Prepare to embark on the final adventure in Ultima--the best selling role-playing saga of all time that has nurtured generations of gamers. Answer the call and return to Britannia for your last epic quest. As the heroic Avatar, only you can save Lord British and his people from the evil Guardian who...
Prepare to embark on the final adventure in Ultima--the best selling role-playing saga of all time that has nurtured generations of gamers. Answer the call and return to Britannia for your last epic quest. As the heroic Avatar, only you can save Lord British and his people from the evil Guardian who has devastated and corrupted the land. Valiant combat, magical prowess, and knowledge of the eight virtues are your weapons against evil in Ultima IX: Ascension.
The ninth installment of the Ultima series takes a leap into a vivid, detailed 3D environment that adds a whole new level of interaction to the exploration of the realm. Britannia was always one of the most life-like, well-developed, king-sized virtual lands, but this new perspective makes the experience of “living” in it much more immersive. The combination of a story of epic proportions, solid mechanics--true to the classic cRPG spirit, and that achingly familiar Ultima setting, Ultima IX: Ascension a memorable title that all role-players should experience for themselves.
Ascend to the realm of myth and legend in the final single-player Ultima game!
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1.19F GOG v2 changelog:
German and French localizations are now included.
DirectX renderer emulation has been added and is now set as the default for better visuals and performance.
New rendering options in DirectX mode, including Windowed Mode, V-Sync, Gamma Correction, Integer Scaling, Anti-Aliasing, and more.
Glide renderer emulation has been updated with new features like Vulkan Backend, Custom Resolutions, Custom Refresh Rates, Integer Rendering, Integer Scaling, and Anti-Aliasing.
Draw distance and default game resolution have both been increased, giving you a broader and crisper view.
Major improvements for lighting and texturing quality.
Maximum framerate increased from 30 FPS all the way to 200 FPS. Enjoy super-smooth gameplay.
The game configurator now saves and loads settings correctly.
The rune and sigil floating bug has been fixed, with no framerate limits needed.
Video playback, vertex clipping, and mouse cursor visibility are all fixed.
Alt+Tab task switching works as it should, so multitasking is a breeze.
Keyboard mapping is now optimized for a more intuitive experience.
Butchery of the Ultima series aside...
The storyline is pretty bad, making little to no sense in a lot of places. The voice acting is laughable at best...
Hit detection is a right pain, menus are annoyingly designed, and even with the patches, it's packed with bugs, making some puzzles almost impossible to complete a lot of the time, scripts have a tendancy to hang for... my record was longer than five minutes just waiting for an NPC to actually talk after interacting (Not graphical lag, literally just standing there, animated, waiting, until the NPC speaks.)
There's a number of other flaws I could list, but they've already been covered.
The good points; the graphics are good, the soundtrack is pretty nice.. for a while anyway, and some of the quests were rather fun.
Not a game I'd recommend if you enjoyed the ultima series, or if you're easily annoyed by repeated crashes, reloads due to gamebreaking bugs, and the suchlike, but if you're looking at a game you can laugh at, this is probably a game for you.
How to ruin an innovative franchise, otherwise great company, reputation of the creator, all in one game
(Note: I am talking about the cd rom release. Some of these faults may have been fixed in the Go release)
Let me just begin by saying I love Ultima. They did so much for rpgs, stories in gaming, gaming in general, and so much more that If I could talk about all of Ultima, I would be writting this all day. There were so many great things about it, memorable characters, deep themes, fun speels, a vast world for you to explore. The Ultima games and some other games by Oigin systems pushed what PCs could do.
Then Ultima 8 happened. Ultima 8 was a very bad game with horrendous controls, dumbed down combat, broken mechanics, plot holes and betrayal to Ultima's formula that it failed baly. Little did we know things would get worse.
Let's get to the positives first. For the most prts, the graphics are beautiful! The backgrounds are amazingly detailed anda good number of enmies look good too. However a lot of character models look bad, look very jointy and look unfinish, similar to John Romero's Daikatana. The music is fine though not as memorable or grand as pevious Ultima games. epecially Ultima 8 whichwas one of th strong points of that game.
Gameplay wise...it's broken. The battling is just clicking the mouse button over and over again, and don't think you can use magic because you can't use it until 2/3s into the game so if you pick a spellcater as your startng class, you're doomed. Also there is a long, frustrating, tedious quest that takes you almost the entire game and what is your reward? 100 gold pieces...the same amount you can get from killing a couple rats in the game.
There are glitches EVERYWHERE!!!! Characters will ranomly start flying, you character will freeze in place, unable to move. The worst though I am not entirely sure if it was in this Gog rerelease though I know it's in the original version. THE GAME CRASHED ALL THE TIME!!!! The game's bugs kill you more than the actual game's enemies.
Storywise....It's a complete betraya to Ultima. The Avataris an idiot, betraying all the virtues, does not know anything about the world whic he has visited over and over again, Plot oles are everywhee within the game itself an all the inconsistincies with therest of the games are unforgivable (The codex of Ultimate Wisdom back on earth, Dupree coming to life, Blackthorn being a villain even though in Serpent Ile he was reveald to have changed his ways, Pyros is alive again after Ultima 8 and there is sooooooooo much more. Those alone make this one of the worst gamesof all time, adding all of the other features I mentioned, along with hte betrayal of the virtues, dreadful voice acting, no partners, NONE OF THE PROBLEMS FROM ULTIMA 8 BEING FIXED, too easy of enemis. Make this, in my humble opinion, the worst game of all time....It's not easy for me to say that considering the competition from games like Big Rigs over the Road Racing, ET or hte Atari, Superman 64, The Sniper 2 and more. But tis true.
Ithink the only reason GOG released this is because they wanted the rest of the series which is not a bad reason though I think people would like to forget about this one.
Its the finale... and it gives the Avatar a great send off.. but technically its flawed.. and a lot of that comes from Electronic Arts being a terrible corporate entity that absorbed popular smaller studios and then churning what they could out of them.. squezzing them dry.. which is on them but also on the owners of Origin for getting into bed with them// but thats like.... 30 years too late.. so enjoy this entry.. its not perfect but it is good.
Ultima IX was the only Ultima game I played, but it left a lasting impression. I played it when I was young, and despite its flaws, I have a lot of fond memories exploring Britannia and getting lost in its world. It's a shame it wasn't better polished — the bugs and performance issues held it back from greatness — but there's still something magical about it. A flawed gem, but a memorable one.
