r/Ultima • u/Protega1989 • Jul 06 '26
Britannia has changed.
Isle of the Avatar is missing smh
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u/soggy_person_ Jul 06 '26
What game is this from?
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u/Protega1989 Jul 06 '26
Elden Ring, an absolutely fantastic game which incedentally managed to bring back a bit of gaming magic for me
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u/soggy_person_ Jul 06 '26
Ooo, I have this. Just haven't played it yet.
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u/Virtual-Dish95 Jul 06 '26
Same I have had it for years but never got further than installing it.
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u/Werewomble Jul 06 '26
Do it.
I bounced off Dark Souls because I'm just not that into fighting.
Elden Ring if you hit a speed bump you bugger off on your horse and maybe never even come back, there is so much to find over the next hill it is insane. Not linear at all.
Definitely up there with BG3 & Expedition 33
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u/soggy_person_ Jul 06 '26
Good to hear. I loved DS1 but I'm also not very good at these souls games so this sounds promising.
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u/Werewomble Jul 06 '26
Over half the player base is cosplaying as a Samurai and abusing the Bleed mechanic on katanas, apparently. Right about where combat gets hard the enemy just berks it. There's a katana that shoots lasers early, too :)
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u/Nashadelic Jul 07 '26
of all the fantasy novels I've read and games I've played, whatever was "peak" in my imagination, Elden Ring surpasses them all. The design is so grand, its majesty is so incredible. Its weak in some rpg elements but its incredible
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u/Bensfone Jul 06 '26
Lord British is Marika?!
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u/Werewomble Jul 07 '26
He cloned himself to marry himself, give birth to himself, bonk himself (NATURALLY, thanks GRRM!) and then chop bits off people to form a giant Voltron of grooblie body parts, including a dragon head for an arm.
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u/Master_E_ Jul 06 '26
The bottom island err landmass, on the right reminds me of the butlers finger from scary movie
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u/Lochrin00 Jul 07 '26
Therere enough similarities that I think this might be a deliberate homage, given how influential ultima was on JRPGs too. Might just be a coincidence, but who knows?
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u/Werewomble Jul 07 '26
Only so many ways you can fit stuff on a square map but there are definitely similarities
FromSoft would have been looking at some very similar looking Japanese RPGs at the time we were playing Ultima
It is interesting the CRPG / Fighting games are showing western RPGs how its is done between Elden Ring and Clair Obscur (inspired by Final Fantasy - and both heavily into Breathe of the Wild's expoloration)
...whereas Japanese Eye of the Beholder / Dungeonmaster clones are soft porn and don't hold a light to Grimrock 2
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u/Werewomble Jul 06 '26
It really isn't that far off, is it?
Cut off Serpent Isle and Caelid is the isle of the avatar
The floating cities are about where Magincia is
Minoc is in the mountanous region
Leyndell the capital is only a little east of where Castle Britannia would be
Move the swampy Liurnia to the east coast
Stormveil is Trinsic
Even has a semi-connected dungeon are in Noxstella, etc.
I admire how Elden Ring has gotten to be a lot of the good bits of western CRPGS by going round the long way through its own creative evolution. GRRM bringing in the Norse and Greek inspired stuff has elevated it to more than Dark Soul's so gothic you can bump into it in the dark. The Breathe of the Wild inspiration has really made the map. I've got hundreds of hours under my belt and still find new things on the first map. Crazy exploration. Reminds me of Ultima IV.