Ultima™ 7 The Complete Edition

I loved the Ultima series up to 5. I didn't care for 6 so when 7 first came out, I didn't even bother with it. I saw Part 2, Serpent Isle in the store one day at a low price so I thought I'd give it a try. I was glad I did. I quickly became my favorite. It was the first game I can remember that not only had a day/night cycle but people actually followed them. You could find them eating breakfast at inn, going to work, walking in the park, etc. Not to mention that pretty much anything can be moved, pushed, manipulated in some way. Bake bread, change a baby, act in a play, almost anything. I have the Ultima Collection containing 1-8 and play 7 using Exult. I don't know if that's what Gog is using but it's great to have this game here. Even though I already have it, I will buy it from Gog to show my support for this awesome site.

This is my number one game of all time. From all the hidden content to the feelings of satisfaction when you finish the game, this is the pinnacle of game design. Now if Lord British would give me back my 80 bucks I spent on Ultima IX...

How this game changed how I saw gaming. I still to this day, compare all RPGs To This one. This game was a Masterpiece and anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves. I have played through this game three separate times with almost five years in between and I still love it as much as the first.

Kudos to GOG for finally picking up U7. Quite possibly one of the greatest games ever made if only because you can break it in so many ways and not a single person who played the game ever really complained about it. That's how immersive this truly open-world game was. I'm not sure if the GOG version is compatible with Exult, but anyone wishing for an up-to-date experience might want to check out the Exult project which is an ongoing emulator to run U7 on modern systems. That being said, the DOSBox version works just fine as well.

As a devoted Commodore and Amiga Puritan since the dawn of those legends I must bow my head and confess that this game alone is the reason I spent close to 2000 GBP on a IBM Ambra 486DX running at 33Mhz back in '93/'94. Since Ultima VI was the last of the line to be released on the Amiga (as revealed in a sad and sorrowful piece of text I read in a copy of CU Amiga many moons ago) I knew I had to make the shift to the nasty soulless PC compatible (shudder). For this game is one full of character and depth, freedom and adventure - that must be played and savoured.. for all good things must come to an end. Possibly the best of its kind.