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I just want UO2!
Donovan321
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Richard Garriot does own the rights to Ultima again....so it is possible..
Hell, even Chris Roberts is supposedly in negoititaions with EA to get the rights to Wing Commander back.
the missing link in a chain of destruction.
All spelling and typographical errors are based soely on the fact that i just dont care. If you must point out my lack of atention to detail, please do it with a smile.
People have been waiting for a sequel to UO for almost 20 years and in that time every fan has dreamed up their perfect version of UO2.
Any deviation from these self imposed expectations would elicit intense nerd rage.
You would have the "it must be isometric over head or its not a real UO!"
You would have the art style complainers.
You would have the free for all full loot PvP crowd.
And people complaining about every single feature that's not exactly as it was in UO back in 1997.
Yeah, all those people desperately want UO2 but they all want a different version of UO2.
I have to agree with you, the game has changed so much over the years that the fights over what UO is would destroy it. Or they could go like AC2 and completely scrap everything that made the first game great and make it just like every other game out there.
the missing link in a chain of destruction.
All spelling and typographical errors are based soely on the fact that i just dont care. If you must point out my lack of atention to detail, please do it with a smile.
UO2?
Not good enough.
Nearly 20 years later, I want UO 5 !
( Note to self-Don't say anything bad about Drizzt.)
An acerbic sense of humor is NOT allowed here.
Wa min God! Se æx on min heafod is!
- Albert Einstein
Have you tried it? I have been. Every single alpha/beta. The game is a lot like UO in terms of PvP, using skills to gain, crafting, the way you collect resources, building, player interaction.... there is so much in common. Yes a lot has been changed too, such as the way skills work when you "level up" (reach a certain skill level), and zones for PvP... but its a lot like UO. Quite frankly, I think its going to quench my decade+ long thirst for UO back in the PvP days. Damn you trammies.
To anyone looking for UO2, take it from a very experienced player and not this joker, the two have a LOT in common.
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For everyones information, he does not own the rights to Ultima again. He only owns rights to some of the characters, such as "Lord British". Other than that there is no actual Ultima in sight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_(series)
Well you got Camelot Unchained on its way! One I will surely try. I used to play UO and DAOC so much. UO got trammel, and then DAOC got that stupid expansion Trials of Atlantis that destroyed the PvP aspect of the game and turned it semi-wowish where the focus was more on grinding.
UO was something very different from every other MMO out at it's time (Meridian 59 and the Realm).
Just making a sequel with updated graphics would not make the original game justice. A new UO should be different and not just from the original game but from all other MMOs as well.
And sure, if Garriot can do that I am all for it. But an UO HD game is something I can do without.
I think a lot of the old MMOers miss what made UO so amazing due to nostalgica, UO did like few games before or after and did things it's own way. If Garriot seriously would want to try things again he should go back to the thoughts that made him create UO in the first place but start anew from that perspective.
That is at least my opinion.
If you are going to compare Albion and UO and say the above are the same you are crazy. Using a skill does not gain in it, completing an action with the skill EX. Killing a monster - Is how you advance. Crafting is similar, although UO never forced you to use your in game money to craft an item, so once again not the same. Also UO never had Exceptional & Mastercraft, we had GM except quality. You can get Mastercraft on a t1 item.
Collecting Resources is the same? Are you smoking? The only part similar is the Logging aspect where you hit a tree. Ore was gathered inside of or on the outside of mines, and cloth was made from shearing sheep primarily, so how is hitting a ore node you can see in the open world the same?
Building. Building is in SELECT locations. It is also very limited. There is no section where the Guard Zone ends and you can just place where you like (as long as the requirements are met such as space and flat ground)
Nothing is sold to vendors, or purchased from them really. It is all player driven. The Banks are LOCAL as are the Auction house, also different from UO.
Does it have a UO type feel, sure it sort of does. It is in no way UO though. UO was a living world, this is an instanced block at a time zone based MMO -
You don't need the rights to UO to make a spiritual successor.
Why isn't anyone talking about Shroud of the Avatar? He could just as easily make another game just like UO, but Shroud of the Avatar is what he made instead.
Well I read my post over and found nothing where you state that I said the two are the same. The two have a lot in common which is what I said. A lot of ex-uo players are gonna love this, and a lot of us ex-uo players have already been enjoying it. If you are expecting literally a carbon copy of the original game you are frickin kidding yourself bud.
Everybody says that, and then when it comes out, and something isn't done the exact way people want it, the game is ruined and it's garbage.
Just like ESO and plenty others.
Of course, we all do.
LMAO. Shroud isnt even close to UO. That was just a selling point to get all of our money on the stupid pre-alpha. Its not even an open world, theres an "overland map" where you become a giant and run to the next zone...circa 1990's rpgs.