Saturday, December 17, 2011
Wisp Bastards
Just a quick note that my list of most annoying CRPG enemies has been updated with a new entry on wisps (both Ultima V and Oblivion). I said I was going to do that three months ago, but I've been running a bit behind.
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As someone who has apparently only played about every other Ultima (I, III, IV, VI, VII, IX) I was amused to see that you hated wisps so much, given that they are nothing but helpful in every appearance I can recall from the Ultima games I played. And pretty much every game, for that matter. Maybe not EverQuest, but even there they dropped some of the only actually valuable loot for low-level characters.
ReplyDeleteYour list seems sadly neglected for the past couple of years, though. But you ARE running a CRPG Word Empire over here, after all. Some regions must be left to fend for themselves.
I still think about that list now and then, but no other enemy has come to mind as deserving. Some of the foes from Captive came close.
ReplyDeleteI love wisps in Ultima Online. They weren't automatically hostile, so I would always provoke them on whatever was nearby.
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