EA/Mythic Entertainment mount Ultima's corpse so they can kill it again

[Infinitron]

Bioware Mythic. So a straight-to-F2P mmorpg. I guess they learned their lesson from TORtanic. Except the actual game will probably be even shittier than WAR/TOR. Also, more likely to rape the IP than Star Wars/Warhammer since no external company controls the IP rights.

So let's ask Wikipedia what the studio has released in the past?

• Dragon's Gate (1985)
• Tempest (1991)
• Castles II Online (1996)
• Rolemaster: Magestorm (1996)
• Splatterball (1996)
• Invasion Earth (1997, unreleased)
• Darkness Falls (1997)
• Rolemaster: Bladelands (1997)
• Aliens Online (1998)
• Starship Troopers: Battlespace (1998)
• Godzilla Online (1998)
• Splatterball Plus (1999)
• Silent Death: Online (1999)
• Darkness Falls: The Crusade (1999)
• Darkstorm: The Well of Souls (1999, unreleased)
• Spellbinder: The Nexus Conflict (1999)
• Independence Day Online (2000)
• Dark Age of Camelot (2001)
• Imperator Online (Canceled 2005)
• Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (2008)
• Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (2012)[11]

Yeah...

That's an impressive pedigree of decline.

Wow, I had no idea they'd been around in some form since the 80's.

 

[RK47]

Sweet. Ultima 4Eva is gonna be full of uguu's.
I hope Lady British has pink hair.

 

[Malakal]

Hopefully it follows the path of TORtanic and brings them one step closer to... oblivion.

 

[epikitscheesy]

Let's suck our innards back in and rage on in a relaxed manner, this ain't so bad.
I can see this having a positive revitalizing effect on the ultima community and mod projects, and we'd already be part of this backlash now. Compare with the situation after Ultima IX or Gothic 3. Ideas can't be raped.

 

[mindx2]

This whole project is just so disheartening. It is the antithesis (design, structure, combat, etc.) of what Wasteland 2 is (hopefully) doing in "reviving" one of the classic cRPGs of the past.

 

[DraQ]

Ideas can't be raped.

The entire history of mankind would disagree.

 

[RK47]

This whole project is just so disheartening. It is the antithesis (design, structure, combat, etc.) of what Wasteland 2 is (hopefully) doing in "reviving" one of the classic cRPGs of the past.

It's a fessbook game, I'm not even bothered much about the brand rape anymore. Nothing is sacred by now.

 

[Azalin]

Lady British?I assume she is going to be a tranny written by Hamburger Helper and "romanced" by the Avatar on Lord British's grave

 

[Scroo]

Anyway, the art is not bad.

The art is horrible. Just look at the guy with his huge shoulder plates and a body that makes one think if his parents are walking fridges. Nah - this looks like it was taken straight out of World of Warcraft.

 

[epikitscheesy]

Ideas can't be raped.

The entire history of mankind would disagree.

Man is a child, though. Original thoughts are very seldom debunked by human practice, only delegitimized.
Legitimacy is something we create everyday.
When we flush our concepts and beliefs down the toilet just because somebody made a game and used a franchise to lable it, we only rape ourselves.

 

[J_C]

Lady British? I might not be the most knowledgeable guy about Ultima, but isn't it supposed to be Lord British? Or does he have a wife/daugther who becomes an important character in the Ultime universe? Help me out guys, I'm a bit lost.

 

[Infinitron]

Let's suck our innards back in and rage on in a relaxed manner, this ain't so bad.
I can see this having a positive revitalizing effect on the ultima community and mod projects, and we'd already be part of this backlash now. Compare with the situation after Ultima IX or Gothic 3. Ideas can't be raped.

In all seriousness:
The Ultima community has already done all it can and more to keep Ultima alive all these years. Engine reimplementations, mods, total conversions. But we've gotten too old for this shit now. The ball is in EA's court.

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

Lord British owns the copyright to Lord British and as such EA has been forced to invent a new British.

I hope this doesn't lead to some bitch in real life wearing a crown, insisting that her real name is Lady British.

 

[Black]

Fucking sexist misogynist pig, grorious Bioware will not your patriarchal views stop them from being bold and progressive.

 

[Jaesun]

As has been hinted, Jaesun, taxalot and myself currently have access to the alpha of this game. Though I suspect I'm the only one who played it for more than 15 minutes.

20 minutes. Shut it off. Then Un-Installed.

 

[Ulminati]

As has been hinted, Jaesun, taxalot and myself currently have access to the alpha of this game. Though I suspect I'm the only one who played it for more than 15 minutes.

20 minutes. Shut it off. Then Un-Installed.

Too late. The taint will reamin with you forever.

 

[Infinitron]

As has been hinted, Jaesun, taxalot and myself currently have access to the alpha of this game. Though I suspect I'm the only one who played it for more than 15 minutes.

20 minutes. Shut it off. Then Un-Installed.

BTW, FYI, in the meeting yesterday it was confirmed that all alpha testers are automatically in the beta test. So you don't need to sign up.

 

[abnaxus]

Lady British? I might not be the most knowledgeable guy about Ultima, but isn't it supposed to be Lord British? Or does he have a wife/daugther who becomes an important character in the Ultime universe? Help me out guys, I'm a bit lost.

 

[Black]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/bioware-mythic-to-mount-ultimas-corpse.74084/

Merge threads?

How about you merge yourself with that thread? I will not allow my thread being merged with a 2010 frenchie's!

 

[epikitscheesy]

Let's suck our innards back in and rage on in a relaxed manner, this ain't so bad.
I can see this having a positive revitalizing effect on the ultima community and mod projects, and we'd already be part of this backlash now. Compare with the situation after Ultima IX or Gothic 3. Ideas can't be raped.

In all seriousness:
The Ultima community has already done all it can and more to keep Ultima alive all these years. Engine reimplementations, mods, total conversions. But we've gotten too old for this shit now. The ball is in EA's court.

True, you're tired. But apart from the all the fan activity still going on, there are some basic things to consider:
take a peak behind the big business and you see retro gaming is in full bloom. Youngsters from the '00 generations are antiquing right now on GOG, Piratebay and elsewhere. You can't prevent all the old data from flying around the net. True Ultima is not going to die with you oldfags.

 

[Infinitron]

True, you're tired. But apart from the all the fan activity still going on, there are some basic things to consider:
take a peak behind the big business and you see retro gaming is in full bloom. Youngsters from the '00 generations are antiquing right now on GOG, Piratebay and elsewhere. You can't prevent all the old data from flying around the net. True Ultima is not going to die with you oldfags.

I'm sorry, but in this age of Kickstarter, Ultima deserves to "die", or at least to take its rightful place in obscurity along with Wizardry and Might & Magic.

This is the time to put up or shut up. Brian Fargo and the rest of the ex-Interplay crowd have shown that they still care. Everybody else has proven that they don't give a fuck about their classics anymore, so why should any fan work on keeping their games alive?

 

[mindx2]

It's just frustrating that the "suits" don't see my old-school Ultima as worth making anymore. I mean, they were successful at one time and people wanted to play them.... right.... I wasn't the only one...? This, whatever it is, is so far removed from what I would want to play that it is sad and disheartening. This announcement is one of the BIGGEST/ MOST IMPORTANT reasons why I have supported Wasteland 2, Double Fine, Dead State, etc.!!! I've spent at least 4x the amount one each individual Kickstarter game than I would on any AAA game released by the Big Boy companies. Seems the only way to get a game close to what I want to play and they are all at least a year away.

 

[Infinitron]

It's not like, say, Ultima VII's design philosophy is that radically oldschool and unmarketable. It's basically isometric, party-based Elder Scrolls (with better writing). They can make this.

Fuck, if they sell the IP to Bethesda even they would do a better job, even if it is in first person.

 

[RK47]

It's not like, say, Ultima VII's design philosophy is that radically oldschool and unmarketable. It basically isometric, party-based Elder Scrolls (with better writing). They can make this.

Fuck, if they sell the IP to Bethesda even they would do a better job, even if it is in first person.

........uhhhhhh.............. Ewan McGregor as the Avatar?

 

[Astral Rag]

What's a paladin?