voidmoth

Moira/Mallory/Magpie/Molly

Electronic literature, tool-building, poetry, games, puzzles, &cet. 29.


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zaratustra
@zaratustra

Ultima I: The First Age Of Darkness (1981)
Hydlide 3: The Space Memories (1987)
Final Fantasy 4 (1991)
Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge (1990)


vectorpoem
@vectorpoem

"i'm richard garriott and i'm 19 years old, i made loads of money selling Akalabeth in plastic baggies and y'know what? i've decided that my game that is mostly about swords and wizards and goblins is also going to have TIE Fighter battles" - perfect. no notes


namelessWrench
@namelessWrench

That's why he grew up obsessed with going to space.


voidmoth
@voidmoth

richard garriott is such an endearingly weird dude and so much of His and His Friends Whole Deal comes through real brightly in the Ultima games.

incidentally, play Ultima 7! it pretty much holds up and is amazing. i played it for the first time last year.


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in reply to @zaratustra's post:

The original Phantasy Star games had some great space ships. PsIV especially, the ship is lost technology you literally unearth (twice!). the takeoff and flight sequences have this incredible sense of wonder as you slowly move away from the spaceport and then WHIP into speed, so fast you loop over the map before changing to a cutscene of the destination coming into view.

It's a wonderful moment.

in reply to @vectorpoem's post:

"Unexpected sci-fi in fantasy" is literally every Final Fantasy, until like VII where it became explicit. Even the first one had giant mechs in a flying orbital tower for some reason