Creston wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 18:16:

Silicon Avatar wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 18:11:
I just want to see the return of the headless.

Bridge Trolls or GTFO, LB!

Also, there better be two moons (Let's call them Fammel and Trelucca!), and a reagent that I can only harvest on full moon for both. (which was awesome once computers became so fast that you could just hold down the {H}arvest key and the game would harvest 987 billion times while the moons were in alignment. )

I need to replay U4 again. Better go find that update mod.

Creston

Julio wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 21:13:
I'm going to pass on this one.

1) Richard Garriott has had quite a few flops recently, this looks like another one
2) Heresy I know, but I never liked any Ultima game
3) I'm not giving a guy who's got a gazillion dollars more money
4) The screenshots look like they are from 1990

JediPunisher wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 14:28:
"Our team is built around a core of industry experts" … Ok, then who is on the design team?

"We are using powerful, proven tools" ... Like what? What game engine are you using?
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Creston wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 13:42:

Silicon Avatar wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 13:12:
There's no need to hate just because he's rich. If you're going to hate at least bag on U8 or U9. Those were crap.

RG is a nice guy, but that has little to do with funding his endeavors. I don't know that anyone is hating, I think it's legitimate question to ask "You can easily afford to publish this yourself. Why do you need Kickstarter money?"

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Creston

RaZ0r! wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 11:44:
LB says in the live stream that the game is being designed as a classic numeral Ultima release first, and then if you want you can add friends in as multiplayer.

The preview of moving on the classic overhead map, and then going into a town was pretty cool stuff.

I'm in

Prez wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 10:06:
In for $50. The pedigree of the developers involved is enough for me regardless of what it's called or in what universe its based.

Creston wrote on Mar 3, 2013, 22:46:

Silicon Avatar wrote on Mar 3, 2013, 20:50:
Well..

Origin wasn't known for stable products or delivering on time. I don't know what the deal was there, but something was going wrong even before EA came along. EA just made it worse.

I'm sorry, what? Which unstable products did they launch, exactly? Because I can remember precisely one, which was Ultima 7 (which had pretty bad bugs in it until the first two patches. This was in the funny days before you could really download such things off the internet. I remember that those patches were sent to me on 3.5" discs.)

Other than that, though, all their games ran pretty much just fine. Never had an issue with System Shock, or Underworld, or Bioforge, or Wing Commander, or Privateer.

The only other game that gave me grief was Ultima 8. It crashed on me literally every 30, 40 seconds, it was so aggravating. I sent faxes back and forth to Origin's HQ trying to figure it out, until finally they had me send over my BIOS settings. Two days later one of their developers called me (from the US), and spent an hour on the phone with me getting my BIOS settings fixed. While we were waiting for my machine to boot, I had a great time talking to him about the games he'd worked on, and such. And to his credit, he fixed the issue; I never had a single crash after that anymore.

I miss the old Origin...

Creston

Creston wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 14:39:
That is a pretty fucking massive patch. Awesome.

However, unless I'm being stupid, resetting a skill just seems weird? You go from having destruction 100 to destruction 15. Have fun killing that Legendary level Giant with your novice level flame spell...?

Creston