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In article <1992Oct5.140559.26283@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, sorourke@lonestar.utsa.edu (Sean J. Orourke) writes:
|> >	Actually, I thought that in early Ultimas, the only way to
|> >solve puzzles was to kill lots of monsters and get cool magic
|> >weapons so you could bash bigger monsters.  (*BIG* frown)  As the
|> >Ultima series increased in size, the story line became more and more
|> >important to the game, the player could interact with people in
|> >cities (thumbs up!), people would go to sleep at night, etc.  Some
|> >people might not be impressed by this, but I certainly was at the
|> >time...
|> 
|> I am/was impressed by this too, except when I'm waiting for someone to come
|> home or to wake up. :)
|> 

If you cast awaken, or if you make lots of noise, they'll wake up and
(acting sleepy) start yelling at you for waking them up, or act somewhat
annoyed at the least.  Sometimes they'll tell you to get out of the room
so that they can sleep...  :)

I love playing Ultima 7 not to "win" but to interact with the hundreds
(thousands?) of people, selling & buying food, talking, stealing a
cow, etc.  :) You can get a job at various places; if you talk to some
farmer, he will hire you to pick pumpkins for him; if you talk to some
baker, he'll teach you _how_ to make bread, and then he'll offer you a
job as an assistant baker.  You can use the wells & buckets to get
water, mix it with flour, put the dough in a bowl, put the bowl in an
oven, turn on the oven, and a few minutes later, you have bread!  In
U6 I think, you could milk cows, get milk, put it in a churner and get
butter...

In RPGs, you just fight monsters & try to accomplish some goal; in Ultima,
you can do whatever you want!  ("Top Adventurer retires and becomes a 
farmer!")

	:)


	Amit

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