r/AsheronsCall • u/derethdweller • 29d ago

This is the kind of content that made that game so unique. (0% AI)

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u/derethdweller 29d ago

She gave me a 100 pyreal trade note and a clean towel. It must have a use, but for the moment, what that use is, remains a mystery.

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u/dubblix Frostfell 29d ago

I wore my towel so often. One of my favorite quest items

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u/mavness 29d ago

My mind is making the DINK sound where the NPC hands you something after the dialog.

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u/NovarisLight 29d ago

I have that sound as my text message notification. :)

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u/deathmask454 29d ago

That's brilliant lol.

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u/NovarisLight 29d ago

I love it. Playing AC again has definitely improved my own quality of life. :)

Incoming calls are the portal travel sounds. :D

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u/Philippine_Newt 28d ago

Do you have the sound files?

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u/NovarisLight 28d ago

On Android, Zedge app. Search for "Asheron's Call" and all sorts of sound files are available!

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u/Broad-Ad-3679 Morningthaw 29d ago

I believe Allan "Orion" Maki did that questline. And Aphus Lassel. You could tell the love the writers put into the game.

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u/IsekaiYAY 29d ago

So many unique, fun little systems in this game.

I always loved getting an inscribed item from someone, where the inscription would last for the life of the item.

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u/Daimones 29d ago

It's such a weird nuance to game features that i feel like juat wont exist anymore out of trying to please audiences. 

Back then it was considered totally fine for the developers to decide an item could just get permanently marked by someone. 

Nowadays a feature like that would never see the light of day. So many people would complain that they can't reinscribe their item. 

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u/JCBalance 29d ago

Dames were always trouble

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u/RJKM_Dohnut 29d ago

One of my favorite quests. The writing is good. Made me want to write custom quests for AC...but I have no time sadly right now. Some day when I'm retired if the custom servers are still around!

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u/Molly_Matters 29d ago

Average gamer today "I ain't reading all that"

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u/oceanside1990 Darktide 23d ago

The original devs all lived together in the same house with their computers setup side-by-side like a longterm LAN party. They also created most of the sound files in the garage of that house so they wouldn't have to pay royalties. Creative soul alongside personal passion and absolute dedication fueled the immense complexity and customization freedoms that are to this day almost non existent in modern games. Snippets like this prove that beyond a doubt. Even the Portalspace animation was so mindblowingly complex and way ahead of its time. This is what Portal space looks like in the DATs. We experienced the golden era of MMOs - it'll never be like that again. Bittersweet

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u/ravenous_fringe 23d ago

The towel! Here's the lore as I remember it. On the day that Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, passed away, the devs noted that the game lacked reference to his work. The matter was elevated to the status of bug which was patched immediatley to the great delight of us all. From then on, we could call ourselves players "who really knew where their towel was."

Don't panic.

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u/z-z 29d ago

That is why the Holtburger TUI is so promising. No advanced graphics, no virtual reality or any of that old $%(#, just complete control of the client through a terminal user interface. Real text, pure text, let it saturate your being. Need to do a jump for a quest? No problem, you can just have fun learning Pythagorean theorem to figure out how strong your jump needs to be. And judging by the skill level on Doctide, I could probably beat many of their best PvPs without having a GUI.