History VideoGame / UltimaVII

''Ultima VII'' later came with an expansion pack, Forge of Virtue. This added a new location, the Isle of Fire, to the map. Here, the Avatar could create [[InfinityPlusOneSword the Black Sword]] as well as [[spoiler: get rid of the core of Exodus, the BigBad from the [[UltimaIII third game]]]]. A year later, a "sequel" was made in the form of VideoGame/UltimaVIIPartII.

* AnInteriorDesignerIsYou: Yet again, you could set up in any old vacant house you chose. The furniture wasn't quite as easy to move around as it was in ''UltimaVI'', though.

* ChainOfDeals: To reach the Time Lord you need help from the Wisps, who want Alagner's journal, who wants to know the secrets of Skara Brae, where they're having a bit of a [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]] problem...

* WideOpenSandbox

''Ultima VII:The Black Gate'' is a PC game released in 1992 by Origin Systems. It is largely considered to be one of the best games in the ''{{Ultima}}'' series, possibly one of the best PC {{RPG}}s period, and had a nearly ''Franchise/DragonQuest''-esque level of influence on {{WesternRPG}}s which followed - nearly ''every'' open-world RPG released after 1992 owes at least a little something to ''U7''.

''Ultima VII:The Black Gate'' is a PC game released in 1992 by Origin Systems. It is largely considered to be one of the best games in the ''{{Ultima}}'' series, possibly one of the best PC {{RPG}}s period, and had an nearly ''Franchise/DragonQuest''-esque level of influence on {{WesternRPG}}s which followed - nearly ''every'' open-world RPG released after 1992 owes at least a little something to ''U7''.

''Ultima VII:The Black Gate'' is a PC game released in 1992 by Origin Systems. It is largely considered to be one of the best games in the ''{{Ultima}}'' series, and possibly, one of the best PC {{RPG}}s.

** A second LethatJokeItem is a [[spoiler: dirty diaper]]. While not technically lethal, with one of these, you can cause any enemy in the game to flee in terror, which is pretty impressive.

** Which is a StealthPun. [[spoiler: It's implied the sword is the Grasscutter (aka the Kusanagi), a legendary Japanese weapon made for the goddess of the sun.]]

* YouBastard: If you use the teleport cheat to access an otherwise unreachable room in the tip of a mountain range, you'll find Lord British, who will yell at you for cheating. He will also try to kill your entire party.[[note]]According to [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/game-reviews/britannia-burns-richard-garriott-interview-part-3/ Richard Garriott]], this was actually because a certain programmer created a cheat room without asking permission first and made the teleporter to it easy to access and stumble upon by accident. Rather than just delete the cheat room and chastise the programmer, however, Richard Garriott just made the cheat room much more difficult to access (see the Trinsic cheat room described above), and changed the original teleporter destination to this square in the mountain, so that the next time the programmer tried to access it, Lord British would appear, call him out on it, and disable all his cheats to leave (all the options in the cheat menu become "Oink" from that point on).[[/note]]

* YouBastard: If you use the teleport cheat to access an otherwise unreachable room in the tip of a mountain range, you'll find Lord British, who will yell at you for cheating. He will also try to kill your entire party.[[note]]According to [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/game-reviews/britannia-burns-richard-garriott-interview-part-3/ Richard Garriott]], this was actually because a certain programmer created a cheat room without asking permission first and made the teleport to it easy to access and stumble upon by accident. Rather than just delete the cheat room and chastize the programmger, however, Richard Garriott just made the cheat room much more difficult to access (see the Trinsic cheat room described above), and changed the original teleporter destination to this square in the mountain, so that the next time the programmer tried to access it, Lord British would appear, call him out on it, and disable all his cheats to leave (all the options in the cheat menu become "Oink" from that point on).[[/note]]

* YouBastard: If you use the teleport cheat to access an otherwise unreachable room in the tip of a mountain range, you'll find Lord British, who will yell at you for cheating. He will also try to kill your entire party.

* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler: The Wisps]]

* {{Unobtanium}}: Caddelite and Blackrock

* VirginityFlag: Britannia's unicorns are living virginity detectors, due to a curse. The Avatar meets a unicorn named Lasher, who dislikes this role, because of the shame he unwillingly brought to many women. However, then Lasher learns about a man wanting to prove his virginity to his demanding fiancee, his curiosity is piqued, and he agrees to help.

* ApocalypticLog: The diary found in the tower in the center of Ambrosia Isle

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Batlin gives you one if you ask him. [[spoiler: It's a sham of course; either way, he suggests that you should join the Fellowship]].

** Three generators, which are used by the bad guys to conquer the world, are a cube, a ball, and a tetrahedron: 3D-versions of the Electonic Arts logo.

* TakeThat: [[spoiler: The Fellowship]] is supposedly a satire of Scientology as well as Electronic Arts, who were trying to buy out Origin at that time.

** Also, [[spoiler: the chaimbermaid Nell is cheating on her husband with none other than Lord British himself!]]

* FantasticRacism: Between humans and gargoyles, picking up where ''VideoGame/UltimaVI'' left off. Gargoyles are used as nearly slaves by the Britannian Mining Company.

* PowerGlows: Most magic weapons glow.

* {{Calvinball}}: Chuckles' "The Game." Figure it out to win EXP and a clue to the main quest. [[spoiler: The goal is to use no words but those that, when spake, need but one sound.]]

The original game was released for MS-DOS, and was never ported to any other operating system, particularly due to a unique memory management system that made it nigh unlaunchable even on Windows 95 machines. A fan-made engine called [[http://exult.sourceforge.net/ Exult]] makes it playable on most modern systems (and adds several gameplay enhancements such as on-screen life bars.) A [[PortingDisaster not-at-all-very-good adaptation]] was produced for the Super Nintendo, which suffered greatly due to [[{{Bowdlerize}} Nintendo of America's censorship policies]] of the time. This version was ported to the PSP in 2006. An updated version compatible with modern [=PCs=] was released by EA in 2011. It is also now available for everyone along with [[VideoGame/UltimaVIIPartII part two]] over at [[http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/ultima_7_complete Good Old Games.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The three all-important generators that you ''need to destroy'' (and their {{Plot Coupon}}us) are prisms in the shape of a circle, a triangle, and a square. [[http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/4527/1970440-1.png/ Hmmm...]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The three all-important generators that you ''need to destroy'' (and their {{Plot Coupon}}us) are prisms in the shape of a circle, a triangle, and a square. [[http://www.ea.com/ Hmmm...]]