07-27-12 13:45 On a Spoony related subject, apparently there has been some drama where he left (or was forced out) of Channel Awesome. http://ohinternet.com/The_Spoony_Experiment See "The Great Meltdown", otherwise known as SpoonyGate!

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Author: Aka825 (---.static.optonline.net) Date:   08-12-12 00:01 Spoony's Ultima IX finale is up. Personally, I find his ending to be genius. Pure, beautiful genius. Over the top? Yes, and wonderfully so. I mean, this IS the best ending to a review he's ever done. http://spoonyexperiment.com/2012/08/11/ultima-9-ascension-finale-uncut/

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Author: Paddywhacker (---.ue.woosh.co.nz) Date:   08-12-12 01:41 On Youtube, rather than blip.tv [Mod edit]Removed links to pirated videos.[/Mod edit]

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Author: Malignant Manor  Date:   08-12-12 02:47 Thanks. Hopefully that account will be banned soon.

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Author: Paddywhacker (---.ue.woosh.co.nz) Date:   08-14-12 23:04 You are Spoony? That makes sense. I couldn't access the bip site, you would have better been advised to use youtube.

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