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General: Lord British- Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues
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Richard "Lord British" Garriott is conducting a live presentation that he has been teasing for the past week. During the presentation, Garriott announced "Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues".
With Shroud of the Avatar, Richard and his team will again reinvent the classic fantasy role-playing experience. Using state-of-the-art tools and technology, the game will focus on what made his seminal Ultima Series great. Once players are introduced to the game, they will discover their own story woven into the immersive world and lore surrounding them. Players may choose to follow the life of the adventurer or, if they prefer, focus on exploration and discovery. Players may even choose the life of a homesteader; either nestled within the safety of the settled lands, or on the dangerous but potentially lucrative frontier. The world is full of opportunities and challenges!
Check out the Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues KickStarter page.
Check out the Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Live Stream.
“Shroud of the Avatar will include what I think are the keys to an ultimate role-playing experience,” says Garriott. “These important tenets include things like a fully interactive virtual world, deep original fiction with ethical parables such that players’ choices are relevant, cultural histories and fully developed alternative languages and text. Also we want our players to have physical game components like cloth maps, fictional manuals and trinkets. These are all things that people came to expect in my earlier works and we plan on bringing them all back to create Shroud of the Avatar.”
Players in Shroud of the Avatar will be introduced to the game, but then discover their own story. There is an overarching story woven into the player experience, and players may choose to follow the life of an adventurer or, if they prefer, focus on exploration and discovery. Players may even choose the life of a homesteader, either safely within the settled lands or on the dangerous but potentially lucrative frontier.
From familiar psychological profiling used to create your character to organically derived game response to player behavior, fundamental virtues and consequence of actions play a huge role in Shroud of the Avatar. Players will be free to choose their path, but must then live with the consequences of their actions.
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Another well known video game developer going down the kickstarter route, what is the reason for the kickstarter funding?
People are already throwing money at it without even reading the page, which is nice in one way and a bit disturbing in another
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In short?
Market interest measurement, research of customer needs and free community-based advertisment.
Seeing the nuances of the game development and possibly participating in it in some way is VERY attractive for custommers, as Wasteland II kickstarter has shown.
Not to mention that as kickstarter finishes, the kickstarter results and stats can be then used to possibly attract "bigger fish" to invest into the product, showcasing the already existing custommer base and market interest.
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Read the page, watched the video, then threw money at it :P
Haven't read anything I haven't liked so far.
Player Housing
Classless Character System
Fully interactive virtual world - If it looks usable, it should do something
Multiplayer Online Game - which can also be played solo player / offline
Something that looks Akin to Dynamic Events
PvP
The ability to be nothing but a crafter
A game thats about living a story rather than grinding levels
Pretty much everything I've been looking for in an Fantasy MMO.
I also have a bit of faith in Garriott and it sounds as if he has a good team. I also don't see EA ever releasing a UO2 and if they did I'm not confident in them to do it well and I have no interest in buying another EA game anyways.
Most importantly....
(Richard Garriott) Shroud of the Avatar > (EA) Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar
First rule in business... "never spend your own money"
Looks interesting though, seems like he's carrying on from UO but on a smaller scale.
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Want to interest me Mr. Garriot?
Stop talking. Create a working, stable and innovative game. Dont change it half way through development. Finish what you start. Release a fun and complete game. Dont let your company take over and kick you out (again). And finally DONT waste a bunch of money on some grandious adventure for yourself.
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Kickstarter is just about only way to get funding unless your game is a direct clone of a more succesful brand. Real investors are quite unimaginative when it comes with game funding.
Richard Garriott can have a few of my $ any day - I have been selling quite a few old Ultima games on eBay lately, seems appropriate that I use some of the funds to back this.
I actually think Kickstarter is a great way of funding games. It seems to work too. Torment: Tides of Numenera raised their $900k in 6 hours.
This looks like its being made with mobile devices in mind, as if it was made in 2003 with those graphics.
I will not back even Garriott with a project that is taking 2-3 steps backwards to support the death of PC gaming in favor of mobile gaming. Damn shame...would have jumped at a new Ultima with monitrary support.
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While the graphics do look like a step back, the world interaction and mechanics are a step forward. As always I'm more in favor of gameplay over graphics. In any case for the game to be in such an early stage of development and look like this is good imho. To each their own though.
I personally still go back to UO occasionally though which has graphics from the 90's lol.