More Ultima Titles Coming To Good Old Games
The Wing Commander CIC has an article up which links to the following video at G4TV:
Obligatory video embed.
Pull quote:
Now we’re coming back with a new wave of EA classics. And we’ll be bringing you more Wing Commander games, more Ultima games, games from the Lands of Lore series and games from the Sim City series, tonnes of great EA classics all coming to GOG in the next few weeks.
More Ultima games, you say? Stay tuned, Dragons and Dragonettes; your summer is about to get classic.
Well, if they put Ultima V out there, I’ll have to download it just on general principles.
Love the portrait. Ultima V is awesome. IV-VI are my favorites.
I’d probably get the game some other way (like by owning it) and send a few one dollar bills to the key members of the original dev team. They’d probably think it was funny and wonder if anyone ELSE knew about it. Hopefully they wouldn’t send it to their tax attorney and onward to the IRS for permanent record.
Just watched the video… Damn, that’s awesome. Looking up Spell Force 2: Shadow Wars now.
LANDS OF LORE. Yesss…
I don’t get it. What is the Ultima Forever site about then? I thought that was going to be EA’s means of distributing Ultima titles via Origin download. Seems a rather wide net to cast for EA to make money off a back catalog, but I guess they finally get that they can still squeeze a few more drops out of old games. Unfortunately, because of licensing issues, those EA games on GOG aren’t packaged with expansions, eg the Privateer release sans Righteous Fury expansion. Hopefully, that gets corrected in the future. Sid Meir’s Alpha Centauri and Crusader: No Remorse were important releases for me since I couldn’t find an affordable copy of either or even know if they would work on relatively modern systems.
Still, I am so glad for GOG. My only regret is that they weren’t around when I was busy buying up old titles from Ebay which I missed out on from the ’90s and early 2000’s. You don’t even want to know how much I spent on a fresh out of the box Kilrathi Saga.
Speaking of the Kilrathi Saga, I would love for GOG to release that.
DosBox and Gog.com are definitely a retro gamer’s best friend.
You will soon see what the Ultima Forever site is about, and it’s about a lot more than just distributing the old Origin catalog. Stay tuned. It’s big!
Whoops… time to download Ultima V and VI
No seriously, they could just make those games freeware and add all the extras like in Ultima 4.
I liked all that extra stuff.
I gather that at one point, people at Mythic were lobbying for just that; a free release of all the games, or at least a goodly chunk of them. The GOG deal is about the next best thing, since it makes the games available for a relatively low price, and then in a form that works on most Windows operating systems.
Old software, just like new software, should never be free. Blasphemy! Then again, it’s the thought that counts.