Ultima VII: The Black Gate [PC - Opening/Gameplay]

Ultima is a series of fantasy computer role-playing games from Origin Systems, created by Richard Garriott, a.k.a. Lord British. The first Ultima, in its 9-part saga, was released in 1980. The seventh part was released in 1992, and often it's considered to be the best RPG ever created, due to the great storyline, huge and lively world, and the general "do-what-you-want" attitude. It was such a success, that an add-on (The Forge of Virtue) and the second part (Serpent Isle) and the add-on to the second part (Silver Seed) were released in 1993. As GameSpot stated "(Ultima VII) was the most masterfully executed of the Ultima series." Ultima VII is still popular, even today, thanks to the Exult, a recreation of Ultima VII engine, which allows to play U7 on modern machines such as PC, Mac and PSP.

Aside from the description, the Ultima saga is my most favourite series of games. It's really a shame, that it went downhill after VII, and ended on IX.

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[Izimiger]

Gotta Agree with u there Novacoma... this is to nostalgic makes me wanna play it again. VIII was pretty depressing, i mean it was a good game... But no partymembers? in a dark, cold, scary world? yea depressing. I gotta say, I still prefer this game to many recent games tho. Anyway the music really takes me back. Thanks for this Vid.

[Galbalan]

Chapter 1 : Something is obviously amiss.

Iolo is always puzzled watching the Avatar.

"Avatar, thou work in mysterious ways..."

After being gone for 200 years he proceeds through town picking up this and that and somehow knows exactly where to go and how to solve the troubles before him. Without even examing anything!

"It is good to have you back Avatar!"

Avatar : (Hmm... these should be worth a pretty penny...)

[MrOcelot9]

The arcade port (or PC port)for the PSP is A.E.S.O.M.E. !

[r3dfella]

used to play this a ton back in the day.

[piromaniac9999]

@Izimiger Want to hear something funny? i-m playing this game now and actually have too much food.There are some weird creatures that are green that always drop food,and i don-t know if i killed giants or cyclops,but they are north of the city of love.

The cave is full of giants,and they drop gold nuggets.

[Evilmonkey66699]

The Guardian was a knock at former EA president (and founder) Trip Hawkins,at least I recall it being Trip if not him then another former head of EA as at a event he tried to convince Origin to join with EA as EA can help them out and all that, but either way he and the whole Fellowship were jabs at EA, for example Batlin's two cronies were called Abraham and Elizabeth(E and A), and the three Blackrock items used to open the Blackgate were the three symbols of EA's former logo.

[TheDeev]

Wow! I remember when I got the game as a birthday gift while in college. It's like Star Wars in that no matter how many years passed since its initial release, it still feels new and exciting. In fact, when rereleased last Tuesday on GOG, it got the most euphoric reaction I've ever seen there. Still a classic and still a bestseller after all these years.

[GameHopping]

I remember at being in awe of the graphics. :p

[deltaforceee]

ah the old video game graphics lol takes you back to the games of the 90s

[adamg6284]

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[baboneya]

the opening scene with butterfly was a knock on kings quest