When we were kids, I didn't have a computer, however my interest in them was huge. So one day, I read about the game in a newspaper about pc games. I tell one friend, then another,etc. Fast forward half a year and the whole town was playing it. No conversation could skip the part about shields, mining and what not. Everywhere I went there was only talks about Ultima. I never plaid the game:)
Do you remember Ultima Online?
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#13I spent so many hours laughing and exploring with friends on UO. Great times
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#14Community development is still thriving, a custom handcrafted setting is the most popular private server at the moment. https://uooutlands.com/
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#15UO kind of shaped my life. The first piece of code I ever wrote was creating a bow with my name on it. It felt like magic and it was so exciting that I never stopped coding since then.
After two degrees, moving to a whole another continent, and getting my “dream” job, I only can hope to find that kind of excitement again.
I still get chills whenever I hear game’s music. Incredible game indeed.
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#16I got so frustrated with Ultima iV that I quit the Ultima Series after that.
There was a huge cave at the end of Ultima iV. I arrived there well prepared and made it all the way to the center of the cave. Killed all monsters along the way and after a long (few hours?) battle I had to realize that I did not have a specific item that I needed. This meant leaving the cave (with all monsters respawning), getting that item, and doing the whole battle again (AFAIR you had to do it all in one go, as you could not save inside a cave). On that day I decided to quit the Ultima Series and never looked back. But I still own the original Ultima IV game package.
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#17I got so frustrated with Ultima iV that I quit the Ultima Series after that. There was a huge cave at the end of Ultima iV. I arrived there well prepared and made it all the way to the center of the cave. Killed all monsters along the way and after a long (few hours?) battle I had to realize that I did not have a specific item that I needed. This meant leaving the cave (with all monsters respawning), getting that ite…
You missed three fantastic games that followed. U4 was when the series was just finding its footing.
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#19I dont like these sentimental nostalgia posts. For me UO was a mindless and empty grind, because there was…nothing! It was a barren world devoid of a story, meaningful quests or anything, for that matter (please dont reply with „But…“, because there were some pieces of content here and there, but it is near zero by modern standards). Some remember this emptyness as a great canvas for their fantasies of freedom and roleplay, I rember empty pointless grind and dealing with grifters. Runescape did much better job in creating that kind of UO-like MMO.
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#20Playing Ultimate Online for the first time was incredible. A MUD with full graphics! thousands of people online at once!
But mostly just the mystery of that unknown world. Using just the printed map that came in the box I decided to walk between the town I started and another town. Such an adventure, getting chased by wild animals, meeting real people some friendly some not. And finding that the map wasn’t exactly accurate.
And later on getting together groups of people to adventure into a dungeon. Including the all important wizard who would be able to open a gate so we didn’t have to walk all the way there (after they tried and failed a few times, grumbling about how many regents it was using). The the absolute chaos as we got word from other fleeing players that there was a murderer (a player who’s name had turned red because of the number of other players they had killed) further down in the dungeon. Should we cut our losses and gate back out or were we a strong enough group to take them on?