Prepare to embark on an adventure beyond imagination with the return of the best selling role-playing series of all time. In the 9th and final chapter in the 20-year legacy you return to Britannia for your last epic quest. As the heroic Avatar, only you can save Lord British and his people from the evil Guardian who has devastated the landscape and tainted the 8 sacred virtues. Valiant combat, magical prowess and knowledge of the 8 virtues are your weapons against evil in Ultima IX: Ascension, the most epic role-playing game ever created for the PC.
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tldr; I enjoyed starting it, but by less than half way through I'd already realised why this game is so loathed.
I'd played it when I was younger, but much later I decided, for some demented reason, I wanted to finish it, since there hadn't really been anything like it since Skyrim nearly a decade prior to this point. At first the game seemed totally fine, the initial levels weren't offensive at least to someone like me who hadn't really played any other Ultima games, but as time went on not only did the bugs become more apparent, such as literally just an entire square of the terrain missing near the third town in the game, or the dungeon that would repeatedly play a loud as fuck lightning sound effect, but there was also just the gameplay issues as well, such as gaining the ability to sail a ship yourself only to find yourself with less than 5 feet of vision in front of the ship due to the render distance or one part where you have to get across poisonous water, only to find the platforms you're supposed to jump on being too far apart for you to jump between only to THEN find out you have to swim in the water anyway to get where you need to.
Ultimately I had to use a speedrun strat to beat it after like the second to last thing you need to do to beat the game involved beating a boss that would crash my game every time he talked, who was also in an underwater dungeon I had to use an invulnerability potion to get past the wall that would drain my oxygen. So I had to skip it and enter the final dungeon via an unintended oversight of being able to walk through the lava that's supposed to stop you and finishing the game.
I'd played it when I was younger, but much later I decided, for some demented reason, I wanted to finish it, since there hadn't really been anything like it since Skyrim nearly a decade prior to this point. At first the game seemed totally fine, the initial levels weren't offensive at least to someone like me who hadn't really played any other Ultima games, but as time went on not only did the bugs become more apparent, such as literally just an entire square of the terrain missing near the third town in the game, or the dungeon that would repeatedly play a loud as fuck lightning sound effect, but there was also just the gameplay issues as well, such as gaining the ability to sail a ship yourself only to find yourself with less than 5 feet of vision in front of the ship due to the render distance or one part where you have to get across poisonous water, only to find the platforms you're supposed to jump on being too far apart for you to jump between only to THEN find out you have to swim in the water anyway to get where you need to.
Ultimately I had to use a speedrun strat to beat it after like the second to last thing you need to do to beat the game involved beating a boss that would crash my game every time he talked, who was also in an underwater dungeon I had to use an invulnerability potion to get past the wall that would drain my oxygen. So I had to skip it and enter the final dungeon via an unintended oversight of being able to walk through the lava that's supposed to stop you and finishing the game.