Lord British Returns To Ultima Online 34
Thanks to Origin for their news release announcing Lord British is returning to the world of PC MMORPG Ultima Online. The article trails: "Talk circulates throughout the land of the return of a figure from Britannia's past, whose whereabouts have been shrouded in mystery for these many moons", and GameShark has contacted NCSoft Austin, where Ultima creator Richard 'Lord British' Garriott now works (and where he has even introduced Lord British's character into Lineage), and reports that "Richard Garriott... gave [Origin/EA] permission to reintroduce the character into the world of Ultima. Origin apparently made a deal with Richard that allowed them to use the character if they had Richard's blessings."
great (Score:1)
I thought... (Score:3, Funny)
Wow (Score:5, Insightful)
Then again, now that Garriott no longer has any rights to the Ultima line, which Lord British was always associated with, maybe he's just letting go of the past and moving on to entirely new ventures.
Re:Wow (Score:1)
Re:Wow (Score:3, Interesting)
This surprised me too, so I wonder what could have happened to make him turn partial use of the name over to them.
This also makes me wonder if this is just for the current UO and if EA is planning to put British in UOX as well.
Re:Wow (Score:1, Funny)
Maybe it's a sign that the therapy is working and he's beginning to realize that this is no way for a grown man to behave.
Re:Wow (Score:1)
Richard Garriott (Score:3, Interesting)
It's not the same (Score:2, Insightful)
Bringing Back the Dead? (Score:2)
So...how do you bring back a dead man?
Re:Bringing Back the Dead? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:mod parent DOWN (Score:2, Informative)
I didnt mean the parent. I ment the post with the link. And I had 2 points. The second was that the page was so old that 2 out of the 3 linked items were broken.
If you are going to post something for some quick Karma, at least point to a useful page.
Like this one [aschulze.net]
One that has pictures and the official response and the interview without broken links.
All it took was a 2 second google search.
Re:Bringing Back the Dead? (Score:2)
Ah, thats easy. Think "Alien 4" or "Star Wars 5"
Re:Bringing Back the Dead? (Score:1)
Oh, easy, they just dragged his body to Lord British for resurrection...
...oh, wait a minute...
More like Lord Furry (Score:1)
You reach a certain age, and you're supposed to stop with this childish crap.
More important, the return of plots (Score:5, Informative)
The return of Lord British was the first event enacted by the new Event Moderators - contracted employees doing pretty much what the former volunteers did. At least half of them are former volunteers, only now paid by the hour.
I think this is a very important positive step for UO, as the lack of human intelligence behind plot characters really sucked the soul from the game. Plots scripted by humans (sometimes partly on the spot) was, and will be again, one of the primary differentiating factors that sets UO apart in an increasingly crowded MMOG marketplace.
Re:More important, the return of plots (Score:1)
Now if only other mmogs would do this too. "Story" was what UO was always -supposed- to be about, and in fact that was what they Did for the first month or so after release. (before the pk-griefers ruined the game)
I fondly remember the Shrine Wars campaign, The Lich Twins, the Ogre Brothers, the mysterious Hermit who took up residence in Britannia for a time, etc., etc. You'd log into the game and something would actually BE GOING ON in the
RIP "Lord British" (Score:3, Interesting)
No Richard Garriot = Not Lord British
Thanks for the series Richard, I'm really looking forward to your next creations. Here's hoping they will be as influential as the past ones.
P.S. Think "single player"... wink wink
Re:RIP "Lord British" (Score:1)
Sucks even more that diz freek is sum kind of world famous multigazilionaire sumabeetch with 40ish games attached to his name, sum asocial degenerate who wasted half his life contributing to life by creating fantastic fantasy worlds, entertaining and dazzling many since 1979.
Sum reject who'll end up going down in video game history, quietly and comfortably passing away from his giant 25,000-square-foot-estate-up-ur-psycho-azz-castle .
T
Re:RIP "Lord British" (Score:2)
obviously this is not the case.
luser (Score:1)
wait....is that why? is mr. garriot running out of money for his brick and mortar? ahh, i see...the truth is revealed...
He left? (Score:1)
On the Lake Superior server, a bunch of us staged a RP event that lasted for like months, 'The Rebellion of Trinsic'. The city of Trinsic basically seceded from Lord British's realm, citing poor government as the reason. We had rebels in one color, loyalists in another, and we'