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 [[VideoGame/UltimaIII third game]]]]. A year later, a "sequel" was made in the form of VideoGame/UltimaVIIPartII.

* DyingRace: The gargoyles have gone from ruling a word the size of Britannia to having a population that, even considering ThrivingGhostTown is in effect, is rapidly dwindling away to nothing.

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

* ThrivingGhostTown:
** Britannian towns do not seem as heavily populated as they look.
** A literal example of this is Skara Brae.

* 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]].

* LethalJokeItem: The Hoe of Destruction. The farmer (Mack) who owns the hoe in question took his hoe to a mage to be enchanted at the same time a warrior brought his sword to the mage to be enchanted. The mage got mixed up due to the in-universe disturbance to the ether, creating a hoe of destruction and a sword of weedcutting. You never find the sword, but you ''can'' get the Hoe of Destruction.
** 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.]]
** A second LethalJokeItem 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.

* FantasticDrug: Silver Serpent venom, which is used recreatively by a few [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]], and to dope the Britannian Mining Company's labouring gargoyles.

* AlienLunch: If you talk to the farmer about the spaceship in his field, he'll tell you that he ''ate'' its dead pilot.

* CopyProtection: In order to leave the first town, and to join the Fellowship, you have to answer questions about Britannian geography and herbology from the manual and from a map included as a [[{{Feelies}} feelie]] with the original game.

** QuicksandBox: Can happen to you if it's your first time playing.

* MoneySpider: Largely averted, as most monsters don't drop money. However, certain ones (like dragons) may have [[VendorTrash gold nuggets or gems.]]
** Gazers are literal money spiders, being spiderlike monsters that leave gold nuggets or stacks of coins instead of corpses.

* NietzscheWannabe: [[spoiler: Batlin's motivation, which you find out if you talk to him after casting the [[ApocalypseHow Armageddon]] spell.]]

''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 ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' series, possibly one of the best PC {{RPG}}s period, and had a nearly ''VideoGame/DragonQuest''-esque level of influence on {{Western RPG}}s which followed - nearly ''every'' open-world RPG released after 1992 owes at least a little something to ''U7''.

* AllInARow

* DialogueTree

* DungeonCrawling

* MinimalisticCoverArt

* IsometricProjection

** ''Videogame/WingCommander'': You can find a Kilrathi ship in a crop field, and the Kilrathi theme from ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' plays.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Among other things, you can actually harvest wheat with a scythe, then mill it into flour, mix it with water pulled from a well (or any liquid, really) to make dough, and bake it into bread.
** They clearly didn't think of ''everything''. For example, you can set up a superb staircase made of wooden boxen in order to get to a bridge that connects two mountain lairs, but while you can get on the railing, you can't jump down on the crossing.

''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 ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' series, possibly one of the best PC {{RPG}}s period, and had a nearly ''Franchise/DragonQuest''-esque level of influence on {{Western RPG}}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 a nearly ''Franchise/DragonQuest''-esque level of influence on {{Western RPG}}s which followed - nearly ''every'' open-world RPG released after 1992 owes at least a little something to ''U7''.

** It's also worth mentioning that this is the only {{Ultima}} with two different ways to kill Lord British. The alternate method is more sinister. [[spoiler: The Black Sword's special powers can kill him.]]

** ''Videogame/WingCommander'': You can find a Kilrathi ship in a crop field.

* PassionPlay: A group of Fellowship minstrels outside of Trinsic will do one.

** VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Do any of these too much, however, and your companions will either leave or attack you.

* ApocalypseHow: The Armageddon spell kills everyone in the world but you, Batlin and Lord British. Lord British can call you out on this reckless act: (paraphrased) "[[YouFool You fool!]] [[WhatTheHellHero Now we are all alone on this world! Britannia is ruined!]]"

* AccentuateTheNegative: Your answers in the Fellowship's personality test will always be interpreted in the worst possible way.