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

[UnknownBro]

Remember Ultima IX.

 

[Brayko]

Gothic 1 is the DONE RIGHT version of Ultima IX.

 

[Xavier0889]

Gothic 1 is the DONE RIGHT version of Ultima IX.

But the controls were still shit

I laugh at RG trying to impress new audiences. He should realize his fans are old farts. Ultima is a fucking DOS series. Just buy a house in the moon or something.

 

[Jaesun]

Ultima IX is a DOS game?

 

[Xavier0889]

9 isn't but most of them were. At least the good ones.

 

[Jaesun]

True. Ultima V was DOS.

 

[FrancoTAU]

Ultima IX is a DOS game?

If he's pitching a new game to the U9 fans than he's really going fail hard on his kickstarter. Garriott has turned into a kook in recent years and probably has nothing left to offer cRPG fans, but he can honestly claim that he had little to do with that stinker.

 

[BigWeather]

Ultima V was glorious on the C=128. I had a C=64 and was so irritated that it didn't have music. Went over to a friend's house who had a C=128 and was just awestruck.

Suck it, PC master race. Of course we all saw the light eventually (oh, around Ultima VI time).

 

[FrancoTAU]

All the intros kicked ass, but I'm partial to the U3 intro where the dragon fries the adventuring party.

 

[BigWeather]

Yeah, loved Ultima III's intro. Ultima III was one of my first RPGs (I think Telengard -- on cassette -- by Avalon Hill was the first), and the first I bought with my own money. I remember it sitting on the shelf in our local independent game store and, with that awesome demon on the cover, just had to get it.

 

[Saxon1974]

Oh god this is gonna be awful. He is one of my hero's for his 80's games but as someone else said he turned into a kook at some point.

Honestly If he is going to to some type of kickstart social MMO game It will make me very sad, would prefer he just go away with my good memories intact.

What the crap happened to him?!! His Ultima games still have legions of fans 20 plus years later and influenced so many people to go into game design. You hear him talk now and he says things like "Well I only made those games turn based because of the lack of technology...and they were only single player because the technology wasn't available for an MMO at the time." Now he believes MMO's and social media plug in games are where it's at. Richard, do you even know why people love your Ultima games? It was the feel of a wide open world to explore with secrets to find plus interesting back stories thrown in. ARRRRGGGGG

 

[Infinitron]

UPDATE: Kenneth Kully drops some hints http://ultimacodex.com/2013/03/is-richard-garriotts-new-game-a-pc-title-will-it-be-revealed-at-sxsw/

It’s the calling out of Linux — playing off the Mac/PC reference — that catches my attention the most. Could that be a subtle hint concerning the game engine that the Ultimate RPG will make use of? Will the Ultimate RPG eschew the social and mobile frontier and be revealed as a decidedly “first era” game: a standalone, single-player RPG, albeit one that might support some sort of optional multiplayer component?

And furthermore, will the game be revealed at SXSW next Friday, in the special announcement Richard Garriott will be making in conjunction with a Descendants of Erdrick performance?

 

[General Maxson]

But what if he intends to make spiritual successor to old Ultimas, or Ultima Underworld? o_O

I want to believe a crazy person... :D

 

[IDtenT]

How much input did he actually have on the Underworlds?

 

[Infinitron]

How much input did he actually have on the Underworlds?

Nearly none AFAIK

 

[Crooked Bee]

I also think a Star Citizen-like model is what Garriott is most likely to follow, hoping to kill two birds with one stone.

 

[HobGoblin42]

People, leave Ultima IX alone. Back in 1995 (when the development started) it was one of the most ambitious software game projects. And despite the fact that it had tons of bugs in the initial versions, the game was some kind of revolution. Sure, it didn't follow the true path of Ultima IV-VI but I personally enjoyed the new 3D Britannia very much. As far as I can remember, only Zelda:Ocarina of Time gave me a better single-player 3D 'RPG' experience at this time.

 

[Infinitron]

...it's official, Chaos Chronicles is gonna suck.

In 1995, Ultima 9 was still planned as an isometric game, btw.

 

[HobGoblin42]

Ok, I think I should stop posting here privately

 

[HobGoblin42]

In 1995, Ultima 9 was still planned as an isometric game, btw.

Incorrect, Origin already published the first 3D screenshots 1995/1996. But if you mean 3D isometric, maybe.

 

[Infinitron]

In 1995, Ultima 9 was still planned as an isometric game, btw.

Incorrect, Origin already published the first 3D screenshots 1995/1996. But if you mean 3D isometric, maybe.

That's what I mean.

 

[taxalot]

I liked Ultima IX.

 

[evdk]

This thread has turned into some weird gaming version of Alcoholics Anonymous.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[HobGoblin42]

That's what I mean.

in fact it's not isometric, but top-down and rotable (like in our game)
Ok, back to the topic, I don't think anybody will share my weird devotion for Ultima IX.

Edit: ok, correction. The very first engine was 3D isometric, mea culpa!