Posted April 28, 2021
As I mentioned in several other topics, I have played these games practically my entire life (my dad already owned 1-6 on the original floppies, and watching him play 5 quite a bit as a kid got me interested). But I was always bad at them, then again I don't think he ever beat any of them either. Though in the case of 5, he at least made into Doom occasionally, but never made it to the bottom. A few years back, I finally started to beat some of the later ones, then a few days ago I decided to start from the begging, and to my surprise, finally beat 1 and then beat 2 the next day (with more ease than I thought, other than the garbage space mini-game in 1).
My progress as of starting this topic, all of them have been played various amounts of times:
Ultima 1 - Beaten.
Ultima 2 - Beaten.
Ultima 3 - Unbeaten, currently in progress.
Ultima 4 - Unbeaten.
Ultima 5 - Unbeaten.
Ultima 6 - Unbeaten.
Ultima 7 (Black Gate) - Unbeaten.
Ultima 7 (Serpent Isle) - Beaten.
Ultima 8 - Beaten.
Ultima 9 - Unbeaten (should be beaten, but my game crashed and computer died when I was at the start of the Guardian's castle. I hold a grudge against this game that makes it hard to return to, due to a combination of that and issues with the story/gameplay. It actually would have been the first to be beaten, if not for that).
Underworld 1 - Unbeaten
Underword 2 - Unbeaten (as the only spinoff connected to the main story, this will come first if/when I finish the main games up to Black Gate).
Worlds of Ultima 1 - Unbeaten.
Worlds of Ultima 2 - Unbeaten.
My intention is to try to make it through 3-Black Gate and Underworld 2, if I can, then probably the other spin-offs.
1 and 2 were surprisingly quick. I seem to be getting a better start than before at 3 too, but still considerably more grindy. I couldn't do the steal spree I did in 1 and 2 (and of course 3 is the last one before virtue/karma stops that), but I did the next best thing. Creating two sets of three characters to hand gold/food to the returning slayer of Mondain and Minax, then deleting them. Also got lucky to get a boat quickly and grabbed the exotics. Everyone uses the armor, only my cleric is currently using the weapon, everyone else has bows (and two of them will eventually be upgraded to +4 Bows, the returning hero can't do that though, she's following tradition, a thief in all three games).
That's the up to now report. From here on, the idea will just be one topic to confine all my progress/observations too (questions may or may not get separate topics, but I don't expect to have many).
My progress as of starting this topic, all of them have been played various amounts of times:
Ultima 1 - Beaten.
Ultima 2 - Beaten.
Ultima 3 - Unbeaten, currently in progress.
Ultima 4 - Unbeaten.
Ultima 5 - Unbeaten.
Ultima 6 - Unbeaten.
Ultima 7 (Black Gate) - Unbeaten.
Ultima 7 (Serpent Isle) - Beaten.
Ultima 8 - Beaten.
Ultima 9 - Unbeaten (should be beaten, but my game crashed and computer died when I was at the start of the Guardian's castle. I hold a grudge against this game that makes it hard to return to, due to a combination of that and issues with the story/gameplay. It actually would have been the first to be beaten, if not for that).
Underworld 1 - Unbeaten
Underword 2 - Unbeaten (as the only spinoff connected to the main story, this will come first if/when I finish the main games up to Black Gate).
Worlds of Ultima 1 - Unbeaten.
Worlds of Ultima 2 - Unbeaten.
My intention is to try to make it through 3-Black Gate and Underworld 2, if I can, then probably the other spin-offs.
1 and 2 were surprisingly quick. I seem to be getting a better start than before at 3 too, but still considerably more grindy. I couldn't do the steal spree I did in 1 and 2 (and of course 3 is the last one before virtue/karma stops that), but I did the next best thing. Creating two sets of three characters to hand gold/food to the returning slayer of Mondain and Minax, then deleting them. Also got lucky to get a boat quickly and grabbed the exotics. Everyone uses the armor, only my cleric is currently using the weapon, everyone else has bows (and two of them will eventually be upgraded to +4 Bows, the returning hero can't do that though, she's following tradition, a thief in all three games).
That's the up to now report. From here on, the idea will just be one topic to confine all my progress/observations too (questions may or may not get separate topics, but I don't expect to have many).