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Ultima 7 was My GTA3

By kainzero 11-12-2009 01:01 PM
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This is how the game STARTS.

When GTA3 came out, and I was in awe. I didn't think anything like that would ever come out, with massive improvements over GTA1 and 2.. Yet, despite the new and enhanced sandbox play, I was... kinda bored after a while.

The reason? I played Ultima 7 first.

An old computer RPG released in 1992, this game offered unprecedented freedom at the time. It was real-time and all NPCs had a schedule, offering an immersive world. When it's night time, (most) people go to bed. During the day time, people go to work. You can even follow people to see how their day goes, and in one side quest you follow the mayor and find out that he's having a affair. You know what game hyped up scheduling nearly 14 years later? Yeah, tri-Ace's Radiata Stories.

The interactivity was deep at the time, and maybe even by today's standards. Do you want food? Just go to the farm and kill the cow. Or buy some flour and make bread. You can even forge your own sword, play musical instruments, change the diapers on babies, participate in a carnival. You can even rob the national mint at night, break into weapon shops and steal their goods, and so on.

And you can kill (almost) everybody. My brother was very liberal with this. Outside of one of the care shelters, these little kids run up to you and play tag. My brother tagged them, alright. He tagged them with his sword. He also murdered everybody in Britain and formed a road of bloody corpses leading up to the king, naming it Bloody Road. His crowning achievement was when he brought a powder keg (a medieval bomb, if you will) into the bar during peak hours and blew it up, taking 4 or 5 people with it.

With interaction like that, GTA3 was miles away. "You can have sex with a hooker, then run her over and get your money back!"? Pfft. "You can kill the Mint lady, rob the Mint of its gold bars and gold nuggets, and then resurrect the woman to exchange them into usable gold coins." Now that was cool.

If you can find a copy, and haven't played Ultima 7 before, give it a try. It's been remade with an engine called Exult to be playable on modern systems.
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Old eldergamer eldergamer is offline - 11-12-2009, 01:24 PM
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loved playing it, and finishing it. I think I was in 8th grade when it came out? Remember getting a little fright in my seat after I installed the speech pack and heard the guardian speak.
Old Treehouse Gamer Treehouse Gamer is offline - 11-12-2009, 03:33 PM
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I remember when I tried to play it again a number of years ago, I found my old CD and reached a point where it asked for Brittania's latitude (hooray for old school anti-piracy measures!). I had since lost the manual and couldn't proceed any further out of town.

Ah well. Ultima Underworld is still my favorite Ultima game. You could stick corn in a torch and make popcorn!
Old kainzero kainzero is offline - 11-12-2009, 04:11 PM
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When I was a kid, I couldn't read latitude or longitude from a map (as was given in the original floppy disk version), and neither could my brother. To top it off, the ink was also kinda runny so I couldn't make out the numbers and 60 looked like 80.

I even bought the hint book but it wouldn't help with the copy protection, hahah =)
Old letsgetacid letsgetacid is offline - 11-12-2009, 05:08 PM
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I played one Ultima game - Ultima 8. I thought it was totally badass that it starts with someone getting beheaded. But it was a pretty terrible game. You could climb over walls you weren't supposed to very frequently and run into the glitchy nothingness.
Old kainzero kainzero is offline - 11-12-2009, 05:16 PM
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yeah ultima 8 was garbage. i don't know how you can make something awesome like ultima 7 and then turn it into the pile of crap that was ultima 8.

oh i know why
because EA had a controlling interest in Origin at the time.
Old Monsta Mack Monsta Mack is offline - 11-12-2009, 05:43 PM
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Ultima Online was my GTA

Looting houses, peoples boats. Shit, WOW had nothing on that game.
Old Halo05 Halo05 is offline - 11-12-2009, 09:37 PM
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Back in like 1987 I accidently deleted my Dad's progress in Ultima IV on our Apple IIe (only one save file, I overwrote it without knowing it). He didn't get mad or anything, he just hid the game from me until 1992 when I finally got around to asking for it back.

At the time I didn't really understand why he didn't just start the game over. Many years later, in 1998 or 1999, my official Sony memory card ate ~42 hours of Xenogears progress. I put that shit away too.
Old farmecologist farmecologist is offline - 11-13-2009, 10:15 AM
The Ultima game(s), especially Ultima 7 and it's addons literally defined my gaming addiction. I s*still* compare RPGs to U7, and most of them still fall fall short of it.
Old letsgetacid letsgetacid is offline - 11-13-2009, 05:19 PM
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The camera perspective is insane looking to me.

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