Ultima™ 7 The Complete Edition

Black Gate will open DOS box then immediately close. Serpent Isle will play the intro movie then close. Waste of money

I loved Ultima 7 when I was a kid, but this second part didn´t age well. My reasons to be unsatisfied with the game: - It´s full of bugs. I recommend you to mod it with fixes and play it mostly with Exult engine. - Some items vanish if you just move them from point A to point B. Load back again. - The management of the keys is bonker. Loose one and you can be literally done. - You could find a rich story across The Black Gate. Here all the people want to screw you and they don´t do anything else but being there awaiting for you to interact with them, with exceptions, - Take notes everytime if you don´t want to use an -usually flawed- online walkthrough. A hint can be useful three or four hours of game later and, of course, it´s more likely that you have already forgotten the details or the whole conversation, because there are no contextual hints that anchor elements or missions to conversations. - Some puzzles make no sense. How to find he gwanies, for example. When you get there, find about what you need to do and you´ll realize that is very difficult to explain that. - The end of the game is solving one random puzzle after the other. They don´t add nothing to the lore, the story, the theme. They are just there to prevent you to get to the end. - There is a very trascendent moment that affects one of your beloved companion and the way everything is done is absolutely absurd. Anticlimatic. - The Silver seed expansion is pointless. What adds to the game? Weapons? Style? Armor? Stories? - The magic system is unnecessary. You literally only need 6 spells. It requires too much effort for that bland flavor. - The last quarter of the game is repetitive and boring. Unbearable. - The ending is also random, incomplete. You feel that the more important characters of events that have been prepared since the beginning of the story -or almost- are not there, won´t be there, and feel like mostly decorative. I am happy of finishing this.

Okay, well, the system requirements for this are for both 32 and 64 bit OS's according to GOG, but when I try to run it on my Vista 64 bit, I get an error message stating that it can't run the program because it is not 64 bit compatible. What gives?

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This game started out good. I thought the game had decent graphics. Nice day and night effects. Even had more of an "cheery" RPG feeling than Ultima 8. However after completing the first town and exploring "Britain". (Interestingly the name of the second town) I had no idea what to do. While the first town seemed to have borders or "walls". The next series of towns including Britain are conjunctioned by wagon trails. Wagon Trails? It might be a small gripe but after this you seem to have no additional quests. The map you are given has no bearings. No GPS type pointer, etc. That is fine but if you are going to do that at least make it somewhat like the pathways in Ultima 8. All in all small gripes. However when I play a series of RPG's as renowned as Ultima I expect a little more refinement.