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In article <BvpHo5.8Gn@rice.edu> amitp@owlnet.rice.edu (Amit J Patel)  
writes:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> /\\ Amit J Patel, amitp@owlnet.rice.edu
> \\/ I think I'm at Rice University 



yeah!!!...i loaded up my Ultima6 game just to use the secret cheat menu
and interact with people and stuff!.....i love those type of games like
that (very few..) where the entire programming in the game is not
dedicated to finishing/winning the game...i got Ultima7 just
for the bigger (better ?) graphics, interface and to 'watch the world
go 'round..')