Of all the ways in which Ultima is great, the stories you will experience are by far the best part of this series.  You will go places you had never thought possible.  These aren't simple hack-n-slash RPGs, or even the somewhat stale, high-polish epics of Final Fantasy.  Instead, these are tales of corruption, predjudice, redemption, and virute.  Through this series, you can watch an entire world and hundreds of people grow and evolve. The individual games are mostly what you would expect - they get richer and deeper as time goes on, with a fewer gems in the beginning, and a few stinkers at the end.