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Ultima V: Lazarus Released
Vistaer writes "After over five years in development, Team Lazarus has finally released their full remake of the classic 80's RPG "Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny". This remake is built as a total conversion for Dungeon Siege, and not only does it retain the original story, characters, and setting of Ultima V, but also adds many new systems and improvements to the Dungeon Siege engine including branching dialogues, day/night cycles, portraits for every character in the game and much much more. Weighing in at just over 500MB, this game could prove to be a delight to many CRPG fans."
Before DS came out, I read the PCGamer article where they had screenshots and an interview with Chris Taylor. The game looked good so when it came out, I went down to my local Electronics Boutique (about 25-30 minutes from my house) and bought it. I played it for about 3 weeks and when I realized how lame the story was, I decided to shelve it. The game sat on my shelf for about 6 months, and I finally realized I had no intention of ever beating it so I decided to exchange it.
In most game stores, if you take back a used game (one that had been opened), they give you about $5 of store credit, then add it to their used game collection and charge someone else $30 for it. At this particular EB, they would allow exchanges of games for their full purchase provided you gave them a bullshit excuse (it wouldn't run on my computer), and the game had all the stuff it came with (I can't remember if they also require a receipt).
I walked over to the counter and told the clerk that the game ran too slowly and that I needed to exchange it. He opened up the game and said, you can't exchange it without the original manual. So I said "Fuck it, I'll go home and find it". I drove home and back to the store, manual in hand. By the time I got back from my hour long trip, the original clerck had left and the manager was working the register. I took the game up to him and said I'd like to exchange this game. He opens the game and says "we can't exchange this, the disks are all scratched". I said "I didn't drive an hour round trip to not get full credit for this game, you'd best chiggity-check yourself before you wreck yourself". He agreed to let me exchange the game and asked when I bought it, I lied and said "oh, about 2 weeks ago". He said "oh, if you had bought it more than a month ago, the price was $50 and now its $30 so here is your store credit of $30.
The moral of this story: A good lie pays off better than telling the truth, and exchanging a game close to when you bought it keeps you from getting screwed.