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Spoony Experiment reviews of the ultima series...

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:47 am
by Gileathane Dragon
Starting from Akalabeth :) He's done Ultima 1, and Ultima II's coming up - good for a laugh - the Ultima 1 review cracked me up.

http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/07/04/ ... akalabeth/

Edit by Dominus: direct link to all his Ultima reviews http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/ga ... ospective/

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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:11 pm
by drcode
Loved it when he called the phone # to report his win.:-)

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Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:39 am
by Dominus
yeah, the Ultima I review is great!
http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/07/04/ ... -darkness/
I just can't stand going to Spoony's site... it's to much of a time killer :)

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Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:40 pm
by Guest
His mouth is mermerizing, it's something with the upper lip :D

Looking forward to the next one

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Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:27 pm
by TDI
I wasn't aware of the early ultimas being so "liberal" with science fiction elements. I tried to play a few of them once, but I got frustrated and quit because I would always get poisoned and had no way of curing myself so I would always eventually die.

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Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:31 pm
by monotremata
God the food thing was more annoying than anything. At least by Ultima IV and V they got it right..

I never heard of this guy before but man those two reviews were hilarious.
Cant wait til he rips apart Ultima II now hehe.. If he thought the first two were a clusterfuck of sci-fi and fantasy elements wait til he gets time travel and light swords thrown into the mix!!

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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:14 pm
by agentorangeguy
A bit of a AVGN ripoff, but the ultima reviews are hilarious.

Now, how in the world does Ultima canon explain away all those rocketships and phasers, etc? If the bones of Zog are still around, ya have to wonder why the Britannians haven't come across an ancient shuttle lol. I know people have made assumptions to explain them, but I don't recall anywhere in the series that explains where they went to?

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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 9:41 am
by Guest
Well they have, in the field next to Britain in U7 BG for instance.

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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 2:06 pm
by agentorangeguy
Ohhh yeah... I totally forgot about that thing! the wing commander reference I guess

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Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:56 am
by Petrell

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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:49 pm
by VisElEchNon
Wow, he's just plowing through these...

http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/07/20/ultima-3-exodus/

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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:51 pm
by VisElEchNon

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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:21 pm
by Guest
Nice

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Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:20 am
by Guest

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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:20 pm
by Guest
This has nothing to do with Ultima, but I think that for every RPG (and therefore Ultima) fan his review of Mazes & Monsters might be interesting nevertheless. It's hilarious at the least:

http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/08/01/mazes-monsters/

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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 5:23 am
by El Guesto
Part4 seems to be taking forever :/

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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 3:39 pm
by El Guesto

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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 4:00 pm
by monotremata
Yes! Motorhead playing during the closing credits!

Cant wait for V to come out now..

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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 10:31 pm
by Korneluk
4 is out!? I ma going. Although, I am looking forward to the ones I played the most, part 7 I&II. I've been reading http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Ultima%20VII/index.html
which is a walk-through of sorts with written commentary that can be pretty funny.

...I second the DragonStrike review being good. Great I'd say, if you know D&D. I was hurting by the time it ended.

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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:00 am
by Korneluk
I feel like he's losing steam here. :(

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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:34 am
by MV
Yep, seemed like it was done for the hell of it. Pretty underwealming compared to the others.

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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:07 pm
by ziga
lol @ space shuttle rage
but seriously, what was LB thinking when he put space shuttles into a medieval fantasy game?

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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:11 pm
by ziga
oh @!#$ the lord of the rings scene made me blow milk all over my keyboard...

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:15 am
by Dominus
http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/09/19/ ... f-destiny/
next one is up. Much better than the 4th one.

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:19 pm
by Korneluk
Had some funny moments, but left me with an odd feeling, in that he wasn't actually tearing the game into bits, but making me want to play it...nicely done!
I've tried it a couple of times, but never got anywhere. I'll definitely give it a real shot when I have the time.

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:03 pm
by monotremata
YAY finally my favorite of the series gets the Spoony treatment hehe.
I loved the screenshot where he tells Blackthorn to eat a dick when he asks for the Mantra of Honesty hehe..

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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 2:09 pm
by Guesto
No 6.seems to be taking forever

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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:10 pm
by Dominus
I think spoony had some health problems

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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 2:37 pm
by El Guesto
Ultima 6 is finally up!

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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:38 pm
by Korneluk
had some good moments. I agree with spoons feelings on the abysmal viewing window, and the beef jerky. U7, I've always been able to come back and enjoy playing, U6, seemed a bit of a chore. Finished it once and tried again about 6 or 7 times. I liked the story but it surely could be tweaked somewhat.
Wished he would have spent less(0) time with his live-action chuckles and more in the game. He didn't mention wanda, smith, nicodemus... or the silly answers alot of NPC give you, where you might ask them something they clearly have knowledge of, but because it's not the right key word, they claim ignorance.
Anyhow, looking forward to U7.

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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 6:59 pm
by monotremata
Ive had the same feelings replaying U6 too..
4, 5 and the 7s are always fun to come back too but everytime I replay 6, Ill play it for a few days and then just drop it.
The interface wasnt bad (I remember my jaw dropping when I first saw it on my IBM) but yeah the inventory management SUCKED big time.

U3 is another one I cant seem to get into anymore. I finished in like 92 or something after I got the Ultima Trilogy but Ive never been able to go back and replay that one either.. Just too tedious and slow I guess.

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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 8:37 pm
by Dominus
http://www.ultimaaiera.com/blog/spoonys ... rely-fair/
A discussion on this is under way on the Ultima Aiera article on this review.

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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 8:13 am
by Crowley
Hey, Chuckles broke the rules of the game himself when he said "again"!

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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 3:35 pm
by agentorangeguy
I don't think there is an ultima fan alive who HASN'T killed chuckles in some fashion.

There were a lot of cool things about U6 he didn't mention. You could get drunk, you could take those mugs/glasses/bottles and throw them and they'd smash.

Still working on the U6 Exult converstion BTW.. just finished up Bucs Den :)(minus NPC usecode for them at the moment.).

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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 10:08 pm
by Korneluk
^^
screenshots please, good sir!

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Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 5:26 pm
by agentorangeguy
What is the best way to take them in exult? I've been meaning to learn how to do that so i can post some.

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Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 5:33 pm
by El Guesto
You could just as well use the printscreenbutton on the keyboard and paste it in paint

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Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 6:40 pm
by agentorangeguy
i thought about that but i wasn't sure if it would be bigger file-wise or not, but I'll do that soon.

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Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 6:15 pm
by Guesto
7 is taking its sweet time as well

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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:32 pm
by Crowley
Hey, it's up now! http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/02/01/ ... te-review/

No surprises there. I do agree with him that the story isn't as nuanced as in the previous two games. "Big evil guy is trying to take over the world and you have to stop him." Not as thought-provoking as overthrowing an oppressive government or settling a war with strong ideological conflicts behind it. Yeah, I know I'm oversimplifying.

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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:06 pm
by guesto
about time, guess serpent isle will be out by summer

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 3:13 pm
by Dominus
To me it seems like neither the Underworlds nor SI will be reviewed. The end scene points to Pagan :(

The review was made with Exult, the face stats give it away :)

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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:30 am
by MV75
I thought the hour glass on the cursor and the expanded view, AA, etc gave exult away. :D

Anyway, that one was pretty good. :)

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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 5:03 pm
by Dominus
yes, those two things gave it away, too (even though I wonder how you get the hourglass... later on in the review the hourglass is gone) :)

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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 3:54 am
by dag
Although I really like this review, I'm disappointed, because Exult wasn't mentioned :-/

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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:23 am
by Crowley
Spoony has announced along with a bunch of other things that he'll be doing Serpent Isle in March. I guess Underworlds will get a brief look similar to Worlds of Ultima.

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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:05 pm
by el guesto
Now updated with 2 videos of ultima underworld

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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:02 am
by swotavator
Yeah, I don't think he completed UU2. Nothing about the other worlds, which were the whole point of the game. BOooooo

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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:53 pm
by TDI
Wow. The Underworld 2 video is unbareable to watch. I had to stop it after just one third. It seems he's just bitching and being negative to be funny or something. Also, the plot and voice acting of UW were not bad at the time. He's nitpicking at everything remotely unsatisfactory and hardly mentioning all the great parts at all. Failing to mention all the parallel worlds in UW2 eliminates any credibility that he even bothered to play the games correctly.

I don't like Sweeney reviews no more.

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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:32 pm
by Scythifuge
UW II is the only one out of the two that I never completed. Not that it was difficult, it was just one of those situations where I got about a third of the way through the game, and things came up. Such a span in time would mean that I have to start a new game, and I have some other games to complete first. Though I plan on playing the Ultimas in order on my custom 486 & displayed on my LCD TV..I think that that will be awesome!

Though I do agree that Spoony is overreacting and he admits that he sucks at the game. Perhaps he was having a bad day.