KickStarter Shroud of the Avatar - Lord British's Not-Ultima Online 2

[Blackthorne]

Ricardo Garriath... hah, I love it.


Bt

 

[Metro]

Stabwound Just go ahead and donate and get it over with. You know you want to -- classic passive aggressive love/hate obsession with his Lud'ship~

 

[Jaesun]

He is very focused on a deep story and Single Player game:

Stretch Goals!​

We've had a lot of requests to share our stretch goals beyond the initial $1 million goal, so here's what we know so far:​

$1 M INITIAL GOAL!​

$1.1 M PET SYSTEM!​

One word, "Pets!" We're adding both social and combat pets which players can control using simple commands​

$1.2 M SEASONAL WEATHER!​

Grab your cloak, because we're adding Weather to the game!​

$1.3 M To Be Revealed!​

 

[ERYFKRAD]

What in Crom's name is a Social pet?

 

[Stabwound]

Well fuck me. This is the most half-hearted yet successful kickstarter I've seen.

 

[Broseph]

What in Crom's name is a Social pet?

A pet you can romance with your Facebook friends.

 

[Jaesun]

Well fuck me. This is the most half-hearted yet successful kickstarter I've seen.

They have yet to make the 4K+ to their goal.

Will probably happen tomorrow.

EDIT: They finally made $1,000.000.

14,640
backers
$1,001,432
pledged of $1,000,000 goal
19
days to go

 

[FrancoTAU]

I'm kind of surprised that the pledges haven't dropped much in the last couple days. I really thought it was going to come to a near standstill this week.

It's definitely going to be just like Ultima 4-7 with stretch goals like that. Weather changes are fine and dandy at least, but it's just weird how absolutely nothing is mentioned of actual game play still. Seriously, what the fuck do you do when you're actually playing the game?

 

[Micmu]

Trade & collect virtual items? What else is there?

 

[Jaesun]

Exactly. These very things missing from Ultima IV - VIII would have only made them more meaningful and incredible.

 

[Broseph]

To be fair, Ultima VII's combat would actually have been less of a clusterfuck if your party members were controlled by your Facebook friends.

 

[Stabwound]

Wow, I'm listening to an LB interview: his example of a great RPG is Diablo and a great example of a "roleplaying game" is Thief, because you play the role of a thief.

 

[Jaesun]

Wow, I'm listening to an LB interview: his example of a great RPG is Diablo and a great example of a "roleplaying game" is Thief, because you play the role of a thief.

wat?

 

[RK47]

LB im in

 

[RK47]

To be fair, Ultima VII's combat would actually have been less of a clusterfuck if your party members were controlled by your Facebook friends. nonexistent and it's turned into action RPG like its SNES port.

 

[jewboy]

Wow, I'm listening to an LB interview: his example of a great RPG is Diablo and a great example of a "roleplaying game" is Thief, because you play the role of a thief.

He may have suffered severe brain damage in space. That would explain a lot.

 

[RK47]

look, after ultima 8 , there isn't much hope by then.
if the kickstarter has a stretch goal of him playing Ultima 9, I'd chip in just to see how he eats his own shit sandwich.

 

[Metro]

$5 M SINGLE PLAYER CONTENT*​

* Requires persistent online internet connection.​

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[uaciaut]

Ah yes, the mythical 100k tamagotchi, who would have guessed.

 

[Melan]

A pet you can romance with your Facebook friends.

Does that mean "Skill: Fucking the Dog"?

 

[Brotherman Bill]

And it's funded 1.028 million as of now.

 

[Mortmal]

You know, that is entirely doable. I just so happen to have a river someone could fall in....


Bt

Add pirhanas in the river, and seeing the ragged lord british outfit drifting on the surface , should be nice too .

 

[octavius]

And it's funded 1.028 million as of now.

How compassionate of the pledgers to support the poor, starving multi-millionaire...

 

[hiver]

Hey guise... you are sooo going to love this:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/03/19/richard-garriott-game-designers-suck/

“I think most game designers really just suck”


“I’ve met virtually no one…who I think is close to as good a game designer as I am.”


“And every designer that I work with…I think, frankly, is lazy.”

 

[Hobz]

Nice catch hiver