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[Preview] Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar: E3 2013 - Hands On with a New Britannia
BillMurphy
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We caught up with EA Mythic's Carrie Gouskos at this year's E3 to learn more about Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar and get some hands-on time with the game.
Ultima Forever is a mobile free-to-play spiritual successor to Ultima 4. Imagine Ultima 4 as an MMO on mobile devices and you have an idea of what EA Mythic is going for here. EA Mythic’s Carrie Gouskos told us that the team’s goal was to create this MMO experience in a way that is digestible for the way gamers tend to play mobile games without diluting the MMO aspects.
Read more of Michael Bitton's Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar: E3 2013 - Hands On with a New Britannia.
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Um, I hate to be negative but "Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar" is nothing like Ultima Online from all that I have seen. It's just a cash grab for people who like to buy mediocre games on their iPods and smart phones.
The only really good MMO on a tablet that I played was Order & Chaos Online, and that was a copy-cat of WoW.
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Lord British has nothing to do with this... monstrosity. This is a crappy, wannabe-Ultima ARPG cash grab which is a kick in the groin to Ultima fans, especially those who grew up with the series.
Who needs the complexity of a personal quest to find enlightenment and understanding of the self while discovering the deeper meaning behind the eight virtues, in order to set a positive example for others to follow? I mean, screw all that noise right? We're making a game for adults here! Let's add a generic 'big, bad enemy', lots of hack and slash combat, airships, a generic Bioware-style 'Good, neutral, evil' morality system, and give old LB a sex change! Sound good?
I hope this ridiculous farce of a classic CRPG fails miserably.
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This a rather big degradation in comparison to what Ultima once was, and it's a shame really.
I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in the lackluster "MMO's" for mobile devices, in any shape or form.
EA should just shut down Mythic and hire some new studio with competent people in it, Mythic can't seem to do anything properly anymore, making a great game has become mission impossible for this lot frankly.
What could have been a fun little translation of RPGs, very much in the spirit of the Ultima pre-online, to the tablet world but hobbled by horrific business model. The more keys one uses, the more one has to spend just to fight entropy, not even counting the way it raises a player's expectations for what would be a good drop (and not counting misclicks which are an ever-present threat with so many features offering to let you spend a few gold keys - which are not wildly different from copper keys in appearance).
It's so focused on getting you to spend keys that the first two towns I visited had infinite treasure chests sitting out in the open so you could apparently burn through cash without even adventuring at all. Give this game to a kid and I can see them burning through $100 in a single sitting.
I'm sorry, I know a lot of hard work and attentive nostalgia went into this, maybe it's aimed at people who have a few more digits of disposable income than I do, but I personally just can't adapt to a world running on this type of business model - it just disgusts me on every level - honesty, honour, compassion, ... all of them.
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if EA has anything to do with it, it gonna get screwed just like they screwed the APAC servers for starwars.. They say one thing then you find out it was a big lie to get your money...
Customer relations means they'll hit you with a bat and take you wallet...
EA don't care about there customers period..
Wont touch anything they have there filthy lying cheating paws into..
I am not convinced.
This year I will look for Divinity Original Sin - it is not an MMO, but has a very promising co-op-mode.
Next year will be the year of Albion Online.
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