/vr/ - Retro Games

Origin was a great company. Their slogan was We Create Worlds and they meant it. I love pretty much all things Ultima.

That said, I'm kind of meh on Underworld. It's definitely some kind of achievement, but it didn't feel like Britannia to me, and the part at the start with the goofy plot and then immediately kicking you out of one of the best settings ever - fucking Britannia! - was not my thing. They had Ultima tropes down there, but it never felt like the same underworld you visited in the previous games. They shifted from reagents to runes, which was weird, and in general the lore wasn't consistent with the rest of the world.

It had the usual thoughtful touches, though, that were Origin signatures: weapons broke, you needed food, even the conversations you had with people was interesting and in depth: the goblins, those lost warriors, etc. It *did* feel like a dark and scary place (those Lurkers in the water). It just wasn't a place I wanted to be in in the first place.

If it had just been first-person Ultima, in an underworld that connected to other parts of Britannia, I'd probably be playing it right now. They innovated a ton but sometimes people really just want square peg/square hole. Or ankh peg/ankh-hole

>put it in the ankh-hole sounds a little weird tho