GoG.com trumped themself rereleasing the best of the Ultima games as fully complete edition.
Have a look what a great virtual rpg world fits into 28mb of ram - developers get a blushed face ashamed of their loss of knowledge and broad inability to offer such games today!

http://www.gog.com/

I owe you a beer for plugging a gap in my RPG gaming knowledge [Ultima VII]. I'm reading player reviews of a game that came out almost 20 years ago, and there are many aspects that are not realised in MMOGs today! A terrible indictment of MMOG gaming in many respects. 

This is one for my Christmas list. Heck! Even before Christmas as I have time off work, that I ostensibly put to use for studying and getting an assignment out of the way. Instead, I'll do some exercise [mountain-biking] and play Ultima VII.

Thanks for the head's up, Blutmaul! The game is simply a MUST from reading the reviews - especially as I played (but never completed) Ultima IV back in the day.

Cheers!

Its shocking someone would pay $50+ on an old game like ultima VII.  maybe $10, not $50.

Eh...its 6 bucks you know?

Originally posted by Blutmaul

Eh...its 6 bucks you know?

Only 6 buck's ? lol

Originally posted by XforsakerX

Originally posted by Blutmaul

Eh...its 6 bucks you know?

Only 6 buck's ? lol

But like a lot of classic games, you may have difficulty getting it to even operate on a modern system.

8-bit blocky window WITH HUGE ALL CAPS COURIER LETTERS appears.  "Autodetect sound card?" Y "Sorry, Autodetect did not find any sound cards."

"Default: Try Soundblaster 8-bit compatible?" N

"Oh boy, are you screwed.  Sorry mate." :BSOD:

Not impossible, some classic games run pretty well on a Win7 system faking "ancient 286 system" mode, some are real nightmares.  It's a crapshoot.

For six bucks I'd assume it at least kinda-sorta works.

Heh, '92...we're at least up to stunning 16-bit graphics, anyway.

One of the best RPGs of all time and definitely my favorite. I played the hell out of it when it first came out. The unfortunate thing is, unless you played it back in the day, you really don't get why it's such a great and important game in the genre. I still have my original copies on floppy disc including the boxes, cool cloth maps and stuff.

Ultima 1-4 is where the series ended for me

Wizardry 1-8 all good

Might & Magic 1-10 all fun

I guess I just like the party based RPG's much more

Originally posted by Darkholme

One of the best RPGs of all time and definitely my favorite. I played the hell out of it when it first came out. The unfortunate thing is, unless you played it back in the day, you really don't get why it's such a great and important game in the genre. I still have my original copies on floppy disc including the boxes, cool cloth maps and stuff.

IV is still my favorite, but I didn't really see much of VII.  Too "old for games", I was Mr. Oh So Serious Getting Married Guy for a couple of years there.

Fortunately, it wore off eventually.

   oh , i dont agree with the op, in my opinion, Ultima : Ascension, (patched version ) was the best, imo.

I stopped at ultima VI, it started to get tedious so that was the last ultima I played.   played 2 - 6.  2 wasn't that good, 3 and 4 were really good, for the time.

6 $ cant go wrong!