The Future

Tensor

I'm an old UO player.  I played classic and T2A expansion.  I had to quit playing but have never found ANY game that gave me the same feeling as UO did.  I was thinking about starting again, but after reading up, it sounds like it kinda sux now. 

Anyways, I just wanted to ask what UO players think about the upcoming games out there.  I want to get into another MMORPG, but I've been out of the MMORPG loop for quite some time now.  I figured after all these years they would have come out with something that would blow my mind away, like UO did back in '98. 

I expected to pick any online game up off the shelf and be amazed with the development over the years.  I got the gold edition of DAoC, but I was sorely dissapointed.  The graphics are great, but the gameplay and socializing is nothing of what UO had.  That's when I found this site and did some reading, and I'm pretty dissapointed with what I've found.

Anyways... so now I'm putting my hopes into the next wave of games coming soon.  I hope there is atleast one that can quench my thirst for adventure.  As UO players, what do you think are the best prospects?  I would post this in the general discussions board, but I only want to know what UO players think, since they are the only players I can relate with.

 

redtiger

Despite the flaming i could get I actually am looking forward to the UXO release. I'm holding off on my opinion of it ,good or bad, until I can actually play it. All the talk of it not being UO is fine by me. I liked aspects of UO when I was actively playing it, but disliked some too. Mostly i'm interested in seeing how the devs are making this play more like a single player game in the MMO realm. anyway, that's my four cents on the subject.

Also...sort of off topic...i just read that Richard Garriot gave permission for Lord British to return to Britania in UO. can anyone confirm this is true????

 

Dark_Vengeance

Redtiger,

UXO's approach to bringing a single-player element to an MMOG is simple.

Think of Diablo 2's closed servers. Now instead of a battlenet chatroom, you have a graphical chatroom "city" for basic shopping, trading, or talking. As with battlenet, you have regional servers, much like UO's current shards.

Now when you want to go to a dungeon (i.e. start a game), you can choose whether it is public or private. For private games, you choose who can join.

I would not be shocked if UXO is either non-PvP, or consent-only PvP. I don't see OSI willing to go the unrestricted PvP route or with a PvP switch.

Personally, I'm going to pass on it. EA and OSI have shown no respect for the Ultima franchise since Garriott left, and UO today looks (and plays) nothing like Raph Koster's masterpiece-in-progress from the old days.

Bring the noise.

Cheers..............

redtiger

Thanks for the illumination DV. Since I've not really kept up with the EA involvement in the series as much i really don't have much of an opinion on that. PvP has honestly not among my favorite aspects of most of the MMORPGs i've tried to play. It's not the concept as much as the griefers i've always  had to deal with. So with that experience in mind consentual PvP doesn't seem like such a bad idea to me on paper. 

flootie

As I have been talking about previous on these boards I am very interested in UXO, i think that what they are working to provide to players presents a unique challenge that both here have discussed- the idea of singel payer in MMO realm to quote RT. I think it sounds great. Having read a lot of information on many of the games listed, I think that UXO just sounds like one of the better games out there- EA Origins argument aside, for just the game I am going with UXO.