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Matt Chat's Legacy of the Ancients
This, week, I cover Quest Software's Legacy of the Ancients for the Commodore 64!
I made this video primarily as a nod to Shane R. Monroe, the host of Retrogaming Radio and one of the main reasons why Armchair Arcade exists at all! (The founders met on Shane's forums). Legacy is one of Shane's favorite games, and has no doubt aroused the curiosity of his many listeners. I enjoyed the game very much, and wanted to talk about its history and influence in this video.
Check it out and let me know what you think about the legacy of Legacy! :P
P.S. Also be sure to check out Bill's excellent response video!
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I think so...
The guy is super busy with all these projects so I guess I just called in his parallel mirrored universe double to chip in a little :P
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Just a start I am sure!
See? I told you you'd surpass me in no time, though to be honest you really deserve it between the frequency of your videos
and just the over all quality! Congrats! Ah well, at least my latest vid is getting me lot's of notice I am not too far behind at 468.
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Oldschool games, some people just don't "get it"...
500 Subs! That calls for a special video!
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Armchair arcade Editor | Pixellator | www.markvergeer.nl
Bill's video
Bill, is that the mirror universe version of you?
Cool!
Ahh good old Legacy of the Ancients! I never could get very far in that one back in the C64 days. I remember having a good time with it though. Sadly unless you could buy a cluebook or hope one of the Quest for Clues book/Questbusters covered the game, you were hosed. And if the game had a bug or a difference from the cluebook solution? You were stuck! I even tried mapping Legacy and never got anywhere.
Was still really fun. Unlike another of the EA C64 RPGs, Deathlord. (You know the Ultima knockoff with Samurai.) That game was ABUSIVE.
Legacy was a good game once you ran out of Ultimas to play though. Id put it behind Wasteland and the Ultima series and the Gold Box games as one of the best C64 RPGs. Probably right on par with Wizardry, yet above Bard's Tale.
The 500 Sub Club
Yay! Just hit 500.
Great video as always, Matt!
Someone requested that you review "Legacy of the Ancients," and I requested you cover a C-64 game. You did both!
What strikes me, when watching your video, was how similar many of the later CRPG classics were to the old-school games. LotA looks a LOT like "Fallout" in presentation, give or take a few colors and pixels. A similar-but-updated Legacy of the Ancients would probably fare reasonably well as a modern game, considering its "simplified" approach to the RPG genre. Heck, it's probably been done similarly in some later CRPG's. Baldur's Gate and such don't really count, since they aren't really "simplified" RPGs.
Well, I'm out of time, so once again, kudos for your great videos!
P.S. I've got to get to work on re-reviewing your book. Shame on me for never reposting a review.
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Yeah, I ran into some issues
Yeah, I ran into some issues with the Starcraft episode (a stupid copyright dispute with Samsung, of all people. That system is totally clueless!) According to Feedburner, I only have 10 subscribers (it's stayed there since day one). I might keep it going for awhile, but I'm sad to say that there has been very little interest (no comments or anything at least on the U.S. side). Still, I'll go ahead and post the two new episodes.
podcast
Should I keep subscribing to the podcast? It hasn't updated in 3 weeks.
Thanks for getting the book!
@hitfan: Thanks for getting the book! If you enjoy it, please consider posting a review of it on Amazon. I'd greatly appreciate it.
@Chris: That's where I heard about it, too. I decided to review it based on your suggestion as well as a sort of super shout out to Shane R. Monroe, who really did a lot for the gaming community. I really enjoyed his show and often posted in the forums there (under the name blacklily8).
I know a lot of hardcore folks here would probably rather play Ultima or Phantasie, but I think Legacy is a good choice if you're curious about playing an old school classic CRPG but haven't played any before. It's relatively easy to get a C-64 emu up and running, and the fact that you can play the entire game with a joystick is quite nice. There aren't many turn-based CRPGs that I know if that make it easy for you to control it with a joystick!
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