Ultima™ 7 The Complete Edition

this series is great, except for the first 5 games. but 6,7,8 are excellent. I played this game when i was a kid a long time ago, and to be honest its one of the games that got me into rpg's in the first place. I remember i used to totally ignore the main plot and just spend time making bread and selling it, then probably sleeping in the local inn come nightfall. like i was living a virtual life or something. great fun.

I have been dying to play this for aaaaages. When this hit the PC, i had an Amiga and have been aching to play it since. Both 7 games for 6 bucks!?!? <3 <3 <3 Ultima 4-6 Excellent job GOG. This is your job description in a single game. :)

to a well earned monument Ultima VII is the best Ultima and one of the greatest CRPGs ever made in term of world design and immersion. If it has any fault it is in terms of the combat (can be messy, unrewarding, either too hard or too easy), the stats are there but mostly for show. But the wealth of (strange/magic/funny) loot, exploration, meaningful places, memorable NPCs, gruesome murders, suicides, trials, xenocides, madness, evilness, wittty demons, reproachful companions full of life (of their own),... stories and memories! far make up for it. Thank you GoG, thank you Origin of Old, Lord British. All hail Britannia! (Oh and if you go to Serpent Isle, I think I lost a blink ring somewhere...)

The most amazing thing about Ultima VII isn't the open-world gameplay. It's the fact that despite combat being a complete mess, inventory management a nightmare, and spell-casting being opaque and cumbersome, the sheer level of immersion and quality of the world makes this a viable contender for greatest CRPG of all time.

Note that I haven't bought this off GOG, because I still own the original. So if there are any compatibility issues with GOG's version, I'm not aware of them. It's almost impossible to overstate how jaw-droppingly amazing this game was when it came out. The sheer depth of the simplest things - dialog, the paperdoll, crafting - defies description for a game from 1992. But at the same time the world is small and detailed enough that all of the characters matter. Combat is a weak point but frankly it hardly matters. Eventually you'll just treat combat as a little chore to continue exploration.