What I liked about U4 was the "morality" system required to advance the game. Sure it was kind of canned and could be gamed - in fact you had to grind out the

What I liked about U4 was the "morality" system required to advance the game. Sure it was kind of canned and could be gamed - in fact you had to grind out the last few virtues you need to elevate, but as a kid it felt meaningful compared to standard hack and slash. Don't know of any other game that tried to do something like that. Great thing about U4 was that it did and it doesn't really drag down gameplay. In later ultimas the system existed to some extent, but was watered down and kind of muddled. Of course you could also say screw that, rip off the blind reagents vendor and make cheap fireballs to kill everyone in town and take their gold, but you then couldn't win the game or even get the best weapons - the mystics. Even today the 8 virtues are probably still a halfway decent ethics system to follow IRL, though you'll never be able to whack your enemies with a mystic sword.