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@JendaLinda 9 күн бұрын

It's interesting the game has digitized sound effects but no music. Although the sounds were clearly designed to be played through internal PC speaker. Anyway, looking forward to Goblins II.

@Zolaerla 8 күн бұрын

Are you as amused as I am to hear Axiluvia be so annoyed at the randomness of this game?!? Just the beginning of this video made me giggle so much when I was setting it up. Hehee! Anyways, the next couple of videos are modern games before we jump back to more Goblins. Thanks for watching!

@waterbottle4782 18 күн бұрын

The sixth Ultima game was the very first game I ever bought with my own money and it was worth every penny.

@Zolaerla 18 күн бұрын

Ultima VI is the best game in the series. I love it! Level up your strength, Sherry, so you can use two boomerangs and wear magic armor!

@VonMagXL 18 күн бұрын

@Zolaeria - Try "Traders" on an Amiga or Amiga emulator some time (also Atari ST and Dos). It came out in 1991. It's definitely "like Mule" (to the point of ripping it off perhaps), but has some strange differences in the game including a Jabba the Hut kind of gang boss character called "Fat Mike" that you rent your land from. There's also the optional ability to attack plots of land in a min-war game to raid their resources (take that players that refuse to sell to me!) as well as build defenses to protect the land.

@Zolaerla 18 күн бұрын

Ah, I will have to check that game out. Thanks for pointing that out!

@JendaLinda 19 күн бұрын

I wonder how were people figuring out the solutions without internet.

@Zolaerla 19 күн бұрын

Back when I played this as a teenager, we just tried every possible combination we could find. Some things were pretty BS though... like having to cast a spell on the cloud in episode 2, I think we got stuck on that room and never could complete it!

@JorgeGarcia-fb7fm 21 күн бұрын

Es la mejor banda sonora de un juego de Commodore 64, Y PUNTO!

@Zolaerla 21 күн бұрын

I like the original Atari version, but the C64 version is pretty cool too.

@JendaLinda 28 күн бұрын

Punishing the player for experimenting is not the best game design. Still better than killing the player on every step.

@WindowsGG Ай бұрын

so this is either ibm's version of microsoft's version of the game... and bro it looks awful

@AiOinc1 Ай бұрын

It's neither, this was ported by K-Byte for Ozark Softscape. The IBM PC itself had limited hardware at the time because it was intended to be a business machine, unlike the Atari 800 and Commodore 64 you're likely comparing it to.

@JendaLinda Ай бұрын

I think having three characters doing different tasks is a nice concept. Just the puzzles could be more logical.

@Zolaerla Ай бұрын

Well, Jenda, you're in luck! Because the 3 characters get to do more puzzles, and they get even more illogical!

@Axiluvia Ай бұрын

I agree, and it wouldn't be that hard to make a game with logical puzzles that used them. But this isn't it.

@VJFranzK Ай бұрын

it sounded strange and cool? in the reviews at the time, but actually playing this would have disappointed!

@Zolaerla Ай бұрын

Yes, pretty much how it is. If they could have spent more time on making their VM be reassembled for whatever system it was running on, it could have been decent, but that would have been quite complicated! Or maybe they could have made a game that didn't need so much speed, more like their other adventure games but with some images, I could have seen that being a bit of a hit as well. Oh well, they made something really unique at least!

@JendaLinda Ай бұрын

There are actually people who enjoy playing very difficult platforming games.

@Zolaerla Ай бұрын

I know... I know. There's a reason the modern rage games exist. I am not one of those people. This isn't difficult, this is "memorize how to do each part of the game". Like Prince of Persia and Rick Dangerous. Anyways, I hope my constant failures were amusing!

@JendaLinda Ай бұрын

This game feels like speedrun grinding excercise.

@Zolaerla Ай бұрын

Kinda feel that way, yeah. I've done speedrun grinding in a couple really old games, and you just have to memorize everything very precisely. Honestly, this game reminds me of Prince of Persia so much, but unlike PoP, this just respawns you back a few screens.

@Zolaerla Ай бұрын

I doubt much of anybody will ever see this... but this video hits me very differently now that I'm 9 months into my own transition. I keep thinking about the struggles Dani must have gone through for hers, because back in the 90s when I first researched transitioning myself, it was very difficult to even get the most basic care. She ended up being shunned by much of the gaming industry, and backed away from creating games shortly afterwards. She even ended up regretting having SRS, a rarity amongst us trans women. I wish she could have been with us longer and contributed more of her creative ideas to the gaming universe.

@InsaneAcid Ай бұрын

Spore

@Zolaerla Ай бұрын

There's a reason I brought up Spore in my full video on this old game: kzbin.info/www/bejne/opi0c4KreLJrapY

@JendaLinda Ай бұрын

The music is laughing at you.

@Zolaerla Ай бұрын

*tilts her head* You know, I don't even notice the music much in these games. It is intriguing that you pick up on it far more than I do, cause USUALLY I pay attention to music more. I think I just am so bored of the music in these games, it just becomes meaningless background filler.

@JendaLinda Ай бұрын

@@Zolaerla Yes, the music is quite boring. Meybe the excessive audio compression is too distracting for me so the music is constantly drawing my attention. The audio levels are alright now. The music is part of the game so it's part of the experience.

@JendaLinda 2 ай бұрын

Yay the cursed game series again :D

@Zolaerla 2 ай бұрын

Yay! And we're going to do a 2-player one in the next month or so. We've been testing simultaneous video recordings for Axi's channel between our two systems and got that working pretty well. So the next time we see a Rusty Lake game, we're BOTH going in blind together.

@JendaLinda 2 ай бұрын

@@Zolaerla That sounds great, I'm already excited for that. I'm very curious how it will go.

@JendaLinda 2 ай бұрын

Death in the first minute. That's impressive.

@Zolaerla 2 ай бұрын

Not only a death in the first minute, but the timing with saying this game was not as bad as Eternam was just awesome. I was practically holding my breath waiting for that net to catch her, then looked down for a moment to write the episode # down to track when the deaths happen and of course missed it. "There was a lot of bullshit here, but it's at least [*DEAD*] ... ..." Hehee!

@oliver1784 2 ай бұрын

I do agree mostly with the lovecraft thingy, I dont think most of the gods would give offerings to humans. But you would REALLY benefit from a little self awareness and an "yes and" mentality. The lovecraft mythos has been written on for a long time, fiction of course, and there have been a lot of writers after lovecraft. To say that a thing is "wrong" and to just say "no" to an idea about a fictional universe shows a insane lack of imagination and a fear of change. There are a lot of gods that have showed themselves and given gifts to humans etc according to the mythos, only thing you do when you take a hard stance like this about a thing u dont know shit about is that ur going to be wrong. The burden of proof is not on me to prove whats real abt this fake universe and you cant prove yourself right so me saying that both are true is the correct stance on the matter.

@Zolaerla 2 ай бұрын

Axi says what comes to her mind. It's what some viewers find amusing in our videos. She has read enormous gobs of the stories, the William Hope Hodgson stories that Lovecraft vaguely based his stories on, and such. We're both more Hodgson fans than Lovecraft, but since Lovecraft made his lore "open source" so-to-speak, any angle with the stories is technically valid as you say, so long as you aren't making the Elder Beings act particularly friendly to mankind, because that's against the entire point.

@oliver1784 2 ай бұрын

@@Zolaerla yeah i hate myself, thank you for replying so nicely idk why I type my comments when I am really depressed. I sound so annoying xd but its an interesting idea to talk about tho!

@oliver1784 2 ай бұрын

@@Zolaerla I feel like there was some things gods had to do with people and it was very rare thus makes good stories or something, I havent read that much but everything hp lovecraft it seems there is a special person or a happening in human world, kind of making the gods care about humans if that makes any sense? I personally agree though that the gods wouldnt care to give humans anything if thought about it logically

@Zolaerla 2 ай бұрын

@@oliver1784 Nah, you're good, and allowed to disagree. I know all about being depressed, been working on that a lot recently. I hope you figure out how to deal with it, because sometimes the solution is not particularly obvious. The Cthulhu mythos stuff is fun to talk about and discuss, and I think that's the lasting power of what HP Lovecraft invented, regardless of his own personal issues. The overly powerful, mysterious, unknowable beings that more-or-less care nothing about anything we hold dear. That's the idea, and what's terrifying and fascinating. Beyond that, it's all stories about strange happenings and people losing their minds and going mad. Fun to read and discuss, great for games (like Arkham Horror), but I do not want to live in those stories!

@DeadCat-42 2 ай бұрын

Just connected a mt32 pi Roland emulator for midi ultima IV is really better with midi.n

@Zolaerla 2 ай бұрын

Oh, I bet that's nice! It's better with music at all, but the Rolands sounded so cool before we all got Wave Blasters. I had the Atari 8-bit version growing up... no music. Which is funny, because I translated the music for the Atari 8-bit version of Ultima V currently being written, and it fits just fine.

@JendaLinda 2 ай бұрын

Didn't take that long. I expected it would be worse.

@Zolaerla 2 ай бұрын

Lauren got me back by making me play Another World. I'm going to have to figure out how to make the Death Counter look good with triple digits...

@JendaLinda 2 ай бұрын

@@Zolaerla Perhaps a smaller one line counter that would be visible during the entire gameplay.

@Zolaerla 2 ай бұрын

@@JendaLinda That's what I'm planning. Maybe have the title "Death Counter" fade in/out when a new death happens. But umm... in the second video, I average a death every... 25 seconds or so! That game is vicious.

@courtney.p.s. 2 ай бұрын

Long time no see! Orion told me he called you and it’s so glad to see you again. Miss you!!

@Zolaerla 2 ай бұрын

Hiya, Courtney. Cool to hear from you again. Love the hair in your Avatar. You can see I'm now on wigs to try to look better... I still think I'm just funny-looking, but whatever, it's a process, and I looked good in that dress so that's what matters, hehee! Hope you're doing well!

@courtney.p.s. 2 ай бұрын

It’s a cute look, and wigs are a great thing because you can change your style without worrying too much about your natural hair. I miss my purple hair, but right now I just don’t have the will to bleach my hair to start the process.

@JendaLinda 2 ай бұрын

This game is getting more and more insane.

@Zolaerla 2 ай бұрын

And still makes more sense than Eternam, which granted, doesn't take much! The next episode is the "Axiluvia dies a lot in the caves" episode. We've been recording Gobliiins, and I forgot how crazy that game's logic was.

@JendaLinda 2 ай бұрын

@@Zolaerla Ah caves. I guess this will bring her Kyrandia flashbacks.

@Zolaerla 2 ай бұрын

@@JendaLinda I'm glad I wasn't drinking when I read that, I was laughing hard for a bit! Hehee! She "only" dies 36 times in the caves, so less than she did in the stupid jumping-puzzle caves of Maddog Williams. At least Parker isn't like Brandon and tosses quest items over his freakin' shoulder, missing, and requiring another one to be found. Thanks, Brandon! I'll never forgive you...

@JendaLinda 2 ай бұрын

I really don't like the music in this game.

@Zolaerla 2 ай бұрын

I've been trying to balance out the voices in it, our voices, and the very repetitious music. Maybe in the future, we'll just turn down the music if we can in videos.

@JendaLinda 2 ай бұрын

@@Zolaerla The balancing is alright. This particular game just has awful music. And it's not a problem with the technology. I like Adlib music.

@psynque 2 ай бұрын

You two are men

@operatchick6486 2 ай бұрын

1:19 I love Manicure Crab

@Zolaerla 2 ай бұрын

Hehee! Here, your finger's dirty, mate! Lemme polish that for ya! Good as new now, pal! Bye bye!

@JonBailey 2 ай бұрын

Wow. That's the second biggest Vulva-Shaped Infant-Head-Encircled Interdimensional Portal I've ever seen.

@Zolaerla 2 ай бұрын

Hehee! Now this makes me wonder what the biggest one was!

@JendaLinda 2 ай бұрын

Something felt wrong about the characters and then I realized they have no teeth.

@Zolaerla 2 ай бұрын

Most of them don't, no! Now I can't unsee it! ARGH! Juggs has his upper teeth, but no lower teeth (see @33:30), and that's possibly even more jarring. I'm certain the faces are based on a real face, and then someone manipulating the resulting image's lips for the animation frames to look like they are talking.

@JendaLinda 2 ай бұрын

For these games without voices, I think you could summarize each dialog in few words. This would also help filling the periods of silence. Anyway, I'm looking forward for more silly games! :-)

@Zolaerla 2 ай бұрын

Yes, that is a good idea, esp. with plot-relevant stuff. The next three games are ready to go: the first (Shadow of the Comet) has a lot of dialog. I'm trying to get these out faster, every 2 days is the goal, and now that I can sit in a chair again (I had surgery a month ago), I can actually get a bunch ready for release now.

@JendaLinda 3 ай бұрын

Do you both have your own YT channels?

@Zolaerla 3 ай бұрын

Axiluvia (Lauren) hasn't posted any videos on KZbin, but she has been debating starting getting into streaming old video games. Not that my channel with all of the videos on it is very popular, but that's my experience basically everywhere... my interests and what I spend time on are so niche.

@JendaLinda 3 ай бұрын

@@Zolaerla That sounds interesting. I like the idea.

@Francois424 3 ай бұрын

Holy **** the FM town music is awesome ! That version also borrows from Ultima5's tileset Also that was a fun experiment, thanks for the video.

@Zolaerla 3 ай бұрын

Yep, the FM Towns versions of games seem to be really cool. In my full Ultima IV video, I also talk about all of the differences between all of the versions. This was created for that video, I just put it up separately. Here is the discussion on the FM Towns version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGXblWt_aK95pMk

@DocFlareon 3 ай бұрын

This is a topic that I was not expecting to be explored in more than a single game. My word, "Binding of Isaac" brought about a new genre of games dealing with pediatric trauma.

@Zolaerla 3 ай бұрын

I didn't like `Binding of Isaac`, it's just not my kind of game, but it certainly is intriguing to see ideas similar to it being explored elsewhere in the medium. I appreciate it for the creepiness and highlight on the childhood trauma a lot of people go through.

@wolfywolf2sda 3 ай бұрын

Hard to believe that the Atari 2600 version was better.

@Zolaerla 3 ай бұрын

??? There wasn't an Atari 2600 version unless someone made a custom port.

@wolfywolf2sda 3 ай бұрын

Right, Atari 400

@CrafteeGamez Ай бұрын

I wanna this game at the gamestop for no fucking reason!

@JendaLinda 3 ай бұрын

Making modern games without voice acting seems kinda lazy. As I'm visually impaired, I'm not enjoying reading lots of text. But it's what it is, I guess. Even big and rich game companies still produce games with only subtitles.

@Zolaerla 3 ай бұрын

I completely agree! I think voice adds a lot to an experience, and it's been in use for adventure games since the 90s so it does feel a bit out of place without it. Would it be better for us to read the dialog going forward like we did with the "Darkside Detective" games? We'd have less commentary that way, but it was fun to do at least.

@JendaLinda 3 ай бұрын

@@Zolaerla I think reading eveyrthig word by word isn't necessary. Perhaps just comment more on the dialogs. I really enjoy your commentary.

@DocFlareon 3 ай бұрын

More "Joy of Computer Gaming" incoming, huzzah! That series is why I subbed to your channel in the first place.

@Zolaerla 3 ай бұрын

My level of depression got so strong in 2022, I just cut off so many things I was doing. I look forward to getting back to talking about great old games!

@sergeu78 3 ай бұрын

от неё наверно и пошла GTA

@emrahavatar 3 ай бұрын

Thou may playest thine lute Infront of Lord British. Well done

@AosorarisuUnedited 3 ай бұрын

Yay! You do seem like you are having a much happier time. I'm glad, I look forward to more Zolaerla!

@Zolaerla 3 ай бұрын

Oh yes, absolutely happier! Next up: I play through a really depressing game!

@badjuju999 3 ай бұрын

This is awesome!! I'm so glad to see you happy and open about this. You're doing what you need and that's the most important thing. ❤ I've got your back!

@LeTaC0MaN 3 ай бұрын

Good on you, it's important to be happy. Personally looking forward to your Fran Bow video, I rather enjoyed the game myself.

@Zolaerla 3 ай бұрын

So did I. There were a few times it really hit me hard emotionally, esp. now that I feel them far stronger, and I was not ready for it. It's going to be a very unique entry to Let's Play Blind. Just need to put the videos & voice together for it, so the first one should be up in the next day or so.

@classicnosh 4 ай бұрын

𝘈 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦.

@Spunney 4 ай бұрын

@JendaLinda 4 ай бұрын

I didn't expect this, but the most important thing is that you're happy, and I'm looking forward for the upcoming videos!

@Zolaerla 3 ай бұрын

Sorry. I was hiding it here until I could come out to my family (some of them watch my videos), which happened yesterday as well. Lots more coming!

@forcastiabluey 4 ай бұрын

Good to hear the JCG episodes will be coming back! I think your essay on Aztec for the Apple II was how I found your channel. Planning on playing the Goblins games, huh? Let me know if you want a guest for the third game, it's one of my favorites. :D

@Zolaerla 4 ай бұрын

I've only played the first previously, and it was so bizarre and kinda mind-bogglingly random feeling. Hmm, it would be cool to have a guest for the third game, I'd probably have to set up a bit differently for you to watch in real time since I haven't done streaming before. I'll have to think about how to set that up, cause it sounds like it'd be fun! Edit: I do run web servers and have fast internet, that's not the problem, it's just a thing I haven't done before is all.

@JendaLinda 4 ай бұрын

I really like your blind let's plays of DOS adventure games, especially Kyrandia series and games from Sierra. It's fun to see these quirky games played in the modern context. Are you considering playing more DOS games?

@Zolaerla 4 ай бұрын

Yep, absolutely. We recorded "Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet" recently (it'll go up soon), and we are planning on starting the Gabriel Knight games. We're also planning on bumping our release frequency up since there are just so many games. Are there any particular games you'd like to see one of us play?

@JendaLinda 4 ай бұрын

@@Zolaerla You mentioned Goblins in few videos. I thing that will be very entertaining.

@Zolaerla 4 ай бұрын

@@JendaLinda Ok, then! We'll get Lauren to play Goblins, since I played most of it in the past. There are even 2 sequels for her to suffer through. Mwa hahaha!

@puzzud 4 ай бұрын

One of, if not, the best reviews of MULE online. Good job. Have you played MULE Online?

@Zolaerla 4 ай бұрын

I have debated trying it out, so I watched some videos about it, and those players are FREAKIN' NUTS. I'm not a cutthroat player, so the first time I saw someone buying and releasing all of the MULEs to screw with the economy and make Smithore way more valuable just scared me away from trying, because that made me so sad.

@gsittly 4 ай бұрын

I loved playing the game as a kid, it's so many locations and mini games which was not common those days. It was not easy but doable (we did it some times).

@Zolaerla 4 ай бұрын

This... is such a bizarre game. I don't think it's a "good" game, I didn't rate it very well, but the mini-games were so nuts (the bank and post office especially!) and learning how to do them was a really weird puzzle to work out. As a kid, I kept coming back, and I think this is why. Also, all the cars crashing all the time was funny as a kid. It's also how I came up with a way to break the game, hehee.

@JendaLinda 4 ай бұрын

Do people speedrun this game?

@Zolaerla 4 ай бұрын

Apparently, yes! www.speedrun.com/de

@DocFlareon 4 ай бұрын

Is it possible to choose to give the werewolf full freedom?

@Zolaerla 4 ай бұрын

Interestingly enough, in answering the other comment, I have a link that explains the states of letting the werewolf escape. It's for speed runners to get all endings, but it explains how the scoring works: www.speedrun.com/de/guides/82xi7

@monsia202 4 ай бұрын

this is fucking shit...

@chodetaculous 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely amazing game. Incredible for its time. To this day, there has not been another game like it where the goal is simply to become a better person. If any game on this planet deserves a remake, it's Ultima 4.

@CandyHatsuneWolff 4 ай бұрын

Planeteers running onscreen lowkey jumpscared me.

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