/vr/ - Retro Games

Not just CRPG - I'm putting it up against consoles as well, and it clearly comes out ahead.

If I play U7 for a few hours will I get used to the fucking insane font eventually? When I go back and play UW it takes a few hours to get used to the pixelation but then it become quite immersive. I can't get into U7 though because the font is seriously fucked up.

>>2833718
JUST

>>2214505
Beats the hell out of this shit. Literally the worst camera angle ever. All you ever see are the tops of your characters heads.

Must've been hell designing identifiable pixel art from this angle too.

>>2189031
Play Ultima 7 with the exult source port dude.

>>2176492
I just googled some screenshots of Ultima 7 (I'm mostly going in blind to this series), the inventory doesn't have a grid and you just drag and drop freely? This just looks horrible. Adventure/RPG games got so goddamn clunky when mouse support became the new standard.

On that note, this font is giving me eye strain just looking at these screenshots. For one thing, the lowercase "v" and "b" are almost identical. I might sound like I'm being an autist, but I can't imagine playing a whole game like this.

Is Ultima 7 worth playing?

>>1741626
I thought 7 was a fantastic game. 8 obviously lacked the tremendous scope and depth of 7 but was still hugely playable. I also liked the plot. I did miss the character portraits when talking to NPCs though.

>>1744241
>not having the F8 Cheat Menu
Looks like you're screwed. Did anyone else have that cheat menu? Hours of fun back in the day.

After reading the thread a little more carefully it's a shame to see it's largely negative. I also looked up this "Spoony" guy's videos to see what all the fuss was about.

>HOLDS UP U8 DISC
>POORLY DESIGNED ABOMINATION! BLAH BLAH BLAH RUINATION HATE HATE HATE

Poisonous self-satisfied smug whining? As if life isn't too fucking short already. Switched it off right there, never to be watched again. Ultima rules, even the not-so-great ones.

It's not a bad game but people pretend it's perfect and other skip the direct predecessors in their wake which is bad because they are great games and knowing them improves the experience for 7.
It changed many aspects of the series for the worse. The world is severely shrunken, limited to two levels and dungeons in particular are constricted in the mountains. The inventory is a huge annoyance with quest items seemingly disappearing under mountains of stuff. The combat becomes chaotic. Game elements like line of sight are removed or dumbed down. The story though amazing feels incomplete and rushed.