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wraith808:
Ultima 7 was the best for me... I spent way too much time with that game.  They were the definition of overproduced with all of their nice extras.  It seems that would be a good way to cut down on piracy- start making the game worth having the physical product again.

40hz:
Ultima 7 was the best for me... I spent way too much time with that game. -wraith808 (September 19, 2012, 07:38 PM)
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I spent way too much time with all of them.  ;D

They were the definition of overproduced with all of their nice extras.  It seems that would be a good way to cut down on piracy- start making the game worth having the physical product again.

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Exactly right. Most people don't mind paying if they feel they're getting their money's worth. And for most people that means nice packaging and some "spiffs" thrown in to make it seem special. That was something Lord British (aka Richard Garriott) understood all to well. Everybody else was packaging games in skinny paper folders like the old LP records came in. The Ultima series came in boxes. Nice colorful boxes with all this neat stuff in them! It was like Christmas opening up a new Ultima title. Forget they cost significantly more than other game titles during that era. We happily paid it because it was worth it. Getting that stuff along with the disk made Sosaria seem more real. Almost like it physically brought that imagined world into our own somewhat - and we had the map to prove it!

Better times! 8)

Crush:
I never saw the old Ultima games and had no really big interest to do it in the past. This perhaps could change now. In my games collection there´s the deluxe edition of Ultima 9 Ascension (and 7+8), but I still haven´t really played it, yet - only testing an hour if it works. On my old machine at this time it was extreme heavy stuff and ran like a slideshow as Outcast at its time. I want to dive into it more intensive one time. Nowadays it should play as it was meant to do or even better (with a 3DFX Glide Wrapper of course).

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