Ultima VII: Revisited

Reminds me a little of the Ultima V - Lazarus[1] project, where volunteers re-implemented the entire game in the Dungeon Siege 3D engine. They also added tons of new characters and dialog, side quests, a richer plot, and new artwork and music. They did all this and managed to keep the major plot and game elements the same. They actually managed to greatly improve on what is unarguably :) the best Ultima of the series.

1: https://www.u5lazarus.com

I never played the Ultima games but I did have a crippling Ultima Online addiction in high school for two years.

This video definitely brought back some memories.

This is remarkable. I tried to replay U7 over the pandemic and it was just too clunky, even with Exult. This looks like it addresses my issues while perserving the original aesthetic.

AI voice acting on-the-fly from in-game text would be slick.

Tangent - Do any games let you set a speed multiplier for in-game speech? I'd love to run dialog at 1.5x like I do for podcasts.

It’s still isometric, luckily. I always wanted to have Ultima VII with Ultima VIII perspective, and this is kind of a superset of that.

this is just a recreation, not an expansion, but xu4 is playable on linux without wine.

https://xu4.sourceforge.net/

Related:

Exult: Recreating Ultima VII for modern operating systems

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43140645

Would any code from the Exult project be useful to help implement the gameplay?

Looks cool. I loved Ultima II and III as a kid. Even wrote some text walk-throughs back then. Played them on Apple //e and //c, the last Apple products I ever owned (or ever will). I also ditched all Windows about 25 years ago.

I suppose to play on Linux though, I would need to run some Wine setup huh?

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