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Do you remember Ultima Online?
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Re: Do you remember Ultima Online?
#42I spent so many hours laughing and exploring with friends on UO. Great times
I was there picking your pockets.
Re: Do you remember Ultima Online?
#43Be extremely careful with UO nostalgia. The author hit the nail on the head perfectly describing "UO golden age" players yearning to fill the void. I will offer 2 major hazards: 1) what made UO special back then was not the ultra-harsh pvp death mechanics, as mortal online has shown. It was the players that were interacting with the harsh mechanics. We were all MMO-naive, and our mentality affected how we interacted…
You can get an unjaded MMO population, but the average age will be 9. But otherwise, I think you're right, it's a phenomenon of its time. The social meta was still being made.
Re: Do you remember Ultima Online?
#44My friend to this day is irritated because he got some great lord title as a good guy and at 2 in the morning I accidentally walked through his flame wall. This was considered an all act of evil and it made his title reduce to just lord or something. He stayed up all night getting it back. Gotta love college free time and 90s gaming.
Re: Do you remember Ultima Online?
#45I never played Ultima Online and sold my Everquest account to a friend a week after playing.
But I lost many, many, many hours to Star Wars: Galaxies. May it rest in peace. (yes, I know there are emulators and private servers, but it's not the same)
Re: Do you remember Ultima Online?
#46I recently started playing "Shards of Britannia" - a Legends of Aria Community server. I am loving it.
It plays exactly like UO at its core, with some new frosting layered on.
Most importantly, you get that UO experience with a nice fresh GUI.
Re: Do you remember Ultima Online?
#47When 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:)
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Re: Do you remember Ultima Online?
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
to those downvoting....that was what you saw when a dead player (ghost) spoke and you lacked spirit speak skill
Yeah, it would have been nice to explain what it was in the same comment. You can't assume everyone is familiar with it. Reminds me of : "Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP" (a quote from Good Morning Vietnam)
They did explain it, you just need the Spirit Speak skill.
Re: Do you remember Ultima Online?
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
to those downvoting....that was what you saw when a dead player (ghost) spoke and you lacked spirit speak skill
Yeah, it would have been nice to explain what it was in the same comment. You can't assume everyone is familiar with it. Reminds me of : "Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP" (a quote from Good Morning Vietnam)
> it would have been nice to explain what it was in the same comment
it wasn't for you, and that's okay
Re: Do you remember Ultima Online?
#50So many UO articles popping up on HN over the last few weeks, everyone must be feeling nostalgic.
And every single one talks about UO like it's dead when it's not. The original still exists and there are tons of excellent free servers now too. In addition to the ones mentioned by others elsewhere in the thread one of the best and most popular ones is UOForever.