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.
... and don't play this game. If you love - or even just 'like'! - the Ultima series, don't ruin it forever by 'playing' this trainwreck of a 'game'.
Other reviewers have said that the graphics were impressive for the time, and they were (they look like hell now) but that's doesn't make up for the fact that the game is completely asinine and a rotten waste of time.
$6 is too much for this. Seriously. Take the six bucks and BUY ANYTHING ELSE. Literally. Buy a beer. Go to McDonald's and have a Big Mac. Buy any other Ultima game.
Just not this one.
Please.
Where to being with Ultima IX? The problems with the game, from its glitchyness to its disregard of the Ultima history are well documented. The community patch and dialogue patch fix a lot of things, but fundamentally the game still doesn't really 'feel' like an Ultima. The world still feels empty, a haunting image of the Britannia we left at the end of the Black Gate.
Some say that if it wasn't an Ultima, it'd be considered a good, even great game (technical problems aside). I don't know about that.
So why play it? Well for one thing, to this day I have never seen sky rendered so beautifully. The sunsets are GORGEOUS. Certain parts of the country side still look amazing, despite the relatively primitive polygons used.
And finally closure. You've journeyed as the Avatar for up to 13 previous games (depending on your view of the canon!). How does it end? I will say that the ending wasn't satisfying to me, but in the end I was glad to have finished it and the series.
I got this game hot off the presses back when it was first released... and it's the reason why, although I have Ultimas I-VII here on gog.com, I do not intend to buy it ever again.
Electronic Arts is responsible for the death and desecration of many once-great development houses (Bullfrog, anyone?) and Origin was not spared this fate. Already the taint could be felt in Ultima VIII, but it was Ultima IX that received the full love of Electronic Arts' kiss of the spider woman.
The game is disrespectful to canon established in all of the previous Ultima games, is chock-full of plotholes and many familiar faces that return are grossly out-of-character. The story makes little sense and it was obviously hurried out the door.
What Electronic Arts did to the Ultima franchise is not unlike what Achilles did with Hector's corpse in the Trojan war. Stay away from this albatross and go back to playing Ultima VII.
Ultima 9 is an awesome game that stands up to the series; when it first came out it was buggy, but the artwork and voice acting is phenomenal. This was (I believe) the first fully 3d version of the Ultima series; and though it received a fair share of mixed reviews, you'd be crazy to pass up a chance to play the final chapter of the Avatar and his journeys. Ignore the lower ratings; this game may not meet "AAA" standards you may expect, but it's a "AAA" title in my book!
