Ultima™ IV: Quest of the Avatar

I must be missing something here. I spend time reading the manual. I print out a quick reference sheet. And then I start playing. I kill a few monsters. I loot some chests. I get poisoned. I go to a healer and spend 100 gold to get cured. I travel a little. I get poisoned again. I try camping. Doesn't heal the poison. I find a healer and spend 100 gold again to get cured. I travel again and immediately get poisoned. I head back to the healer. A soldier is blocking my way. Not intentionally. But he doesn't move. I move back and forth hoping that he will move, as I need a cure to this poison that I constantly get. But he doesn't move. and the poison kills me. So apparently the cure to poison is dying, but I don't like to die.

This is the game that started it for me. I was 12 when it came out for me on the commodore 64. I remember the ending. I can't remember the ending of games I finished yesterday, let alone 25 years ago. I wont play it again because it will never live up tot the memory from when I was 12, but man, what a trip to see it here.

I grew up playing interactive fiction just fine. But graphics...and this...just doesn't do it for me. I'll link this http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2010/09/unplayable.html as mainly my reason, and also add that I understand there's a lot of respect for these games, and that it DID grab me with it's introduction (even though I had to press every key on my keyboard to figure out how to start the damn thing), but this game hasn't aged well...at all.

Some gripe that the controls aren't bad. They should stick with their uninspired xbox games and mash some buttons.

Ultima III: Exodus was the first computer RPG that I owned and played. I remember the day I got it and Questron from Sears for my C64. Still some of the best RPGs ever made for the computer.