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PsychoPigeon
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Richard Gariot can not do UO2. . he only owns Lord British. . sold the rights to the rest to EA
http://www.portalarium.com/index.php/products/ultimate-rpg
He views games going like this
Era 1 - single player
Era 2 - MMO
The Third Grand Era of Games – Social & Mobile gaming
I expect nothing other than RPGville although I hope it is more.
Wa min God! Se æx on min heafod is!
To a point. Depends what you are looking for. Sure you can make fun RPG for Android/iOS but int he end, there is only so much you can do with it. It's nowhere near what you can do with PC MMO, let alone singleplayer game, and while it's always nice ot have options, I'd rather see something that will last for longer than 2-3 hours.
Exactly.
Although with mobile/social having been huge for quite a while, he's pretty behind the curve compared with how he basically led the charge on the MMO front.
"What is truly revealing is his implication that believing something to be true is the same as it being true. [continue]" -John Oliver
It would seem odd if he uses his Lord British name and it's not Ultima-related. But then again maybe he did the same with Tabula Rasa? I didn't follow its development much, but tried it for a brief time and disliked it.
The Ultima VIIs are still the best games he's been behind IMO. A seamless, highly interactive world with lots of interesting places to visit and explore, well-developed NPCs and bustling towns that made it feel like a virtual world was living inside your computer.
I hope someone will recreate this game one day, although with a combat system (and graphics) more up to date.
He predicted that did he? I have been saying it for years on here. Did he also mention that Social and Mobile gaming are creating a drive to games which will be even less like a solid all round MMO? Just as consoles helped dumb down MMO gaming, mobiles and social netwrking will too.
Yep. Whatever he is trying to push now expect it to end with a terrible game and him visiting the ISS.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwT9cFVQCMw
Best MMOs ever played: Ultima, EvE, SW Galaxies, Age of Conan, The Secret World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2X_SbZCHpc&t=21s
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To be fair, a game like classic UO could easily be run as a facebook game. I would play it for sure and even pay for it.
There is nothing that would prevent a game like UO to be created for mobile devices. The game was originally designed for '97 PCs running at 640x480 SVGA resolution. Modern tablets have many times the processing power, memory capacity and screen resolution compared to the PCs of '97.
The reason we don't see AAA MMOs on tablets yet is because someone has yet to prove that a big budget game for a tablet can be successful.
Ultima IV - VII + Underworld + UO were hardly what I'd call lackluster or ego-based.
its not like he single handedly created all those games.
I don't buy into this view most people have that people in charge of development are responsible for everything good about a game.
its analogous to the oscars only having one catagory.
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To be fair, how long ago were those titles you mentioned done? And what has he done for RPGs and/or MMORPGs since then?
What R.Garriott did in his career is outstanding and can never be taken away from him. But again, what has he done for RPGs / MMORPGs since UO? UO is a 90's child. Bill Clinton was still President of the USA!
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
And he did not have sex with that woman.
(You can't win with Garriot. He's Deity Incarnate, or he's a Has-Been. But either way, the argument usually churns on for days.)
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
who cares if he did, have yall looked at the presidential history, most of our better presidents tended to sleep around alot, heck bill was the last one time we had a stable econmy
ops did i bring politics into this thread
F2P may be the way of the future, but ya know they dont make them like they used to
Proper Grammer & spelling are extra, corrections will be LOL at.
Im pretty sure that this is just the release of Ultima Forever. http://ultimaforever.com/ EA said spring 2013. Or am I wrong?
I like how the game captures some of the original Ultima art style, but I can’t say if it is any good gameplay wise. I believe that Richard Garriott has lost all interest in video games, and this is just a marketing thing.
It just says that he presents something not that it is something by Richard Garriott. Maybe they just hired him to boost the release.
I think it would be a big coincidence if Ulitima Forever gets released and the same month Richard Garriott makes his big comeback with his next big thing, after keeping himself out of game design for almost 20 years.
UO Pre trammel, Pre stat loss for reds.
The test server for factions.... when you could macro a switch completely changing your character from mage to archer to tamer to solider was the bomb-whoa-shiznit.
You know it's fun as hell when there are 30-40 corpses laying around half looted, because you never even had the time to loot before some enemy was comming by looking for revenge/blood.
Anyway, I still remember the day when Lord Bristish was Pk'd
I was not there, as I had to work, but I still remember My guild being all abuzz about the whole thing
and how everyone thought it was so cool that even Lord British could be Pk'd
EVEN A GOD KING CAN BLEED!
This is not on Kickstarter yet? In that case, yes, I think there will be a Kickstarter. It seems that loads of MMO vets have come out of the woodwork once they saw the first MMO kickstarter getting of the ground.
This is a good thing, but the MMO market is saturated up to its eyeballs, can any MMO get traction? And the more of these alternative gameplay MMO's that are launched, the more likely it is that none of them become a big success.