If only someone would properly finish U8 ...
And if there were less jumping in U8. Visiting the air elemental was cause to rage against a village.
Ultima VII Revisited
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#22Exult did this decades ago :). On Ultima VII, can you play the 7th series without playing the previous ones? I mean, are these games standalone? Because Ultima IV it's always praised to be an incredible RPG to play. BTW, Scummvm will happily play Ultima 4, 6 and 8 games too, with better controls and support.
There are a couple of references to earlier games, but if you read the manual then you know enough to just get started with QotA (Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar). QotA, WoD (Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny), and TFP (Ultima 6: The False Prophet) kind of make a trilogy (the so-called 'Age of Enlightenment' trilogy) and you can port your character over between one game and the next, but they're perfectly playable by thems…
I also remember churning enough butter to fill backpacks in Ultima VI. (don't recall offhand whether bread was doable)
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#23Looks cool! I wonder if they reworked/fixed the terrible font. I find it borderline illegible in the original! (example https://cdn.neowin.com/news/images/uploaded/31070-ultima-vii... )
I also bounced off the original due to the weird camera angle
That qualifies as illegible? Maybe at the Tt mark but otherwise very clear. tL maybe?
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#24Neat, let me just find those old DOS U7 files…
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are a couple of references to earlier games, but if you read the manual then you know enough to just get started with QotA (Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar). QotA, WoD (Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny), and TFP (Ultima 6: The False Prophet) kind of make a trilogy (the so-called 'Age of Enlightenment' trilogy) and you can port your character over between one game and the next, but they're perfectly playable by thems…
I also remember churning enough butter to fill backpacks in Ultima VI. (don't recall offhand whether bread was doable)
Not sure about VI, but I definitely spent an afternoon baking bread in Britannia in Ultima VII
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#26Looks cool! I wonder if they reworked/fixed the terrible font. I find it borderline illegible in the original! (example https://cdn.neowin.com/news/images/uploaded/31070-ultima-vii... )
It was a little more readable on CRT. But yes, not really great.
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#27Rise your hand if you remember how long you had to tinker around to get enough EMS to load the game plus sound card drivers loaded into memory when being in DOS!
:-D
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#28So funny to see this here, I was just looking into Ultima remakes last night, and saw this one among others. Looks really awesome. I never played any of the Ultima games back in the day, and have bounced off them when trying in later years. This should make Ultima VII a lot more accessible and playable. There's also a remake of Ultima Underworld being made in Godot: https://github.com/hankmorgan/UnderworldGodot Hopin…
UU was teh shizz. I wonder what it would look like with photorealistic renders.
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#29There's a YouTuber that's been going through and making in-depth retrospectives of each Ultima game that some here may find interesting. I've found them a pleasant watch and I don't usually go for this type of content. I never played the Ultima series until Ultima Online so I don't have the nostalgia goggles that I'd need to go back and play games this old (sorry, it's the truth) so these videos are as close as I'll probably get.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16yfJJxAM6g-4YxKGI-1...
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also remember churning enough butter to fill backpacks in Ultima VI. (don't recall offhand whether bread was doable)
Not sure about VI, but I definitely spent an afternoon baking bread in Britannia in Ultima VII
Did you make make your own starter from flour and water? Inquiring bakers want to know!