Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress... (2024)

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The DOS version available on GOG works well. It is also recommended that you then apply a fan upgrade that improves the graphics and corrects a few bugs, which is available here: https://exodus.voyd.net/projects/ultima2/

Runs well.

As for the game itself, you can take two approaches:

1. Follow a walkthrough. That is what I did and unfortunately, there is zero fun with that approach. All you do is mindlessly farm gold to progress your character and eventually the storyline (bribing certain NPCs). Gold farming is securing a ship and basically one-shotting mobs along the coast with really, no risk to your character. It’s brainless and unfun.

2. The other approach is to figure things out on what to do by talking to various NPCs to solve what to do. Maybe there is a mildly fun game doing that.

Just like my critique for Ultima 1, it’s a poor CRPG based on how a character progresses (levelling doesn’t accomplish anything, you just buy progression).

Doing dungeons are pointless. As a result, class differentiation is pointless. Don’t waste your time with this slop.

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What ? You don't need anything from the bartender. The ring to go to Minax is sold by someone under "Atree" in that town in America. Same with the only sword able to hurt her, it's sold in that same city by someone in prison. For the rest, they are dropped by Thieft when you slay them.

The bartender only offer tips and one of the NPCs says "great game" indeed... But that's in the transcript.

Oh, and that's a true game from Richard Gariott, he only allied himself with Sierra On-line because they were the only ones which accepted to sell a clothed map with the game... So no, it's not something made by them "based on what Richard said". It's not because the game is bad that suddenly, Richard Gariott isn't the true author, he can still makes mistake ! Also I don't think the idea of using the Earth was so bad, as himself said, it was necessary to really grasp the impact of time travel since he couldn't exactly show another world with different time period like Chrono Trigger, they didn't had the graphics for that to have any impact.

Nah, the real problem with this game is that you have to grind so many monsters for gold and objects that it's not even funny...

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