Ultima™ IV: Quest of the Avatar

I love how another reviewer so aptly referred to this game as 'the beginning.' I was 8 years old when I first played Ultima IV and it was definitely the game that made me fall in love with the adventure genre. I found the free download here on Gog a couple days ago and have been playing it ever since! It's amazing how much of the game I remember 25 years later. I've also had little flashbacks of my childhood as I've worked my way through the game. Mainly remembering the horrible sounds my floppy disk drive made as I was manually saving my games to it. Thank you so much for offering this game for free. It has been so much fun to play again.

A game that attempts to make RPG more about playing a role and less about hack and slashing, making you grow spiritualy with it's (picked randomly out of all the smart wisements) chosen set of virtues to abide to, replacing the grand quest of fighting against villian with a grand fetch quest of wisdom words and uhs. Pretty much the first real Ultima game, which throws away the shaky canon of previous games. Ok, there is still some of it but it's merely a nightmare. Overall, I like how you improve you virtues and avatarhood through the way you interact with the world. Really like town exploration and keyword-based conversations are also great , especially for it's time. NPCs speak very short lines but those lines are punctual and have obvious keywords, thus it avoids the feeling of artificiality of having too many words that NPCs won't recognise. But then despite all the post-modernism (compared to hack'n'slashing of a day) it's still 80s RPG so that means grinding, exploring huge empty maps, encounters everywhere, clumpy controls that suck joy out, basic combat, lack of artistic pleasures for your ears and eyes, yada-yada-ya-da-da. Thus reading about game system is still a better use of one's time and energy than putting dozens of hours into actually trying to beat it. Just play to the point where you get a vision out of any shrine, that ought to be enough of a game feel sample. Verdict: while hidden genocide of fuzzies from Ultima 3 is an unforgivable sin which proves that Ultima's avatarhood was always a mistake, the skeleton NPCs inclusion does rustle my funny bones. Ask them about their health.

I remember playing this game on the original nintendo. The game I feel influenced most modern day games. It was a very open game with consequences for your actions. Spells felt more real with components. I really wish there was a more Modern version of Ultima,(any game). The series was fun and was what gaming used to be, fun.

Absolutely one of the most rilevant RPGs ever made. Maybe Ultima 5 is better but this one is still a funny game with very good dialogues. There are too many encounters with enemies and sometimes its frustrating but I like it. I suggest to install the Upgrade Patch.

Собственно да... Алтима 4 пойдет на любой пк (даже на калькулятор советских времен) хотя чего вы ожидали от игры 85 года? графика: пикселиииииии сюжет: что такое сюжет? я английского не знаю шутки: нееее... я кончился диалоги: норм развязка: Мондейн, Минакс и их дьявольское порождение Эксодус повержены в прах. В Британии воцарился мир. Однако зло все еще живо в темных чащобах... и в сердцах людей. Новой эпохе нужен новый герой, который силой магии и стали победит зло во всех его проявлениях. Земли Британии нужно очистить от демонов, драконов и давным-давно почивших чародеев. На пути Аватара подстерегают смешанные банды разнообразных противников. Чтобы выжить в столкновениях с ними, нужно грамотно использовать оружие и преимущества ландшафта. Помните: победы над численно превосходящим оппонентом всего лишь готовят почву для главного столкновения: с собственной натурой итог: почти 9/10 качайте... не пожалеете