Did u spend a lot of times indoors when u were younger and played something such as Ultima 4 - The Quest for the Avatar.

Ultima 4 really let u sink in to the imaginative atmosphere of RPG. The music was second to none !

I never did complete Ultima 4 Because i got hold of Ultima 5 - Warriors of Density. I completed Ultima 4 with a walkthur i found on an Amiga computer. And it worked on the C64 too. But it kept crashing during the ending sequence on Ultima 5

I when back in time after and played Ultima 3 - Exodus. That one certainly starts of tough. But i wanted an Amiga so i could play Ulitma VI - The False Prophet.

When i finally got an Amiga 500 and played Ultima 6. Its was a little annoying. Music was irriating, It was awfully slow, a tiny viewing area of your party and surrondings. And over detailed graphics took away the Wonders of myterys of Ultima. i was so slow i never found the time to finished it.

So i bypassed Ultima 7 and got a PC to play Ultima 8 - Pagan. Nice presentation, good grpahics alright. But Ultima has lost its playability, imagination. To me Ultima was dead. So i gotta the Ultima Underworlds insteads and found them ok

Recently I had a quick buzz at missed Ultimas i missed and that was 1 or 2.

Ultima 4 to me was the best . Ultima 5 wasnt bad either!

I never liked any of the Ultima-Games. I prefer role-playing games like Bard's Tale III, Might and Magic III + VI, Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Pools of Darkness, Death Knights of Krynn, Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder and finally....... Baldur's Gate II.

And I'm hardly waiting for Neverwinter Nights

For a re-engineered version of Ultima 7 which works on modern PCs, supports higher resolutions, and has numerous fixes and tweaks look here:

http://exult.sourceforge.net/

(Original of Ultima 7 required)
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You missed Ultima 9 - Ascension! I know many Ultima fans didn't like it, and many people said it was too simple, small and buggy compared to other Ultima games, but I finished it not long ago and I must say it's pretty entertaining (and really cool looking). And I spent around 40-50 hours on it and never saw the slightest bug! Maybe I bought a patched version

In Spain, the 1541 disk drive wasn't very popular. I had two Datassettes, so I never had the chance to lay my hands over a copy of any of the Ultima games Too bad, because I saw the 5th installment of the series at some friend's home (he was one of the first persons in town to own a PC), and I thought it was one of the best games I had ever seen. I immediately fell in love with it, and looked for it desperately... until I found it on one of my summer English courses in Cornwall (southern England -and a very nice place; BTW, anyone from Truro, Camborne or Redruth here? -). But, of course, the game was C64 Disk only.

I could only play the first chapters in the saga thanks to emulators. At last! But the feeling wasn't the same. As everybody knows, nothing beats the real thing.

The first Ultima I owned was Ultima VII: The Black Gate, for the PC. And I must say it's an *awesome* game. The degree of interaction with the environment was simply amazing. You could do almost *everything*, from venturing into a dungeon and fighting a dragon to baking some bread! Honest! You could wander in Britain and watch as people went by to their business. At night, everybody met at the local inn and had some beers as a band called "The Avatars" played some medieval music. Truly amazing!

Ultima VIII: Pagan was the worst chapter in the saga IMO.

But no one has mentioned the side-stories so far. I mean, do you know Ultima Underworld? One of the best games ever, at the time. A TRUE 3D environment (and it was released when the FPS genre was almost nonexistent! People were then amazed at Wolfenstein 3D!) and a deep (no pun intended) plot.
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