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From: Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What difficultly level do you play one?
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:47:54 -0500
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On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:00:03 -0000 (UTC), in
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, candycanearter07 wrote: 

>Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote at 23:24 this Tuesday (GMT):
>> On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:43:07 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
>> Spalls Hurgenson wrote: 
>>
>>>I mean, do you remember what a radical concept it felt in "Ultima IV"
>>>was when it was announced that the goal of the game was /NOT/ to
>>>murder your way through the world?* For a lot of players, that was the
>>>first time they even considered there could be more to the genre!
>>
>> You're talking to the guy that used the Skull of Mondain as soon as he
>> got it. It should have created an unrecoverable save file of doom like
>> Undertale.
>>
>> It was so cool. What an ending!
>
>
>I've never gotten the geno ending on UT (sans sucks) but I think you can
>technically recover it by regediting and messing with steam cloud saves

Did you get to the point where XP was named "eXecution Points" and level
was actually your "level of violence?"

Yeah, you can hack your way out of it, but it's still what the player
deserved. First real consequences I've seen in a game in a long time.

-- 
Zag

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