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Article #721040Re: Interesing list of historical firsts to RPGs
From: Justisaur
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:08
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:08
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On Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 1:41:22 PM UTC-7, Ross Ridge wrote:
> Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Although there were already a lot of Ultimas in that list, Underworld
> >really deserved a mention. It was the first real smooth-scrolling
> >first-person ("Doom-like" we called it back then, even though it
> >preceded Doom by several years) roleplaying game pretty and
> >definitively put a nail into the coffin the first-person/step-based
> >RPG genre
>
> Not only does Ultima Underworld predate Doom, it predates Wolfenstein
> 3D. And it supports looking up an down, something Doom didn't.
>
> But this and other omitions are apparently due to the list being focused
> on "more obscure stuff". The omition that caught me by surprise, and
> had me rechecking the criteria, was having Bloodwych on the list but
> only mentioning Dungeon Master.
>
Yeah, obscure. Bloodwych seemed like a poor clone of Dungeon Master with a couple interesting innovations. I just remember it as an o.k. game. Dungeon Master seemed far more innovative to me.
- Justisaur
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