Ultima™ 7 The Complete Edition

Words can't describe how amazing this 1992 RPG game is. Developed by Richard Garriott's Origin, this jewel is the absolute masterpiece of video game role playing games. As a kid and as an adult, I've spent countless hours exploring Britannia and The Serpent Isle (my favourite, and my most nostalgic memories), their inhabitants, monsters, treasures, and hidden locations and enchanted places. At the time there was nothing in the market like this game that combined so many technical feats: amazing NPC AI, day and night cycles, seamless open world (including caves and dungeons! absolutely no pause or loading screens), state of the art inventory system with paperdolls where you could see how the items, armor and weapons looked when you wore them, tons of spells, crafting system, interaction with the world, amazing plot, storytelling and engaging npcs, and a million more things. I don't know if it's just plain crazy nostalgia, but honestly nothing ever came close to Ultima VII and The Serpent Isle ever after.

Arguably the best RPG of all time, certainly one of the best games period. The ending still gives me chills.

I won't say much as others have already commented on what makes this game great. I will just say that there are still some bugs and issues that cause the game to hang. In addition there are some quality of life things from Serpent Isle that aren't implemented in Black Gate. If you've already bought and paid for the game then you'd do well to look for Exult, which patches up Black Gate a fair deal (improvements include a hotkey for the spellbook, a hotkey for 'feed', I believe a hotkey for using every key you have, etc.) Don't mean to cast aspersions on GoG. This is still an excellent game and a release that surpasses the original.

This is my favorite RPG. Well I suppose it's my favorite game of all time. I played the two parts with expansions a number of times since the 90s and I will probably play it again. There is a frontend for the game called Exult that fixes bugs, graphics, gameplay and other nuances. I recommend the game but not without the Exult engine. Writing about it is making me want to install this on the media system to see how it fares.

Daddy!