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Posted August 30, 2011
Today we present you with an epic package for all of those who miss Sosaria. After showing you the grandfather of all space-sims (Wing Commander 1+2), we will now introduce you to The Most Fascinating Interactive Adventure of All Time!

Ultima 1: The First Age of Darkness requires you to battle the Dark Wizard Mondain and his minions who seek the destruction of Sosaria. You must face the evil master and his creatures, and make him retreat to his evil lair where you will ultimately destroy him and save the kingdoms of Sosaria!
Ultima 2: Revenge of the Enchantress picks up on the story of the first installment in the series. Minax, an apprentice of Mondain reigns terror and destruction on the land of Sosaria. Blinded by her fury, she has torn the fabric of time and space which resulted in portals opening through the kingdoms. It's your duty to stop her and undo her evil deeds!
Ultima 3: Exodus let’s you travel throughout Sosaria with a group of adventurers rather than on your own. It also features large, detailed locations with many characters to talk to. Discover the famous Yew city and travel through moon-gates to face the spiritual child of Mondain and Minax. Defeat the titular Exodus and save the kingdoms of Sosaria once again.

The wait is finally over, the original Ultima series has finally landed on GOG.com, it’s up for grabs for only $5.99 for the whole trilogy.
Posted August 30, 2011
Just tested the Ultima Trilogy and they seem to work fine, but Ultima 1 & 2 seem to have a problem with the left edge of the game being slightly cut off (first letters missing out of each line of text), as if someone moved the game image a little too far to the left. Is there a resolution setting or image adjust in DOSbox to fix this or was this in the original release? Playing on a widescreen monitor (16:10 I think) by the way.
Post edited August 30, 2011 by haydenaurion
Posted August 30, 2011
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Detlik: So if I dont mind the graphics and I never played it before, should I buy it sometime?
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Khalaq: Since I care more about playability than eye-candy, I still enjoy them. I still enjoy Hack, for that matter. I feel sorry for those who pass up a game because it doesn't have pretty, 3-D graphics. Those people are really missing out.
It's not just the graphics - actually I could live with the overland graphics (probably not with those fake 3-D dungeon stickmen graphics though) - but I heard additionally to the dated graphics there isn't much story in it and they're mostly hack and slash. I assume they're not bad games and I can imagine they're also fun to play for a while, but there are so much more attractive and rewarding games to spend your time on nowadays, offering both better graphics and story and probably even better gameplay. If I had already finished ALL of them and was bored to death, I'd probably buy U1-3, too. But I doubt that will ever happen ... Of course, in the end it all comes down to personal preferences.
Posted August 30, 2011
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deadfolk: guess or known fact
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Fujek: Decide for ourself: http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/08/26/ultima-series-and-populous-come-to-gog/ (courtesy of TheJoe, see forum thread)
Since they've be right with the U 1-3 on Tuesday prediction, personally I think that the're going to be right on the follow up as well.
Aah, thanks - hadn't come across that.
Posted August 30, 2011
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tomimt: I think the whole Ultima collection with 9.99 would have been more fairer offer.
Ultima Collection (Ultima 0-8) and Ultima Dragon Edition (Ultima 0 - 9) seem to sell used so dearly (I saw the asking price for Dragon Edition closer to 70€ used!) that I'd think a better price point could be something like:

- Ultima 0-8 collection: $9.90 (if they wanted to break this down furthers, then maybe 0-6 = $5.90, and Ultima 7 complete + Ultima 8 $5.90 each... or maybe together)

- Ultima 9: $9.90

I really hope U7 will have all the different parts and expansions together (was it four together?), otherwise it would feel severely incomplete for me...
Post edited August 30, 2011 by timppu
Posted August 30, 2011
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Detlik: So if I dont mind the graphics and I never played it before, should I buy it sometime?
If you never played an Ultima game, you should wait for Ultima VII and Ultima VIII.
Then you could play VII, and IV :-)
Posted August 30, 2011
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Khalaq: Since I care more about playability than eye-candy, I still enjoy them. I still enjoy Hack, for that matter. I feel sorry for those who pass up a game because it doesn't have pretty, 3-D graphics. Those people are really missing out.
To me it is not eye-candy (for example, I've started replaying ADOM (a hack clone) recently), but I do feel the user-interface and playability of early Ultimas may be suspect today. I seem to recall having to draw maps and write a lot of notes to paper with early Ultima games, which I nowadays do find detracting from enjoying the games. Not to mention that IIRC these early Ultimas didn't really have any meaningful story, for which the later Ultimas became known.

But, if someone is interested to see some grand-daddies of computer (and console) RPGs, go ahead.
Post edited August 30, 2011 by timppu
Posted August 30, 2011
Very WELL done :-P
Posted August 30, 2011
Pfft, why should I play this when I have Dungeons of Dredmor!
Posted August 30, 2011
Uhm... on the fifth screenshot, where it says "Thou hast landed safely"... is that a space shuttle underneath the character? Seems kinda odd in a land filled with knights and sorcery.
Posted August 30, 2011
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timppu: To me it is not eye-candy (for example, I've started replaying ADOM (a hack clone) recently), but I do feel the user-interface and playability of early Ultimas may be suspect today. I seem to recall having to draw maps and write a lot of notes to paper with early Ultima games, which I nowadays do find detracting from enjoying the games. Not to mention that IIRC these early Ultimas didn't really have any meaningful story, for which the later Ultimas became known.

But, if someone is interested to see some grand-daddies of computer (and console) RPGs, go ahead.
I think you've pointed out a big difference between us "old skool gamers" and the newer generations. The Old Skool crowd were willing to map the entire game world by hand, copy down every note and clue, and figure it all out in our own heads. The new kids on the block just look up the cheat codes and/or answers on Google because they "can't be bothered."

Yes, these games can be more demanding on your brain, but if your brain can handle the workload, there is much to be gained, here.


-Khalaq
Posted August 30, 2011
Another fairly dissapointing EA release. I expected to see Akalabeth (Ultima 0), IV & V in the first release (Though I am given to understand that Ultima IV will shortly be a free game here). Personally, I could never get into Ultima's 1-3, though Ultima IV sucked up the occasional month of my life.

... Maybe in a few months (Christmas?) if there is an Ultima promo I'll pick these up. Till then though, I'll keep glaring at me copy of the Ultima Collection.
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El_Caz: Uhm... on the fifth screenshot, where it says "Thou hast landed safely"... is that a space shuttle underneath the character? Seems kinda odd in a land filled with knights and sorcery.
Ultima 2 has a lot of time/space travel. Its a touch weird.
Post edited August 30, 2011 by Gonadius
Posted August 30, 2011
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El_Caz: Uhm... on the fifth screenshot, where it says "Thou hast landed safely"... is that a space shuttle underneath the character? Seems kinda odd in a land filled with knights and sorcery.
Ultima 2 involves time travel. Don't ask me why.
I would have to say this is kinda weak. Seems an effort by GoG to fill out more spaces of their EA collection by releasing the Ultima series in their trilogy form rather than the collection which has been available as one package for awhile.
Post edited August 30, 2011 by mykpfsu
Posted August 30, 2011
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Khalaq: I think you've pointed out a big difference between us "old skool gamers" and the newer generations. The Old Skool crowd were willing to map the entire game world by hand, copy down every note and clue, and figure it all out in our own heads. The new kids on the block just look up the cheat codes and/or answers on Google because they "can't be bothered."

Yes, these games can be more demanding on your brain, but if your brain can handle the workload, there is much to be gained, here.
The difference is 'we' Old Skool crowd didn't have any other choice most of the time. I bet if we'd been offered an automap function, only the most hardcore gamers who actually enjoyed drawing maps would have resisted. Either drawing maps and writing your own journals is fun for you or not; it doesn't make anyone smarter, it just costs you more time and effort. Like I said, I think it's more a matter of personal preferences than superior intelligence or something.
Posted August 30, 2011
The Ultima III map is upside down in the bonus downloads.
Posted August 30, 2011
At long last I finally get to play the original computer versions of the Ultima series as opposed to the Nintendo and Super Nintendo ports I played growing up. I've been waiting for this since finding out about and joining GOG. I'm quite happy and hopefully the rest of the Ultima series will make their way here too.
Post edited August 30, 2011 by haydenaurion
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