I too have played UO for 4-5 years off and on, starting way back when it first got released. I played a few shards here and there and made my home on Napa Valley. My name was Butthead, people hated me. I scammed people, a lot, it was fun. A nice trick i liked to do was ask people if they could watch my house for me while im on vacation so it didnt collapse, then when they got there, lock down a box and trap them in the house, and just kill them. I even had some run-ins with the GM's .. teekee... yeah i was a bastard.
One of the best parts about the game, is that it doesnt tell people right off the bat how good you are. On a freeshard i would dress up in all newbie clothes, ware a candle, and have my name be 'wizard' so people think im an easy target. I love to see thier reaction when i perfectly beat thier entire dump, then start to cast harmful spells of my own.
The game experience for me is unrivaled. I have had 200x more fun in old school UO then every other MMORPG ive played to date, combined. It was such a great freakin game.
Well I played from the last 4 weeks of Beta and then for almost 6 years
My main account was 70 months old when I sold it and my second account was about 50 months.
I have yet to expereince exciting gameplay like I had in the first 12 months of UO. No other online game has come close to creating that butt clenching tension that you got everytime you left the city limits in UO.
I was never a PK (I sucked at PvP too bad for that). Yes now and then I got REALLY mad when I would be mining and have a load of ore on my pack horses and some maggot would kill me and the horses and just leave the ore on the ground. But I would still argue that all of that stuff MADE THE GAME MORE EXCITING!
I miss those days BADLY and I dont think we will see gaming of that quality again.
I dont like to use the term "carebear" but the meaning of that word and the players who fit that title is DEFINATELY why MMOs generally suck now.
Lots of players who are too soft to play in an open environment and the sad part is.... they dont even know what they are missing!
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I played UO pre-Trammel, on Atlantic and on Hokuto. Trammel is for weenies. And I'd say I was a carebear from the start.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that walking up the road is a bad idea, and even though I wasn't one to go looking for a fight (and ran from quite a few), some of my best memories are of the PvP sort-- like when my online wedding at our guildhouse was crashed by PKs and the wedding guests beat them back, or when my husband and I got into it with a guy in front of our houses, and he kept killing us, but we kept coming back for more (dressed in replacement gear just like what he had taken) until he got bored of that little game and gave up on fighting us. (It was much funnier than it sounds. Ya had to be there.) Or there was the time we encountered a red who claimed he'd gone red from killing NPCs and not from killing miners in the cave right in front of his house (Pffft...yeah, right!). We chased him into his own house and killed him there as he tried frantically (and failed) to type, "I ban thee". That *still* makes me laugh, after all these years.
... This is where I draw the line: __________________.
Ahh UO, good times. I have high hopes for Roma Victor taking the baton from UO and bringing us into some new glory days of intense RPG/PvP.
Same here. I can't wait for the experiance of just running in a direction and going.... where the fuck am I and spending hours trying to find out where you are. That happened to me a lot in UO. Nothing was cooler than running into someone that would help you and nothing was more intense when you ran into a good PK'er. Ya had to run like a little newbie and it was so much fun.
Sent me an email if you want me to mail you some pizza rolls.
I haven't found yet a game that can compete with the fun i had in Uo in the old days. Tough there was not enough consequences to be a pk, most of the time pk had nothing to lose but the player they ganked had a lot to lose and after a few month the result was that a % of the player were pk lol. But i think that what raelly brough people to pk was that after you have explored most of the world and made a few character the best things left to keep you playing is to compete with other.
I never got pked much at all in UO because I played it smart when i traveled. As for the items though everything was just replaceable so most of the time when I died I never even bothered to go back to my body because I figured the little I had on it was gone already.
Which brings me to how much I carried... I carried only what I needed for combat out in the wilderness, I wasnt running around with 10,000 gold and three full suits of armor and all that stupidity.
This is how we learned... on the mean streets of Uo in the school of hard knocks.. and I think it made us better people for it, and more able to cope and adapt to what happens in the virtual world and even the real one.
_____________________________________________ "Old UO is now but a dream that will live in the hearts of the faithful for eternity."
Think you have what it takes to take the 'Oath of the legion' and become a true soldier of Rome? Service guarantees citizenship!
I never got pked much at all in UO because I played it smart when i traveled. As for the items though everything was just replaceable so most of the time when I died I never even bothered to go back to my body because I figured the little I had on it was gone already.
Which brings me to how much I carried... I carried only what I needed for combat out in the wilderness, I wasnt running around with 10,000 gold and three full suits of armor and all that stupidity.
This is how we learned... on the mean streets of Uo in the school of hard knocks.. and I think it made us better people for it, and more able to cope and adapt to what happens in the virtual world and even the real one.
_____________________________________________ "Old UO is now but a dream that will live in the hearts of the faithful for eternity."
Think you have what it takes to take the 'Oath of the legion' and become a true soldier of Rome? Service guarantees citizenship!
Originally posted by DeathWolf2u I strictly only play the FPS online games where your skill behind the keyboard is all you have to survive. In these games I have found that killing off people really relieves my tension and stress plus I'm pretty darn good at them. You people out here that think you're some kind of 133t tard in these MMORPG's come visit me in any of the Battlefield series but mainly Battlefield 2 and I guarentee I'll mop the floor with your guts. You think you have skill then put it to the test and come play the games that men play. The FPS online games will test your skills to the limit. MMORPG's have nothing to do with your skill behind the keyboard, period, end of story and anyone who argues against that is a complete idiot. So why pay all this money to play in a wolrd of tards I ask you?
one of the things i miss the more is the skill system. whit that system there was no overpowered player ,actulay your knowlege of the game, preparation and stategie was more important then your skills.
I relly hate the level system most other game use, its way to much limitative. They prevent you from playing with friend of not the same level range then you, also a low level player hane no chance agains a high level player(a lot of people think that is the way it should be but we all know that human is weak and that you dont have to be strong or skilled to kill someone in reality).
both Darkfall and roma victor are pure skill based in the UO tradition, they also state that one uber max skilled person will not be killing 30 people like in daoc style games where one level 50 dude gakes 30 level 19s.
If there is a uber dude in df or RV causing trouble, get a group of five or so n00bs together.. and KILL HIM! simple as that, because it is possible, just like in real life.
infact that is why I love skill based systems.. it is more like real life, Level based gameplay is a flawed system for mmorpgs, it was great for old time rpgs and D&D, but it doesnt translate well into mmorpgs IMO. In real life if im an uber roman general and 20 slaves attack me, there is a very very good chance that im not making it out alive.
_____________________________________________ "Old UO is now but a dream that will live in the hearts of the faithful for eternity."
Think you have what it takes to take the 'Oath of the legion' and become a true soldier of Rome? Service guarantees citizenship!
It's fun reading all these UO stories, and really makes me hate the fact that I never played it even more. it does sound like it was utter bliss in that time.
as for the level based system so often used now, it's a *lot* easier to balance then a skill based system, hence mostly going for that. I already saw somebody here mentioning the Halbard Tank Mage that was uber, and I fear any skill based system will ecourage fotm cahrs even more then a level system (if not balanced correctly, which is exactly the hard part)
Originally posted by D_shandril one of the things i miss the more is the skill system. whit that system there was no overpowered player ,actulay your knowlege of the game, preparation and stategie was more important then your skills. I relly hate the level system most other game use, its way to much limitative. They prevent you from playing with friend of not the same level range then you, also a low level player hane no chance agains a high level player(a lot of people think that is the way it should be but we all know that human is weak and that you dont have to be strong or skilled to kill someone in reality).
Funny you should say that, because I was just thinking reading this thread that there were rarely any arguments about so called "balancing issues". In my whole time in UO I must have seen every conceivable combination of skills used with varying degrees of success.
The guild I was in for ages on Chessy (Enforcers of Justice and earlier Knights of the Eternal Flame) would have regular tournaments. No one player ever dominated those tourneys. One week it would be a mage, the next a macer, the next a naked archer. It always came down to tactics and preperation.
To a certain extent good gear had an impact but it was never the deciding factor. A good player with a good plan would almost always triumph over someone more powerfull with better gear but less skill.
UO PvP is still right up there with the most fun and challenging online PvP you can find.
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i find that the private server: UOgamers: hybrid(im pretty sure thats the name) is really fun. Not as fun as the ol' days( but what is?). you know...Alot of the private servers have the right idea about making their shards seem as much like "old UO" as possible but what theyre missing is the amount of players. . . That may be why The Shard i mentioned above is so fun: because theyre the biggest private shard.
+-+-+-+-+-+ "MMOs, for people that like think chatting is like a skill or something, rotflol" http://purepwnage.com -+-+-+-+-+-+ "Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees. To hear the softly spoken magic spell" Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Originally posted by Ferox(SM) I wanted to take a roll call of any old Uo vets like myself on the forums, and perhaps talk about the glory days of the best mmorpg ever made so far.I was working at electronics botique the day it came out(yeah im old!), I actually opened the shipment box and took the very first copy for myself haha, I couldnt wait to get home that night and play. I played mostly on atlantic, but did a short stint on catskills.I have fond memories of running into the shadowclan ork roleplayers, who swarmed the land killing everything and everyone. The drow who hid among the trees in the woods south of Yew and demanded you pay a toll for going through their woods or else they killed you.Another great memory is learning how to NOT take the roads and avoid all the people out there who would attack you on site, never since in a mmo have I experienced such a rush and tense excitment when I was traveling.My fondest memory however is of my first small thatch house on Yew bay. I had it right on the water and my first boat was anchored right at the shoreline. My friends and i would hang out, play chess, spar to work on our weapon skills, cut down trees and make bows,arrows, and furniture. Every once in a while a group of pkers would come by and there would be a nice fight or two. When we felt like it we would jump in our ship and go out to fight sea serpants and water elementals, or we traveled to the dungeon se of yew, but that was a rare occurance, because I was sick of dungeons even back then. No other mmorpg since then has come close, im still waiting for that next "UO", im thinking Darkfall and Roma Victor will take up the torch and give us another virtual society that has not been seen since UO.
I played on Atlantic as well. Played in the beta as well. Really enjoyed UO though I cancelled my subscription about a year ago... I hadn't logged in for quite some time and couldn't see paying the money for a game I no longer play. Personally I agree UO was the best written but SWG is a nice replacement for it with better technology and pretty much the same 'feel' that UO had. Asside from mandatory PVP which was never one of the reasons I enjoyed UO... Don't get me wrong, I loved the PVP system in UO but it wasn't something that made the game "fun" for me SWG is so similar to UO it's not even funny
Currently Playing: Dungeons and Dragons Online. Sig image Pending Still in: A couple Betas
Ultima Online was actually my first MMO. I was quite young when I started playing too. I remember desperately trying to tame a horse in the game... good times, very good times. I remember how shocked friends online were when they found out my age and how mature I acted at the time.
Remember, death in Roma Victor will be alot more serious. So your gank-fest dreams probally won't come true. Because, basically, people would be waiting around for several hours for you to get out of Elysium so they can gank you again. They just wouldn't do it.
I still cant believe the sh** games that are coming out now... all the games that seem to have some promise (ie that seem to bring back some of the elements that made old UO good) all seem to
1. take AGES to release 2. cancel 3. Flop
I swear, everytime a new game comes out, everytime theres a new mmorpg being betad or released, i pray the mmo saints that its as good as UO. I have, to this date, always been dissapointed.
The dev team have got to do something about this - i'd play a pre pub 16 shard... hahah i remember i made my first mil buying small towers for 1mil and selling them for 1.2 mil... then when i wanted to buy my own home, a small marble, this guy put a blank scroll in the trade window... hahaha i swore so hard that night i deleted the game then and there. haha but of course i had to go back to uo. nothing beats it.
Sucks nowadays tho
I played eve - but the game needs some more improvements before it becomes really enjoyable... the fighting is really too boring : ship 1. has better modules than ship 2 -> ship 1 wins.
I started in 1998. I loved the game. To many great memories. I guess one of the funniest, at least for the towns people watching me. Was as a newbie attacking a great hart, only to have it chase me into town. And kill me at the East bank of Britian. I was out of stamina, and there where plenty of LOL's after that.
I quit the game when UOR came out. I enjoyed the guildwars before UOR came. Best game ever. You had to have help during those days. Getting a group of people together to go and hunt was a must because of the fear of Pk's. All the new games pamper you. There just virtual chat rooms. Not much different than a single player game.
My favorite thing to do, back in the day was to mark a Rune in Deceit bone magi room, and then go to Hyloth Cast a Gate, and let like 20 hellhounds and all kinds of creatures come through the game. Oh that was fun )))))
I loved that game, I have never found anything close since.
Holy crap , i didnt even know i had an account on this site!
One of my fondest memories of UO was East of Britain , back when East brit bank was actually used by players! Anyway i was kiling random monsters out there when i saw a GM player in his house , decided to go in and say hello and as i did back then , beg for money lol .
Anyway the guy was like "Sure , here you go" next thing i see " Corp Por " and im dead , i ran back to the house after i ressed and gave a good'ol LoL , the guy said to me that most people have a cry after he kills them but i was cool so i began to work for him hehehe , what i'd do was run to where other players were and call out "Help theres a PK!!!" and lead em to him , i was aloud to loot anything they dropped.... ahh good times , working for the devil!
Another great time was when i was out exploring the world , i was returning to brit from the North Eastern path , it was comming frmo the swamps , i can't even remember what was up that way :S
Anyway , running back to town all proud like in my brand spanking new Bronze heavy archer suite , yes i was a noob . I was mercilessly butchered by an evil mage . First thing i thought to do , ask for help ^^ . So i ran back to the East Brit Bank and rallied about 5-6 others to come and assist me , we reached this guys house and he ran in and banned us 1 by 1 . After bout 5 minutes of yelling insults at him he came out and said that he would allow 1 person to go into his house and face him , if that person won i could have my stuff back . So we sent in our mightiest warrior , i still remember his name , Conrad . It was a short battle..... poor conrad didnt last 1 minute , after that we gave up and i was off again to make money to buy some new armour! lol
Originally posted by DeathWolf2u You people out here that think you're some kind of 133t tard in these MMORPG's come visit me in any of the Battlefield series but mainly Battlefield 2 and I guarentee I'll mop the floor with your guts.
Deal. It's rare that I enter a round and leave without a golden medal, and that while I always teamplay and am not a score whore.
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I too have played UO for 4-5 years off and on, starting way back when it first got released. I played a few shards here and there and made my home on Napa Valley. My name was Butthead, people hated me. I scammed people, a lot, it was fun. A nice trick i liked to do was ask people if they could watch my house for me while im on vacation so it didnt collapse, then when they got there, lock down a box and trap them in the house, and just kill them. I even had some run-ins with the GM's .. teekee... yeah i was a bastard.
One of the best parts about the game, is that it doesnt tell people right off the bat how good you are. On a freeshard i would dress up in all newbie clothes, ware a candle, and have my name be 'wizard' so people think im an easy target. I love to see thier reaction when i perfectly beat thier entire dump, then start to cast harmful spells of my own.
The game experience for me is unrivaled. I have had 200x more fun in old school UO then every other MMORPG ive played to date, combined. It was such a great freakin game.
Well I played from the last 4 weeks of Beta and then for almost 6 years
My main account was 70 months old when I sold it and my second account was about 50 months.
I have yet to expereince exciting gameplay like I had in the first 12 months of UO. No other online game has come close to creating that butt clenching tension that you got everytime you left the city limits in UO.
I was never a PK (I sucked at PvP too bad for that). Yes now and then I got REALLY mad when I would be mining and have a load of ore on my pack horses and some maggot would kill me and the horses and just leave the ore on the ground. But I would still argue that all of that stuff MADE THE GAME MORE EXCITING!
I miss those days BADLY and I dont think we will see gaming of that quality again.
I dont like to use the term "carebear" but the meaning of that word and the players who fit that title is DEFINATELY why MMOs generally suck now.
Lots of players who are too soft to play in an open environment and the sad part is.... they dont even know what they are missing!
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"MMOs, for people that like think chatting is like a skill or something, rotflol"
http://purepwnage.com
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"Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees. To hear the softly spoken magic spell" Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
I played UO pre-Trammel, on Atlantic and on Hokuto. Trammel is for weenies. And I'd say I was a carebear from the start.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that walking up the road is a bad idea, and even though I wasn't one to go looking for a fight (and ran from quite a few), some of my best memories are of the PvP sort-- like when my online wedding at our guildhouse was crashed by PKs and the wedding guests beat them back, or when my husband and I got into it with a guy in front of our houses, and he kept killing us, but we kept coming back for more (dressed in replacement gear just like what he had taken) until he got bored of that little game and gave up on fighting us. (It was much funnier than it sounds. Ya had to be there.) Or there was the time we encountered a red who claimed he'd gone red from killing NPCs and not from killing miners in the cave right in front of his house (Pffft...yeah, right!). We chased him into his own house and killed him there as he tried frantically (and failed) to type, "I ban thee". That *still* makes me laugh, after all these years.
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This is where I draw the line: __________________.
Sent me an email if you want me to mail you some pizza rolls.
It makes me so happy to see so many old UO vets..
we have to be the vocal minority on this website and many others. Perhaps I should bring over the good old organization from Darkfall called UPAC
UPAC- ultima players against carebears, our primary mission is to protect good games from going carebear and keeping our dreams alive!
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"Old UO is now but a dream that will live in the hearts of the faithful for eternity."
Think you have what it takes to take the 'Oath of the legion' and become a true soldier of Rome?
Service guarantees citizenship!
I haven't found yet a game that can compete with the fun i had in Uo in the old days. Tough there was not enough consequences to be a pk, most of the time pk had nothing to lose but the player they ganked had a lot to lose and after a few month the result was that a % of the player were pk lol. But i think that what raelly brough people to pk was that after you have explored most of the world and made a few character the best things left to keep you playing is to compete with other.
Sent me an email if you want me to mail you some pizza rolls.
I never got pked much at all in UO because I played it smart when i traveled. As for the items though everything was just replaceable so most of the time when I died I never even bothered to go back to my body because I figured the little I had on it was gone already.
Which brings me to how much I carried... I carried only what I needed for combat out in the wilderness, I wasnt running around with 10,000 gold and three full suits of armor and all that stupidity.
This is how we learned... on the mean streets of Uo in the school of hard knocks.. and I think it made us better people for it, and more able to cope and adapt to what happens in the virtual world and even the real one.
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"Old UO is now but a dream that will live in the hearts of the faithful for eternity."
Think you have what it takes to take the 'Oath of the legion' and become a true soldier of Rome?
Service guarantees citizenship!
I never got pked much at all in UO because I played it smart when i traveled. As for the items though everything was just replaceable so most of the time when I died I never even bothered to go back to my body because I figured the little I had on it was gone already.
Which brings me to how much I carried... I carried only what I needed for combat out in the wilderness, I wasnt running around with 10,000 gold and three full suits of armor and all that stupidity.
This is how we learned... on the mean streets of Uo in the school of hard knocks.. and I think it made us better people for it, and more able to cope and adapt to what happens in the virtual world and even the real one.
_____________________________________________
"Old UO is now but a dream that will live in the hearts of the faithful for eternity."
Think you have what it takes to take the 'Oath of the legion' and become a true soldier of Rome?
Service guarantees citizenship!
Would this by any chance be you?
Anyone remmber raiding the Bonewall
?
Damn that was fun.. and killing tamers outside delucia
one of the things i miss the more is the skill system. whit that system there was no overpowered player ,actulay your knowlege of the game, preparation and stategie was more important then your skills.
I relly hate the level system most other game use, its way to much limitative. They prevent you from playing with friend of not the same level range then you, also a low level player hane no chance agains a high level player(a lot of people think that is the way it should be but we all know that human is weak and that you dont have to be strong or skilled to kill someone in reality).
both Darkfall and roma victor are pure skill based in the UO tradition, they also state that one uber max skilled person will not be killing 30 people like in daoc style games where one level 50 dude gakes 30 level 19s.
If there is a uber dude in df or RV causing trouble, get a group of five or so n00bs together.. and KILL HIM! simple as that, because it is possible, just like in real life.
infact that is why I love skill based systems.. it is more like real life, Level based gameplay is a flawed system for mmorpgs, it was great for old time rpgs and D&D, but it doesnt translate well into mmorpgs IMO. In real life if im an uber roman general and 20 slaves attack me, there is a very very good chance that im not making it out alive.
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"Old UO is now but a dream that will live in the hearts of the faithful for eternity."
Think you have what it takes to take the 'Oath of the legion' and become a true soldier of Rome?
Service guarantees citizenship!
It's fun reading all these UO stories, and really makes me hate the fact that I never played it even more.
it does sound like it was utter bliss in that time.
as for the level based system so often used now, it's a *lot* easier to balance then a skill based system, hence mostly going for that.
I already saw somebody here mentioning the Halbard Tank Mage that was uber, and I fear any skill based system will ecourage fotm cahrs even more then a level system (if not balanced correctly, which is exactly the hard part)
Funny you should say that, because I was just thinking reading this thread that there were rarely any arguments about so called "balancing issues". In my whole time in UO I must have seen every conceivable combination of skills used with varying degrees of success.
The guild I was in for ages on Chessy (Enforcers of Justice and earlier Knights of the Eternal Flame) would have regular tournaments. No one player ever dominated those tourneys. One week it would be a mage, the next a macer, the next a naked archer. It always came down to tactics and preperation.
To a certain extent good gear had an impact but it was never the deciding factor. A good player with a good plan would almost always triumph over someone more powerfull with better gear but less skill.
UO PvP is still right up there with the most fun and challenging online PvP you can find.
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"MMOs, for people that like think chatting is like a skill or something, rotflol"
http://purepwnage.com
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"Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees. To hear the softly spoken magic spell" Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
i find that the private server: UOgamers: hybrid(im pretty sure thats the name) is really fun. Not as fun as the ol' days( but what is?). you know...Alot of the private servers have the right idea about making their shards seem as much like "old UO" as possible but what theyre missing is the amount of players. . . That may be why The Shard i mentioned above is so fun: because theyre the biggest private shard.
Another note:
I also eagerly await Roma Victor
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nogold.org....
ya hybrids pretty damn fun
i got UO back in 98
finally canceled it when AoS came out
but damn, UO was the shit
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"MMOs, for people that like think chatting is like a skill or something, rotflol"
http://purepwnage.com
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"Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees. To hear the softly spoken magic spell" Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
I played on Atlantic as well. Played in the beta as well. Really enjoyed UO though I cancelled my subscription about a year ago... I hadn't logged in for quite some time and couldn't see paying the money for a game I no longer play. Personally I agree UO was the best written but SWG is a nice replacement for it with better technology and pretty much the same 'feel' that UO had. Asside from mandatory PVP which was never one of the reasons I enjoyed UO... Don't get me wrong, I loved the PVP system in UO but it wasn't something that made the game "fun" for me
SWG is so similar to UO it's not even funny 
Currently Playing: Dungeons and Dragons Online.
Sig image Pending
Still in: A couple Betas
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Remember, death in Roma Victor will be alot more serious. So your gank-fest dreams probally won't come true. Because, basically, people would be waiting around for several hours for you to get out of Elysium so they can gank you again. They just wouldn't do it.
I still cant believe the sh** games that are coming out now... all the games that seem to have some promise (ie that seem to bring back some of the elements that made old UO good) all seem to
1. take AGES to release
2. cancel
3. Flop
I swear, everytime a new game comes out, everytime theres a new mmorpg being betad or released, i pray the mmo saints that its as good as UO. I have, to this date, always been dissapointed.
The dev team have got to do something about this - i'd play a pre pub 16 shard... hahah i remember i made my first mil buying small towers for 1mil and selling them for 1.2 mil... then when i wanted to buy my own home, a small marble, this guy put a blank scroll in the trade window... hahaha i swore so hard that night i deleted the game then and there. haha but of course i had to go back to uo. nothing beats it.
Sucks nowadays tho
I played eve - but the game needs some more improvements before it becomes really enjoyable... the fighting is really too boring : ship 1. has better modules than ship 2 -> ship 1 wins.
I started in 1998. I loved the game. To many great memories. I guess one of the funniest, at least for the towns people watching me. Was as a newbie attacking a great hart, only to have it chase me into town. And kill me at the East bank of Britian. I was out of stamina, and there where plenty of LOL's after that.
I quit the game when UOR came out. I enjoyed the guildwars before UOR came. Best game ever. You had to have help during those days. Getting a group of people together to go and hunt was a must because of the fear of Pk's. All the new games pamper you. There just virtual chat rooms. Not much different than a single player game.
My favorite thing to do, back in the day was to mark a Rune in Deceit bone magi room, and then go to Hyloth Cast a Gate, and let like 20 hellhounds and all kinds of creatures come through the game. Oh that was fun
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I loved that game, I have never found anything close since.
Holy crap , i didnt even know i had an account on this site!
One of my fondest memories of UO was East of Britain , back when East brit bank was actually used by players! Anyway i was kiling random monsters out there when i saw a GM player in his house , decided to go in and say hello and as i did back then , beg for money lol .
Anyway the guy was like "Sure , here you go" next thing i see " Corp Por " and im dead , i ran back to the house after i ressed and gave a good'ol LoL , the guy said to me that most people have a cry after he kills them but i was cool so i began to work for him hehehe , what i'd do was run to where other players were and call out "Help theres a PK!!!" and lead em to him , i was aloud to loot anything they dropped.... ahh good times , working for the devil!
Another great time was when i was out exploring the world , i was returning to brit from the North Eastern path , it was comming frmo the swamps , i can't even remember what was up that way :S
Anyway , running back to town all proud like in my brand spanking new Bronze heavy archer suite , yes i was a noob . I was mercilessly butchered by an evil mage . First thing i thought to do , ask for help ^^ . So i ran back to the East Brit Bank and rallied about 5-6 others to come and assist me , we reached this guys house and he ran in and banned us 1 by 1 . After bout 5 minutes of yelling insults at him he came out and said that he would allow 1 person to go into his house and face him , if that person won i could have my stuff back . So we sent in our mightiest warrior , i still remember his name , Conrad . It was a short battle..... poor conrad didnt last 1 minute , after that we gave up and i was off again to make money to buy some new armour! lol
Deal. It's rare that I enter a round and leave without a golden medal, and that while I always teamplay and am not a score whore.