Here’s a nice touchup of U4.
Brings back the old days of yore… days when you played and played and loved it. YOU CANT HANDLE IT NOW!
http://www.wizardportal.com/optimaiv/#top
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As much as I’ve loved all of those games, I can’t go back and play them again. I dont know why but I cant even go back and play fallout or xcom any more.
I tried going back and playing this again when the chronicles were released with U9. The thing that made it tough for me to play again (and why I didn’t finish it) was the pain in the butt was having to mix spells over and over again. In a Windows world, that would be tied to a slider or something to make it more convenient. I was fine with the rest of the game and still loved it.
My major beef with Ultima 4 is your inability to aim anywhere other than the four cardinal directions in combat. Ultima 5 rendered me unable to go back to the earlier games.
As far as spells/reagents go, Ultima 6 handled this fine IMO. It doesn’t force you to mix reagents at all, and instead tells you that you can cast a particular spell xx number of times based on how many reagents you have.
Same here. I’ve already played Ultima IV through 3 or 4 times - a fifth just wouldn’t be fun.
However, a new RPG that stressed becoming a paragon of virtue instead of just becoming a badass, well, that would be awesome. (Hint hint, developers reading this.)
For those of you looking for Ultima4 in a differet perspective, this mod for Neverwinter Nights is excellent. Of course, this board probably already knows about it…
sorry for the ign link…
-AM Urbanek
and of course, there is this remake as well… I’ve been waiting for this one.
Made in Dark Basic too I notice. Sweet.
I still like more to play Ultima 7 in all its data disks and version using a wonderful dedicated emulator: http://exult.sourceforge.net/
Now I would really like to make the two “Underworld” work perfectly. Any hints? And, oh, the first, WONDERFUL, System Shock.