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[vxicepickxv]

Ultima 5 is the best, but 4 was pretty damn groundbreaking for its time. And there STILL hasn't been another game with as deep a morality system.

I'm pretty sure your hand slipped with a 5 instead of a 6.

I actually have a copy of the the Ultima collection on CD, but I can't install it anymore as I can't figure out which program I have to uninstall to install the games.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

YOUR OPINION IS WRONG!

Your opinion can never be wrong, misguided or misinformed but never wrong because your opinion is your opinion.

 

[Fusioncode9]

YOUR OPINION IS WRONG!

Your opinion can never be wrong, misguided or misinformed but never wrong because your opinion is your opinion.

I'm guessing you missed the obvious sarcasm.

 

[Callate]

I really enjoyed Ultima IV on the Commodore 64 way-back-when, but it's hard for me to imagine playing a game like that now, especially if it's the 1985 version (which on the PC would mean that it was either dead silent or used the *cough* limited sounds available to the PC's internal speaker... Sound cards didn't really start coming into their own until about 1990.)

I don't mean to dissuade anyone; it really was a milestone of a game. Just be prepared, between the interface, the graphics, and the sound (or lack thereof) for a kind of culture shock.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

YOUR OPINION IS WRONG!

Your opinion can never be wrong, misguided or misinformed but never wrong because your opinion is your opinion.

I'm guessing you missed the obvious sarcasm.

Doh...sorry! I've been on a serious thread all day and am feeling all defensive from the insults and idiocy i've seen. Starting to remember why i dont do conversations with people i can't grab hold of and punch lol. People tend to be less aggressive in person

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

Ultima 5 is the best, but 4 was pretty damn groundbreaking for its time. And there STILL hasn't been another game with as deep a morality system.

I'm pretty sure your hand slipped with a 5 instead of a 6.

I actually have a copy of the the Ultima collection on CD, but I can't install it anymore as I can't figure out which program I have to uninstall to install the games.

6 was a better game mechanically but it didn't have anywhere near as compelling a story as 5. The gargoyles as misundersood aliens just weren't as interesting as Blackthorn or the Shadowlords. The Shadowlords actually were scary and the effects they had on townspeople was something unique. The fact that they showed up but you couldn't possibly beat them gave them the "darth vader" aura of menace that made you dread the pc speaker whine when they were in a town.

6 was groundbreaking in the lack of "loading" between towns and wilderness, the contiguous world was truly a feat for the technology of the time. Also I'm pretty sure it was the first example of controllable party AI that games followed for years to come along with the real-time/pause combat system that defined 7 and was perfected in the infinity engine for baldurs gate the rest of that generation.

So I agree that 6 was a very important game but it wasn't anywhere near as tight as 5.

 

[Yvl9921]

Well played, Mr. Tito. I thought nothing you said could ever make up for your praise of WoW 3.2, but you just did.

 

[tcurt]

This game was not restricted to the Apple II...I had the PC version on floppy (the big floppies). Then there's the Nintendo version. Anyways, this is not the first time PC gamers had legal access to Ultima IV.

Very true. I think Origin (the other one) or EA released the boxed set some years back containing all the DOS versions of Ultima together. I should know. It's around here somewhere. It didn't contain the FPS versions, that came repackaged seperately and is also on a shelf around here.

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

I have a Mac so I can't play

 

[LilithSlave]

Well, I am generally of the opinion that old RPGs are better than newer ones.

 

[Icehearted]

Awesome game. Picked it up a while ago. Brilliant idea (virtues mechanics), dreadful (by modern standards) UI and graphics. Conclusion: need a remake. Not by EA, though.
Indie devs, anyone?

Kinda sorta tried that and they were smacked down by EA's unmerciful law division.

Of the series, the 7s were the best, both in terms of scope and visually (of course they don't hold up all that well, but that didn't stop me from playing them again just a year ago).

I already own the compilation that has all but 9 on a disc. Nice that GOG made it a lot easier to install and play though.

 

[Chadling]

Okay, perhaps it's not the best RPG ever. However, no one can deny that Ultima IV has the Best. Karma. System. EVER.

I have yet to play a game that comes even close to matching the complexity and realism of the Eight Virtues.

 

[Clonekiller]

Well, you can't beat that price. I've never played the Ultima games, but I'm going to have to try this one. I'm always interested in the classics. That virtue thing sounds much more interesting than the standard "bad guy wants to take over the world, go kill him".

Sorry, I upgraded to 3D graphical technology eight or so years ago. Since then my nostalgia level hasn't been high enough to convince me to play these "greatest games ever". Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some Fallout to go play.

Fallout isn't 3D, if that's what you're saying. But it sure is one of the "greatest games ever".

Correction: Fallout: New Vegas. Happy?

Can I be put on record as digging the hell out of BOTH "Ultima 4" and "Fallout: New Vegas"? Some of us old-timers just like games because they're, you know, really good. No matter what era they come from.

I'd go on to list KOTOR, Mass Effect, Deus Ex HR, & Dragon Age, but I get the feeling that would be pointless. Ah well, guess I will anyway.

 

[Eggbert]

Wait, I'm on a Mac, fuck...

Oh well, cool for them to do anyway. I think they should do a re-release compilation of the whole series and extra features.

I have an application for you: Wineskin Winery. It's free, it emulates Windows using Wine, and it's pretty easy. The only issue is that some GOG stuff doesn't work with Wine (Fallout (2) have an impossibly slow cursor), so you'll need to check if something works using the App database on the Wine HQ.

 

[Aethren]

I might have missed something, but I remember U4 being made free for download on an EA related site a long time ago.

They did, but now it's bundled with Origin.

 

[Doom-Slayer]

At first I was like OMG BALDUR'S GATE 2 FOR FREE!?

Then I was like... meh.

EXACTLY my thoughts, then like you I was disappointed.

 

[BlueMage]

YOUR OPINION IS WRONG!

Your opinion can never be wrong, misguided or misinformed but never wrong because your opinion is your opinion.

Where your opinion contradicts facts, it's wrong.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

Where your opinion contradicts facts, it's wrong.

No it's not, it's still your opinion, your view on a set of events. The facts you see and accept will totally differ from the facts i see and accept...its all about perspective. Sometimes things will be considered facts that you have strong reason to believe are flawed or just plain wrong. Similarly you will see things that you consider facts that the majority of people don't accept.

Take 9/11 for instance. They have done a poll recently that showed that 1/7 people in Britain and USA don't believe the 'facts' of the event as they are shown. If they have good reason to doubt what they have been told then you can't reasonably say their opinion is wrong.

'The world is flat' used to be a fact, as did many other scientific 'facts'. They were all proven to be wrong and the facts changed. Was the opinion of the people who proved them wrong, actually wrong, until the moment it became fact? No, of course not.

Fact and truth are both as subjective as opinion and as such all you can say is 'i disagree' and hope your arguement for why that is so is strong enough to sway their opinion.

If you disagree with this statement then we have different opinions on what an opinion is lol. Now its getting confusing

 

[BlueMage]

Wrong wrong wrong. That the earth was flat was never a "fact" merely a commonly held belief. A belief that is/was wrong. That the people of the time didn't know better is meaningless. Unless slavery wasn't wrong up until the moment it was abolished.

Whether you believe something due to how you perceive it or not does not change reality. Reality is what is fact, and if you don't view reality, you're wrong (and probably crazy, but that's another story.) Reality exists, that which exists is true. 1+1=2 y'know?

Now, how we verify reality, THAT is a far more interesting question.