Ultima IV intro screen, pure magic!

Does anyone feel incredibly nostalgic when they see the Ultima IV intro screen and hear the music? This is what I was hoping to one day feel about SotA.

 

That let me think of how much blown and overloaded our kids today are, loosing the abilitie to be satisfied with a lot less, where impression comes more out of fantasy like in a good book than from high res grafix and surround sound, but often a less good story, although there are exceptions.

 

It's amazing what they did with so little tech. The game really did stimulate my imagination. I played it while on the phone with my two best friends, one summer, when I was 12...So it was a great social experience, too.

 

I think I was lucky that I started this game about 17 months ago, well after kick starter and in the benefactor range.

Why?

Because when I started playing this game... I DID... feel the nostalgia and I still do, which is the reason why I have played it for 17 months now.

 

Portalarium should include a section in SotA that is played like this. Some kind of parallel universe where the hero has to find some item and has to explore a small island, a town and a dungeon with those graphics

 

It was the ultima v intro for me. Can't recall how many times I watched the little animated section. Fantastic stuff.

 

I didn't have the privilege of playing the old Ultima series back in the day, but this sounds like a cool idea!
Not something for Ep1, but maybe in the future they could add it.

(Kind of like what GW2 did with the 8-bit super adventure box on April Fool's Day a few years ago. The community loved them so much they kept them in the game.)

 

Its funny because I played Ultima 4 on my C64 and loved it, but several years later when it came out on the Nintendo, I really loved it even though there was a lot of stuff cut out of it. Probably because I didn't have to swap floppy disks every 3 seconds lol. People complain about SOTA, imagine if every time you zoned or fought a battle you had to switch a floppy disk. Bah... gamers today are pampered.

 

Those games had such an amazing atmosphere... Ah, those were the days, They are not making games like those anymore...

 

It was pretty neat that they basically animated the game intro using the tile graphics used in gameplay.

 

For some Lucasfilm Games / Scumm nostalgia have a look at Thinbleweed Park

 

I wanted to play it but didn't have the time yet

 

Yes, but I was lucky enough to play it on a Tandy with 16 color gfx, so I saw

 

THIS! Ultima V changed my life forever. I actually think it probably played a large role in shaping me into the person I am now. Thank you, RG...

 

ya its kinda funny. RG games created a lot of smart nerds around the world however when those games came out... and I remember it... all the crazies were trying to ban it for being satanic (along with AC~DC) and corrupting our youth.

 

I got U4 recently on DOS box and have given it a go to rekindle old times... I'm thinking I should leave memories where they are though, after several decades of gaming I don't want to ruin the memory now on a whim.

The intro music though, it takes me back...!

 

I forgot about the floppy disk swaps! Grim!

 

The only game released in the last years that got Ultima-vibes and a similar atmosphere like in the older Ultimas was Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

 

Are you saying I should buy the Switch for that? Sounds like it.