/vr/ - Retro Games

i could, and would, do this all day by going through every letter on macintosh garden and finding every single game i had some vague memory of playing in my childhood and playing it here but for now i'll just post cythera.

cythera is basically an ultima vii ripoff by the people who made the escape velocity series, ambrosia software. it's still available to buy for some fucking reason. i used to play the fuck out of this game because growing up with an apple ii and then a mac i didn't play ultima vii until i was in my 20's and had no idea that games like it existed before i played cythera. it's highly flawed and buggy and ridiculous but full of interesting locations with npc schedules and the like, and other little ultima vii details like being able to bake bread that i thought were fucking revolutionary the first time i played. being an earlier type of open ended rpg that also was not very thoroughly tested, you could also break the game in half, so that added a lot of replay value as you bugged or cheated through and tried to get to places you shouldn't be able to. and the plot was halfway decent.

This is gonna be stupid, but one of my all-time favorite nostalgic RPGs is Cythera, a straight Ultima VII copy that was mac-only. It's by Ambrosia, the devs that did Escape Velocity, if that means anything to anyone.

Anyway it took a ton of stuff from Ultima VII, including the exact dialogue panel, open-ended exploration and plot progression, NPC schedules, even minor stuff like letting you bake bread by using water on flour and kneading it and putting it into the oven, stuff like that. I played it again recently and thought it held up pretty well on its own, nice little self contained story and world and fun exploration.

Probably nobody will ever play it again though, because it's kinda buggy and you'd need to find a shareware registration of it (or BUY one, hahahahaha) and get it running under basilisk or sheepshaver. But I maintain that it was a good game, or at least a good try to rip off Ultima VII

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I remember playing a game called Cythera for the mac which was basically a huge Ultima VII ripoff, though I didn't find that out until way, way later. For some reason I though that baking bread in that game was like the pinnacle of cool stuff you could do in an RPG so I was wondering if that was ripped off too.

Anyway, what about the UO thing?