Ultima VII Revisited

Re:Ultima VII Revisited by vancroft on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @02:21AM (#45976738)

So funny to see this here, I was just looking into Ultima remakes last night, and saw this one among others. Looks really awesome. I never played any of the Ultima games back in the day, and have bounced off them when trying in later years. This should make Ultima VII a lot more accessible and playable.

There's also a remake of Ultima Underworld being made in Godot: https://github.com/hankmorgan/UnderworldGodot

Hoping for these projects to succeed, both U7 and UU sound like incredible games that deserve to be accessible to modern gamers.

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Re:Ultima VII Revisited by esafak on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @08:56AM (#45979544)

UU was teh shizz. I wonder what it would look like with photorealistic renders.

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Re:Ultima VII Revisited by cholantesh on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @10:28AM (#45980770)

Not good, I imagine; IMO part of the magic of a game from the era is that blocky aesthetic. I'm reminded of how Dracula X Chronicles completely sucks all the joy out of Rondo of Blood with ugly 3D models and weird arrangements of the compositions with 'real' instruments (or just a different synth).

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Re:Ultima VII Revisited by mtillman on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @11:47AM (#45981743)

The only reason to play that version is the SotN unlock for the PSP and even then, easier to just download the PSX iso.

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Re:Ultima VII Revisited by Cpoll on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @12:11PM (#45982029)

The PSP SotN was different enough than the NA PSX release, including a new Maria mode (different than the Saturn one), and a new translation (technically better, but retranslates some iconic lines).

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Re:Ultima VII Revisited by entropicdrifter on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @12:30PM (#45982253)

Perhaps most notably, the "What is a man?" scene was completely retranslated

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Re:Ultima VII Revisited by cholantesh on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @01:47PM (#45983386)

I guess if you have/had a PSP this isn't an option but they did release a collection for the PS4 called Requiem that has these changes packed in.

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Re:Ultima VII Revisited by anthk on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @09:06AM (#45979650)

You can play Arx Libertatis today with the assets bought from GOG (Arx Fatalis). The game is really close to UU.

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Re:Ultima VII Revisited by Razengan on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @04:18PM (#45985352)

Ultima Underworld also came out before Doom!

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Re:Ultima VII Revisited by mtillman on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @11:48AM (#45981757)

The updated camera angle is the killer feature for me. That’s the only issue I have with the original and I had that same issue when it came out.

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Re:Ultima VII Revisited by dunham on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @12:42PM (#45982390)

I played them (starting with 4) back in the day. And 35 years later, I fixed a bug in the ScummVM version of U4. I discovered it while showing the game to my kid.

I couldn't have predicted that back then. Although as a kid, I did fix a "bug" in Ultima that required the floppy disk when you had it installed on HD.

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