Spam Spam Spam Humbug 132 – Ultima 9: An Epic and Powerful Play
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What began as a plan to interleave Byte-Sized Virtue episodes with shorter Spam Spam Spam Humbug episodes featuring commentaries about Ultima 9 wound up being more or less entirely disrupted by a cold that leveled WtF Dragon’s family over the Christmas break (and, in fact, laid WtF low with a bout of pneumonia; joy).
So in an effort to get back on track, this week Jarrod Kailef (Kailef Dragon) offers his thoughts on the game.
Full show notes at spamspamspamhumbug.com.
Yeah, WTF changed my mind on this one. I’d given Ultima 9 a solid try twice. Once when it was released and ridiculous buggy. Once later on when it was vanilla. Then I finally played it with Beautiful Britannia mod and the other fan patch the fixed the bugs and then Ultima 9 really came into its own for me.
OH! Also the speed cheat that increases the Avatar’s run speed is absolutely vital. Put all of that together and it’s a fun little game. Britain is actually a nice little sandbox when the game is stable enough to run it.