So funny to see this here, I was just looking into Ultima remakes last night, and saw this one among others. Looks really awesome. I never played any of the Ultima games back in the day, and have bounced off them when trying in later years. This should make Ultima VII a lot more accessible and playable.

There's also a remake of Ultima Underworld being made in Godot: https://github.com/hankmorgan/UnderworldGodot

Hoping for these projects to succeed, both U7 and UU sound like incredible games that deserve to be accessible to modern gamers.

My first thought was "How is this different from Exult?" (which is a relatively vanilla reimplementation of the game).

Some of the video segments here make differences clearer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mbJcOEwKJ4

While Exult basically matches the graphics of the original game, this is closer to "3D Ultima VII", with rotatable views and more interactivity in the game. It gives it what looks like a kind of voxel-ish look, mixing in original sprites with newly-modeled 3D objects.

Looks cool! I wonder if they reworked/fixed the terrible font. I find it borderline illegible in the original! (example https://cdn.neowin.com/news/images/uploaded/31070-ultima-vii...)

Vaguely related but there is this whole set of videos on the production of the Ultima series on Youtube by Majuular that I've been playing while working out. Just such a different time, I almost regret missing it.

His video on 7 and serpent's isle brought back a lot of memories (although my preferred origin game was Wing Commander)

https://youtu.be/0NyaGRNH2zE

Very excited about this project, U7 was my favourite game for a long, long time. These days we have BG3, and I'm dying for more of that.

This is pretty neat. There have been multiple attempts at something like that in the past, and of them, this is by far the best-looking one.

However, I think some artefacts can never be properly resolved (see for example the marble statue to the left at 1:53 in the video), which makes it look veird and break immersion (also the flat roofs that are supposed to be slanted/angled roofs)

Also, the U7 engine is a very complex beast so to properly implement it will take a lot of work and fine-tuning (although I guess they can use Exult as a start, which is by now pretty feature-complete)

This brings back so much memories!

Exult did this decades ago :).

On Ultima VII, can you play the 7th series without playing the previous ones? I mean, are these games standalone? Because Ultima IV it's always praised to be an incredible RPG to play.

BTW, Scummvm will happily play Ultima 4, 6 and 8 games too, with better controls and support.