Ultima The Ultima Underworld I & II Thread

[<3sRichardSimmons]

https://af.gog.com/forum/general/ul..._syndicate_wars_delisting/page1?as=1649904300

We’d like to inform you that, on publisher's request, Ultima Underworld 1+2, Syndicate Plus and Syndicate Wars will be delisted from our catalog on Monday, June 28th, 1 PM UTC.

For everyone who purchased the titles prior to delisting, they will remain in their GOG library.

That’s EA right? Weird that they would request only those games.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

EA is taking those bucks 'round back

 

[Unkillable Cat]

EA is taking those bucks 'round back

Again? I thought they'd already done away with them, Ol' Yeller-style about 2003 or thereabouts.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

EA is taking those bucks 'round back

Again? I thought they'd already done away with them, Ol' Yeller-style about 2003 or thereabouts.

they're taking them out to be broken in son

 

[JBro]

Maybe EA is gonna remaster them like with CnC. I'd like to see them be given to Nightdive for a Kex Engine source port like with System Shock. I brought the idea up to Stephen Kick once.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Maybe EA is gonna remaster them like with CnC. I'd like to see them be given to Nightdive for a Kex Engine source port like with System Shock. I brought the idea up to Stephen Kick once.

If the games have been handed off to another team outside of EA like Nightdive, then I'd like to see their plans. But if EA is doing something similar in-house, I'd rather prefer that they don't bother.

 

[SharkClub]

EA handled the C&C Remaster extremely well by EA standards so who knows what could happen if they're doing their own UU and Syndicate remasters.

 

[Butter]

UU with non-busted controls would be nifty.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

UU with non-busted controls would be nifty.

you mean the Unity remake?

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

UU’s controls are unorthodox by modern standards, but they’re fine once you get used to them. The UI on the other hand…

 

[rusty_shackleford]

the unity port has mouselook and other control changes
https://github.com/hankmorgan/UnderworldExporter

3 The following are the default controls

Movement - WASD
Jump - Space
Toggle mouselook* - E
Cast selected spell* - Q
Toggle fullscreen* - F (some ui elements are draggable in fullscreen mode)
Interaction modes* F1 to F6.
Fly Up* - R
Fly down* = V
Track* = T
Charge Attack - Hold down right mouse key
Release Attack - Release right mouse key.

In game a context sensitive overlay will tell you what a right or left click will do when hovering over an object.

*These controls can be edited by changing the values in the config.ini file. Other standard controls are managed by the Unity launcher. Mouse sensitivity and axis settings can be configured from the config.ini

It has been a long time since I've played UU so I can't even remember what the controls were like tbh

 

[agris]

by modern standards

 

[Efe]

Can't find a reason to play the originals when you can play the modern sequel, underworld ascendant.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

by modern standards

UI/UX is one of the few areas modern games have improved though

 

[Infinitron]

Something to keep an eye on will be whether Ultima Underworld 1 & 2 disappear from Origin next week as well:
https://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/store/ultima/ultima-underworld-the-stygian-abyss
https://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/store/ultima/ultima-underworld-ii-labyrinth-of-worlds

 

[agris]

Those look to be region locked links, they don’t load for my US IP but an alternate URL does, https://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/store/ultima/ultima-underworld-the-stygian-abyss

 

[KafkaBot]

The links do not open from my end, even with VPN. I already have the games on GOG, but I'm actually curious; have they actually been removed from Origin as well, or is region locking the only reason I can't see them?

 

[d1r]

The links do not open from my end, even with VPN. I already have the games on GOG, but I'm actually curious; have they actually been removed from Origin as well, or is region locking the only reason I can't see them?

Something to keep an eye on will be whether Ultima Underworld 1 & 2 disappear from Origin next week as well:

They're gone.

 

[KafkaBot]

The links do not open from my end, even with VPN. I already have the games on GOG, but I'm actually curious; have they actually been removed from Origin as well, or is region locking the only reason I can't see them?

Something to keep an eye on will be whether Ultima Underworld 1 & 2 disappear from Origin next week as well:

They're gone.

Thanks for confirming!

Well, I won't tell EA to get fucked just yet, since it is possible they intend to remaster the games so they no longer require dealing with DOSBox. Who knows, these remasters might even come with mouselook options pre-installed.

Sadly, I have to admit that the odds of this turning into yet another "Enhanced Edition" fiasco are not negligible.

 

[mediocrepoet]

The links do not open from my end, even with VPN. I already have the games on GOG, but I'm actually curious; have they actually been removed from Origin as well, or is region locking the only reason I can't see them?

Something to keep an eye on will be whether Ultima Underworld 1 & 2 disappear from Origin next week as well:

They're gone.

Thanks for confirming!

Well, I won't tell EA to get fucked just yet, since it is possible they intend to remaster the games so they no longer require dealing with DOSBox. Who knows, these remasters might even come with mouselook options pre-installed.

Sadly, I have to admit that the odds of this turning into yet another "Enhanced Edition" fiasco are not negligible.

I can follow the link to Ultima Underworld I but not II. UUI shows up with a price tag and everything, whereas UU2 isn't found at all. Oddly, if I browse the PC games section of the Origin site, I can't find either of the games whether by search or browsing alphabetically.

Same thing in the Origin client.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Sadly, I have to admit that the odds of this turning into yet another "Enhanced Edition" fiasco are not negligible.

Can't wait to see what nu-Bioware does to Ultima. It will be glorious.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

All that matters is I have them in my GOG library.

 

[DaveO]

That GoG essentially has rental agreements for hosting the games should not come as a major surprise. I have not kept an eye out on GoG sales besides the winter/Christmas ones. If they truly competed against Steam there might have been better efforts on both sides. Both Steam and GoG are guilty of poor quality control where the games either won't run or need workarounds. I can't imagine this getting better with the Windows 11 announcement.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

What?!?! WIN 11!!!! Oh fuck no.

 

[Spukrian]

So I finished Ultima Underworld II today. Great game, in some ways even better than the first. But sadly it has quite a few more frustrating things in the game as well. Honestly I was a bit frustrated with the game so I took a break from it for a couple of weeks. But I'll definitely replay it sometime in the future!

What's next... I guess Terra Nova Strike Force Centauri maybe...?