Ultima™ 7 The Complete Edition

with all the high review praising this game, I finally decided to buy it. what a disappointment, it's a pile of garbage that didn't age well. you have a huge world that allows you to travel anywhere as soon as the game starts, but what's the point? too much freedom kills the excitement and completing quests isn't rewarding for the amount of time you waste. you have to constantly feed your party and carry a load of food in your inventory. to check your inventory or character stats, you have to go through a tedious process of double clicking on each character and double clicking on their backpack or heart symbol. then to close the menus, you have to click on the checkmark icon. what a mess. the dialogue system sucks along with an exotic font that's hard to make out, it's so annoying you'll quickly lose all interest in talking to anymore NPS's. I won't even go into the battle system. how does this game get such praise? I quickly lost all motivation to continue playing.

I am sorry but I cannot play a game with such bad graphics. I played Baldurs Gate 2 and though the graphics were outdated they were perfectly playable, the same cannot be said for U 7, at times it is difficult to tell a person from a post everything is so pixelated. i am not a graphics whore by any stretch but this game gave me a headace.

I loved Ultima 7 when I was a kid, but this second part didn´t age well. My reasons to be unsatisfied with the game: - It´s full of bugs. I recommend you to mod it with fixes and play it mostly with Exult engine. - Some items vanish if you just move them from point A to point B. Load back again. - The management of the keys is bonker. Loose one and you can be literally done. - You could find a rich story across The Black Gate. Here all the people want to screw you and they don´t do anything else but being there awaiting for you to interact with them, with exceptions, - Take notes everytime if you don´t want to use an -usually flawed- online walkthrough. A hint can be useful three or four hours of game later and, of course, it´s more likely that you have already forgotten the details or the whole conversation, because there are no contextual hints that anchor elements or missions to conversations. - Some puzzles make no sense. How to find he gwanies, for example. When you get there, find about what you need to do and you´ll realize that is very difficult to explain that. - The end of the game is solving one random puzzle after the other. They don´t add nothing to the lore, the story, the theme. They are just there to prevent you to get to the end. - There is a very trascendent moment that affects one of your beloved companion and the way everything is done is absolutely absurd. Anticlimatic. - The Silver seed expansion is pointless. What adds to the game? Weapons? Style? Armor? Stories? - The magic system is unnecessary. You literally only need 6 spells. It requires too much effort for that bland flavor. - The last quarter of the game is repetitive and boring. Unbearable. - The ending is also random, incomplete. You feel that the more important characters of events that have been prepared since the beginning of the story -or almost- are not there, won´t be there, and feel like mostly decorative. I am happy of finishing this.

Black Gate will open DOS box then immediately close. Serpent Isle will play the intro movie then close. Waste of money

Okay, well, the system requirements for this are for both 32 and 64 bit OS's according to GOG, but when I try to run it on my Vista 64 bit, I get an error message stating that it can't run the program because it is not 64 bit compatible. What gives?