I found a link to this article on Ultima IV and found a sudden desire to use it as a personality test – when you start a game, it asks you a series of questions pitting one of the games Virtues against each other, and chooses your class and stats based on them. It turns out that the game is free on gog.com, complete with a Mac package. I tried to answer as, well, basically me, translating the situations posed in a manner most medieval into modern terms. Some of them were really hard. Interestingly enough I really wanted to choose ‘male’ as the gender at first; I think a screen full of lo-res 8-bit art was temporarily tossing me back to who I was when this was cutting-edge tech. I think when I played Ultima 3 it was with a party of indeterminate-gender “fuzzies”; I have no clue what, if anything, I played in U4.
Gnome (I think that’s what the G means?) bard, high dex. So basically a thief, right?
Or if I take it straight, well hey, guess what I do iRL: I tell stories. So well done, Mr. Garriott.
I don’t think I’m going to actually play the game. I don’t have that kind of attention span any more. Given that I never finished any of the Ultimas back in the 8-bit days, I’m not sure I ever did. Maybe I’ll just read through the first part of this here Ultima IV, V, and VI Let’s Play.
The “G” just means you’re in good condition (i.e. not poisoned, asleep, or dead). Ultima 4’s whole playable cast is human, unfortunately.
Oh, right. I vaguely remember missing being able to do something like my party of all other-gendered fuzzies from U3.
I am also glad that I’m not suffering a status condition!