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| | |  Exult: Encyclopedia II - Ultima VII - Part One: The Black GateIn Ultima VII: The Black Gate (1992), two centuries have passed since the Gargoyle threat was solved and the Avatar is suddenly whisked into Britannia by a red moongate.
As the game starts, The Guardian, an evil creature, taunts the Avatar, telling him that Britannia "has entered into a new age of enlightenment", and that he will eventually rule Britannia. The Avatar arrives to Britannia via a red moongate, and as he arrives to Trinsic, he's asked to solve a ritualistic murder that occurred the night before. He also learns that "The Fellowship", a new rel ...
See also:Ultima VII, Ultima VII - Part One: The Black Gate, Ultima VII - List of notable characters, Ultima VII - Rating, Ultima VII - Forge of Virtue expansion, Ultima VII - Part Two: Serpent Isle, Ultima VII - The Silver Seed expansion, Ultima VII - Technical issues, Ultima VII - Super Nintendo version, Ultima VII - Fan projects and remakes Read more here: » Ultima VII: Encyclopedia II - Ultima VII - Part One: The Black Gate |
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| | | | Exult: Encyclopedia II - Ultima - Overview Ultima tells the story of a hero who would be summoned by the ruler of a different world known first as Sosaria, later as Britannia, whenever troubles would arise and put in danger the peace of the land. The ruler of that world is called Lord British, and his pleas would be answered by a stranger coming from another world known only as Earth through a magical portal. As time passed, that hero would overcome several obstacles and fight several entities (both in Britannia and in other planes), and gain the title of Avatar, ...
See also:Ultima, Ultima - Overview, Ultima - The games, Ultima - The original series, Ultima - Other Ultima games, Ultima - Unreleased Ultima games, Ultima - Ultima Online series 1997, Ultima - Console games, Ultima - Related projects, Ultima - Engine rewrite projects, Ultima - Remakes and new games, Ultima - Major and recurring characters, Ultima - References to Ultima in Other Games Read more here: » Ultima: Encyclopedia II - Ultima - Overview |
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| | | | Exult: Encyclopedia II - Avatar Ultima - Appearance and customization Since the games focus on the spiritual growth and hope to teach some good ideas to the players as well, the implied idea behind the Avatar character is to make the in-game character a mirror image of the players themselves (the character in the game, in a way, becoming an "avatar" of the player), but this is not explicitly mentioned.
In all Ultima games (except for Ultima IX), the player is allowed to name the Avatar character how they want. Ultima IX does not allow the character to be named, but the option is again open in the fan-made dial ...
See also:Avatar Ultima, Avatar Ultima - History, Avatar Ultima - Dialogue, Avatar Ultima - Appearance and customization, Avatar Ultima - Companions of the Avatar, Avatar Ultima - Original eight companions, Avatar Ultima - Other companions, Avatar Ultima - Cameos in other games Read more here: » Avatar Ultima: Encyclopedia II - Avatar Ultima - Appearance and customization |
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| | | | Exult: Encyclopedia II - Ultima VIII - Overview Following the defeat of Batlin on Serpent Isle, the Guardian drops the Avatar onto a world that he had already conquered, Pagan. The world of Pagan is in eternal twilight as the result of an ancient battle between the Elemental Titans and the evil "Destroyer", which resulted in the victory of the Titans. However the people of Pagan had to pay a high price for that — the world's sun was eternally dimmed, and they must now worship the Titans as gods. The Titans bestow powers on their most ardent followers, but they are otherwise cruel and unloving rulers, and their followers terrorize the general population. And wha ...
See also:Ultima VIII, Ultima VIII - Overview, Ultima VIII - The Lost Vale expansion, Ultima VIII - Plot, Ultima VIII - Compatibility with modern systems, Ultima VIII - Fan remakes Read more here: » Ultima VIII: Encyclopedia II - Ultima VIII - Overview |
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| | | | Exult: Encyclopedia II - Ultima VII - Part Two: Serpent Isle Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle was released in 1993. While the Avatar destroys the Black Moongate that the Guardian was coming through, Batlin flees to Serpent Isle. The Warriors of Destiny pursue the rogue fanatic and find a strange land that has many very different customs than Britannia: a large, icy island, only lately recolonized by men, with many remains of an ancient culture where serpents played a central role.
This is the first game in the series to take place outside Britannia as it has been known since Ultima I ...
See also:Ultima VII, Ultima VII - Part One: The Black Gate, Ultima VII - List of notable characters, Ultima VII - Rating, Ultima VII - Forge of Virtue expansion, Ultima VII - Part Two: Serpent Isle, Ultima VII - The Silver Seed expansion, Ultima VII - Technical issues, Ultima VII - Super Nintendo version, Ultima VII - Fan projects and remakes Read more here: » Ultima VII: Encyclopedia II - Ultima VII - Part Two: Serpent Isle |
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| | | | Exult: Encyclopedia II - Ultima VII - Technical issues Both parts of Ultima VII used a non-standard DOS memory management extension, called Voodoo Memory Manager. This was not a typical "DOS extender"; while DOS extenders typically provide protected mode features, Voodoo merely provided flat memory model for real mode. This setup was quite quirky; a very non-standard DOS extended memory setup was needed to play the game.
Later, when DOS started to fall into disuse, Voodoo started to become somewhat of a stress test for DOS compatibility. Notably, Windows 95 and later have severe problems cooperating with the games. Modern Windows rele ...
See also:Ultima VII, Ultima VII - Part One: The Black Gate, Ultima VII - List of notable characters, Ultima VII - Rating, Ultima VII - Forge of Virtue expansion, Ultima VII - Part Two: Serpent Isle, Ultima VII - The Silver Seed expansion, Ultima VII - Technical issues, Ultima VII - Super Nintendo version, Ultima VII - Fan projects and remakes Read more here: » Ultima VII: Encyclopedia II - Ultima VII - Technical issues |
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| | | | Exult: Encyclopedia II - Ultima VII - Super Nintendo version FCI / Pony Canyon published the SNES version of Ultima VII, simply titled Ultima: The Black Gate, which was created by a small team inside Origin Systems.
This version was largely different from original since the PC version of the game was a then-huge twenty megabytes, yet this translation could use only one megabyte of memory for all of the game data and program. The maps and many usable items and plotlines had to be redesigned from scratch, and the game progr ...
See also:Ultima VII, Ultima VII - Part One: The Black Gate, Ultima VII - List of notable characters, Ultima VII - Rating, Ultima VII - Forge of Virtue expansion, Ultima VII - Part Two: Serpent Isle, Ultima VII - The Silver Seed expansion, Ultima VII - Technical issues, Ultima VII - Super Nintendo version, Ultima VII - Fan projects and remakes Read more here: » Ultima VII: Encyclopedia II - Ultima VII - Super Nintendo version |
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| | | | Exult: Encyclopedia II - Avatar Ultima - Dialogue In Ultima I to III, the Stranger was a silent protagonist whose speech was never shown. In Ultima IV and onward, the player must choose keywords (in early parts by typing them out, in VII by picking them). Thus the other characters discuss things with the Avatar, but apart of the topic, the player never sees what the Avatar actually says. By tradition, the dialogue choices the player knows beforehand are "name", "job" and "bye" (and also rarely "health"). This is also parodied in Ultima VII where an actor playing the Avatar has hundreds of lines to memor ...
See also:Avatar Ultima, Avatar Ultima - History, Avatar Ultima - Dialogue, Avatar Ultima - Appearance and customization, Avatar Ultima - Companions of the Avatar, Avatar Ultima - Original eight companions, Avatar Ultima - Other companions, Avatar Ultima - Cameos in other games Read more here: » Avatar Ultima: Encyclopedia II - Avatar Ultima - Dialogue |
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| | | | Exult: Encyclopedia II - Ultima - The games
Ultima - The original series.
Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness (1981)
Ultima II:The Revenge of the Enchantress (1982)
Ultima III: Exodus (1983)
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (1985)
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny (1988)
Ultima VI: The False Prophet (1990)
Ultima VII, released in two parts, The Black Gate (1992) and Serpent Isle (1993)
Ultima VIII: Pagan (1994)
Ul ...
See also:Ultima, Ultima - Overview, Ultima - The games, Ultima - The original series, Ultima - Other Ultima games, Ultima - Unreleased Ultima games, Ultima - Ultima Online series 1997, Ultima - Console games, Ultima - Related projects, Ultima - Engine rewrite projects, Ultima - Remakes and new games, Ultima - Major and recurring characters, Ultima - References to Ultima in Other Games Read more here: » Ultima: Encyclopedia II - Ultima - The games |
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| | | | Exult: Encyclopedia II - Ultima - Related projects Many communities of dedicated programmers have taken it upon themselves to patch the old Ultima games to run under modern operating systems, or to remake and/or revise their cherished series with modern gaming engines. This is a partial listing of them:
Ultima - Engine rewrite projects.
Ultima Classics Revisited - An open-source, work-in-progress portable engine, currently covering Akalabeth (complete) and Ultima I (partial).
u3project - An open-source, work-in-progress ...
See also:Ultima, Ultima - Overview, Ultima - The games, Ultima - The original series, Ultima - Other Ultima games, Ultima - Unreleased Ultima games, Ultima - Ultima Online series 1997, Ultima - Console games, Ultima - Related projects, Ultima - Engine rewrite projects, Ultima - Remakes and new games, Ultima - Major and recurring characters, Ultima - References to Ultima in Other Games Read more here: » Ultima: Encyclopedia II - Ultima - Related projects |
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| | | | Exult: Encyclopedia II - Avatar Ultima - History The Avatar was first known as the Stranger (or, more fully, Stranger from another world) in Ultima, when he (or she) defeated Mondain. He returned to bring an end to the revenge of the enchantress Minax, and to dispatch their hellspawn, Exodus. It is widely debated whether or not the Stranger and the Avatar are the same person, as the games themselves are not quite consistent on this issue. Ultima IV seems to say they are different persons altogether, but later Ultimas (Ultima VII part two: Serpent Isle as ...
See also:Avatar Ultima, Avatar Ultima - History, Avatar Ultima - Dialogue, Avatar Ultima - Appearance and customization, Avatar Ultima - Companions of the Avatar, Avatar Ultima - Original eight companions, Avatar Ultima - Other companions, Avatar Ultima - Cameos in other games Read more here: » Avatar Ultima: Encyclopedia II - Avatar Ultima - History |
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