Thanks.
A Lot.
Really.
But I alreadw have the Ultima Collection from way back.
But I'm looking forward to the rest of the set at GOG :-D
I hope some will have the courage to try that (fall in love with it and have the truth of it of course ^^)

Oh good, I thought something was wrong on my end, though the upgrade patch version of Ultima 3 seemed even slower.

To join the discussion - the first game that I played on PC was Starcraft, so this makes me kind of nu skool, but since then I become really interested in old games. Like some of the people say, mapping and stuff makes you more involved in the game. It's something like a middle ground between modern games and pencil and paper or board game stuff I also like, but they demand MUCH MORE time end effort than the old games like Ultima. Also i like the challenging difficulty of old games, it makes you feel that you overcome certain boundaries within you, it's like, i don't know, doing mental push-ups or jogging. You don't get it that much in today's games anymore, okay, there's multiplayer, but I don't do much multiplayer, becouse... it is also, surprise, more time-consuming than playing hard single player old-skool games (mastering the tactics, builds, meta-game...). Look at all the stuff people are doing, MMORPG events, inventing builds, sharing experiences on forums, making fansites, walkthroughs, modding, patching, map-making - makes you feel like people are actually seeking MORE involvement not less.

There are of course modern games I like to play for story reasons (but contrary to some opinions there aren't many games with good story, like planescape torment, most games just aim for "epicness" and nothing more) but it's just a completely different way to play the game. And actually if i'm just following the good-for-a-game-but-generaly-average story then I feel like i'm wasting my time, becouse it's better to watch some movie or read a book.

I also like the atmosphere like i am in a different epoch of technology. This itself is kool.

I'm not interested in the first 3, but at least this means we'll be getting the rest of the series sometime soon.

Would get, but my experience with Might and Magic 1 deters me from games like this.

100% hearty agreement.

That's one of the fantastic things about GOG: fulfilling a kind of unwritten mandate to make gaming history available again. All of these pissy "not my cup of tea/too old" posts around here genuinely bewilder me. I mean, I don't walk into the grocery store and berate the lady at the checkout for selling tofu...

As long as GOG is still turning a profit on these releases, then long live the long tail. Just one new player or someone who's "always wanted that game" but couldn't afford the brutal secondary market makes this all worthwhile.

Yes, seconded. Actually I think every Ultima game before Ultima VI is sort of unplayable, really (and even The False Prophet stretches it). Too far removed from what later games in the first-gen 32-bit windows era could become, and what could be realized in sound/graphic/interface capabilities from the platform ala 90s on. Ultima VII is still another world, however, and holds up beautifully in both looks and immersion for a 20-year-old game, and was basically the defining gaming experience of my childhood.

In my opinion, if GOG weren't going to release the Ultima Colleciton, (they way many here, including myself, clamored for the superior Kilrathi Saga version of Wing Commander) GOG should have released Ultima I-VI together in one package, like they did with the early Might and Magic games on this very site. A few years prior to Ultima Collection, Ultima I-VI were bundled together in another less-known collection, so there's precedent.

Sort of disappointed again in GOG here (after neutered WC 1/2), but I guess they're fixated on the "trilogy" arrangement of these games.

Why only the first three chapters, when there is the Ultima Collection that includes Akalabeth?
Wind of changes on GOG? I'm quite disappointed this time.

Good job GOG!

"Why only the first three chapters"

Eh, this is just the same as the Kings Quest series. NBD at all.

Even though I'll probably never buy these games (I missed out on the original age of PC gaming by about a decade), I appreciate the fact that GOG has them.

For me it's an incomplete.
And King's Quest as well as Space Quest and Police Quest are probably more convenient on Steam.

I do agree they should have bundled the first 6 games - the first three are just superfluous and besides just having them and playing them a little, they're of little actual value today. Ultima V, VI, VII and VIII are a lot more fun - I even enjoyed IX a lot!

I looked at the Ultima 1+2+3 page here on Gog. I just hope everyone has a high-end computer to run those powerful graphics & store all that data...

Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 1.8 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM (1 GB recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), 2GB HDD, Mouse, Keyboard.

...really? Really?? REALLY??!!

DosBox requirements. Those are pretty netbook specs by the way.

However mouse won't help with those games.

Kool. I never played these games but I'm sure a lot of people are happy to see them