Well, pretty much everything in Ultima was either innovated or popularized there. It came out in 1980, there really wasn’t a lot before it with any kind of complexity.
But each game from the Ultima series was additive, and Ultima also pulled from Akalabeth, so it’s hard to pick a specific game to be “most influential.” Is it Ultima I because it started the series that largely standardized CRPGs? Or is it Akalabeth because its success led to Ultima?
Ultima. Easy.
Then why Ultima and not Akalabeth?
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Did you play any games past ultima? It pioneered a laundry list of features that game are still using.
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Well, pretty much everything in Ultima was either innovated or popularized there. It came out in 1980, there really wasn’t a lot before it with any kind of complexity.
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Mostly the open world.
III was a bit more influential with:
But each game from the Ultima series was additive, and Ultima also pulled from Akalabeth, so it’s hard to pick a specific game to be “most influential.” Is it Ultima I because it started the series that largely standardized CRPGs? Or is it Akalabeth because its success led to Ultima?
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