[quote name='poormojo'][quote name='Mr Unoriginal'][quote name='The-Bavis'][quote name='poormojo']I'm alone here, I know, but I loved Ultima: Exodus for the NES. And its sequel.[/quote]
I think that was the first game I owned that was a traditional RPG. I loved it for a while, but got super bored with it. Probably too young at the time or something. I think I was put off by the fact that certain things happened under certain phases of the moon, etc. Now, I would think that's kind of cool. I don't think I'd have the willpower to fire it up now, though. Not a pretty game, is it? The way the line of sight works makes sense, but got annoying.[/quote]
Didn;t this game have the crappiest battle system ever? It was like a VERY poor mans tactical battle, and you shot stuff at the enemy and missed half the time. I was really excited to get this as a kid, I honestly think it was close to my biggest gaming dissapointment of all time.[/quote]
It was one of the first NES RPGs I ever played. You always remember your first.
But what I really liked about the Ultima games was that you could see the wandering monsters, so if you were crafty enough you could totally avoid encounters.
I really haven't seen that since in an RPG.[/quote]
If you haven't seen that, then you haven't played Paper Mario or Mario and Luigi. I'd suggest you do - they're both great games.
In both of those games, you can see the enemy on the overworld screen and you can even try to attack them before they hit you so you can get an extra hit in.