Hate is always foolish and Love is always wise.
Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind.
Never be cruel.
Never be cowardly.
Never give up.
Never give in.
Atari 2600 because it’s the one I got to play the most and having video games outside of the arcade was mind blowing.
I never had a Vetrex but I would see them and always wanted one. Still do lol.
Not a “console” per se… but in that time frame… Commodore vic 20 or 64 would probably have been my most played games.
Legend of Zelda following Twilight Princess.
TimeSplitters following future perfect.
XIII following… the ending of XIII cliffhanger.
Half Life following HL2 E2 cliffhanger… or L4D3… or Portal 3…
Overwatch following Jeff Kaplan
Cave Story following Cave Story 1
Oh I didn’t mean it to sound derogatory. I played it back on commodore64 back when it first came out in that same age range… so yeah I get it… it’s obtuse game for sure. Great if you get into it, tons of content, but definitely a lot.
Last time I tried it was on the pc version, which is free fwiw. https://www.gog.com/en/game/ultima_4
I’ve never tried it on apple II so I couldn’t really say for emulation on that one.
Side note, if you want to play something that was heavily inspired by the classic Ultima games check out Moonring. It was made by one of the original devs of Fable and he outright says Ultima inspired it and the game wears that lineage on it’s sleeve. It’s got a lot of nice modern QoL and it was released for free and is still in active development. It’s just a passion project for him.
I also recommend “suspended” and “wishbringer” if you’re into text adventures.
I feel you, “half asleep” is a far too common affliction I am well acquainted with heh.
“frotz” is the name of the spell from the text adventure game “Enchanter” that makes things glow to light areas as you adventure, which is where the text adventure app gets it’s name.
Unsure if just adding more helpful info, or missed the joke. ;)
Yeah it absolutely does not hold your hand at all. It really helps to have the supplemental stuff that originally came with it like the big cloth map. They’re included digitally with things like gog but not everyone knows that. It definitely doesn’t have some of the quality of life we’ve gotten used to in the years since release. It was also intentionally unique in how it was presenting the story in that just killing things that attack you isn’t always the right answer in combat.
I can totally see how a lot of people would bounce off of it. I am sure some of it for me is nostalgia, though if you get into it there’s a lot there.
If the story of it interests you and you just wanna watch a retrospective about it there’s a great series majuular is doing on youtube. https://youtu.be/hkfBiIyJd7E
I hear glowing reviews of frotz.
Oldest game I’ve actually played this year would probably be a bit of Ultima IV: Quest for the Avatar, 1985.
Mario 64
Legend Of Zelda OOT
Mario Kart 64
Goldeneye 007
Perfect Dark
Diddy Kong Racing
Blast Corps
Starfox 64
Killer Instinct Gold
Tetrisphere
Super Smash Bros
Kirby 64
WaveRace 64
StarWars Shadows of the Empire
Oldest console probably Atari 2600
Oldest PC Commodore VIC20
Oldest electronic handheld Parker Brothers Merlin
Oh man I hope they do it as a gritty live action grim dark retcon origin story that entirely explains Herobrine’s past starring Jared Leto as Herobrine and shows his face and eye color. /s
This also exists.
A “spectator”, specifically. A lesser beholder.
My money is on the youthful, blonde, blue-eyed swordsman with the mysterious past who can use magic crystals to perform magic!
As far as I know there is no issue with legality. I don’t remember the specifics at this point. I believe the psobb setup was a free download for the client and what they did was rewrote the server side so it was their own software. As far as the IP art, music, etc. IDK 100%.
I will say it has been going for nearly 15 years and widely publicized and sega hasn’t ever tried to do anything to shut it down. I believe it’s in some kind of loop hole where running the server is legal, and using the client is legal for PSO:BB, but for v1, v2, and I & II version you would still need to have a legit copy for maximum legality. So if you just want to play the game… PSO:BB using their modified client / server setup is a good way to do it… plus it looks nice in HD. There are other servers besides schthack, that’s just the one I used way back in the day and they’re still around.
There’s always playing on pc as well…
Skyrim is a first person action adventure game with RPG elements. Baldurs gate is a much more traditional fantasy RPG which I a focused on tactics and D&D core rules and character stories where action stakes a back seat. So it sounds more like you enjoy the action and immersion of Skyrim than the “RPG” side of it.
BG3 is really a love letter to the people that liked the original games and wanted more depth to the systems to try to capture the tabletop experience a little more. Since you described it as “clunky” I’m guessing that the slower tactical aspect is what you’re bouncing off of.
Heroic launcher is pretty good alternative. It has a feature to “automatically add to steam” as well that should make a link in the big picture steam deck mode so you don’t have to drop to desktop mode to make them work as well.