Ultima IX

Wing commander III and IV were just really boring IMO. No wonder that IV didn't sell well after III.

It didn't need more live action. It just needed a decent story and some animated cutscenes and more fun in the gameplay. Which WC 1 and 2 did very well. Their stories were exciting even though they were full of pretty stupid B movie tropes. But it worked. The sequels felt hollow.

Additionally they were so heavy they ran really badly on everything but the most expensive computers of the day. Not exactly a good way to sell a lot of copies.

Ps one thing I don't understand is why Chris Roberts doesn't just buy the rights of the wing commander name for Star citizen. He's collected billions by now.

I’ll die on the hill that the Ultima 7 games are the absolute best RPGs ever made. So beyond their times and hold up incredibly today.