Articles tagged with: Ultima Online

I just read that there is a closed beta (sign up currently open) for Ultima Forever, a new apparently Free 2 Play Ultima VI remake.

Having already spent years playing Ultima Online I do not wish to even try it, also because it looks won't be a "new Ultima Online" but a freemium remake of a singleplayer one, with coop included.

Anyway, yours to test and assest if worth playing or not.

Some bits of additional info at Touch Arcade

Update: Details and even a few screenshots at a RPS interview.

Posted on 2012-07-15

...from a spanish Ultima Online shard still active, Berks Worlds.

Check it out here.

Posted on 2011-11-24

Yesterday I had an argument with one member of the staff at our UO Shard about "what if you lose everything?", referred to tangibles (money, objects, the house,...).

It was interesting to notice how many of the players and at least one of the staff members calculate their sum of "gameplay experience" just based on those tangible things.

But at least for me it's different. One of my friends, Radagast, taught me that tangibles are the least important things in an online RPG. All that you get in your virtual life in an online game are pals, friends, good times, an "old" character with good stats and skills, knowledge, adventures, stories to tell others... and at the end of that, a pack of possesions that come and go, volatile things, whatever they are (money, armors, weapons, a house...).

Possesions are mere tools to enjoy the game, not the most important subject of it. If you lose a good armor, bad luck, but you could also win a enemy armor, equal or better than yours, and that's the only way to trully feel the adrenaline pumping in your brain while PVPing. Or the risks of trying to defeat that fearsome red dragon that lives deep inside the mountain, if you prefer PvE.

That's my point of view.

Posted on 2007-09-05

Today the Tabula Rasa european closed beta has opened!

Let's see what UO's creator Richard Garriott has created... Because I've entered the closed beta ^^

The bad news is that there's an NDA so I can't talk about the game here

Posted on 2007-06-11

Remember, remember, the 24th of September

Today something quite unusual has happened.

At the temple of Britain, some barrels and explosive potions appeared around the Justice holy symbol. Shortly after that, some people dressed in black appeared too.

I was one of them.

Before the "event" started, we had a visith from Isyl, and she was gently urged to stay away from the temple for her safety.

One of the cloaked guys spoke to the symbol of justice, and told her about K.

Telling her (Justice) about how she was corrupt, a cheater, about how he had betrayed all our ideals about the true justice.

After the dialoge, some bells rang loud. Ding, ding, ding...
And there was an explosion.

Some people came because the explosion to the temple, to see what was the reason.

But it was too late.
The symbol of Justice has been destroyed.

Around the streets of Britain chorus could be heard saying "New Britain!!! New Britain!!!"

And this has only been the beginning of the end.

Oh, if you wonder who is K, K is me.

Thanks to my companions in the dark, to those who lurk in the shadows, working to create a new, reborn city without the corrupted plague that fills it now.

Posted on 2006-09-23