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Ulorian - Agent of Chaos said:
(I know this is an old post...)

I loved me some Ultima back in the day. I never tried I or II, but I remember playing Ultima III on my friend's Apple IIe. I played every version after this. Had the same experiences with VIII and IX. I played VIII for about 20 minutes before giving up on it. I remember vaguely that EA had taken over development and they were trying to work in some of the 'modern' shiny bits... arcade-style platformers in the like. Pretty game, but pretty much unplayable IMO. IX was a first or third person shooter I think... it was miles better than VIII, but pretty disappointing over all.
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Might be an old post, but still valid. ;)
 

Omand said:
Might be an old post, but still valid. ;)
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True dat. The post is newer than the games it's discussing, so that works. Plus, I don't understand the consternation that some feel when someone necros a post. I think it's awesome... the hoarier, the better! Didn't I see the other day some first time poster here dug up a post from 2002? Hats off sir! Relevance of many topics has a shelf life longer than a couple of days...
 

Personally I loathe absurd difficulty spikes. They ruined Shadowrun: Dragonfall and Yakuza: Like A Dragon for me (weird coincidence that those both had dragon in the name). And also kind of Ori and the Blind Forest.
 

Sid Meier's Pirates! 2026 with lightly updated graphics. (The water color art used in part of the gold edition would be a great template for all the graphics used throughout.)

A superhero MMO that fully embraces the genre's tropes, rather than ignoring many of them, like City of Heroes/Villains did.

A modern take on a Traveller-style game like Sundog.
 

Omand said:
I am going to echo a few items already given in the thread, but dear to my heart:

  • Ultima VIII redone as a good game. Of the full saga I never finished this one as the controls were so finicky, and the plot was nigh impossible to work out without a massive clue/spoiler book. Or, you know this could be remade entirely with Pagan going away.
  • Ultima IX redone as a good, and entirely new game. I never purchased it or played it after the disaster of Ultima VIII as I had lost faith in the series. By all accounts, it is really bad, even worse than VIII by some accounts I have read. It really lets down all that came before.
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Ultima VIII had an interesting concept for its plot and themes, with the Avatar needing to do rather unvirtuous things to survive and get back to Britannia. It was just obfuscated by scattershot storytelling and by being surrounded by a bad actual game (bad controls and combat, and holy hell that AWFUL platforming).

Ultima IX, OTOH, was a conceptual failure that ended up pissing on the rest of the entire series. It got so much of its lore just flat-out WRONG. And it was also a horrible actual game with bad combat, no party mechanics like you'd hope the series would re-introduce being back in Britannia and all, and a metric ton of game-breaking bugs.

VIII could theoretically be remade into a good game. IX would have to be outright retconned.
 


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