Game News Lord British Kickstarter coming up - "Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues"

[mindx2]

Well Chris Roberts wasn't exactly shitting out Space Sims, and look at what he came up with.

I would like to but I still do not understand what he actually came up with.

An 8 million dollar PC game apparently that appeals to wing commander fans.

He DID have very very good marketing for that though.

He sucked me in for a chance to get a single-player WC-like game. I can care less for the MMO thing, though.

 

[Broseph]

What can change the nature of a Garriott?

 

[FrancoTAU]

Ultima can!

I can't believe that my mild optimism has reached moderate optimism on this project.

 

[Broseph]

Soon, we shall see. I would DIE for an Ultima VII-like game with tactical turn-based combat. We'd be fortunate to get just one of those two things though.

 

[Jaesun]

I wonder what he thinks of Torment. Also wonder if he ever congratulated Mr. Fargo.

 

[~RAGING BONER~]

I imagine someone named Lord British has a bubble so dense around himself that the thought of another Kickstarter campaign's success affecting him hasn't even crossed his mind.

 

[Alex]

It is nice to see other people beginning to get hopeful about this. I mean, at least if the kickstarter proves to be a disappointment, I won't be disappointed alone!

 

[Jaesun]

It is nice to see other people beginning to get hopeful about this. I mean, at least if the kickstarter proves to be a disappointment, I won't be disappointed alone!

Are you a big Ultima fan Alex?

 

[BigWeather]

What RG was making last 17 years, is probably awesome classic old school turn based RPGs with choices and consequences all over them.

What if it turned out that LB pulled a Cleve all these years? Shows up with this awesome old school Ultima, promising a demo to backers once he gets it working on Windows 7 (on account of his having written it for DOS and still using his Voodoo memory manager)! I don't know if I'd laugh or cry!

 

[Jaesun]

 

[BigWeather]

Still, impending train wreck or not, this has been a great week to be an Ultima fan. Feels good to be excited about the possibilities for the first time in years.

 

[Jaesun]

True. With the abomination shit MMO/social crap Ultima EA did, this is our only hope.

Our only hope.

I want to believe.

 

[Alex]

It is nice to see other people beginning to get hopeful about this. I mean, at least if the kickstarter proves to be a disappointment, I won't be disappointed alone!

Are you a big Ultima fan Alex?

Oh, yeah. Ultima 8 was the first CRPG I ever played, coming with the first sound board I ever had. I played with that game for hours (once I managed to make the boot disk for it load my mouse drive properly). Then I found out a friend of mine had the previous game in the series (Ultima 7), together with Ultima Underworld in his cd. We swapped cds, and Ultima 7 quickly became one of my favorite games ever. I remember I used to think, back then, that Ultima 7 was probably only one game among many, and that surely there were many other RPGs like it out there too.

I am, in fact, playing some of the old titles right now. I never finished Ultima 5, for example, and never did much in Ultima 6. So, there is still a lot of things for me to try out. I hope to use this playthrough to gather material to make Sosaria into a P&P setting for Burning Wheel. I think a redo of the last trilogy in P&P format, starting like Ultima 7 started, but not necessarily going the same way as it went (that is, a smart avatar could avoid being thrown into Pagan, or at least go there in his own terms) could be pretty fun.

 

[Broseph]

 

[Jaesun]

But is Richard?

 

[Broseph]

We shall see if he still has his on. Or at least he is willing to cash-in with a GOOD PRODUCT to finance his next space trip.

(FFS Jaesun, just brofist me already. I need your approval so I can tell myself that I am not a shitposting newfag. )

 

[Jaesun]

You have a very long way to make it to my BROlist young padawan.

 

[Broseph]

I am a high school student who went straight from popamole games such as Skyrim and Rock Band 3 to CRPGs such as Arcanum and Fallout after lurking the Codex. I am currently on my first blind playthroughs of Ultima VII and Betrayal at Krondor. enough?

 

[Jaesun]

Close.

What are your thoughts on such games.

 

[Broseph]

Loved Arcanum and Fallout, played both of them to completion. I prefer Fallout because it feels more focused and the combat is way more fun.

Betrayal at Krondor is currently my favorite DOS-era RPG. I'm liking U7 so far but I hate the combat.

 

[FrancoTAU]

Everyone hates U7 combat. It says something about the rest of the game that even with that terrible combat that people still love the game.

 

[Broseph]

Yeah, the world design is absolutely brilliant. It feels like everyone is there for a reason and even relatively unimportant characters have their place in the game world.

 

[Jaesun]

Everyone hates U7 combat. It says something about the rest of the game that even with that terrible combat that people still love the game.

Just like PST. <3

 

[Country_Gravy]

I want another Ultima just as much as the next die hard Ultima fan that played U1-5 on a C64, but I just can't see with LB's recent track record that he is going to make anything good. I am still holding out hope, though, that he has one last ace up his sleeve and busts out some old school shit that he has been sitting on for years.

Am I the only one that thinks that U6 might be more fun than U7? It was always my favorite in the series. U7 was good and definitely a breakthrough RPG, but there was something about U6....it had the same type of continuous world where towns were just part of the overland map, but it still had keyword entry like the previous Ultimas. It also had better combat than 7, but the combat isn't what could really be called "great". I think that the story was better with the gargoyles being the bad guys and turning out just to be misunderstood and having the Avatar be their bad guy for stealing the Codex in 4.

Also...spam spam spam humbug

 

[Tigranes]

I imagine that many Ultima fans are not aware of LB's history after Ultima Online. I mean, if you don't pay attention, all you'd hear is that he lives in his mansion, goes on a space trip, has some sort of legal wrangle, hasn't seem to have made any games for a while.