Ultima™ 8 Gold Edition

I played Ultima Viii Pagan hundreds of times, beginning probably in November 1994. I think this game is highly underrated, and very unfairly so. As a matter of fact, the version that came to be known as Gold Edition is a patch that made lots of things much easier to the player, and, IMO, this made the game rather bad. Jumping on moving platforms became super easy, the Wisdom Trial became rather easy, and so on. The first version seems to be nowhere to be found, almost like the Lost Vale data. Fortunately, I still have a copy of the first version. One of these days, I will go in this world one more time, to remember the old days. By the way, I still have material from those times on me website, in a page entitled Pagan The Beautiful. Best Wishes to all, Julio Siqueira

This game is awsome. I played when i was 12yo. But in this adaptation, i found some bugs that were unsolved and makes to you impossible to finish the game.

This game will always hold a place in my heart as one of the best, most innovative games of all time. I played it so much as a kid, and it still holds up.

Thanks to EA who ruined many fine game series after buying Origin, Maxis, Bullfrog, Westwood Studios, etc. this game has been released to early with very limited content (compared to Ultima 7). EA wanted to release things quick and sell addon content instead of a whole game. So Ultima was not the only series which got killed by EA. I liked to play it anyway since it was my first Ultima. I'm playing computer games since 1987 but I never heared of Ultima until I had seen it on a friend's computer. I liked it so much that I bought it myself and soon wanted to play Ultima 7 as well which quickly became my favorite RPG and still is. Maybe I liked Ultima 8 because I didn't compare it to Ultima 7? I have bought it on gog but I still have the original game and speech pack on diskettes. I still would like to play "The lost vale" or any fan made additional content to that game. Sadly not seen any yet.

Ok this game is not as good as everyone remembers, it is terrible, the rpg elements are broken (its absurdly easy to max your stats) the story is.. Okay i guess but a stark contrast to other ultima games, it navigates poorly, it has JUMPING PUZZLES in a poor controlling environment, it has broken quests and incomplete dialogue. I must admit I never played Ultima 9 but 8. is terrible. Yet I enjoyed it when I was younger, but looking back, Ultima 7 is a far superior game.