Lord British on what games can learn from Ultima Online

[GreenLantern]

The full interview isn't posted yet, but some interesting words from Garriot. I totally agree, UO was so great b/c you had such a diversity of play style. These new games its RUSH RUSH RUSH to the end game so you can collect purps..

In UO building your character WAS the game. When you had finished tailoring his skills, which was always being tinkered with, you worked on his rep, or the other way around.. I remember going to certain places on the map knowing I would find a specific person there. You actually communicated in game, not /send or /guild.. you want to talk to someone? Well that guild banks in Skara, go check if he is there. No? Swing by his house. Still nothing? I know that he farms in LL room, lets check there.. I remember going to specific shops on purpose because I knew the quality of goods were better and priced more reasonably than the shop down the street..

Ultima Online was the birth and death of a true form of MMORPG..

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2...han-anyone.ars

[CaptainCrunch]

Maybe this time he'll remember to turn on his invulnerability flat

http://www.gamestooge.com/2009/01/02...-british-died/

[Kerplunk]

Never played UO, but always sounded boring...too much ditzing around. Maybe he should have taken some of his own advise when making Tabula Rasa.

And because its funny: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide.../9-Tabula-Rasa

[SoulOfTheFlame]

Originally Posted by Kerplunk

Never played UO, but always sounded boring...too much ditzing around. Maybe he should have taken some of his own advise when making Tabula Rasa.

And because its funny: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide.../9-Tabula-Rasa

UO was probably about as far from boring as having sex with Nathalie Portman.

[GreenLantern]

UO was never boring b/c you could do anything you want to do.. it wasn't log in, stand in the same spot and either A) Queue for BG, B) Queue for instance or C) Listen to the 12 year olds in general chat.

I found this part to be very, very interesting...

Garriott describes these characters going into the virtual pubs to drink beers and laughing at the fighters who go off and risk their lives. "That kind of diversity of life has still never been recaptured in any game since, and it's something I hope to recapture in my next work," he said.

Bring it on home Richard, bring it on home

[WhiteTiger]

I was never able to 'get into' UO, but I had a really bad computer for the time, and not the patience. I wonder what it'd be like now that I've been around some, played some other MMO's and the like.