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Love this game! Fun fact is most of the assets from this game (graphics (including monsters)/sound effects) were taken from Eye of the Beholder III. In fact, the enemy at 7:35 is actually a boss in Eye III (Captain Fflar). I also have the Japanese PC-9801 version which I've played through on my channel.

Very nice review

is there source code available for serpent isle and ultima8?

Lost media is a shame.

Probably not a game for kids. Opps lol.

The best way to break the economy was to start the roulette wheel spinning, then save the game. Note where it stops, load the game, then quickly bet all your money there. Somehow you're allowed to bet while the game is playing, but the result always matches what it was during the save.

Eizo is great for professional use, but for the same price target why not considering an Arcooda 20139 which has 15kHz / 24kHz, HDMI, better response time and support for almost every of resolution?

Great video! I've got the 2007fpb myself. The lag is fine for me so long as I make sure nothing else is laggy, like I won't use bluetooth controllers with it. The Eizo looks great but I can't spend that kind of money. If one popped up used locally for a nice price I might buy it. What makes this difficult is most of the later 4:3 screens that might have had decent refresh rates were also extremely budget, so they're usually 1024x768 or something similar, not 1600x1200.

I had to use a bootdisc but it was worth it😅

Thanks for the video! Are you playing Eiyudian Hundred Heroes?

I didn't hear or see mention of it, but Underworld Ascendant is technically the game's true successor. Additionally, for anyone interested, there is a Unity port which improves the experience greatly, IMO. ruclips.net/video/Qt9kPzDRL2Q/видео.htmlsi=jEbYN1Uohr1qEjcx Edit: I just saw your follow up on the Unity port. Sorry😅

Que solo tenga 60 hz no es algo significativo. no considero que sea una desventaja.

See it: Ultima VIII Pagan - The Beautiful ruclips.net/video/0j6szrQ61Ro/видео.html

lol wasd was probably a Gog addition

If you said that in U9 that animals carrying gold is weird, in Fallout 4 I found a roach carrying a Fatman launcher.

I'm very disappointed it would have been great if someone had found The Lost Vale .Can't believe that the creators didn't have bigger ego and say no EA mfckers we will stage a fake theft in our headcounters and actually release it ourselves for free or something like that .

Have you tried this monitor with a Mister, any feedback?

i just love how spoony express our emotions when certain "situations" appear in the game, like: the Avatar caught by the Guardian, and the Great Earth Serpent did nothing, Spoony added some dialouge which apologize to Avatar with the excuse of they are too busy on restoring the balance in Serpent Isle. Btw, you made a great video on reviewing the plot cut too!

8:09 - Another thing is that Spark's portrait changes from crying to happy if you allow him to join your party. You are correct, with high base stats (probably even too high for a 14 year-old) at just level 1. Once Spark gets to level 9 and the correct training, he will have more useful stats than every party member except the Avatar. One of the things I didn't feel was realistic, since Dupre should be next after the Avatar. 10:29 - Mark & Recall is used to fast travel.

Blackrock Sword wise, Forge of Virtue was released ~5 months after Black Gate and about the same before UU2, probably they were already signficiantly through development to try and include the expansion content. Maybe not even working off a complete or final script for BG since they'd have overlapping development. If you came to it later (even I got the Ultima 7 complete edition with both games and expansions) you'd never entirely know that FoV was not originally part of the game.

Will say, for the museum, it depends on the premise that the museum is a reliable narrator. It'd make complete sense for a random tapestry weaver/painter to retcon the Avatars appearance in the first 3 game to match the one they're familiar with. And the artefacts could just be replicas. The Pagan references make no sense though, unless you really do a bunch of odd backend justifications that somehow his actions on Pagan were magically observed and noted.

Oh the boot disk. Basically MS-DOS couldn't handle memory (or wouldn't) so yeah Origin had this thing where you could setup a boot disk and basically run their own miniOS instead essentially to play the game Getting this kind of game out of pre-Pentium computers be crazy lol

Boot disks! These were disks that you would copy your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files onto. When booting up the PC, the disk drive would be read first, and therefore it would read the two files mentioned above. Why would someone do that? Within those files, you would determine the minimum to load while booting up, so that it would free up your system resources and the game could then have enough resources to run. FunFact (or not): Recently, I just came across my boot disk for Strike Commander FunFact 2: My friend purchased an Ultima game and also spent a bit more for the “speech pack”. Not sure if it was this one or not. It’s the one that starts out with a beheading(?)

EMS was an extended memory and, yeah... we had a different boot option every time you started the computer. Play Ultima 7, or boot normally.

Instead of saying the Avatar was replaced by a Changeling, i am more to the fans theory of "the Avatar had his bang(s) so hard in Pagan, until he had lost his memory of his previous adventures"

I have a Dell U2412M monitor. It is a 16:10 ratio with a resolution of 1920x1200. Like the 2007Fpb the panel is IPS which has good viewing angles. It is also LED backlit so it doesn't wear out anywhere as bad as old CCFL backlighting like my old 2007Fpb did. There is a feature to set the ratio to 4:3 so you can input any resulation upto 1600x1200 although it does not get on with the game with Psycho Pinball due to it's odd resolution.. If you have the psysical space and don't mind having the black borders on the left and right hand side this would also be an ideal cheaper alternative.

There were screenshots of an earlier version of Ultima IX which was apparently scrapped before being rebuilt completely to be 3D and have the new perspective. I thought that earlier version looked awesome; more like your classic Ultima. What we got instead was just hot garbage.

I was in college when this game came out. My roommate and I finished it, pre EZmode jump patch! I remember thinking what a crazy departure it was from previous Ultimas, but if you remember, Richard Garriott was a strong believer in his games pushing the tech envelope of PCs. I think U8 missed the mark a bit, because even though I didn't *hate* the game, it just didn't feel like an Ultima. It was also around this time (maybe a little later) that info was starting to come out about Ultima Online!

I am surprised the game was never leaked out after all this time. The code has to exist somewhere.

I had a similar model of this and noticed it had alot of ghosting it was very noticable in fast paced arcade racers like NFS Underground

Can accept 15kHz ? Even if not on specs, you need to test it to find out.

yeah, you really should play Chronicles of Myrtana mod, in my, and most of the polish gothic community opinion, is equal or even better than Gothic 2

A game where you don't feel like skipping the dialogue

Got a eizo s2134 since a year or so, colors and quality are the best in any 4:3 aspect ratio monitor by far, play PC old games in it is glorious, also my X6800 look amazing using with its XRP-4, but, and this is a BIG BUTT, the monitor is not compatible with OSSC or Framemeister, I always use upscaler on it the image freeze randomly making play anything upscaled imposible, also from OSSC 5x un 240p upscaled games always end in a signal error, I dont understand why, upscale 240p on 5X delivers exactly a 1600x1200 resolution. Anyone having same issue? Any solution to upscale games in this monitor?

The screams when someone's on fire are traumatizing lol.

I had that gravis gamepad. I think I used it with Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Nice to have on the PC in case a console-only friend wanted to try something.

This game is unique. It came out of nowhere and was like nothing we'd seen before. I'm surprised there were no imitators, this game is kind of in it's own genre.

"The Codex of Ultimate Wisdom?"

This game learned me to read fluent lizardmen language and I don't think I ever learned anything close to that in any other game

To me it looks a lot like Sega Genisis Dungeons and Dragons Warriors of the eternal light.

There was a retrospective (interview/podcasts) of gothic 1+2 and the original developers at piranha bytes on youtube from the channel "detail liebe" (german of course). there was a quote that the main lead designer/developer (mike hoge) was an ultima 6 fan and took inspiration from that game(s).

And then he dropped the same outro xD

"probably not the game for kids" Meanwhile me, playing this at 8: "this is awesome!"

I have fond memories of watching my brother in law play this game and just be in awe of the "open world gameplay" and the ability to steal things and loot corpses. Blew my mind, because all I've been playing was side scrollers, shoot'em ups, and fighting games. It was like medival GTA.

This game was absolutely incredible on a technical level. Real light sourcing. Able to look up and down and travel in a true 3D space. Not to mention the insane amount of interaction with the environment and a complex social system that reacts dynamically to your decisions. Nothing at the time came close.

Just found out recently from a comment here and elsewhere that Underworld Unity has been cancelled, and that Hank Morgan will be moving everything to Godot. Here's a link: github.com/hankmorgan/UnderworldGodot

After over a decade of work, this project has been cancelled and the GitHub project is shutdown due to the dependency on Unity. Hank Morgan is starting over from scratch with Godot engine.

13:22 what

so this is the first spider mine ever

Thanks so much for covering these games from my childhood! Keep up the great content!