Ultima Underworld - Review / Retrospective 

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"Evil Lair of Evil" is exactly the kind of notes I put on my own maps.

Oh man, I loved Ultima growing up. This game was a great! I was way too young to understand the game mechanics but I never let that stop Bob the paladin.

I've seen so many retro reviews of UUW, and they're always enjoyable. This one is no different!

This was so revolutionary when it came out. I sunk a lot of hours into it.

As an old man who grew up with these games this entire series gives me serious nostalgia goggles and makes me want to slip ultima easter eggs into my D&D games, the other side of that is I think only one person in my tabletop group is both old enough to get the references and also played any ultima and that was UO

Dude, the last time I checked, your Ultima videos had a painfully low view count (I even commented about it, it simply didn't make any sense that they were below 100 views) - I'm so happy to see that they got (at least some of) the recognition they deserve. This is an amazing video of an amazing series! Cheers, man :D

Thank you for these Ultima reviews. Gives me good memories of playing these with my father. Keep up the good work ❤

Ultima Underworld I and II were works of genius and remind me of updated versions of the 8 bit Alternate Reality series concept which unfortunately ended with The Dungeon, but was far too ambitious for the hardware of the time anyway. UU was the first 'real' 3D dungeon crawler and as noted without Underworld there would not be System Shock, and beyond. Great review!

Really enjoying this series!

There was an interview after this game came out where the developers admitted this wasn’t originally meant to be an Ultima game. So that is why there are so many odd things not related to Ultima.

Always wanted to play this one. Ultima 5 is my favorite, the 2-D tile technique is superior to "3-D", IMO

Looking at a door tells you it's Strength. Massive doors have infinite hit points. Anything else can be broken open, eventually, by punching it. Lockpicks work a similar way. Massive doors are unpickable, you must find a key or button. Don't bother with lock picks or the lock picking skill. Just move your weapon out of your hand and punch the door until it opens. Your fist is the ultimate lock pick

Hope IRL starts treating you well again soon! ☺️

I first heard about this game in a video about Daggerfall. Very interesting game.

Fucking love these reviews

I'm sorry to hear things have been challenging for you as of late. I've had my own troubles and reviewers of your ilk* have been great to just... distract me. I wish you luck in your endeavours and look forward to more reviews, should life be so permitting :) * I.E. reviewers who show a knack for videos with qualities such as: good audio balance, good editing/pacing/scripting that's informative but not bloated, vocal delivery is appropriately emotive but not 'impulsively' exaggerative, the content can be engaged directly or softly absorbed, etc. As an aside, that many of you are criminally underexposed is an unfortunate commonality.

Love this! thanks for posting! These games were the best. You find any LP's you like watching? I have to recommend Byron's second or third playthrough.

Do reviews on baldurs gate 1 and 2! Or planescape. Ultima 7 underworld and bg 1 and 2 and might and magic 3 and 6 are my favorite 90s rps

I mean... would you blame the baron for not believing you? The Avatar sleeps naked... so... He suddenly sees you naked, in the bedroom of his daughter, with... morning.... uhm.. yah. I wouldn't trust him either.

As a kid this blew me away...went to a friend's to see it and they had a soundblaster.

Hope you’re irl situations work out. Love these videos dude, keep ‘em coming!

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Even though it's only a few tracks the music for this game is amazing. At the time it was probably some of the most immersive pieces I had ever heard in a game. For anyone searching for it (or music for other old PC games) keep in mind that almost every video uses emulation.

Yet again a superb upload, thanks! Very fond memories of first getting this game from some other BBS user over a V.22Bis modem connection with me uploading something and at the same time chatting and downloading this game. It took hours. Then installing and starting the game in the small hours. The music, the speech, the story, the engine/gameplay. It was revolutionary.

2:50 I rarely used all 8-slots since its notorious 'inventory corruption bug' caused by carrying too many stuff but it just happens all the time.😆

Great video, really enjoying your channel

I'd love to see a remake of this game.

The movement direction problem is most likely because you are running the game too fast. Lowering your dosbox cycles to like 3000 might fix it, it worked for me.

The most important starting Stat in this game is Strength. Every point in Strength gives you 2 points carry weight capacity. Max Strength is 25, so max carry weight is 50

If you're holding shift, "easy mode", you won't walk off edges. You'll be stopped right at the edge

You have a great voice!

Do you mind if I ask you what accent you have? I can't place it ^_^;

This was the game where I realized anything with Warren Spector’s name on it I have to buy…. Until Disney acquired him

Great review! I seem to recall they had a "risk / reward" setup with skill points, where the basic mantras gave you more points, but with less control over where they were put, whereas the specific mantras would give you what you want, but only one point. It would take a lot of self control to not save scum the skill point mantras! Also i dont mind the whole, discovering spell words and mantras thing, makes you take notes and subsequent playthroughs easier, feels like a new game plus when you come back a second time.

New subscriber because the Ultima series was my first real introduction into RPGs

Awesome thanks

I've quite enjoyed your Ultima series retrospectives ever since I found them. I am curious if you plan to cover the two "Worlds of Ultima" games. Considering that a) they fall between 6 & 7, b) just reuse the U6 engine to tell other stories, and c) are even more tangential to the main series than the UU games I'm guessing not, but I figured I'd ask. 🙂

Funny how the mantra for unarmed combat skill is ora.