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Mooooreee! That was your reaction when we released Ultima Underworld 1+2, it was the same when we gave you Ultima 1+2+3 and Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar (for free!). And you guys especially know that all we ever want to do is keep you guys happy, so without further ado, we bring you the Age of Enlightenment games of the fantastic Ultima series!

[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/ultima_4_5_6]Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar is already released and available for free on GOG.com. You can read the description of the game in the previous news post. Why is it included in this game pack? Well, the Ultima series</a> breaks down into three trilogies, and it seemed a shame to break up the lovely symmetry.

Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny picks up on the story of the Avatar, the hero of Britannia. The country’s benevolent monarch is nowhere to be found, and an usurper named Lord Blackthorn has claimed the throne! It’s your duty as the embodiment of the Eight Virtues to make all wrongs right and recover the world of Britannia from the paws of Blackthorn and his three evil Shadowlords! This installation of the Ultima series expands on the world of Ultima 4 in a number of ways: towns are larger, have more unique buildings, and NPC interaction has evolved. With enhanced dialogues, diverse conversation topics, and a diverse array of characters, Ultima V shows that Lord British kept raising the bar for games looking to call themselves an “RPG.” The day and night cycle affects the gameplay. For example you can’t shop at night because the NPC shopkeepers are asleep! Delve into the world of Britannia and save its inhabitants & moral codex!

Ultima 6: The False Prophet starts out with a bang! You, the Avatar, are captured by demons, imprisoned, and ready to be sacrificed on an altar. Like in all those Hollywood movies, in the nick of time your friends from earlier adventures come in guns a-blazing to save you! You learn that those demon-like creatures are gargoyles, a new race that invaded Britannia and have seized the shrines of Virtue. As you venture forth on your next adventure as the Avatar, you try to understand the true motivations of gargoyles. As the embodiment of the Eight Virtues, the Avatar will understand that his mission is to establish peace and make the two races coexist in Britannia peacefully. Ultima 6 is a one of a kind game which, without over imposing it on the player, tells a story of the evil of human prejudice and ignorance. This is where the motto of [url=http://www.gog.com/en/catalogue#all_genres/publisher/Origin Systems/]Origin Systems[/url], “We create worlds”, is best visible and it really steps up to its name!

Play the full “second” trilogy of Ultima 4+5+6! Now available DRM-free on GOG.com for $5.99.

Note: The character import function does not work yet, but we are doing everything we can to find a solution to this problem and we will update the game as soon as we can get it worked out.
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saluk: I think 5+6+7 would have been a better deal. So is 7 going to be on it's own, or 7+8? And then 9 on its own for 10$ right.
Agreed, it would have. Actually, I think the best deal would have been Ultima I-VI released all in one nice $ 5.99 pack which would not have exceeded 40-50 megabytes anyhow. And leave people to try out Ultima IV as freeware on their own devices, since it's been freeware for some time now. GOG doing it seems redundant to me.

Then Ultima VII Pt 1/2 AND Ultima VIII in the next pack, call it the Guardian duopoly, and that one is worth $9.99, easy.

Then pretend Ultima IX never existed. Well, at least I do.

But hey, GOG is doing the classic trilogy approach, and that's fine and dandy. They're good old games, and belong here, so it's still a good release. As for myself, I'm going to go back to playing Ultima VII with my Gold Edition copy and the enhancements offered by those fine people behind Exult, plus the digital music pack. Pure Ultima heaven.
What a great release and great price to match! I have waited for this series for soooo long. I hope Tues brings the rest together as the description reads, "the Ultima series breaks down into three trilogies...." My credit card will be busy this week. Great work GOG!
I hope this means that Ultima 7 is coming soon to GOG!
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MaridAudran: Then Ultima VII Pt 1/2 AND Ultima VIII in the next pack, call it the Guardian duopoly, and that one is worth $9.99, easy.

Then pretend Ultima IX never existed. Well, at least I do.
Ultima IX is better than a lot of the RPGs GoG already has listed on the site. I'd be disappointed if they skipped over it.
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MaridAudran: Then Ultima VII Pt 1/2 AND Ultima VIII in the next pack, call it the Guardian duopoly, and that one is worth $9.99, easy.

Then pretend Ultima IX never existed. Well, at least I do.
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bagelobo: Ultima IX is better than a lot of the RPGs GoG already has listed on the site. I'd be disappointed if they skipped over it.
They won't skip it just because it's bad. They have released a number of bad sequels for the sake of completeness, like Master of Orion 3, Empire Earth 3, MegaRace 3 and Lords of the Realm 3.
Post edited September 08, 2011 by spindown
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MaridAudran: Then Ultima VII Pt 1/2 AND Ultima VIII in the next pack, call it the Guardian duopoly, and that one is worth $9.99, easy.

Then pretend Ultima IX never existed. Well, at least I do.
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bagelobo: Ultima IX is better than a lot of the RPGs GoG already has listed on the site. I'd be disappointed if they skipped over it.
Which ones are they?
I'd purchase them for you, but I'm unfortunately tight on money myself right now. :(

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quakeaddict: YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I waited MONTHS for Ultima. Now it's here. :D:D:D:D:D:D

PLEASE release the rest in a pack on Tuesday. :D:D:D:D:D

GOG, you literally just made my day.
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Ash360: I've been waiting a while for these myself.
It will be a grand day when I get the money in which to buy them :D
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bagelobo: Ultima IX is better than a lot of the RPGs GoG already has listed on the site. I'd be disappointed if they skipped over it.
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DeathStrike: Which ones are they?
That's what I'd like to know too. Sure, there are some pretty bad RPGs in the GOG catalog (Lionheart comes to mind, as do the Ishar games), but considering the horror stories I've heard about Ultima IX and how it was blatantly unfinished and left a bad taste in everyone's mouth, I don't think I'd pay money (or at least full price) for it. The only way they can ever expect that game to make any money whatsoever outside of irony or curiosity purchases is to bundle it with Ultima VIII, which is apparently not awful, assuming that both parts of Ultima VII are bundled together, which they pretty much have to be.
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lukaszthegreat: how come screens are not longer marked from which game they come from?
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cnquist: I miss this too.
I'm going to guess that the screenshots with a single row of text in the middle/right of the screen is Ultima 4, e.g.

F:0321 x G:2817

and that Ultima 5 was "upgraded" to have TWO rows of text in the middle/right, like this...

F:60 G:150
4-5-139

And the most colorful ones with the "yellow parchment" background are all Ultima 6 (the only game of this batch I've actually played).

Or someone correct me if I got the first two backwards!
Kool but still waiting for WC 3&4...
Nice, although I'm going to wait on this one. GOG have implied that 7+8+9 make a nice trilogy, but I suspect that they'll either be offering that one for $9.99 if they do offer it in that form.

I found $5.99 to be obnoxiously overpriced for the first bundle, but for this trilogy it's just about right. Should my supposition be correct, and they do offer 7+8+9 for $9.99, then $22 for the whole lot seems a fair enough deal and it'll be an instabuy for me.
ULTIMA 6 - DAMN! I cried out of joy, my childhood friend is back. And I totally forgot I was in my office (people giving me fishy looks now).

<3 GOG.

Will buy as soon as I get home. Weekend SAVED. :D
waiting for Wing Commander 3, 4 ,5
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cnquist: I miss this too.
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tritone: I'm going to guess that the screenshots with a single row of text in the middle/right of the screen is Ultima 4, e.g.

F:0321 x G:2817

and that Ultima 5 was "upgraded" to have TWO rows of text in the middle/right, like this...

F:60 G:150
4-5-139

And the most colorful ones with the "yellow parchment" background are all Ultima 6 (the only game of this batch I've actually played).

Or someone correct me if I got the first two backwards!
You're correct, U5 included date/time tracking.
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MaridAudran: Then Ultima VII Pt 1/2 AND Ultima VIII in the next pack, call it the Guardian duopoly, and that one is worth $9.99, easy.
Just hope that GOG can convince EA to allow them to release games with their expansions by then...