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Anonymous03/12/26, 19:51No.3943497
Is the series worth playing?
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Anon03/12/26, 22:17No.3943594
Only 4 and underworlds. Then play Barony.
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Anon03/12/26, 23:15No.3943637
Ultima I - III. Extremely primitive by today's standards. Mostly very simplistic early 80s dungeon crawlers with a bare-bones overworld. Very little story line or interactivity. Even gets confusing in part II when you start skipping around time and going to earth and flying in space ships. Skip the game but read up on the lore.Ultima IV is gameplay wise similar to the first games but has a much better story. Shifts from killing ultimate baddie to achieving enlightenment by being a good person. Still sort of primitive but vital for establishing the connective tissue of the series.Ultima V was the very first video game I ever played, around 1988 or so. To me, its still a top 10 ever game. Playing it gives me some of.the coziest feelings imaginable. That being said, it's very much a product of its time. Combat and dungeon crawling can get very tedious unless you cheese the hell out if the game and give everyone magic throwing axes. The end area in the underworld is also extremely tedious, climbing over endless mountains in the dark. The story is great if you managed to get here after playing the first four games, making previous lore make more sense.Ultima VI still holds up in my opinion. Colorful, fun, warm graphics. More talkative characters with a bit more personality than V. Quite a few secrets. Good story. Definitely worth a go.Ultima VII / Part 2 is the gold standard of RPGs in my opinion and still in my top 3. Deep, well thought out story. Huge world to explore with lots of characters to talk to and secrets to find. Ties up a lot of the loose ends from the first few games in a clever way. Perhaps the only real down side is the combat is pretty garbage, but these games were never really about combat and more about exploring. A must play.Ultima VIII - IX both absolutely crap. This was during/after the acquisition by EA. Everything good built up from IV-VII was destroyed by badly designed and buggy games.Play both Underworlds!
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Anon03/12/26, 23:50No.3943647
Yeah 5 is amazing
The rest are ok to awful
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Anon03/13/26, 02:31No.3943735
There is literally a new ultima thread like every 3 days on this board. Do you seriously think it’s not worth playing?
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Anon03/13/26, 14:22No.3944226
4 and above with fan patches. the "worlds of " games were basically U5 reskins. skip 8 and 9, maybe.
Underworlds had more influence on modern RPGs with realtime combat than any of the main Utlimas.
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Anon03/13/26, 15:04No.3944246
No, you definitely shouldn't play one of the most beloved and influential series of all time.
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Anon03/13/26, 19:00No.3944378
I tried to play Ultima but the weird slanted top-down view gives me nausea. Jrpg top-down ok. Isometric Bg2 top-down ok. Ultima top-down gives me motion sickness.
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Anon03/13/26, 19:04No.3944379
parts 4 to 7 are the pinnacle of early RPG gaming. if you can cope with primitive graphics then yes.
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Anon03/14/26, 07:48No.3944732
Out of the ones I've tried, the only one I was able to get into was 5. It was pretty enjoyable, though.
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Anon03/14/26, 19:13No.3944972
Quest for the avatar is a game that will probably never be made ever again.>goes on a quest to become a virtuous and good person using a fantasy version of chivalry and Christian valuesThe more the west falls, the more likely it is that this game will never be equaled.