Recent content by roaringlion510

Agreed. It's why I like Morrowind over Oblivion and Skyrim - no 'GO HERE TO SOLVE QUEST' arrows, limited quick travel... reason to properly think through solutions and explore rather than streamlined 'get quest-solve quest-get reward.' And also agreed on the WHAT'S A PALADIN schtick. Good...

I think I can point the metaphorical finger at Ultima IV pretty definitively in my case, when I was 10 or 11. I grew up with 'edutainment' games - the Super Solver games, Reader Rabbit, Carmen Sandiego, that sort of thing - but Ultima IV was the first game that I played that had something to...

Ultima 2 is rather a slog through the mud, it's true. There's a reason it tends to rank rather low on the list. I'm an Ultima 4 guy, myself. I think a person's introduction to the Ultima games tends to influence what they consider their favorite, and U4 was my first - I first played it when I...

English is the only language I'm properly fluent in, but I have a decent enough handle on Italian to get around, and I've also studied German, ancient Greek, and Swahili. Such is what comes of a linguistics major.