Torbe
5922
Hi Nightgaunt, if you’re worried about how Starflight 1 & 2 graphics are holding up you could try checking out the freeware beta of Starflight - The lost colony.
Linky here: https://sites.google.com/site/starflighttlc/home
Ultima 7 Complete (The Black Gate, Serpent Isle, and both expansions) is up now:
BUY! BUY!
Otagan
5924
You beat me to it by a minute. Curses.
Looking at those screenshots is painful. How did we ever sit through a hundred hours of fancy, squiggly font in such low resolutions? I don’t care about the graphics, but trying to read all of that again would kill my old man eyes.
Wow, that does look hard to read.
Now, lemme ask, as I’ve never played any of the Ultima games, would this be the one to play out of all of 'em? This is one of those games people talk about with such reverence that I’m actually tempted to try it.
Probably the only reason anyone would want to play it is because of nostalgia. I played it maybe 10 years ago, and it looked old and clunky even then. Obviously it’s a hugely influential game, but it might be more fun to play a more recent incarnation. I mean, Divine Divinity has some of the Ultima VII feel (not just because of all the fiddling around with bags and backpacks).
It’s one of the best games of all time, and definitely the best Ultima to play currently if you want to check out the series. In fact, Skyrim is the first RPG to actually surpass its virtual world features, and it wasn’t until relatively recently that anyone had even attempted to do so (Gothic/Risen and the Elder Scrolls series - Divine Divinity in part too, but primarily due to the graphical perspective and interactive objects).
kerzain
5929
Cheap and fuzzy high dot pitch CRT screens.
Thanks guys! I’ll consider checking it out.
Kaigen
5931
YAY. Ultima 7 is one of my all-time favorites. I had been waiting for this.
WarrenD
5932
I hear ya on that, my eyes would struggle massively now, but absolutely loved U7 back when I had a younger mans eyes lol.
Would love to see a graphical update to Ultima 7 more than any older game I can think of other than maybe Master of Magic that’s for sure.
Are there any mods or macros that make your player characters feed themselves if they are hungry? Because having to dig through my bag and feed my helpless little party of baby birds is what finally drove me away from Ultima VII.
You’re going to spoonfeed Iolo and Shamino and you are going to thank them for the opportunity.
Oh, Beyond Divinity up on GOG? That would mean its drm-free so you can finally run it. I believe the original release had StarForce™.
Divine Divinity is Game of the Year %year%.
biosc1
5936
I wonder if anyone has tried this? Probably wouldn’t work with the GoG version, but I may try it with my CD version:
http://exult.sourceforge.net/
Ultima 7 definitely didn’t hold up. I tried playing it for the first time a couple years ago and found it completely impenetrable.
Bad things:
-Combat is completely hands-off. Zzzz.
-Bizarre inventory system.
-Every action is tied to the bizarre inventory.
-Puke ghost in the first town = what.
-Zoomed close enough to see the pimples on your Aryan protagonist’s face.
-Camera angle designed to appeal to recent victims of neck trauma.
Positive things:
+That little bitch kid with the slingshot can be brutally eviscerated and literally torn to bits by a wolf or sheep or something pathetic that slaughters your whole party instantly because you’ve made the grave mistake of assuming the game was supposed to be interactive.
+The puke ghost.
+The secret place on top of the puke ghost’s house that gives you phat loot.
+Casting Armageddon from that secret place’s reagents and spellbook and wiping out all life on the world outside of Richard Garriot, who you can kill by dropping a chandelier on.
+Hoe of Destruction.
+Debug mode that lets you move anything, allowing your inventory to be full of things like castle moats and gigantic telescopes.
+Debug mode that lets you teleport anywhere and find all the clever bullshit in the game that was probably really impressive when the game was considered playable.
The rest of it sucks, tbh. Avoid unless you have the winds of nostalgia filling your sails.
It should work, as the data files shouldn’t be any different just because they were installed by GoG, you just need to point Exult at wherever the GoG install is.
I’ve read elsewhere that the GOG version does work fine with Exult.
Exult offers optional improved soundpacks, improved interface (or something… can’t quite remember), graphics? maybe? resolution? I can’t remember. But the experience will likely be better. I remember it being fairly easy to setup.
I had Ultima VII running on my PSP a few years ago through Exult.
Kaigen
5940
Exult does indeed work - I just tried it with the GOG version and it seems to run better than the DosBox stuff that GOG sets up for you. Anyway, I still love this game, though it hasn’t aged well. The interface for inventory was a pain in the ass then and it’s even more so now.
Apparently punctuation is not their master.
