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New Fan-Made Ultima Remakes!

Posted by Rampant Coyote on July 7, 2010

First off:

Ultima IV: Flash Version

I’m actually pretty impressed with what I’ve seen of this. Besides porting the (now public domain, courtesy of EA) Apple II version of Ultima IV to Flash for browser play, the author – Blair Legget, an out-of-work mainstream games industry veteran – also took it upon himself to make some enhancements to the game.

Now, I’m not a purist, though I do consider Ultima IV to be one of the most significant milestones in CRPG design. Looking through the list of changes that he’s made, I’m not seeing anything that doesn’t strike me as an enhancement. Honestly, I’m pretty friggin’ impressed.

Next up, a remake of another classic Ultima game:

The Ultima VI Project – Version 1.0 Released

They’ve finally hit the “final” version. Until version 1.01, of course. I’ve not played this one yet, but it may finally justify my purchase so many years ago of Dungeon Siege, a game I just never warmed up to in spite of trying to play it through three times. Then again, I never actually completed Ultima VI: The False Prophet, either, in spite of multiple attempts to play it through (I kept getting bored and annoyed while searching for the pieces of the pirate map).  Could this fan-made mod for Dungeon Siege actually solve the ennui problem with both games?

Hat tip to RPGWatch for the heads-up on both these announcements!


Filed Under: General - Comments: 6 Comments to Read



  • devon said,

    you should play the Ultima VI project, if only because I drew some portraits for it :).

  • Rampant Coyote said,

    I intend to. Just gotta find my old Dungeon Siege disc…

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  • WCG said,

    I need to try both of these. Well, Ultima IV was the first Ultima – and certainly one of the first RPGs – I ever played, but I stupidly sold the game a few years later (one of the few games I ever got rid of, in fact).

    And I bought Dungeon Siege awhile back, just to play the Ultima V and VI remakes. Unfortunately, the Ultima V remake kept locking up on me, so I didn’t get very far with that. Hopefully, this one will work better. (I don’t have any trouble with Dungeon Siege itself, though I guess I wasn’t fond enough of it to play long.)

  • Calibrator said,

    > And I bought Dungeon Siege awhile back, just to play the Ultima V and VI remakes.

    Do I sense a trend? I recently bought Doom3 in order to play the DarkMod total conversion.

    > Unfortunately, the Ultima V remake kept locking up on me, so I didn’t get very far with that. Hopefully, this one will work better. (I don’t have any trouble with Dungeon Siege itself, though I guess I wasn’t fond enough of it to play long.)

    Same here…

  • Alfie said,

    If you just have Dungeon Siege, without the LOA extension, you have to install a 1.11 patch before playing.

    Our sites are down for the moment, but you can find help and explainations on http://www.projectbritannia.com

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