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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 742974" data-attributes="member: 158">The two most revolutionary games of their day - the Worlds of Ultima series.The first one, savage empire, was my favorite, and turned ultima from a series of games to a full-blown franchise. The Avatar hit the big leagues with these two games. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> But my favorite was the near-absolute freedom you had to create new things from the old.The formulas to build things is what I refer to here. I absolutely loved making gunpowder, taking a digging stick, making clay, taking water, making a clay pot, baking it, mixing sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter, taking flax, weaving it, cutting it up to strips, dipping the strips in tar, and combining the elements to make crude bombs. (You can bet whoever designed that game had been playing around with the anarchist's cookbook prior to writing the game. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />) The number of things you could mess with, play with, create, destroy, and do were absolutely wonderful. I have not seen a game since these two that allowed this amount of freedom. If anyone knows of a more recent game that had the level of creation and manipulation that the Worlds of Ultima did, I'd love to see it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 742974, member: 158"] The two most revolutionary games of their day - the Worlds of Ultima series. The first one, savage empire, was my favorite, and turned ultima from a series of games to a full-blown franchise. The Avatar hit the big leagues with these two games. :) But my favorite was the near-absolute freedom you had to create new things from the old. The formulas to build things is what I refer to here. I absolutely loved making gunpowder, taking a digging stick, making clay, taking water, making a clay pot, baking it, mixing sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter, taking flax, weaving it, cutting it up to strips, dipping the strips in tar, and combining the elements to make crude bombs. (You can bet whoever designed that game had been playing around with the anarchist's cookbook prior to writing the game. :)) The number of things you could mess with, play with, create, destroy, and do were absolutely wonderful. I have not seen a game since these two that allowed this amount of freedom. If anyone knows of a more recent game that had the level of creation and manipulation that the Worlds of Ultima did, I'd love to see it. [/QUOTE]

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