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Ultima VIII?
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 8:06 am
by Cosmas Atha
To Developers:
Have you ever considered making exult for Ultima VIII??
Re: Ultima VIII?
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 8:11 am
by suraimu
Nope, never.
That Pentagram thing, that was just a fluke - they were drunk when they wrote that.

Re: Ultima VIII?
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 8:59 am
by Dominus
To Cosmas Atha: have you ever considered reading the FAQ?

Re: Ultima VIII?
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 12:15 pm
by Vic
I may be in the minority, but I think that game sucks. The graphics and game play are terrible. It is nothing like any of the earlier games and I am completely dissappointed. I played the first few minutes of it in the town and gave up. I loved U7 Part 1 and 2. Game play was better, graphics were good and the plot was better. I don't think I will ever finish U8. Comments anyone?
Re: Ultima VIII?
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 1:43 pm
by Dominus
look at the snapshots of the pentagram tools. Use them with U8 and tell me again that the graphics were bad. They are beautiful!
Re: Ultima VIII?
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 2:43 pm
by SB-X
I always thought the graphics were wonderful, but I just got bored after wandering around for a while. The object and NPC interactivity was not what I was expecting after previous Ultimas. On the plus side, it has psychedelic mushrooms.
Re: Ultima VIII?
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2002 6:17 pm
by Gargunza
I played through Pagan again recently because I always had fond memories of the game, in spite of the well-publicized problems. Well I must admit the problems with the game in my opinion do outweigh the assets.
I think it's got a great, if dark, storyline; unique and fantastic spell-casting, some interesting characters (though not as much humor as earlier Ultimae), some very good graphics, and a great ending. On the downside, it has horrible jumping puzzles, repetitive music, nowhere near the interactivity of False Prophet or Black Gate, linear gameplay, NO contiguous map (it's a series of smaller maps connected at "joints"), and the cliffhanger ending isn't really resolved in a satisfying way by Ascension. (About which don't get me started.)
I'd love to see someone rework the plot and some game mechanics of Pagan into a better game -- obviously this would have to be cleared with the powers that be, but considering what's been done with Ultima 5 & 9, as well as Akalabeth, I think it might be possible...
Re: Ultima VIII?
Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 12:58 am
by Natreg Dragon
hehe I think you donĂ½ know about Exile.
our site is here:
http://www.exodusmachine.com/ultima8/
it is a remake project of Ultima 8 using the Neverwinter nights engine. We are four people at the porject now: Dark Metal Dragon (Corvwyn), Eric, Dino the Dark Dragon and myself. and we want to do our best to improve storyline and correct all the inacuracies with older ultimas.