Game News Not-Ultima Online 2: Shroud of the Avatar Kickstarter is Live

[Studio Fawn]

Richard! If you are reading this.... hire me ~_~ I'll draw you something better ~_~

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Looks better than I thought, pledged for now.

 

[Jasede]

He probably will.

 

[Mortmal]

So apparently the combat is more in-depth than it appears. It uses some sort of "card based system" where you pick skills you want available before you enter the combat from the pool you have available. They also say that this is one of the areas they're hoping for community feedback for. Suggest turn-based, plz.

He also said he dislikes Diablo style click-click-click combat as well as traditional MMORPG combat where you just stand there and spam abilities. So that's tiny incline, anyway. LB seems to have some kind of bro-ism left in his brain somewhere with those comments and the disparaging comments about quest markers/logs/bs.

I dunno. This could possibly end up being good for what it is, ultimately.

Yet if you watch the gameplay videos on ultima codex, it can hardly be more generic and popamole than that .Some dude clicking on skeletons to attack with sometime a special attack.

 

[WalmartJesus]

I would've only considered pledging if the game was actually called "Not-Ultima online 2"

 

[Stabwound]

So apparently the combat is more in-depth than it appears. It uses some sort of "card based system" where you pick skills you want available before you enter the combat from the pool you have available. They also say that this is one of the areas they're hoping for community feedback for. Suggest turn-based, plz.

He also said he dislikes Diablo style click-click-click combat as well as traditional MMORPG combat where you just stand there and spam abilities. So that's tiny incline, anyway. LB seems to have some kind of bro-ism left in his brain somewhere with those comments and the disparaging comments about quest markers/logs/bs.

I dunno. This could possibly end up being good for what it is, ultimately.

Yet if you watch the gameplay videos on ultima codex, it can hardly be more generic and popamole than that .Some dude clicking on skeletons to attack with sometime a special attack.

Haha, yeahh, his descriptions of the combat seemed to be a world away from what we actually say. I guess maybe you can give it the prototype excuse.

 

[Roguey]

What's with all the "MMO" talk? Garriott says it isn't a MMO.

 

[jewboy]

Seems like a hybrid MMO to me. Part MMO, part single player. In a bid to please absolutely everyone so as to rake in as much cash as possible. Another soulless game designed by marketing droids. As if we didn't already have enough.

 

[Jaesun]

Richard Garriott ‏@RichardGarriott
Are you in Austin, TX? Then join me tonight at SXSW for a special presentation about Shroud of the Avatar! http://fb.me/LxvuC33r

 

[Stabwound]

This guy has been doing press/video interviews all day. Man is a marketing machine.

I wonder if there's a stream of that talk at SXSW?

 

[Jaesun]

Felicia Day ‏@feliciaday
I just backed Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues on @Kickstarterhttp://kck.st/WahMzs #ultima #awesome #clothmap @richardgarriott

 

[felipepepe]

I like that he is really continuing from where he last stopped, adopting decade old-graphics....

 

[Excidium]

I like that he is really continuing from where he last stopped, adopting decade old-graphics....

 

[evdk]

I like that he is really continuing from where he last stopped, adopting decade old-graphics....

That's because he is no graphics whore - he may have outdated graphics, but the gameplay is all up to date and social!

 

[felipepepe]

Honestly, I'm all up for something like this being made (but not with my money). It will be nice to see if storyfagging Lord British + 2001 graphics (looks just like Dark Age of Camelot) will result in something new on the completly stagnant MMO world...

 

[Excidium]

Well, everything so far only makes it it look like a larping sim, and "meaningful PVP that also minimizes griefing" reeks of casual.

 

[Jaesun]

Honestly, I'm all up for something like this being made (but not with my money). It will be nice to see if storyfagging Lord British + 2001 graphics (looks just like Dark Age of Camelot) will result in something new on the completly stagnant MMO world...

It's a prototype. The graphics are basically placeholders for now, thus the KS to pay for art assets. Just like all games.

 

[~RAGING BONER~]

I wonder how my Lord British and his Knights will re-define what an RPG means this generation...

 

[Metro]

I'm sure it'll be fun from an Amalur perspective but a far cry from the Ultima games (pre-U8)

 

[Broseph]

For someone who is not going to back this project you seem very interested, Jaesun.

 

[Metro]

He's going to pull a Brother None and join Team British as a line producer!

 

[Jaesun]

I'm just stating some facts. I'm not going to fund this MMO though.

 

[Menckenstein]

He's going to pull a Brother None and join Team British as a line producer!

A oneline producer.

/hypocrisy

 

[BobtheTree]

Richard Garriott ‏@RichardGarriott
Are you in Austin, TX? Then join me tonight at SXSW for a special presentation about Shroud of the Avatar! http://fb.me/LxvuC33r

I live fairly close to Austin, I was tempted to go to this event, but I seriously was afraid of the hateful things that might spew forth from my mouth.

 

[Jaesun]

Richard Garriott ‏@RichardGarriott
Are you in Austin, TX? Then join me tonight at SXSW for a special presentation about Shroud of the Avatar! http://fb.me/LxvuC33r

I live fairly close to Austin, I was tempted to go to this event, but I seriously was afraid of the hateful things that might spew forth from my mouth.

Dude totally go! Give us a report. Just try to retain yourself. :D