Re: "8 Classic Games You Haven't Played (but should)"

On Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:08:16 -0500, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:

On Sun, 02 Feb 2025 14:01:32 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>

The virtue mechanic appeared in multiple Ultimas (off the top of my
head, the "virtues=character generation" was used in Ultimas 4, 5 and
6 (as well as 9, but we don't talk about that one), and there was a
karma mechanic (of lessening importance to the outcome of the game
with each iteration) in 4, 5, 6 and 7. So you could have played any of
those ;-)

>
The virtue mechanic for character generation was also used in The
Elder Scrolls Arena if you wanted to use it, so if he is really
confused, it could have been that! :-P

Well, Arena was more of a personality test that corresponded to
various attributes (e.g., sort of a 'You see a guy being bullied, what
do you do? a) Punch the bully (+STR attribute), b) trick the bully
(+INT), c) Join the bully (+CON)' thing). Which ultimately is what
Ultima did too, except there weren't any direct correlations to
virtue/value judgments about your actions in "Elder Scrolls: Arena").

There were a number of games that used that mechanic.