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    Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss

    Game » consists of 8 releases. Released Mar 27, 1992

    Ultima Underworld is one of the first free-roaming, first-person CRPGs. In this game, the player as the Avatar must rescue the daughter of a Baron from the Stygian Abyss. There, amidst the ruins of a once utopian colony, the Avatar will also discover the dark horror that lies far below.

    Paul Neurath is rebooting the Underworld franchise..

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    Just spotted this on another forum. Paul Neurath has formed Otherside Entertainment and is planning to remake the Underworld games.

    From their About section:

    OtherSide is a Boston-area game studio focused on bringing to core gamers reboots of classic game franchises. For its first title, the company has secured the rights to do new versions of the beloved Underworld games, which sold over 1M copies and is considered a landmark fantasy franchise of the 1990’s.

    http://othersideentertainment.com/

    That has to be one of the most epic testimonial lists I've seen in a while :P

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    Cool! It's interesting to see all these old hands of the industry come back. I wonder if he's still got it in him to innovate the genre again.

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    Looks interesting. The thing I want to know is; how playable are Underworld 1 and 2 nowadays? I've never played an Ultima game, though I did watch the Spoony retrospective on the series. From that I thought Underwold looked the most interesting.

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    @baka_shinji17: Oh god, how could you have gotten that impression of the game, especially after seeing the Spoony retrospective? The impression I've gotten from what he did on the underworld games is that they were unbalanced to be hard as fuck right from the first enemy, and also left out like... all the good parts of the Ultima games. Like the story, recurring characters and such.

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    @baka_shinji17: I played a bit of Underworld 1 a few months ago. It doesn't seem so bad as far as how it's aged, except the controls are weird as hell.

    I really would like to see what comes of this.

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    @baka_shinji17: The Underworld games are super interesting from a historical perspective and seem like they hold up surprisingly well for DOS RPGs that came out in the early 90s (though still rough in the ways that games from that era are rough). Underworld 2 is a little more structured than the first game (it has a hub and separate levels, basically), so I actually got somewhere with it at one point.

    This has actually been the first game I've bothered to kickstart in 2 years since Divinity Original Sin.

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