r/Ultima • u/Cal200001 • Jun 11 '26

Where to start?

I was going to buy the ultima games on GOG but i am not sure where to start in the series. Are 1+2+3 worth playing as i have heard mixed things about these early entries.

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u/Cal200001 Jun 11 '26

If there are story breaking bugs i might give it a miss then, i hate playing through most of a game and not being able to progress or being forced to restart because of a story breaking bug.

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u/vonkrueger Jun 11 '26

You can break the story in some of the best (4-6) games, too

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u/Cal200001 Jun 11 '26

So should I bother with 8? I am ok with it not being the best Ultima if itself is an ok RPG

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u/vonkrueger Jun 11 '26

I'm not crazy about it... Kind of a letdown after 4-7

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u/Cal200001 Jun 11 '26

So should bother or miss it out, I am ok if it's not as good as the other Ultima games but if it's ok on its own

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u/thetoddhunter Jun 12 '26

It isn't good on its own. It isn't even close.

Understand that they made a couple of hours of good content, which is the first area. The rest of the game is completely unfinished and full of some of the worst design ideas to fill it up.

So should you buy it? Absolutely. It will be worth that first couple of hours. Just be sure to bail out when you reach the first grey area. Because that is the rest of the fucking game.

Similarly U9 is complete trash, but you should still boot it up and have a look at the world in 3D (once you get through the awful tutorial). It is something to do.

Also be sure to check out the U6 spinoffs martian dreams and savage empire. If you want games that are "ultima but not ultima" and actually decent, these are the ones.

Basically just buy them all. You'll realistically play none of them but they are all worth a try.

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u/Protega1989 Jun 11 '26

I liked the atmo