Only a Prodigy could solve this MadMaze! [2400 Baud OK]

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PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Adamant posted:

Yeah, I made it to the tournament where you have to pick a spell from a rather long list, with no way of guessing the answer unless you were given it earlier. I've seen similar games just plain not including the correct answer as an option unless you trigger a flag elsewhere, though.

Ultima 7 did a lot of that. :v:

Also the answer is obvious that since the troll won't resist a dare, we should dare it to do something, and since it can't swim, we should dare it to jump into the well.

Alternately, the Sage and the Crone are both kind of... shady, the Sage seemed awfully eager to get a nice young man drunk and the Crone would've eaten us if we weren't useful. It's entirely plausible that they're both assholes and the troll is nice enough if we talk to him. So I'd say talk to him.

It's great to see you LP'ing again, Nakar! Loved your old Ultima LP's, they hold up for re-reads and are some of the best this forum's ever seen.

# ¿ May 28, 2018 20:09

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 21:56

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Nakar posted:

Almost.

Dear God I snorted with laughter.

Also the art of the blacksmith brings back memories of Loom.

# ¿ May 30, 2018 00:51

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Firm and trusting. He might respect us for that.

# ¿ May 30, 2018 18:43

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Commander Keene posted:

I expect the grouse we got from the hermit to be a puzzle solution (or maybe an alternate solution, because it was optional) at some point, so I definitely assume we'll be getting some use out of that dagger, as well.

Is that even something this game can handle, though? It doesn't remember the "state" of the various Places of Power we enter, so I wouldn't expect it to be remembering any optional changes to our inventory, either.

# ¿ May 31, 2018 08:49

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

PREPARE TO DIE, FAT MAN sounds like something Steve would yell at some point, if she was dealing with this.

Probably at several points, really.

# ¿ May 31, 2018 19:19

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Oh my God, I love that "run around the guy in full plate and laugh at him while you disappear into the horizon" is an option.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2018 13:51

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

I like how much work they put into the "wrong" options. It's rarely just "you are dead," some of them are almost entire short storylines in their own right.

# ¿ Jun 16, 2018 07:03

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

I love this game's sense of humour.

# ¿ Jun 24, 2018 18:56

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

I still can't get over how much of a dickhead this game will let us be. It's like someone played Ultima, then a Sierra adventure game, and thought: "Wow, I wish I could be as much of an antisocial dickhead as I was in Ultima to these characters."

# ¿ Jun 27, 2018 17:00

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Again, just the fact that we went from terrified peasant with a rusty knife, to badass warrior with a legendary artifact sword, giving us A) the option to just gut some enemies and B) some respect, is a really cool bit of writing that a lot of other games miss.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2018 08:07

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

I would have figured that the talisman and Mind would've worked with the holy man, but I suppose not.

I also like that the player character and the Questing Beast acknowledge that some of the Mad One's obstacles are ridiculous.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2018 10:22

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Aw, I'm sad, I would've hoped for some peace with the bugs or something.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2018 20:08

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

I love that the guard lizard is just the fancy drinks lizard with a sword lazily slapped over his drink.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2018 09:31

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
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I like that Iggy has been generally useless so far.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2018 08:23

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Honestly, something seemed super shady about Persephone. She seemed way too chill about being locked up, and the back of her cell being just straight up open to space? Weird poo poo.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2018 20:22

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Oh my God the Pride one is great.

Also, uhhhh... colours. The only hint I remember is Orange is hungry from Mokoo, unless I'm misremembering that one. So probably we should avoid the colour Orange because it'll devour us or some such.

Judging by the hints I'd say visit Blue, Green and Yellow, in that order. But it seems a bit too obvious. Probably an awful trap of some sort.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2018 22:29

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 21:56

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Thanks for the run of MadMaze! It's a cool look back at early videogame history.

Did the creators ever go on to make any other games?

# ¿ Jul 22, 2018 00:23

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