What's really impressive: The guards who brought the avatar to the abyss where probably not even back at the castle by the time this guy finished, so they came back from throwing this guy in for a sure life sentence, only to be greeted by victory celebrations of him having recued the princess and the entire world 😂. Plus: Imagine the speed of that lord's boat; Within 7 minutes after the wizards' death he was already waiting at the shores of the abyss colony to retrieve the avatar. That speed...surely it was 666 knots or something :D

@giuliosf

Жыл бұрын

I think the guard had the time to return the castle because he slept at mountainman to take the sword

This game was released 2 months before Wolfenstein 3D. It was not limited to two dimensions as a renderer for the movements of the player and I wonder if it used sectors like doom would do later to render all the parts of the levels at different heights. It had texture mapping, and advanced lighting effects. Edit: It even had objects made of voxels. And you could eve move your head up and down. I'm very impressed.

@bobsobol

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry to disappoint you, but I believe the maps were 2D, rendered to 3D at runtime. It did have bridge "objects" in the 2D world, which could be walked over, or under. Similar to the bench furniture objects. It also had floor and ceiling heights for each area of the map. (more like Doom, later still, than Wolfenstein 3D) None of which takes away from the fact that this game was, technologically, way before its' time, and in my opinion, made a far more intelligent use of the 1st person perspective than the swathes of FPS games which flooded the market for years after that. It's only real peer was the Elder Scrolls games. Sadly, the Ultima franchise only made 2 games with this engine, and returned to the 3rd person Ultima games. If they had not, I can only imagine how stunning the Ultima Underworld equivalent of Skyrim would have been. 😊

@wacky.racoon

2 жыл бұрын

@@bobsobol Shame that UW:Ascendant turned out so clunky.

@pretzelboi64

Жыл бұрын

@@wacky.racoon Forget the clunk, that game looks like a soulless Unity game. No identity whatsoever and the NPCs look like ass.

@CriticalKunic

Жыл бұрын

@@wacky.racoon Not to self promote or anything, but check out the r/UndeRealm subreddit. I'm making a bit of an homage to various dungeon crawlers I've enjoyed over time.

I loved this game. I wish they would do a remake with modern technologies.

@evilbred974

4 жыл бұрын

It's called Skyrim.

@simontobias9678

4 жыл бұрын

Well they made Underworld Ascendant I HATE THIS ONE btw I also wished they could have made just a Total remake of UW1

@3333218

3 жыл бұрын

@@evilbred974 What kind of Mods are you on?!

@evilbred974

3 жыл бұрын

@@3333218 All of them. It's more mod than game now.

@3333218

3 жыл бұрын

@@evilbred974 Well that explains it...

You threw out the map?! EDIT: Aaand the runebag?!?! EDIT2: Watching this is surreal.. its like revisiting home after 25 years of not being there...

So I replicated this run on a retail 1992 copy of the game - not for speed but just to see that it's possible. And yes, I can confirm the procedure is legit and reproducible. Oh, and insane too. Hats off to you!

This just went through months of my life (very slow compute and limited time available) in 18 minutes. Thank you SO much for showing me the end too, I never frickin got there! :)

@shaunadamson4634

Жыл бұрын

Me neither. The cup of wonder is something I never figured out how to find, along with the key of courage and therefore I also never figured out that I needed to join all three parts together. It never occurred to me that I had 2 parts out of three and they joined up.

It took me the best part of a decade before I finally used a walkthrough to complete this game... you completed it sub 20mins. I later revisted and managed around 4 hours

It's incredible how many secrets this game has.

somehow the art style still looks gorgeous even today

Did you give Origin a call so they could personally congratulate you? :) 18:40

Great run Nin! I'm glad this game is getting even more attention. Fantastic job coming up with even more routing improvements.

@ToyStoryFTW

8 жыл бұрын

+gammadragon Thanks man, great job with the original route. This game's a labyrinth.

@solidsnakedred

2 жыл бұрын

Two legends acknowledged each other the Titans tremble.

So turning magical items into piles of ash allows you to use them repeatedly? Now I understand why you didn't bother to pick up any runes.

@Crate97

9 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's a bug actually :)

We need a horror-based slow run, to compliment.

18:25 Seeing as how Destard is a hellhole infested with dragons in Ultima 7, I'm guessing things didn't go too well.

@patruspetrus

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Destard had remained one of the deadliest dungeons (only next to Hythloth or say Abyss) throughout the series. I remember my jaw dropped at this Galamon's mention decades ago.

@wacky.racoon

2 жыл бұрын

Moment of silence for the settlers of Destard :/

Get in touch with AGDQ, I'm sure a lot of people would love to see this!

Lol I spent a week sleeping, eating playing that game when it came :) the difference between knowing where to go and checking every wall, killing every mob etc. :)

Awesome job! I would love to play this in VR.

Are there any runs that don't use the ash glitch? Still this was great.

Love how ya gave him a 1 gold tip

@timix_au

7 жыл бұрын

Probably just slightly quicker than typing 20 or 22.

@cruz6550

2 жыл бұрын

@@timix_au right click and you pick up the hole stack

@timix_au

2 жыл бұрын

@@cruz6550 Thanks! I had no idea. This game has so many features you're just meant to know about.

Fantastic.

I could never beat the game. Never knew you could fly, and throw fire balls.

@StevenKellyBelly

3 жыл бұрын

or avoid all the sprites?

you are a god amongst men

Is it possible you could save time by using the action cursors to do stuff rather than the all-purpose one? That way you could open doors with one click, for example. You can toggle the various cursors with the keyboard (F2-6) so you can move with the mouse and not have to stop moving to select the cursors. Also it looks like you're moving with the keyboard which seems to be slightly slower than moving with the mouse when it comes to turning. My apologies if none of this stuff is relevant or if you have already considered it. I'm not a speedrunner but I love this game. Just to clarify, when I play I use the mouse for everything except looking up and down; I select the cursors with the mouse since speed doesn't matter for casual play. But I figure the keyboard toggles could be useful for speedrunning. Okay as I was typing this I discovered that when you toggle with the F keys, you lose control of mouse movement. But if you let go of the mouse button right before pressing the key, and then click and hold the mouse button right after, you lose virtually no speed at all.

@ToyStoryFTW

5 жыл бұрын

I used to only use the mouse to play as well! For the speedrun there's so much multi-tasking happening all the time that using the mouse for movement is pretty tricky - It probably is faster for turning, but there's always too much to focus. Most of the time I think the right-click-flick to interact doesn't lose any time, as you can open doors a few steps before you walk through them anyway. Perhaps it would save some tenths of a second per dialogue though, which could add up. I do use the action cursors in a few situations where I get the chance.

Holy shit that was an awesome run Btw, you could get the tapper by killing Zak? Or trading was the only option?

@martymcfleece2456

Жыл бұрын

You can get it by killing him. I did that, thought the taper was just a candle and threw it away (face palm)

60fps ftw

Avatar gets straight into business and rushes through to victory!

@wacky.racoon

2 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile my playthrough is the dollar store discount version of the Avatar

That was savage.. kudos.

I bet I put 100 hours into this my first playthrough back when it came out, of course that was without any hints or walkthroughs and on a computer that could barely run it.

I've never played this, despite being curious about the series my whole life. Is walking on the ceiling a normal thing or a glitch?

@thorjelly

3 жыл бұрын

He's just using Fly, you can see the currently active spells left of the compass. He does exploit an item glitch though that lets him use scrolls and potions as many times as he wants by destroying the item and turning it into debris with fireball; through an oversight using the debris still confers the spell effects but doesn't make the item disappear. I think that's the only glitch being exploited in this run. Anyway it's an awesome game and if you can figure out dosbox and deal with the clunky UI, I'd recommend. More immersive than most modern rpgs imo.

@dunetiger

3 жыл бұрын

@@thorjelly Yes, I have the games on gog. I just never get around to playing them haha. Ultima VII was my big time sink back in the day. Made me an expert at tweaking DOS settings. Help me, I'm old.

@thorjelly

3 жыл бұрын

@@dunetiger its ok, I played the heck out of ultima VII too back then. Might still be my favorite rpg.

is there an tes arena speedrun? gotta check

awesome stuff

Shame this did not come out on the Jaguar.

Awesome!

Now settling in Destard... A setup for a sequel. If Ultima VI had used the UU engine just for dungeons it would have been cool.

At 11:26. Why didn't that red entity fight back ?

@Chris-iw1ep

5 жыл бұрын

He used Time Stop before entering the room.

now i understand why i never finished it....IMPOSSIBLE! Rather Lands Ofr Lore 1000 times :)

methinks the avatar is not amused.

30 year old game still fun

Played this 30 years ago but never finished it (think it was a bug with Shak). It has been at the back of my mind to return to this game one day. And now I just finished it! It is a truly amazing game! The only thing I couldn't find was the ring of poison resistance. Sure it has some minor issues, like the frustrating jump mechanic. And it feels a bit 'unbalanced' for lack of a better word, eg getting one of the best swords quite early, most of the rings being on last level (who cares about poison resistance then?), flying and telekinesis are missed opportunities as not required and only used for irrelevant stuff, open spell is very disappointing/weak etc

@JFTC709

8 ай бұрын

You can jump with the J key. Makes it much easier in tight spaces

It took me years of wandering to get to 12 min. WTF you can fly and burn scrolls to get magic powers? All those secret walls and doors...

is this game long? i mean how long it takes to beat at 100%

@soylentgreenb

7 жыл бұрын

It's a fairly long game mapping everything out and figuring everything out for the first time. I'd say a good 20-30 hours.

@yittmashups

6 жыл бұрын

and counting

@Phasma_Tacitus

5 жыл бұрын

It's kinda long, but if you get into it you can actually enjoy yourself

How TF did I figure all this out as a kid? This was like 3 months of toiling as a 10 year old in 20 min

Oh my good god that was amazing. On a side-note... the section where you're running down a hallway with lava on either side made me google to see if air had a combustion temperature. Turns out yes in theory/no. It can't combust in the normal chemical reaction sense, but it can have an atomic reaction which was a concern of scientists prior to the detonation of the first atomic bomb. So lucky us, the air can't suddenly become a plasma and turn the earth into a star.

@softerseltzer

2 жыл бұрын

Your face does have a combustion temperature though, the lava would radiatively heat it to almost the same temperature as lava itself.

Wou god like

I never understood how this game wasn't put up on a way bigger pedestal than wolfenstein 3d

@VITAS874

2 жыл бұрын

And Arx Fatalis

@VITAS874

2 жыл бұрын

Dark messiah too

@pretzelboi64

Жыл бұрын

Because most people couldn't run it when it came out. It was quickly overshadowed by Doom which used less ambitious tech to reach the average Joe's PC.

@tbone9474

Жыл бұрын

@@VITAS874 dude dark messiah came out decades later

@tbone9474

Жыл бұрын

@1 8 oh I know doom is a lot more accessible, but to this day I still consider ultima underworld as a much more revolutionary breakthrough than doom

How did you went through all those walls ??? Cheat?

Wtf holy hell

wow. just wow!

i like these 2 dragons how they react, smirk when you win or facepalms, I wish games do more like this and especially dragons.

DEEP

I remember a lot of game reviewers saying this was the worst ultima and caused the downfall of Ultima? I never got to play any ultima's, I had extremely religious parents and that type of stuff was not allowed. My dad was allowed to get away with having doom - at that time you could use doom to show how powerful your computer was to others.

@giuliosf

Жыл бұрын

What? This is one of the best Ultima, maybe you confuse it with ultima 9

Shame you have to throw each relic in one at a time, and not just pitch the whole sack in at once

You only hit three switches to get the Ring of Humility at 5:11, what about the fourth???? How did it happen???

@ToyStoryFTW

5 жыл бұрын

Hey man, to answer your few comments: - The Ring of Humility is bugged so you don't have to hit the first switch - As you said, I used a scroll (debris) of reveal on the door to Tybalt in Level 7, and the door to the Wine in Level 6 - You can use the keyboard to move and turn without using the mouse (WASDZXC)

So no fun. Sure you beat the game but you took all the fun out of it.

@kazy8029

3 жыл бұрын

Shut up

@memyself9536

3 жыл бұрын

@@kazy8029 why?

@pikaboy199

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure they've played the game more than enough to have fun with it before they started speedrunning

@Hiphopasaurus

2 жыл бұрын

You've had like almost 30 years to do it the "fun" (30+ hours) way, so here's a way to play the game you know and love with a brand new challenge.

You are cheating. It's abusing a game error, turning items into piles of ash to use them endlessly. How long can you complete without this cheat?

@pikaboy199

2 жыл бұрын

If it's in the game is it really a cheat?

@meamarra

2 жыл бұрын

@@pikaboy199 Yes, of corse. If you do this in an online game, these days it would be considered cheating and adm banned you from the server. It's the same as using a bug to clone items.

@Gameprojordan

2 жыл бұрын

@Matthew Roberts not really cheating. More like bug abuse

@templariox32

Жыл бұрын

@@meamarra i dont think you understand what an %any% speedrun means.

O by the way, the secret door at 11:12 can only be opened at first from the other side, which requires a lot of time-consuming DUNGEONING to approach: this entire video is a lot of smoke and mirrors!

@RugtimXII

6 жыл бұрын

You can just use the reveal spell to reveal the door on level seven, DORK. The real question is how the heck do you move when the cursor is outside the view window.