They really should port a lot of their older games over to tablets and phones. I have 'Out of This World' on iPad and it plays pretty good.
Wasn't Out of this World (Another World here in the EU) developed by Delphine Studios?
You're right. I was thinking those old Sierra games would play just as well on tablets.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
How did this keep running,Sierra closed down long ago no?Just recently Blizzard brought them back.
much respect to the original game however,having 25k accounts would be something.1995/6 that is right around the time gaming was just starting to take off but an online mmorpg was not popularized at all yet.
That is the same time all the big online entertainment ideas were taking off ,like Battle.net and my fave Heat.net and of course TEN "total entertainment network".So it seems that year of 95/96 was the starting point of mainstream gaming and Realm was one of the leaders and yet sadly i did not know of it but i was more a fps gamer to start and any notion of continuous payments would be a definite no.
I am curious to know if it began with users on 28.8 or 33.6?I ask because i don't think 56k was all that popular yet.LOL imagine playing an online rpg with 28.8 modems and having to configure your entire setup from a floppy disk,freeing up memory,sound card etc etc.
I had this;
Commodore Amiga 1000
Ship Date:
July 1985
Price:
US $1295 without monitor
US $1790 with RGB monitor
CPU:
Motorola 68000 @ 7.14 MHz
RAM:
256K stock, 8Meg max.
Display:
16 colors at 640 X 400
4096 colors at 320 X 200.
Ports:
Parallel, serial, floppy
RGB, RF, composite video
Stereo audio, joysticks
System bus
Storage:
Internal 880K 3.5-inch floppy.
OS:
AmigaDOS 1.0-1.34
"Workbench" GUI
No hard drive, everything ran from floppies.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
The Realm was launched in December 1996 reached it's 20 year anniversary this year, and is still up and running today. The servers however are on their last leg as the language it was written in and the servers themselves are increasingly hard to maintain.
The games original lead programmer Stephen Nichols (Shadowbane, Dungeon Runners) is rebooting a sequel to the game.
The sequel much like the original will be turn based 2D dungeon crawler, beyond that a kick starter campaign and new artwork is on the way. Personally I picture it being a turn based Diablo 2 meets Maple Story type of deal but I'm not sure. He plans on using Spine to bring it up to 2016 graphical standards.
If you ever played Realm, or as a MMORPG enthusiast want to pay respect to one of the first and longest running MMORPG in history of mankind, consider backing this project... While the Realm was never as popular as Ultima I think it is a important piece of the MMORPG history and lineage and really look forward to seeing what Stephen does with this.
Stephen is currently working on artwork and concept drawings etc for the kickstarter coming.
I am not affiliated or associated with the development of the game. I am just a fellow MMORPG player who respects the history and future of The Realm.
Best wishes,
Actually....Meridian 59 came out before The Realm and is still running barely. Good writeup thou. I remember playing it and if they make a reboot, I'm there.
The Realm was launched in December 1996 reached it's 20 year anniversary this year, and is still up and running today. The servers however are on their last leg as the language it was written in and the servers themselves are increasingly hard to maintain.
The games original lead programmer Stephen Nichols (Shadowbane, Dungeon Runners) is rebooting a sequel to the game.
The sequel much like the original will be turn based 2D dungeon crawler, beyond that a kick starter campaign and new artwork is on the way. Personally I picture it being a turn based Diablo 2 meets Maple Story type of deal but I'm not sure. He plans on using Spine to bring it up to 2016 graphical standards.
If you ever played Realm, or as a MMORPG enthusiast want to pay respect to one of the first and longest running MMORPG in history of mankind, consider backing this project... While the Realm was never as popular as Ultima I think it is a important piece of the MMORPG history and lineage and really look forward to seeing what Stephen does with this.
Stephen is currently working on artwork and concept drawings etc for the kickstarter coming.
I am not affiliated or associated with the development of the game. I am just a fellow MMORPG player who respects the history and future of The Realm.
Best wishes,
Actually....Meridian 59 came out before The Realm and is still running barely. Good writeup thou. I remember playing it and if they make a reboot, I'm there.
The shadow of yserbius came out before the realm. Look, it is just a epeen measuring contest at this point in the thread. mmoRPGS were inevitable and were built on a ton of technology that came before them. The big F-ing 'FIRST' is kind of childish. Don't you think so?
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what
it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience
because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in
the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you
playing an MMORPG?"
The Realm was launched in December 1996 reached it's 20 year anniversary this year, and is still up and running today. The servers however are on their last leg as the language it was written in and the servers themselves are increasingly hard to maintain.
The games original lead programmer Stephen Nichols (Shadowbane, Dungeon Runners) is rebooting a sequel to the game.
The sequel much like the original will be turn based 2D dungeon crawler, beyond that a kick starter campaign and new artwork is on the way. Personally I picture it being a turn based Diablo 2 meets Maple Story type of deal but I'm not sure. He plans on using Spine to bring it up to 2016 graphical standards.
If you ever played Realm, or as a MMORPG enthusiast want to pay respect to one of the first and longest running MMORPG in history of mankind, consider backing this project... While the Realm was never as popular as Ultima I think it is a important piece of the MMORPG history and lineage and really look forward to seeing what Stephen does with this.
Stephen is currently working on artwork and concept drawings etc for the kickstarter coming.
I am not affiliated or associated with the development of the game. I am just a fellow MMORPG player who respects the history and future of The Realm.
Best wishes,
Actually....Meridian 59 came out before The Realm and is still running barely. Good writeup thou. I remember playing it and if they make a reboot, I'm there.
The shadow of yserbius came out before the realm. Look, it is just a epeen measuring contest at this point in the thread. mmoRPGS were inevitable and were built on a ton of technology that came before them. The big F-ing 'FIRST' is kind of childish. Don't you think so?
and again .. It says Longest Running .. which it is ... Shadow of Yser is long dead...
this was a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game?
One of the first graphical MMORPGs. It has turn based combat that loads a different screen, but players in the main world could click on the battle and join in. You can still play it here http://www.realmserver.com/ although it's probably very different than what it was 20 years ago.
But was it Massive? or was it just moprg? I just really doubt you can tak on the word massive to a side scroller. I can't believe I looked up the history of this game. peak players reached 25,000 players... not really massive. The term MMORPG was coined by Richard Garriott, the creator of Ultima Online, in 1997.[
The term MMORPG was coined around the time Realm, Ultima and some games were out - there wasn't any game as massive as todays games back then. The Realm had about 10,000 players at one time, and was stable at about 2,000 players one on server for quite some time and hovered around 400-600 online until the mid 2000's.
To be fair, by your explanation MMORPG's didn't exist until LONG after MMORPG term was used. For its time when dial up and really no online games existed. Anything over 100 online people was MASSIVE, you have to consider how cutting edge it was for its time period.
Well actually you are wrong. Ultima Online had hundreds of players online TOGETHER. No instances anywhere at all. That makes it larger than many of today's mmorpgs. Also, mmorpg was first used for UO specifically.
I'd have to see some gameplay footage and learn more about the game's mechanics, but with a great graphical and UI overhaul this could be awesome if done right. 2D and 2.5D graphics don't get much respect these days, despite the fact that if done right they can still blow 3D out of the water.
Also, Dungeon Runners... God dammit NCSoft. Yet another fun and interesting game by a western dev that they killed off with their apathy and piss poor marketing. I miss my bling gnome. Oh, and the banker who sounded like Schwarzenegger.
"This bank is impre-... impregn... HARD TO GET INTO!"
Also, Captain Pollution, with powers like burning tires and yellow snow. Which are still better than heart.
This is true.
I believe it's because there are so many games out there most people (including myself) usually skip games that look old. One of the more annoying things about today's gaming industry is having to try and sift through all of them to find something you like. It's a very time consuming experience.
I also started out playing the realm.. I actually try'ed to play it once again but... they never updated it so that it was possible to play on the newer pc's what a shame
I also started out playing the realm.. I actually try'ed to play it once again but... they never updated it so that it was possible to play on the newer pc's what a shame
Ive played it off and on since 1995 as recently as last year & still played fine.
How did this keep running,Sierra closed down long ago no?Just recently Blizzard brought them back.
It was bought/sold a few times over the years, but always remained running. Sierra sold it before they closed.
it got a lot of love under Codemasters, but then Norseman Games ( who owns it now out of MN ) basically keeps it up and neglects it. constant crashes, haven't updated the website in 2-3 years... they had a flood which damaged a lot of data for the game a few years back and my understanding is they have a terrible rating with the BBB and issues and their business is no longer even recognized by the state anymore as a standing business. This is why Stephen wants to make a new Realm - its basically on its last leg.
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"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Good writeup thou. I remember playing it and if they make a reboot, I'm there.
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One Cooking and One Cleaning!"
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"A good man can make you feel sexy,
strong and able to take on the whole world...
oh sorry...that's wine...wine does that..."
The shadow of yserbius came out before the realm. Look, it is just a epeen measuring contest at this point in the thread. mmoRPGS were inevitable and were built on a ton of technology that came before them. The big F-ing 'FIRST' is kind of childish. Don't you think so?
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
I believe it's because there are so many games out there most people (including myself) usually skip games that look old. One of the more annoying things about today's gaming industry is having to try and sift through all of them to find something you like. It's a very time consuming experience.
Think think pink
Ive played it off and on since 1995 as recently as last year & still played fine.
it got a lot of love under Codemasters, but then Norseman Games ( who owns it now out of MN ) basically keeps it up and neglects it. constant crashes, haven't updated the website in 2-3 years... they had a flood which damaged a lot of data for the game a few years back and my understanding is they have a terrible rating with the BBB and issues and their business is no longer even recognized by the state anymore as a standing business. This is why Stephen wants to make a new Realm - its basically on its last leg.