Review: Ultima IV - A Genre Defining RPG
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Origin Systems released Ultima IV for many computer system in 1985, and in 1990 a Master System and NES port. I played the PC version with a fan patch that adds music and bumps the colors up VGA 256 colors. The game is revolutionary for it's time and very rarely has an RPG come along that has captured the innovative nature of this game.
Thanks a lot for watching.
This game affected me quite deeply and it's made every single RPG I've played afterward even more special. Thank you for spending some time highlighting this wonderful adventure.
It's truly a one of a kind game. There are only a few RPGs that really engaged me in it's world and this one was one of them.
Simply one of the best of all time. Few games have tried to reach its height, fewer still have accomplished that feat. It's a game where the biggest enemy is yourself as a player. You are your own end boss, but in an exploration of self discovery, that is all too true.
The younguns of today need to RESPECT ultima. Maybe even play VII, as that's the most accessible one for modern gamers. Im 19 btw
I knew I recognized music from Blaster Master! 17:15 (8:24)
Nice video.
Yeah I got this on AppleIIGS brand new. Computers were so expensive then, but my dad always found money when I really wanted something. I played this game sooooo much with its cloth map and weird alphabet. I still have the map... so this led me to ultima online roughly 6 months after it released. Was walking by a coworkers pc and spotted a moongate. I was really confused and he said it was ultima but with lots of people. It’s all a blur of good memories and some stressful ones too. I was very happy when I saw this video pop up. Too bad shroud of the avatar failed, I had a pretty big preorder for it and it just wasn’t fun.
I remember how much computer were back then. It was crazy. The computer I had were hand-me-downs from my dad's work whenever they upgraded. I would have loved an Apple IIgs, but I was stuck with an IBM PS/2 as my first machine and found it very frustrating to use.
Apple IIGS’ were definitely _incredibly_ expensive for what they were. Giant Apple fan, but the II series was most reflective of the mismatched price/value Apple stereotype. They were beautiful, no doubt, and I’d love to have one, but at the time... Shoulda found the money for an Amiga or ST, not that I’ve made all great decisions, in my life...
Great video! Thanks for the content. I remember playing this one back in the day, will have to check it out again!
I've never experienced this style of RPG but it sounds incredible. It's wonderful realizing that a game could inspire players to read through a detailed magical tome and then spend 100 hours trying to become a better person.
Idk if this is relevant to you, but its free on GOG.
80’s RPGs’ other names are cRPGs. You really have to treat it like a tabletop RPG where the only thing the computer does is dice rolls, but once you get used to it it’s a lot better. Also they get grindy but that’s just being old.
So the 1985 release date was not the date of the varying PC releases, many of them released at varying dates, some years after. More popularly, the Ultima IV release for MS-DOS didnt release till 1987, almost 2 years after the origobal Apple II release. Great video by the way
I first got into Ultima at the highest note (Ultima 7), and never dared trying to seriously play the older prequels. Might give U6 a try someday. Your reviews are a great help in finding out what to expect from a game. :)
Thanks. I'm working through Ultima V right now, and what I've noticed is while each game's story is complete within each game, they all fit into a greater story (especially 4-6). If you're not looking to play the ones in older engines, you could check out the fan mods of other games. There's a complete Ultima IV conversion of Neverwinter Nights (2002) called Ultima IV: Rebirth, and there's an Ultima V fan mod of Dungeon Siege called Ultima V: Lazarus.
@@retrogamingknight I was checking out Lazarus some 20 years ago and got the impression it died. Apparently it didn't?
@@CaptainKeelhaul version 1.20 is the final major revision version and is supposedly complete. I'm looking at the forums and it received support and bug fixes all the way up through 2011 with version 1.29, and there's still people posting in the forums, so not quite dead yet.
Good but original (not really, but IBM 16-color pass over Apple) graphics would be good. The texture packs are okay; OG rules.
Loved this game on my Atari 800 and 810 drive, in middle school. Musta spent hundreds of hours playing, which just flew by...
Crazy no modern games even consider a standard cool manual its either digital or a s hitty tin box with vinyl crap.
It was a life-changing game
I was never an ultima fan myself but you did an excellent job as always!
That's completely understandable. Ultima tried something unique with RPGs, and there's people that will love it, and others who won't.