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Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar (New Ultima announced!)

MaeEyeMaeEye Member UncommonPosts: 1,105

It looks like EA has posted up a page to register for the beta for the new Ultima game announced.  Apparently Ultima Forever is a re-make of Ultima 4.  Except this time you can play with friends and the entire game has been re-vamped with HD art.

http://ultimaforever.com/

What do you all think about this?

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  • ChiramChiram Member UncommonPosts: 643
    I will certainly give it a shot. I know it's nothing like UO, however... if done right maybe they can get enough interest into the genre to boost more subscribers in UO and hopefully a new MMO.
  • TardcoreTardcore Member Posts: 2,325
    Originally posted by MacroPlanet

    It looks like EA has posted up a page to register for the beta for the new Ultima game announced.  Apparently Ultima Forever is a re-make of Ultima 4.  Except this time you can play with friends and the entire game has been re-vamped with HD art.

    http://ultimaforever.com/

    What do you all think about this?

    That yet again an old classic is getting corpse raped into a shit browser game instead of a gaming company actually trying to come up with new ideas. Just going to be one more turd in the stagnant cesspool of gaming to me.

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  • MaeEyeMaeEye Member UncommonPosts: 1,105
    Originally posted by Tardcore

    Originally posted by MacroPlanet
    It looks like EA has posted up a page to register for the beta for the new Ultima game announced.  Apparently Ultima Forever is a re-make of Ultima 4.  Except this time you can play with friends and the entire game has been re-vamped with HD art. http://ultimaforever.com/ What do you all think about this?

    That yet again an old classic is getting corpse raped into a shit browser game instead of a gaming company actually trying to come up with new ideas. Just going to be one more turd in the stagnant cesspool of gaming to me.

     

    I do not have good experiences with browser games either, or with EA games in general. However I am probably going to give it a chance, if it even does come to PC.
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  • OpapanaxOpapanax Member Posts: 973

    It's shocking how much seeing Bioware / EA scares me away from this. I loved my time in Ultima Online, but back then RPG's were alot more about the role playing and less about.. Well w/e it's about now..

    With that said however my fond memories of the original won't let me wish ill-will on this project

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  • ZigZagsZigZags Member UncommonPosts: 381
    If EA has anything to do with this game, then I will not. EA is the devil and if you feed them your money, you deserve all the crap they give you.

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  • RednecksithRednecksith Member Posts: 1,238

    Yup, because they haven't raped the corpse of the Ultima franchise enough, apparently.

     

  • VikingGamerVikingGamer Member UncommonPosts: 1,350
    Originally posted by ZigZags
    If EA has anything to do with this game, then I will not. EA is the devil and if you feed them your money, you deserve all the crap they give you.

    Well EA owns the IP for all things Ultima now so if anything is ever done with Ultima again EA will be involved at some level. The best we can hope for is that EA figures out that the best thing they could do for one of their games would be to pay the bills but stay out of the kitchen. Yeah right.

    That it is targeted for browser doesn't have to be a bad thing. It probably will be, but it doesn't have to be. We will see.

    Ultima 4 is a good choice. I really liked 4. But... if they defile my memories of 4 I will be really upset.

    All die, so die well.

  • XzenXzen Member UncommonPosts: 2,607
    Hell no I'm not going to touch it.
  • Ex0dUs101Ex0dUs101 Member UncommonPosts: 273

    Not touching anything close to EA ever again, no matter what it is.

    Its clearly never going to be anything close to any of the Ultima world we knew and loved in the past, and due to that id rather treasure the memories than let EA leave another bad one.

  • bunnyhopperbunnyhopper Member CommonPosts: 2,751
    Originally posted by MacroPlanet
    Originally posted by Tardcore
    Originally posted by MacroPlanet
     

    That yet again an old classic is getting corpse raped into a shit browser game instead of a gaming company actually trying to come up with new ideas. Just going to be one more turd in the stagnant cesspool of gaming to me.

     

    I do not have good experiences with browser games either, or with EA games in general. However I am probably going to give it a chance, if it even does come to PC.

    Which is kind of why companies are turning out half arsed dross.

     

    The simple fact of the matter is, for some reason, even though everyone knows deep down it is going to be a massive pile of shite. Many people still buy it anyway. The companies still see a return and they still see a demand and so they keep on turning out absolute garbage.

     

    And so the wheel keeps on turning.

     

    It's hard to ignore an old favourite, but I wouldn't touch it with a 10ft barge pole.

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  • redcappredcapp Member Posts: 722

    Will be garbage.  EA destroys everything it touches.

     

    If you are really an Ultima fan, this is what you should read.  http://www.portalarium.com/index.php/ultimate-rpg?id=93

  • AckbarAckbar Member UncommonPosts: 927
    I was interested until I saw login to Origin.

    ----ITS A TRAP!!!----

  • Dreamo84Dreamo84 Member UncommonPosts: 3,713
    DOOM!!!! EA $$$ DOOM!!!!

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  • cantjumpcantjump Member UncommonPosts: 27
    is that the same thing as http://uoforever.com/ ??
  • HeretiqueHeretique Member RarePosts: 1,534
    Originally posted by Tardcore
    Originally posted by MacroPlanet

    It looks like EA has posted up a page to register for the beta for the new Ultima game announced.  Apparently Ultima Forever is a re-make of Ultima 4.  Except this time you can play with friends and the entire game has been re-vamped with HD art.

    http://ultimaforever.com/

    What do you all think about this?

    That yet again an old classic is getting corpse raped into a shit browser game instead of a gaming company actually trying to come up with new ideas. Just going to be one more turd in the stagnant cesspool of gaming to me.

    This.

    EA loves to shit all over everything. Just change Electronic Arts to "Eat Ass" because that's what their games are now.

  • LoktofeitLoktofeit Member RarePosts: 14,247
    Originally posted by MacroPlanet

    It looks like EA has posted up a page to register for the beta for the new Ultima game announced.  Apparently Ultima Forever is a re-make of Ultima 4.  Except this time you can play with friends and the entire game has been re-vamped with HD art.

    http://ultimaforever.com/

    What do you all think about this?

    Let's see... Ultima 4 in a browser with a cash shop, made by a team that couldn't make a decent MMO with $100 million+ dollars and one of the most kickass IPs on the planet...

     

    I think they're going to crap on Ultima 4 and I'm neither happy nor excited about it.

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  • jpnzjpnz Member Posts: 3,529

    If memory serves correctly, Ultima 4 was awesome (think 3-7 were all good) so I'll give this one a fair try.

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