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UO THE ONLY GAME THAT GAVE FOND MEMORIES
havocthefirs
Member Posts: 229
Yes it's true, go to any forum on any website for any game and the only place you will see the word FOND is to describe UO in its heyday.
Just a few fond memories.
One day when I had labored to buy my first house and moved all my bank stuff inside, seconds after I'm done a guy walks in and steals my key, we fight and the battle moves outside, he runs back in and locks me out, lol, what a noob I was I did'nt even know how to ban him.
My brother-in-law used to always get owned by a group of reds down in orc valley so one day he walks down with a bag of purple pots, he double clicks like 10 ina row and yells, "remember me?" needless to say they all explode and he drops dead. One of the guys standing there asks "who the hell was that?" His buddy responds "I dunno just some moron I guess." I walk down and start to collect my in-laws loot, they ask me "Do you know him?" Not wanting to embarass myself I answered, "no, just some moron in my guild."
Our small guild was composed of family members and rl friends only, brothers, sisters and in-laws there were nine of us. We decided it was time to war other guilds. Our first battle went like this, there were four of us and we ran into a group of three enemy players. My sister was hit with one e-bolt and immediatly kops, my friend insantly hides, my brother a warrior is paralized and I dither around with worthlees spells. My sister was then known as the "kop queen", she later became a great pvper. My friend was named "the hidey guy" he never became good at pvp and we used to have to waste 11 points of mana to reveal him at the start of every battle. Not the best of beginnings.
One day were fighting a guild called 82 because that was the number of their members, so we needed a plan. I put forth that I would run down and lure several of them away, when I arrived my sister was to lay down an energy field to block most of them while we slaughtered the few that made it past the field. The plan was working flawlessly right up to the point where I accidentally double clicked a tamed bird and got guard wacked. My body lay sprawled with just my arm dangling across the energy field, so instead of a crushing victory most of the time was spent trying to loot my stuff without getting killed.
Were all grown and married with children now, we all still play on the free servers with the old rules but its not quite the same, the population on the free servers is low and certain items and skills can be bought from the people that host the servers, its still fun but not quite the same. Whenever we all get together for the holidays the conversation allways turns to UO in the good old days. I've played loads of games since from eve to wow and there are none that have given me anything to remember.
If you have any stories to tell please post them I would love to hear them.
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Great story!
Ive had some pretty good memories in the past, but nothing great...
Alrighty then, one of my stories.
When I played on Europa (OSI), I had a thief called Scouser, who used to hang out at Yew gate in Fel. Even though I died every other second, it was dead fun to snoop people and steal their stuff. Anywho, one day I met this guy there, who was the guildmaster of the biggest thief/theif (theif was a faction thief) guild on the server.
So I said I'd join them, and I was told that I'd have to take a test. Now this was a long time ago, so I can't remember exactly, but I was told a riddle along the lines of:
"I'm fresh, I'm easy. I'm round and lovely."
Now I didn't have any idea what this meant, all I was told was the riddle, and given a clue. I needed to steal something. So after literally spending four or so hours going round and round Yew gate, I found this guy who had an apple in his backpack. It still hadn't clicked, but I stole it anyway - just for the hell of it.
Turns out that was the guildmaster's alt, and I needed to take the apple. The guild turned out to be crap, and I quit within weeks, but it was the most awesome introduction I'd ever done.
No longer visiting MMORPG.com.
I laughed so hard reading the part where you have to reveal your guildy before the battle started. That's pretty hilarious!
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Listen Asmodeeus, seven years ago, Ultima Online didn't even have those pathetic "quests" that you refer to or those "professions" of ninja, samurai, necromancer, and paladin. Nor did it have any of the neon crap, or bug mounts. It didn't even have any "combat moves." You turned on attack and jousted with simplistic swings. It was a better game then. if you can't guess why then just uninstall the thing and move along. - Crabby
Yeah...... 6 years on Chessy here from late Beta.
Most of my fond memories are from year 1 and 2 when a good friend and I were pretty much career house breakers.
On any given day you would find us lurking in the forrest trying to get into people's houses for the purposes of helping them store all that phat l3wt
. We used to do some bizzare stuff including :
Kill your theiving partner, get them to go inside the house your robbing, cast rez (which at that time had an AOE) and they get rezzed inside the door and then they can open it and the looting begins WOOT! Or who could forget, piling up boxes and standing on them one level at a time, opening a gate and the other person comes through once your upto 4 levels, then steps off the boxes through the roof of the house... and WOOT its L3wT tiiiiiime!
Or the standard.... hang out at the architect/carpenter store. Wait for a likely type to buy a housing deed (people cant resist announcing to friends out loud they just bought one), follow them into the forrest and wait for them to find a good spot and place the house.... then gank em and take the keys WOOT!!
I could go on for ever basically.... but yeah..... Nothing has ever been like UO....
Chances are nothing will ever come close
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"Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees. To hear the softly spoken magic spell" Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Ah the one game where you could just play with your friends and have loads of fun without worrying about raiding, leveling, and gear. The one game that left it up to the community to actually build the game. Player ran towns, player made tournaments, ah the good ol' days.
I have soooo many memories being a 6 year vet on Great Lakes and Legends. Here's a quick little story out of very very many that I have.
This guy on Great Lakes used to hang out in the Brit graveyard with an Axe of Vanquishing all the time. He was actually a pretty good pvper and he ALWAYS ran his mouth. So one day I hop on my disarm thief, run up, pop his paperdoll, select his Axe, then disarm him and hit steal "last target" and yank his axe right out from under him. I make a clean get away and run back to my tower. Needless to say he chases me all the way back. I ban him from my tower right when he pops the door open then I put the axe on my vendor for 100k gold. The guy comes back 5 minutes later and buys it. I did again to him acouple days later but I guess he was low on funds because he didnt buy it the second time someone else did.
When I think of UO it almost brings a tear to the eye. To me it was the only true virtual world, all other MMOs are just water'd down Everquest clones that are ran by the developers and not the community. Even the so called "skill based progression" ones these days.
Most of my fond memorys in games were In lineage 2 prelude and early C1 on Gustin. ^^
dstar thats a great story too!
I think it clearly highlights the MASSIVE gulf between the depth of play in UO and the utter lack of any depth in most modern MMO's.
If you could get 1000 UO vets together and get them all to tell a short story from thier play days. All the stories would be entertaining and completely different.
How did we end up with games getting progressivly more simplistic and closed from a start like UO ??
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"Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees. To hear the softly spoken magic spell" Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
I don't have any fond memories of UO. Within the first hour of me and my friend starting, we were attacked numerous times by people while trying to mine and cut wood to start earning some money. The second night, my friend was ganked by 3 guys much higher level, who then looted him and laughed. We quit playing within two weeks.
I'm honestly not trying to troll here, but does anyone else notice that a lot of these stories have to do with stealing? It almost sounds like the game could be called GTA: Britannia instead of UO, lol.
Anyway, I have plenty of fond memories from DAOC, PS, SWG and WOW. In DAOC, Midgard dominated the early days of RvR. Albion had never successfully defended a keep from Midgard attack, months into the game. One night, up much too late, about 40 of us took a keep and about half decided to try defending it. We all blew about all the money we owned to prepare and, to my knowledge, were the first on the server to ever seriously use catapults to defend a keep. We had 3 cats in the courtyard going full time, wizards and theurgists nuking, a woodworker up top repairing the gate constantly, and everyone else killing pets that warped through the walls. This was back when nobody was strong enough to carry a full siege engine, too. By 3am, the Middies gave up - Albion had finally won a keep battle. As icing on the cake, my wife had gone to bed (with her Scout, no less) when we first took the keep and was jealous for weeks afterward that she missed the big fight.
Edit - *Repsonse to Razorback*
I really don't know bro. It's quite sad really. One can speculate all they want on why the genre went the way it did. To me all though it was a fantasy world, it was really close to the real world. A lot of folks that enjoy their MMO don't really like that kind of feeling. Then again the MMOs that have followed Everquest 1 (pretty much every single MMO now) are like 2nd jobs. UO was a 2nd society, just virtual. You actually had to break past the barrier (the murdering, the thieves, the scammers) in order to enjoy it. Although it can be hard for many, that was the learning curve.
I remember on the Legends server this girl "chelle" and her real life husband played together. Unfortunately he passed away in real life. So a bunch of people made a really cool looking shrine for him outside of Vesper. People in that game really knew how to decorate with the items in that game. Anyways this PK named "KeeperOfSouls" (he was actually a Roleplayer) got in touch with Chelle outside of Brittain (he stayed in character the whole time) and told her that he contributed to her husbands shrine and that he would like her to come see it. To make this already long story short, he opens a portal to the shrine, they both go through and he kills her right ontop of it.
Anyone remember making deadly poison trapped boxes on a tinker that never left your house and bringing the box to the Brit bank on a "blue" character and dropping it right on the ground? Oh man the evil grins you'd get
There's a happy story for you, but it's not nearly as interesting is it
I can sympathize with you on getting pk'd while chopping wood though haha. Though one day me and a couple friends set up a trap and countered those pesky mean player killers and they were the ones on the ground and we were the ones looting their corpses.
Or how about those times in way old days when people would roleplay bandits and hide at bridges, when you and your band of newbie friends would come strolling along they would pop out and make you pay a fee, but you'd come out on top and end up killing them! From then on out they would always let you pass without a toll fee!
Oh man Im getting tears.
I was the king of tinker traps lmao
Placing them out on the roads out of town and then hiding waiting for my victim to loot was the fun part.
I killed hundreds of people like that haha!
Although I did blow myself up least 10 or 20 times when I would forget what box was trapped lol
I remember my good friend charlie played a female character. He got in really well with a big pk guild on pacific that had a huge castle with rare upon rare upon rare. One day a guildy ganked him and the rest of the guild didn't take his back, so he looted the shit out of the castle. I remember he was the only chick character on pacific with a puple beard.
I remember thinking I was badass because I killed a polar bear. I remember not leveling up healing because I didn't think it mattered so I had a lot of downtime =/. I remember dry looting someone for killing my horse. Killing a man is one thing. Killing a man's horse is blasphemy.
I think my favorite time was trinsic. Loads of undead and tons of dead bodies. Loot spree, if you could manage to stay alive.
UO was fun because it was a war betwee reds and blues. Reds weren't really evil, they were just kinda.... ok, they were evil. Which is why it was so fun being a red hunting blue.
Did I mention mongbats?
I remember I deleted my very first character because I got lost in the Yew woods and couldn't find my way back.
There will never be another UO, but damn, I wish some of these other games would even come close. How about an mmorpg that doesn't feel like a grind?
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You guys remmember leapfrogging those HUGE amounts of Ore? My heart would pump anytime a PKer was around and tried to steal my stuff.
The tree is out of wood!!!
Thy will regret thyne actions Swine! BOOOOMMM you were dead!! lol
Pickpocketing at the bank!
Ahh UO, so many different ways to make money. I made my "fortune" by selling those Rune Books and collecting ingredients all over Britania.
How cool did you look with a pet dragon?
I remmember making those elementals so my guildies could practice their skill up.
I remmember hidding bags in the woods with one character and logging with another to claim the items, talk about transfers.
Finding the treasure maps while fishing and then looking for the treasure with a group of friends.
I wish they had never changed anything and just upgraded the whole game to today's 3D standart. Too bad they keep releasing expansions after expansions.
But I also found this:
UO Reborn
Maybe it can draw us old timers back and maybe they will have an Oldschool server. I will be there:)
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