Ultima

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Ultima, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

In-game font is borderline illegible to the reader2025-11-19
Combat is confusing for the player to follow or understand2025-02-23
Game uses the entire keyboard, which the commenter sees as too hard for modern gamers2018-02-05
Has to swap disks, wait 30 seconds, and swap back for every conversation2014-07-12
Items must be sorted one by one; complex interface frustrates players2010-09-24