I remember Ultima VII even though it has been 32 years since I played it when it first came out. There were some funny bits with one guy breaking the fourth wall and saying "That bloody Avatar, always running around shouting "Name! Job!"" and an easter egg where a farmer says he met a "tigerlion" who wanted him to "Kill Wrathy". I will also always remember being able to mix flour with water and heating it to create bread, and I don't know why this is important knowledge 32 years later.
Man, when this game came out, it was packed in this ominous black box with just the title; no pictures, no nothing....very threatening. When this intro scene started up, with rainbows and butterflies, it was like...wtf is this? Then the Guardian takes over the PC, and the rest is history.
Then you get to the end, see the all seeing eye pyramid with demonic entities trying to come through the dark gate. Illuminati want my mind soul and my body.
You guys remember the toughest battle from U7? The one where you tried to make the game actually run with sounds, mouse support and shit and not run out of EMS or whatever bastard memory it was on your 286 super computer.. Guardians evil workings, I tell you..
There was also a problem with "Extended" vs. "Expanded" memory that had to be addressed. I don't remember exactly, but Ultima came with its own memory management system which was incompatible with the XMS standard that was being promoted back then. Even with my brand new 386 I had to use a bootable floppy disc to free all the RAM that was needed to run the game.
I read some articles pointing out all the parallels. Pretty cool how much shade Richard Garriott was throwing their way. Ultima 7 (and 7.5) were the last good Ultimas. After that the franchise was ruined.
This... is... so... nostalgic... that I am going to cry. I always used to creep out when that door came from behind the bushes... I was a kid back then. I think I am gonna play this game again.
@@BoriiSJZ I know! You're still around to read it, that's the best news I get to "was counting on", as a matter of act. That mullet wasn't meant for you, is what I'm in to say, here. Be good, brother! Oui Vatars of sorts are hall immortals, and you're here to show.
I gues we were all awestruck by hearing an actual voice at all. I know this wasn't the first game to have digitized speech, but it was the first game I OWNED having it.
Gotta love how it seems he's winging the speech as he goes. "They will all bow down to their new..." (Rolls eyes in a what-was-it-again expression) "...Guardian!" (Yeah-lets-roll-with-that expression)
@Rocky183 Ultima I-IX, Ultima VII is divided into two games, each with its own subplot that makes up a game, two Ultima Underworld games, and two vastly different although slightly related spinoffs to the Ultima series.
@creamyhorror I'm also glad to see that Bioware(who I guess is handling the Ultima franchise now) convinced EA to let this and the rest of the Ultima games(save for 8 and 9) to be re-released on GOG for people to enjoy once more. The fact that 7 is one of their best selling RPGs on their site(next to the Baldur's gate games and Planescape) is just a testament to how good this game is and that true classics never go out of style
"Bioware(who I guess is handling the Ultima franchise now)" >>> LELZ. The Origin distribution platform, you mean to say? ...And that was eleven yawns ago, me lad. Look at you now. Aye, sole tea! 🙂😂🤣 🤺
@djaliplume So true. I doubt any RPG will ever top U7 in my mind. It was a bit of magic from my childhood that will always remain with me. I'm glad to see many others calling it the best game they've ever played. If only games this engaging, open-ended, colourfully written were still made - we old fans would lap 'em up.
Intro is sooooooooooo awesome. LOLOLOLOL I remember painful EMS not enough memory so i had to buy extra ram it was very very very expensive ram in those days. Now now this intro sill kick ass 10-4
The Avatar comes from Earth as did Lord British long ago (aka Richard Garriot the game's creator ^.~) and think of Britannia as a parallel world or dimension. Once called Sosaria the remains of the realm after Exodus was defeated became named Britannia under the rule of Lord British. Time also passes in different speed there so that when returning to Britannia the companions had grown quite a bit older than the Avatar did as for every year that passes here many centuries may go by in Britannia.
The title of Guardian is tied in with his rule over countless worlds as a "benevolent" force that runs interference between power struggles whilst at the same time manipulating the conditions of those struggles to serve his ends, as he did with the Fellowship in "Ultima VII: The Black Gate," countless worlds in "Ultima Underworld II," and most notably in "Ultima VIII: Pagan," where he supplanted the true rulers of the world and set in place a sordid oligarchy of Titans bent on singular control.
Wait... You know what oligarchy means, or maybe you're a merry can their tory of sort? Mmmh? I know, I know. Though you need to understand, your time is such slower than mine. To me, that was yesterdaze as a matter of act, I'm in to say.
I'm mentally ill and the guardian represents my multiple personality in real life. He's telling me he owns me and I've been terrified by this games intro for 15 years. It's crazy I know but this game greatly influenced my life.
i was never able to get into Ultima 7 like i could with Ultima 6. U6 was the best Ultima ever, imo. if nothing else, Ultima 6 had a far better intro sequence.
@miika2k LOL! I certainly don't miss all that converting of EMS to XMS, or vice versa. It was so bad that every game required its very own batch file to run.
This was when real RPGs peaked. NPCs that had daily routines, thousands of lines of variable dialogue, the ability to react to what you told them and what happened around them, etc., and the world felt like a real, interconnected, living place, not just a bunch of scripted cutscenes that played when you walked to predetermined spots. It felt like the start of something amazing, that could only become more amazing as computers evolved. Turned out it wasn't. Now an "NPC" is just a clickable object that sits in the same place day and night, a "dialogue" is just a linear sequence of clichés, and a "quest" is a checklist where the player is an intermediary, following a magic arrow and clicking or killing the things that get highlighted. If do as you're told, you're rewarded with some abstract numbers that make you "more powerful" (but then all the enemies scale up too, just to hammer home the point of how meaningless that kind of "progression" is). I guess the Guardian won after all.
@@Jay_Baumans_Stuntdouble Historically, they were the foremost members of Charlemagne's court, though many of their most famous exploits were largely fictitious, symbolizing Christian martial superiority over the Saracen hordes.
You got scared by this big red muppet? I'll admit it is a little creepy, but it wasn't scary to me. It's actually a little funny the way he says MASTER! and does that evil laugh. It's like kermit the frog threatening to kick my ass. Nevertheless the way they present it does give a dramatic and dark effect. It's a good piece of art this game.
Yeah, I won't argue with that. I heard Bioware is planing an attempt at reviving Ultima, so I presume they plan on making the Guardian as awe striking to the current crowd as he was back then, and maybe we'll learn his real name, or is he scarier without us knowing his name?
Yes, the easiest way to get games to work was using a boot disk that pretty much loaded nothing but exactly what the particular game needed... I remember pretty much nothing else would run in that config.. lol i had to make several different configs for different games. computers really sucked back then haha
Its broken. I klicked "start new game" and nothing happend except some vertical bars popped up and vanished again. I rebooted after 2-3 hours and tried it again, same result. ;)
@miika2k darn deamons. IMO, higher tech leads to as much conflict as underpowered PC's. Bastard memory, lol. as in "Voodoo Deamons". must donn Ultima IX's "bastard" version of the black sword and only when .ICD crashes into towne. EA games, Challenge everyone!
Um, not to sound like I'm bashing a classic, but in hindsight, is anybody able to keep a straight face with the Guardian showing up, especially with his evil laugh?
I remember Ultima VII even though it has been 32 years since I played it when it first came out. There were some funny bits with one guy breaking the fourth wall and saying "That bloody Avatar, always running around shouting "Name! Job!"" and an easter egg where a farmer says he met a "tigerlion" who wanted him to "Kill Wrathy". I will also always remember being able to mix flour with water and heating it to create bread, and I don't know why this is important knowledge 32 years later.
Man, when this game came out, it was packed in this ominous black box with just the title; no pictures, no nothing....very threatening. When this intro scene started up, with rainbows and butterflies, it was like...wtf is this? Then the Guardian takes over the PC, and the rest is history.
Did you know that Richard Garriott himself fought with the marketing department, to be allowed to release the game with just that black box art? :-)
Then you get to the end, see the all seeing eye pyramid with demonic entities trying to come through the dark gate. Illuminati want my mind soul and my body.
No, the rest is MY tory, as you now know.
Beyond all kinds of surrounding confusions, an impossibility emergeth:
THE Vatar is hear 😶🌫
@@ShamblerDK Did you know El /b/ is the actual worst kind of piece of cheat the world has yet to ever scene, me lad?
THIS!!! This is the game that got me into gaming. WAY back in the day.
Man, what a fantastic introduction to gaming.
I'm genuinely jealous, lol.
You guys remember the toughest battle from U7?
The one where you tried to make the game actually run with sounds, mouse support and shit and not run out of EMS or whatever bastard memory it was on your 286 super computer..
Guardians evil workings, I tell you..
EMM386 (extended memory manager)
There was also a problem with "Extended" vs. "Expanded" memory that had to be addressed. I don't remember exactly, but Ultima came with its own memory management system which was incompatible with the XMS standard that was being promoted back then. Even with my brand new 386 I had to use a bootable floppy disc to free all the RAM that was needed to run the game.
😂
The Guardian is a stand in for EA. The Ultima crew weren't happy with their new masters.
I read some articles pointing out all the parallels. Pretty cool how much shade Richard Garriott was throwing their way. Ultima 7 (and 7.5) were the last good Ultimas. After that the franchise was ruined.
I thought Elizabeth and Abraham in this series are EA reference lol
This... is... so... nostalgic... that I am going to cry.
I always used to creep out when that door came from behind the bushes... I was a kid back then.
I think I am gonna play this game again.
You can play it for free. Know how?
@@BoriiSJZ Thou canst play it for too. Know why?
@@messire9837it was year ago, i don't even remember commenting this
@@BoriiSJZ I know! You're still around to read it, that's the best news I get to "was counting on", as a matter of act.
That mullet wasn't meant for you, is what I'm in to say, here. Be good, brother!
Oui Vatars of sorts are hall immortals, and you're here to show.
@@messire9837 huh
I gues we were all awestruck by hearing an actual voice at all. I know this wasn't the first game to have digitized speech, but it was the first game I OWNED having it.
Best game i have ever played and ever will.
Gotta love how it seems he's winging the speech as he goes.
"They will all bow down to their new..."
(Rolls eyes in a what-was-it-again expression)
"...Guardian!"
(Yeah-lets-roll-with-that expression)
ZorotheGallade he probably is, I mean do you really think he rehearsed his evil speech?
Leatherface did the voice!
thanks hvylobser, this brought back some great memories.
Looks like he's checking the script at 1:15
still lollin at this
he orchestrated the script! probably my actions even if contra-dictive in the game, he planned that too.
Ahhh Ultima,those were the days.
Ultima 7 is the best role-playing game to exist, period.
Prove me wrong.
1:55 That's a few seconds of the cemetary music from Pagan. I played the games years ago and just noticed this!
Other way around, think about it
@Rocky183 Ultima I-IX, Ultima VII is divided into two games, each with its own subplot that makes up a game, two Ultima Underworld games, and two vastly different although slightly related spinoffs to the Ultima series.
oh em gee, the memories, the beauty.
the greatest CRPG to this day!
@creamyhorror I'm also glad to see that Bioware(who I guess is handling the Ultima franchise now) convinced EA to let this and the rest of the Ultima games(save for 8 and 9) to be re-released on GOG for people to enjoy once more. The fact that 7 is one of their best selling RPGs on their site(next to the Baldur's gate games and Planescape) is just a testament to how good this game is and that true classics never go out of style
"Bioware(who I guess is handling the Ultima franchise now)" >>> LELZ. The Origin distribution platform, you mean to say?
...And that was eleven yawns ago, me lad. Look at you now. Aye, sole tea!
🙂😂🤣 🤺
@djaliplume So true. I doubt any RPG will ever top U7 in my mind. It was a bit of magic from my childhood that will always remain with me. I'm glad to see many others calling it the best game they've ever played. If only games this engaging, open-ended, colourfully written were still made - we old fans would lap 'em up.
The guardian is just a GREAT example of a villain.
the greatest crpg of all time.. all fucking time.
Intro is sooooooooooo awesome. LOLOLOLOL I remember painful EMS not enough memory so i had to buy extra ram it was very very very expensive ram in those days. Now now this intro sill kick ass 10-4
Ultima 7 was my favourite part of the series... have to say the German voice of the Guardian was super creepy at the time!
I somehow remember the phrase "Well, well, well Avatar ...". unfortunately can't find it on youtube :( Anyone else remember that?
th-cam.com/video/qDyAhGgx7no/w-d-xo.html
Ohhh, this is with the expansion too :-)
@TEAMALSTARE
Piece of Art
The Avatar comes from Earth as did Lord British long ago (aka Richard Garriot the game's creator ^.~) and think of Britannia as a parallel world or dimension.
Once called Sosaria the remains of the realm after Exodus was defeated became named Britannia under the rule of Lord British.
Time also passes in different speed there so that when returning to Britannia the companions had grown quite a bit older than the Avatar did as for every year that passes here many centuries may go by in Britannia.
The title of Guardian is tied in with his rule over countless worlds as a "benevolent" force that runs interference between power struggles whilst at the same time manipulating the conditions of those struggles to serve his ends, as he did with the Fellowship in "Ultima VII: The Black Gate," countless worlds in "Ultima Underworld II," and most notably in "Ultima VIII: Pagan," where he supplanted the true rulers of the world and set in place a sordid oligarchy of Titans bent on singular control.
Wait... You know what oligarchy means, or maybe you're a merry can their tory of sort? Mmmh?
I know, I know. Though you need to understand, your time is such slower than mine. To me, that was yesterdaze as a matter of act, I'm in to say.
I'm mentally ill and the guardian represents my multiple personality in real life. He's telling me he owns me and I've been terrified by this games intro for 15 years. It's crazy I know but this game greatly influenced my life.
That is wonderfully old skool, are they susposed to be birds are the begining
i was never able to get into Ultima 7 like i could with Ultima 6. U6 was the best Ultima ever, imo. if nothing else, Ultima 6 had a far better intro sequence.
So that's why he's called the Guardian...
@miika2k LOL! I certainly don't miss all that converting of EMS to XMS, or vice versa. It was so bad that every game required its very own batch file to run.
AVATAR, RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAH!!!
This was when real RPGs peaked. NPCs that had daily routines, thousands of lines of variable dialogue, the ability to react to what you told them and what happened around them, etc., and the world felt like a real, interconnected, living place, not just a bunch of scripted cutscenes that played when you walked to predetermined spots.
It felt like the start of something amazing, that could only become more amazing as computers evolved. Turned out it wasn't.
Now an "NPC" is just a clickable object that sits in the same place day and night, a "dialogue" is just a linear sequence of clichés, and a "quest" is a checklist where the player is an intermediary, following a magic arrow and clicking or killing the things that get highlighted. If do as you're told, you're rewarded with some abstract numbers that make you "more powerful" (but then all the enemies scale up too, just to hammer home the point of how meaningless that kind of "progression" is).
I guess the Guardian won after all.
And just like every other villain, he can't resist gloating about his victory BEFORE he's actually won.
(Shakes head)
They never learn do they?
classic game!!
best ultima game ever
Something is obviously amiss!
The Guardian's voice always spooked me back then...creepy voice. Great game, though!
Does anyone recall the exploding butterfly? I don't recall how to get that anymore.
The guardian needs a dentist:)
Whats a Paladin?
A miserable little pile of secrets.
Well, they were sometimes known as the Twelve Peers...
@@TheQuarterGuy .....what?
@@Jay_Baumans_Stuntdouble Historically, they were the foremost members of Charlemagne's court, though many of their most famous exploits were largely fictitious, symbolizing Christian martial superiority over the Saracen hordes.
@@TheQuarterGuy What are you driveling about?
Best Intro. Also need ram memory extra lol
Guardian! Return the months of my youth you stole from me!!!
the guardian definately has to see the dentist!
:F
Only know how to get it working on a modern PC - Exult
@waste234
This was the height of RPGs
You will KNEEL BEFORE GUARDIAN!
You got scared by this big red muppet?
I'll admit it is a little creepy, but it wasn't scary to me. It's actually a little funny the way he says MASTER! and does that evil laugh. It's like kermit the frog threatening to kick my ass. Nevertheless the way they present it does give a dramatic and dark effect. It's a good piece of art this game.
@waste234 Not 7 part 2?
Yeah, I won't argue with that. I heard Bioware is planing an attempt at reviving Ultima, so I presume they plan on making the Guardian as awe striking to the current crowd as he was back then, and maybe we'll learn his real name, or is he scarier without us knowing his name?
Yes, the easiest way to get games to work was using a boot disk that pretty much loaded nothing but exactly what the particular game needed... I remember pretty much nothing else would run in that config.. lol i had to make several different configs for different games. computers really sucked back then haha
I can't get videos to sync right with his mouth in my games on Exult : (
The Guardian really is the shit.
@MasterGhidorah1117 Yes, they were. *wipes tear*
Sure there is. It is "Ultima IX: Ascension."
Which is the worst Ultima to ever had been released
Its broken. I klicked "start new game" and nothing happend except some vertical bars popped up and vanished again. I rebooted after 2-3 hours and tried it again, same result. ;)
All the walls disapeared in my game so I could just walk into the bank and loot it.
I still have my mystical orb :)
OMG, This game has to be in some forgotten drawer at home. Anyone knows how I can make it work? Maybe DOSBox?
yes, worx with dosbox
ACTING!
@miika2k darn deamons. IMO, higher tech leads to as much conflict as underpowered PC's. Bastard memory, lol. as in "Voodoo Deamons". must donn Ultima IX's "bastard" version of the black sword and only when .ICD crashes into towne. EA games, Challenge everyone!
@miika2k
I became an expert at tweaking config.sys just because of this fackin game.
Um, not to sound like I'm bashing a classic, but in hindsight, is anybody able to keep a straight face with the Guardian showing up, especially with his evil laugh?
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Oh, look. It's Willem Dafoe.
Hell Boy ???
Is there such thing as Ultima 6?
Hmm, no they started with part 6. Like WW2 there was no world war before.
Fond memories. U7 was the game I used to convert my girlfriend from J-RPGs to western rpgs and she's now the RPG queen.
i loved to hack this game and make my own world with all my allies and changed what they did lots of fun
i pratice the eight first and like more Pagan tahn utima 7 im an NOOB
In other words it's like Narnia but less gay.
Name. Job. Bye.
ultima owns. there is no ultima 9.
Bass tone is quite…farty.