I agree with the 2D-folks. I grew up with 2D-games (if you can call Fallout+Fallout 2 at the age of 12 growing up...) so now I feel that 2D is the way it's supposed to be. Because it's 3 person prespective you get a better overview. And because you watch from a distance, you doen't see most of the smaller details, and because of this graphics focuses on the whole, and let's you fill in the details (and this trimms your imagination <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />). Allso, it doesn't take too much effort in order to get the graphics to look good (since you doesn't have to draw every single detail, you can focus on the whole, and you only have to have something symbolic in order to get the viewer to understand what it's supposed to be.) you can focus on other things (like storyline, depth and all the other things that we all like about RPG's <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />). Arcanum is a major example of this (the graphics might not be the best, but hey, it works).
And, for the Ultima series (this is a little <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/offtopic.gif" alt="" />)(that you like Ultima VII clearly suggests that there is a second and a fifth as well <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />) I doesn't know anything about them. It seems to be quite some guys around here who has, and liked it, though. And so, I wonder, what's they like? RPG is my genre, but as I have said, I have played far too few RPG's in my life (so far, believ me, so far). I am trying to catch up though.
Übereil
