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Hacki Dragon

Yeah, but look at Exult - or even better, look at all the FREE Ultima Online servers, which cause damn financial losses for EA. To my knowledge, they never shut down any of those. But you are right, of course, the fear of a project being killed by EA is always there :) Getting the hard work done is ...

Hacki Dragon

*bows to Team Exult*

Thank you for reviving the best RPG ever so that our grandchildren and their grandchildren will still be able to play it

Hacki Dragon

Yes, an Ultima without proper Ultima gameplay isn't a real Ultima (see UA), but an Ultima without ANY relation to events or people in Ultima 1-8 isn't either. Inspired by Ultima is vastly different from belonging to the world of Ultima, so nobody needs to be surprised or angry when Ultima fans rapid...

Hacki Dragon

If you consider the entire time span from Bard's Tale up to D2 as the "Golden Age", I think these games deserve to be in the Hall of Fame: Bard's Tale 3 (the C64 version! The PC version sucks ass) Ultima 4-7, Underworld 1+2 Realms of Arkania 3: Shadows over Riva Maniac Mansion, ZakMcKracke...

Hacki Dragon

Austria, Kapfenberg.

Played all all of them except of console versions, Runes of Virtue, and Escape from Mt.Drash.
Finished U4,U5,U6,U7,U7SI,and U8. Almost finished UW2. Finished UA with cheats.

Hacki Dragon

Eh, don't get me wrong, but I don't think this employee had got any clue what he was talking about

Besides, we will have Exult Studio anyway.

Hacki Dragon

More than once. No results.

Hacki Dragon

It's a different format. Unfortunately, I'm no coding wizard, or I'd have tried it myself.

Hacki Dragon

I checked the transscript. It's not there.

Hacki Dragon

On a side note, has anyone else noticed in U9, when the Avatar hums from boredom, it is sometimes a female voice? This is probably from the cut Female Avatar. Never noticed it. But I don't think that any female Avatar voices have been recorded anyway. The female Avatar was cut *very* early in develo...

Hacki Dragon

"Art thou the most humble?" For the record: There is no such question in U4, but there are 2 similar questions in the game: A ghost named "Slim" in Magincia: Art thou always humble? YES: Doubtful. NO: Take no pride in humility, lest ye destroy it! Patric in Moonglow: Art thou tot...

Hacki Dragon

Now, the silverleaf trees, I don;t know, but the Emps were killed whilethe Avatar was in SI. Source: LB in dreamland. Oh, forgot about that :) But UA doesn't confirm it. It's just ignored. Anyway, I'll remove that Emps part, I think ;) With the Emp's gone, there would no longer be a reason for the l...

Hacki Dragon

Errr.... no, you lost Virtue when you claimed this in U4 :p

Hacki Dragon

Thanks

Your link doesn't work. I get to a "not assigned" page.

Hacki Dragon

Seeing all this U9 talking, I just can't resist and put a shameless plug into this thread:
Learn why UA sucks

Hacki Dragon

There is another small problem: What happens if you move armor from a grown-up party member to Spark in the game? Will it magically shrink to proper size? This wouldn't happen in reality, would it? :p

Hacki Dragon

>>Why wouldn't it be possible for other shards to exist? If other shards existed, then Sutek would have mentioned them. The entire storyline of UO is based on an inaccuracy, and that's already enough to make it the last "Ultima" game I'd ever consider canonical, not to mention the atrociti...

Hacki Dragon

The Docs for U5 don't say anything about the Shards, because you are supposed to find this out in the game. This is the relevant dialogue transscript from U5: Sutek: "I have been scrying for the nature of the three Shards! I have learned they were formed at the time of the first Dark Lord. When...

Hacki Dragon

In the real Ultimas, the Gem was smashed into 3 shards, which gave birth to the Shadowlords in U5. In UO, the Gem was smashed into thousands of smaller shards.
Yup, it's screwed up.

Hacki Dragon

In ultima7, a >lot

Well, that's the point

They are HIDDEN.

Hacki Dragon

Ultima and AD&D are different worlds. In AD&D games, all sort of numbers are important. In Ultima, there are still some stats for you and your party, but the dialogues are generall MUCH more important.

Hacki Dragon

>>I remember there's a webpage dedicated to list all the inconsistency through out the Ultima series, but forgot where it is. Time for a shameless plug: It's MY site: http://members.aon.at/hacki-ultima/english/index.htm (can you create links in this forum?) Actually, its main purpose is to make a fo...

Hacki Dragon

Have YOU tried the links lately?

Here's the direct link:
http://l.webring.com/hub?ring=dragon&id=1&hub

No more Yahoo, but the Ring is still there. (I'm a member myself)

Hacki Dragon

No offense, but is it really useful to have several Ultima webrings? There is already the big Ring of Dragons:

http://www2.famvid.com/thor/games/ring/

Hacki Dragon

http://members.iinet.net.au/~rsd/six.html

Hacki Dragon

If you want to roleplay in a true Ultima environment, try Legacy:

http://post.uwstout.edu/e/enderled/ulti ... agons.html

Hacki Dragon

Nope, this was a project to remake U7 with the Dungeon Siege engine. It seems it died last summer.

I think you are talking about http://www.geocities.com/ultima7online/
Unfortunately, they gave up, too. (last news from June 2000)

Hacki Dragon

Ultima 9 was supposed to "Surpass U7 in terms of World Interaction". Which it certainly did not. Forget about Ascension, Jessica, it's neither a real RPG nor an Ultima.

Hacki Dragon

Few of the best computer games in history had multiplayer. Playing the old Ultimas together with your friends?? Come on, have you ever read a book together with your friends? First and foremost, Ultima 4-7 are about storytelling, not gameplay. If Ultima 7 dies without multiplayer (hilarious!), then ...

Hacki Dragon

They *ARE* supposed to be the Underworld. They are a system of caverns below the surface of Britannia, and you can go there through the dungeons. Well, I guess you can put it either way, but you'll have some inaccuracies in any case. I wish Origin had cared a little more for consistency :) (*sigh*, ...

Hacki Dragon

The Underworld in U5 is meant to be the same as the Underworld in U6. Don't forget that in both games, you can get to the Underworld through the dungeons. However, there are really big inaccuracies between the two games. Let me quote from my site: - Why didn't you see anything from Gargoyle villages...

Hacki Dragon

The plot of Ultima 8 is full of holes and inaccuracies, even with the patch. Sign of the things to come (UA).

However, Ultima 8 had a wonderful plot. It needed more NPCs and better dialogues.

Hacki Dragon

The ending of SI was rushed, thanks to EA. (Ultima 8 was not the first Ultima they messed around with.) There are some notable holes in the plot (e.g. what was the Guardian's role behind all this?).
Despite of that, it's still the best Ultima game as far as story-telling is concerned.

Hacki Dragon

There was an Add-On called "The Lost Vale", but it was cancelled by EA.

Hacki Dragon

But you must admit that there are friendlier ways to tell him. AD&D games or the Realms of Arkania series, for instance, *have* rules, so someone who doesn't know other RPGs might think that every (computer) role playing game has a set of "rules".

Hacki Dragon

>>No wonder the Ultima team got jealous and mostly ignored the Underworld II storyline - At least that's what I felt... They weren't jealous, they were stopped by EA :P The plots of Ultima 8 (and even of Serpent Isle) could not be finished. Ultima Ascension, if this is what you mean, does not only i...

Hacki Dragon

IMO, BG and SI are better than any previous Ultima (or even U8 and U9 :p), but I still prefer BG. There is a more immersive RPG feeling because you can do everything, and there are so many small magic moments for Ultima vets. (e.g. the aged Iolo at the beginning, or LB's joke about the usual "n...

Hacki Dragon

I think there was only a German version of the SI manual, not the game.

Hacki Dragon

I think they gave up, since the last news is from August 20th...

Hacki Dragon

He also killed that mage in Valoria. Which doesn't explain why he didn't kill that old bastard Lord British

Hacki Dragon

Why not Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Avatar? :D See, that's the problem with an Ultima movie: You must not have a fixed appearance of the Avatar. Don't forget that the Avatar could also be black or female. I'm sure they would end up using a male, blond guy like in U9. However, a movie showing what h...

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