Ultima Exodus walkthrough (pt 1: create 4 characters)

This is a narrated video walkthrough of the NES game Ultima Exodus. It is split into 20 segments and spans roughly 2 3/4 hours. I first recorded the video then added the narration on top of it and even after the narration, I've made a few more discoveries of tips and tricks, explained as needed in this description.

The first part involves creating a save file and four characters along with the intro to the game.

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• Ultima
• III
• Exodus
• NES
• narrated
• video
• walkthrough
• walk
• through
• tips
• tricks
• hints
• game

[valcaron]

Hey Uli is there any slight chance you could consider doing a full playthrough/Lets Play of another game in the Ultima series as well? Lord British considered Ultima 4 and 7 to be his best works of the series.

Both are PC games, but only Ultima 1-6 seem to still be purchasable these days. Not sure where Ultima 7 (or 8) can be bought.

[ulillillia]

It must be a console before I even consider it. That's the trouble I had with Might and Magic.

[valcaron]

@ulillillia Actually I just discovered there exists a NES version as well as a Sega Master System version of Ultima 4 :D. The Sega version, from what I've read, is more accurate to the PC version's gameplay than the NES version... unfortunately I think it was Europe-only so it's probably hard to find.

[ulillillia]

If it's foreign, the odds of playing it are essentially zero. It has to be a US release (and also in English as I don't know any other languages (programming languages don't count as I know C, CSS, and HTML)).

[drewdudy]

how do i save my game??? on the NES

[ulillillia]

This is explained in another segment. There are 2 inns present in the game, one in the easy-to-access castle that you'll find the king in (take the left path), the other in a hidden town that's covered much later.

[Bastiest]

In this walkthrough I will state the obvious for you.

[mrcuddles100]

I love you, ulillillia

[thesnare100]

@valcaron 88 actually ulililillia, it was featured in the 2nd issue of nintendo power, maybe you're thinking the ultima 4:Quest of the avatar nes version

[thesnare100]

Yeah, I would have gone with a fuzzy wizard at least, you don't like wizards? So, they can get max spellpoints and level to cast destroy (for wizards) and death (for clerics)

[thesnare100]

@ulillillia Why does it?

[Shmey]

@banduril DosBox runs the game a little shady. Yes, it slows down encounters and basically anything that has AI attached to it at all. However, background animations are not slowed down. The whirlpool is a part of the ocean's background animation. Functionally, this means it is nearly impossible to find a pirate ship because the whirlpool basically takes only a short amount of time to cover the ENTIRE OCEAN!

Yeah, in the PC version, the whirlpool doesn't discriminate. It's a ship-eater.

[valcaron]

@ulillillia Only the Sega Master System version was Europe-only (which is unfortunate because, in screenshots, it looks like it has the best art style out of all of the ports). The NES version was released in the U.S. in 1990.

I'm currently playing through the PC version from 1985 -- 16-color EGA graphics, no music, sound effects coming from the PC speaker... and yet I'm having more fun with it than I've had with certain recent multi-million-dollar-budget RPGs released lately :)

[krononomikon]

@111random Half-Sorcery powers and some Steal&Disarm - at least in the PC version he had a little Steal & Disarm boost, like the Barbarian, Ranger, and such, yet in the NES, I don't know if there are "some" Steal & Disarm with others as opposed to the full boost with Thieves...

The characters are kind of like this:

Fighter > Attack, Cleric > Prayers (will power), Wizard > Sorcery (magic), Thief > Stealing & Disarming.

The other characters are more of a blend, with the ranger being a solid avg.

[krononomikon]

@ulillillia They have an NES version of Ultima IV by the same subtitle: "Quest of the Avatar" :)

If it's anything like the PC version, then it is indeed a fun game! :D