Author Topic: Ultima V: General Discussion (Read 85808 times)

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #270 on:** September 18, 2006, 12:51:00 pm »

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oooh that sound nice, more complex than FInal fantasy on the SNES (where all bad terrain just removed 1 hp)

Ranman · « **Reply #271 on:** September 23, 2006, 04:31:00 pm »

THE POST 9576463

Here is one for you xlibman...

Ultima V: Lazarus was just released in French.

Check it out here.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #272 on:** September 23, 2006, 04:33:00 pm »

THE POST 9576500

oh wow you made my day now, I hope to get a new HDD soon so I can install more games, I'm running out of space on my lil 80 GB now

Ranman · « **Reply #273 on:** September 25, 2006, 02:24:00 am »

THE POST 9609273

I finished the remaining tile interactions:

- walking through the desert areas
- wind effects on ocean going vessels

And, I implemented the following NPC dialogue details this weekend:

1. Receiving items (such as food, keys, weapons, etc) from NPCs when asked.

2. Some NPCs will join your party when asked. B)

3. Some NPCs will not divulge all information unless your "Virtue" is high enough. :huh:

4. NPCs remember if they have talked with you previously. Some NPCs will not divulge critical information until the 2nd time you talk with them.

5. When you kill a NPC, they are dead for the remainder of the game. So, don't go on a rampage and kill'em, they may have critical information to complete the game.

6. If you piss-off a NPC, they may call for the guards. The guards will chase you down and throw you in prison.

Yeah baby... this getting to be so much fun! So many details.

Ultima V progress = 84.1%
Game engine = 56.8Kb

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #274 on:** September 25, 2006, 02:46:00 am »

THE POST 9609640

wow o.o

spengo · « **Reply #275 on:** September 25, 2006, 05:31:00 am »

THE POST 9612782

Oh man, having good virtue is important?

Methinks I'm screwed!

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #276 on:** September 25, 2006, 05:51:00 am »

THE POST 9613242

ROFL owned

Alex · « **Reply #277 on:** September 25, 2006, 09:17:00 am »

THE POST 9617957

How do you go about saving all these details, Ranman? Is it a giant structure you write to a file?

- Alex

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Ranman · « **Reply #278 on:** September 25, 2006, 10:09:00 am »

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QuoteBegin-Alex+25 Sep, 2006, 15:17

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QUOTE (Alex @ 25 Sep, 2006, 15:17)

How do you go about saving all these details, Ranman? Is it a giant structure you write to a file?

- Alex

Basically you are right.

Each NPC has a "Met" flag and a "Dead" flag.

There are 32 towns and each town has a maximum of 32 NPCs. Each bit of a 4 byte integer acts like a flag to indicate the applicable status.

So, I have 2 arrays like this:

c1

-->

CODE

ec1unsigned long integer npcMetFlag[32];
unsigned long integer npcDeadFlag[32];c2

ec2

and these 2 arrays hold all of the info I need.

But it does require some memory... each array require 128 bytes. Not too bad.

bfr · « **Reply #279 on:** September 25, 2006, 12:35:00 pm »

THE POST 9622598

O_O

This seems just...incredible. I don't know how Omnimaga - The RPG is ever going to live up to this.

Dragon__lance · « **Reply #280 on:** September 25, 2006, 01:17:00 pm »

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As long as their both Omnimaga projects, I'm content

Great work Ranman! :thumbup:

Really itchin to see the end of this project

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Liazon · « **Reply #281 on:** September 25, 2006, 03:13:00 pm »

THE POST 9627115

QuoteBegin-Ranman+25 Sep, 2006, 8:24

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QUOTE (Ranman @ 25 Sep, 2006, 8:24)

I finished the remaining tile interactions:

- walking through the desert areas
- wind effects on ocean going vessels

And, I implemented the following NPC dialogue details this weekend:

1. Receiving items (such as food, keys, weapons, etc) from NPCs when asked.

2. Some NPCs will join your party when asked. B)

3. Some NPCs will not divulge all information unless your "Virtue" is high enough. :huh:

4. NPCs remember if they have talked with you previously. Some NPCs will not divulge critical information until the 2nd time you talk with them.

5. When you kill a NPC, they are dead for the remainder of the game. So, don't go on a rampage and kill'em, they may have critical information to complete the game.

6. If you piss-off a NPC, they may call for the guards. The guards will chase you down and throw you in prison.

Yeah baby... this getting to be so much fun! So many details.

Ultima V progress = 84.1%
Game engine = 56.8Kb

o.o

wow "interactive" RPGs today like KOTOR and Jade Empire don't even compare to this.

back then they really put a lot of thought into being "all encompassing" and "interactivity = fun" Too bad I can't find many rpgs like that now for PC.

spengo · « **Reply #282 on:** September 25, 2006, 05:21:00 pm »

THE POST 9630004

Yeah really. Though oblivion does a pretty good job. Dark Messiah looks good too, though it's more action game-ish than rpg-ish methinks. Other recent rpgs seem to focus more on graphics though.

They are just more final fantasy it seems.

Not that ff is bad mind you...

This post has been edited by Ranman on 26 Sep, 2006, 7:07

Ranman · « **Reply #283 on:** September 26, 2006, 01:27:00 am »

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Ultima V has a very deep and interesting story... I know you guys will love it! Especially if you like great stories.

For me, the graphics are great. Remember that this game is approaching 18 years old -- and this was groundbreaking graphics back then.

Spengo is right; today's RPGs place more focus (with some exceptions) around the "eye candy" or graphics. Ultima V does not compare with today's graphics, but its other details make up for that short coming.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #284 on:** September 26, 2006, 05:17:00 am »

THE POST 9639675

very true, btw how huge is one save file? o.o

Author Topic: Ultima V: General Discussion (Read 85808 times)

spengo

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