Ultima VII: Revisited

Reminds me a little of the Ultima V - Lazarus[1] project, where volunteers re-implemented the entire game in the Dungeon Siege 3D engine. They also added tons of new characters and dialog, side quests, a richer plot, and new artwork and music. They did all this and managed to keep the major plot and game elements the same. They actually managed to greatly improve on what is unarguably :) the best Ultima of the series.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.u5lazarus.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.u5lazarus.com</a>

And if anybody&#x27;s looking for a new game with the Ultima vibe, I highly recommend Moonring, a free indie game from one of the creators of Fable: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;2373630&#x2F;Moonring&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;2373630&#x2F;Moonring&#x2F;</a>

Ultima VII ran in real mode and it wanted every single kilobyte of memory that it could steal away from DOS.<p>They had some fancy optimized version of HIMEM that worked a little bit better than the stock DOS one and people started using it on all of their boot disks not just the one for Ultima VII.

I never played the Ultima games but I did have a crippling Ultima Online addiction in high school for two years.<p>This video definitely brought back some memories.

This is awesome, keep up the good work! Have liked and subscribed =)<p>After this section…<p>&gt; Ultima VII was in development from 1990 to 1992 (shipping in April ’92), and even though software 3D was taking off at the time, it hadn’t been designed as a 3D game (even though it used a 3D world) and that contributed to its issues.<p>&gt; But software-rendered 3D games with isometric perspectives started coming out very soon after Ultima VII, and every time I saw one I thought, “This is what Ultima VII should have looked like.”<p>…there are clips from three games: Dungeon Keeper (June 1997), Myth II (Dec. 1998) and Grandia (Dec. 1997). Not sure if that really counts as coming out &#x27;very soon&#x27; after Ultima VII!

Related:<p><i>Exult: Recreating Ultima VII for modern operating systems</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43140645">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43140645</a>

Whenever i see a Dungeon Keeper pic i am immediately inclined to go play again. If you havn&#x27;t seen, there&#x27;s a wonderful fan expansion fixing basically everything: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keeperfx.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keeperfx.net</a>

It’s still isometric, luckily. I always wanted to have Ultima VII with Ultima VIII perspective, and this is kind of a superset of that.

this is just a recreation, not an expansion, but xu4 is playable on linux without wine.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xu4.sourceforge.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xu4.sourceforge.net&#x2F;</a>

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This is remarkable. I tried to replay U7 over the pandemic and it was just too clunky, even with Exult. This looks like it addresses my issues while perserving the original aesthetic.<p>AI voice acting on-the-fly from in-game text would be slick.<p>Tangent - Do any games let you set a speed multiplier for in-game speech? I&#x27;d love to run dialog at 1.5x like I do for podcasts.

Dungeon Keeper I had really good graphics for those PC requirements.<p>recommended system: 133mhz cpu with 16MB of ram<p>I even played it after II came out because it felt so snappy and fast

Just uninstalled Akalabeth, Ultima 1, 2 and 3 last week. I was planning to play again but couldn&#x27;t find any time because of many reasons. Plan was to continue with the rest of the series afterwards. If you&#x27;re looking for them, GOG is your friend.<p>On a totally irrelevant note, I know at this point it doesn&#x27;t mean much to Broadsword to invest more into UO, but I really can&#x27;t justify the lack of macOS client.

Ultima VII was an absolute joy of childhood. It will always stand apart as a landmark in immersive game writing and design with soul. And the Ultima V Lazarus remake was a stunning community achievement.<p>I&#x27;d be interested in seeing a living, breathing game world simulated by AI under game writers&#x27; guidance.

Irrelevant, but just in case it rings any nostalgic bells, when I see graphics like that I remember Dink Smallwood!!! What a nice game that was!!

I&#x27;ve always found U6&#x2F;U7 perspective especially vertiginous. Maybe the new engine will finally allow me to play them.

Does anyone know a game where 2d sprites sit on 3d chairs? This is something this engine will have to tackle.

Ultima online was my one and only Ultima and it’s weird to get pangs of nostalgia from Ultimas that I’ve never played.

Did anyone else ever get the glitch where the game switched from color to red and black? That was truly sinister.

I spent many summers playing Ultima Underworld 1&amp;2. Only got to try U7 one weekend.

Would any code from the Exult project be useful to help implement the gameplay?

Looks cool. I loved Ultima II and III as a kid. Even wrote some text walk-throughs back then. Played them on Apple &#x2F;&#x2F;e and &#x2F;&#x2F;c, the last Apple products I ever owned (or ever will). I also ditched all Windows about 25 years ago.<p>I suppose to play on Linux though, I would need to run some Wine setup huh?

See also related discussion from yesterday:<p><i>Exult: Recreating Ultima VII for modern operating systems</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43140645">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43140645</a> (48 comments)

uhm.. I might be a part of your guy&#x27;s hist...<p>In 1997~ish, I was on the Intel team to test celeron procs on games (the team was 2 ppl, me and my best friend...<p>We had a bank of ~6 machines and accounts on a T3, and we rand circles around y&#x27;all PVPing the heck out of everything...<p>Dread Lord Phlux, Dread Lord Mym, HellFire Club)<p>It was my golden days of gaming, but it was because we were testing the new SIMD instruction sets in procs on celeron...<p>However, we had a T3 to desktop whilst everyone else had 56K modems... hahha fools...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;T-carrier" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;T-carrier</a><p>(we were the reason you claimed &quot;died due to lag&quot;)<p>*mym went on to be an EVP at BLIZZARD btw)