Had a fun time with this in early 2000s, when I had my new computer and CDs of assortments of games. I had played this before I'd even heard of Ultima; someone from high school introduced me to that, but I enjoyed this one a lot more. It helps to write things down for the puzzle solving, is what I found. I ought to play this again.
I've spent decades trawling through game lists & squinting at the early Ultima entries to find this game from my childhood. As a kid in the 90's I had this on a compilation disc from Prism Leisure (I think) though I could never get anywhere on it. Thank you for proving I hadn't hallucinated this all along!
I could never get anywhere in this as a kid either. The reality is that it's a VERY linear game but presented in a completely open world with no direction on how to START making progress. Once you figure it out though, then things actually progress pretty normally. :B
I remember playing this in 1995 or so from an old shareware cd - good times and a really nice little game :) unfortunately i lack the time and patience for this kind of old school rpgs nowadays...
I loved the hell out of this game, having grown up with the Ultima series on the C64. Sunk way more hours into this than I should have. It really surprised me with how good it was.
Man, this takes me back. The old DOS version I played had a pretty nice bug that me and my sister found and exploited all to hell. If you hit spacebar when you've maxed out the letters allowed in your name on character creation, you can go beyond the max number of characters (I think it was space bar. I was ~10ish and 20 years ago). Eventually it'll wrap around to the other side of the screen. Doing so caused some bug that gave you max stats, all skills, and a random assortment of gear and items.
I got curious about trying to see if I was remembering the bug right, but it didn't work on any of the versions I could find online. I'm guessing the bug was fixed in V2.0 and up. So I dug out my old CD's and found the version I played, V1.0. Sure enough, I remembered right. Made a quick video of it in action. ruclips.net/video/qRYRlEvtw1E/видео.html
11:59 - The loans appear to be level-dependent then. At level 1, I was offered a loan for 100 gold, with a fee of 20 gold. It looks like the loan amount is 100xlevel, and the fee is 20xlevel. 12:13 - It appears that each day is 1000 moves.
I loved this game! But I got stuck forever in that damn magic multi-level maze dungeon which did not allow any lightsources to work.... And once I got through it, it turned out I didn't have whatever item was needed in there! So I said "fuck that".
Honestly? All of the "Skyrim Similarities" sounded like "Random stuff that all RPGs have in common". I was waiting for similarities to pop up after every last statement you made. Not touching on pronunciation. I'm also in what people consider "flyover country" (being somewhere between New York, Austin and Los Angeles), so my opinion doesn't matter. :p
+Gunslinger SyayoRPG/CRPG Oooh, tricky question... Both games have similar gameplay, both games require reading the manual to really know what you're doing, and both games have their pros and cons. However, I would say go with Excelsior first because you have more options regarding how you play through it, whereas Ultima is a bit more linear and a lot more grind-heavy with less story, plus it's not as well balanced.
thank you. I already decided to play this game first, but..I download it through the link you mention, is this normal? I mean the game feel sluggish & slow, I'm still on character creation & its so sluggish. typing name don;'t match the speed of typing. I thought it using dosbox but I couldn't find the configuration inside of it. do I need to get dos version instead?
+Gunslinger SyayoRPG/CRPG Maybe... I have very little experience with the Windows version so I'm unsure what issues you would run into with it or how to fix them. That said, if you ARE running the DOS version and you've never used DOSBox before, there's a bit of extra configuration you're going to want to look into doing to get it working its best. I made a couple filler videos a very long while back talking about this. :B
1979devilsadvocate ***** Looks like I've awoken the Pronunciation Police... You two should at least be thankful I don't talk in stereotypically Canadian ways! ;)
Had a fun time with this in early 2000s, when I had my new computer and CDs of assortments of games. I had played this before I'd even heard of Ultima; someone from high school introduced me to that, but I enjoyed this one a lot more. It helps to write things down for the puzzle solving, is what I found. I ought to play this again.
I've spent decades trawling through game lists & squinting at the early Ultima entries to find this game from my childhood. As a kid in the 90's I had this on a compilation disc from Prism Leisure (I think) though I could never get anywhere on it. Thank you for proving I hadn't hallucinated this all along!
I could never get anywhere in this as a kid either. The reality is that it's a VERY linear game but presented in a completely open world with no direction on how to START making progress. Once you figure it out though, then things actually progress pretty normally. :B
Hmm, I can see why you disabled sound effects.
I remember playing this in 1995 or so from an old shareware cd - good times and a really nice little game :) unfortunately i lack the time and patience for this kind of old school rpgs nowadays...
I remember how trying to learn the Music skill was such a pain in the butt
I loved the hell out of this game, having grown up with the Ultima series on the C64. Sunk way more hours into this than I should have. It really surprised me with how good it was.
Man, this takes me back. The old DOS version I played had a pretty nice bug that me and my sister found and exploited all to hell. If you hit spacebar when you've maxed out the letters allowed in your name on character creation, you can go beyond the max number of characters (I think it was space bar. I was ~10ish and 20 years ago). Eventually it'll wrap around to the other side of the screen.
Doing so caused some bug that gave you max stats, all skills, and a random assortment of gear and items.
+Shade
Millith I could see something like that happening. ;)
I got curious about trying to see if I was remembering the bug right, but it didn't work on any of the versions I could find online. I'm guessing the bug was fixed in V2.0 and up. So I dug out my old CD's and found the version I played, V1.0. Sure enough, I remembered right.
Made a quick video of it in action. ruclips.net/video/qRYRlEvtw1E/видео.html
I'd absolutely never heard of this game before, and "max level of 10" for a DOS RPG I couldn't figure out either. Looks neat though!
11:59 - The loans appear to be level-dependent then. At level 1, I was offered a loan for 100 gold, with a fee of 20 gold. It looks like the loan amount is 100xlevel, and the fee is 20xlevel.
12:13 - It appears that each day is 1000 moves.
I loved this game! But I got stuck forever in that damn magic multi-level maze dungeon which did not allow any lightsources to work.... And once I got through it, it turned out I didn't have whatever item was needed in there! So I said "fuck that".
There's a glitch in the game if you keep press the space button when you are typing your name you start out super powerful for some reason.
Honestly? All of the "Skyrim Similarities" sounded like "Random stuff that all RPGs have in common". I was waiting for similarities to pop up after every last statement you made.
Not touching on pronunciation. I'm also in what people consider "flyover country" (being somewhere between New York, Austin and Los Angeles), so my opinion doesn't matter. :p
+Avabeth McGhee I was only really being half-serious with the Skyrim similarities. ;)
Oh, OK! I was a little tipsy so didn't catch on...
Loved the episode. Subbed.
Haha, the credits.
Woosh woosh, Eerrh
+Cyberdemon2006 And that is why I had the sound disabled. ;)
between this with Ultima 1, which one do you recommend to play 1st?
+Gunslinger
SyayoRPG/CRPG Oooh, tricky question... Both games have similar gameplay, both games require reading the manual to really know what you're doing, and both games have their pros and cons. However, I would say go with Excelsior first because you have more options regarding how you play through it, whereas Ultima is a bit more linear and a lot more grind-heavy with less story, plus it's not as well balanced.
thank you. I already decided to play this game first, but..I download it through the link you mention, is this normal? I mean the game feel sluggish & slow, I'm still on character creation & its so sluggish. typing name don;'t match the speed of typing. I thought it using dosbox but I couldn't find the configuration inside of it. do I need to get dos version instead?
+Gunslinger
SyayoRPG/CRPG Maybe... I have very little experience with the Windows version so I'm unsure what issues you would run into with it or how to fix them. That said, if you ARE running the DOS version and you've never used DOSBox before, there's a bit of extra configuration you're going to want to look into doing to get it working its best. I made a couple filler videos a very long while back talking about this. :B
You said attributes so many times and the way you pronounce it....it drove me a bit mad lol
1979devilsadvocate ***** Looks like I've awoken the Pronunciation Police... You two should at least be thankful I don't talk in stereotypically Canadian ways! ;)