Ultima™ 8 Gold Edition

Ultima 8: Pagan is one of the first games I ever played, so my review may be a bit nostalgice, but it instilled in me a love for the rpg genre. -The game has little to no tutorial and no Journal/Quest log (Beyond the notes you take yourself) which makes for a lot more engaging as you have to remember or take notes of the story and what you are currently pursuing/looking into. - There is a colourful world to explore, npcs have schedules of a sort and there are many things to discover if you look beyond the beaten path. -The mechanics of stat advancement, movement and combat were pretty groundbreaking for the time and I still find them endearing

Electronic Arts is quite talented at ruining good franchises and studios. This is the shining example. The game was created in under 8 months and it really fucking shows, quests, maps, conversations, romance subplot among many others are incomplete. Easily exploitable leveling system, retarded combat with less actual tactics and difficulty than Diablo 3. The technical issues were back in the day piling up on one another. Patching that made the instant-deathlakes platforming needless busywork( and they are a core focus of the game) Needlessly complicated and convoluted magic system with so much busy work it hurts. The promising setup is ruined by pilling up technical issues, bossfights reduced to clicking them ONCE with an item from the inventory, 90% of your enemies are zombies and ghost. Same percentage exemplifies the amount of dark gray monochrome caves you will be dealing with. Not to mention playing this game essentially pointless since it's ending is retconned right at the 90 seconds mark into Ultima IX, the most insultingly bad game I ever played in my fucking life. With this game the technical issues could be fixed, Ultima IX had a really big problem because it's case was the complete betrayal of a fucking storyline...But I think everyone if a sliver of taste knows that. Anyone who tells you this game is actually worth a wet fart (Especially given the masterpiece that was it's predecessor) is outright fucking lying to you or has the worst taste imaginable...Given the fact theese are probably the same people who call Modern Warfare revolutionary and tune in every year into the Madden franchise... Don't buy. Don't play. Don't buy it's follow-up, don't play it's follow-up. FUCK YOU EA YOU KILLED ULTIMA FUCK YOU

I give up, Britannia can burn. I tried playing it and it crashed so many times that I lost count. And I played Ultima 8 back when I was a kid with the insane platforming. This version though, broke me. Beggars are tortured invisibly and all I can see are their dialogue floating in the air. NPCs walk off into the distance when I engage them in conversation. Hold still so I can choose my reply - AGHHH! The last straw was when the save game got corrupted and it crashes when I launch the file. Yes Guardian, I am lamenting. You win, just let it all burn.

I know, I know... this game is broken, unfinished and buggy as hell. this was one of the first games on my own PC back in the days, and every time I hear the voice of the Guardian, the MIDI music of the intro or Tenebrae, I'm instantly back in 1994... I love the walking-running around the wilderness, finding the paths in the caves, chopping down the zombies, and learning the different ways of the magic schools. this game holds great sentimental value for me, and I can give it a go once in a while.

When I first got to play the game i had some fun with it. I won't lie, I actually liked that it played faster then previous games. But, soon after that holes and bugs and all other crap started creeping in the game. Jumping had me raging worse then Rick Dangerous and quest lines that i got invested in and then realized that they just cuted them off without even a stupid rushed end almost reduced me to tears. All in all, Ultima games always had their problems but this one killed the series for me. After this i barely touched Ultima XI before abandoning it. EA, why are you ruining everything that is good?