Lord British Presents

Paul_cz said:
It sounds nice and all, but the ingame footage was very definition of "meh"

However I am going to watch it closely, who knows, maybe it will be good.
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graphics don't make an MMO the mechanics do and I'm confident lord british wont aim this at the lowest common denominator like a lot of mmo's of the past few years.
 
Just read an interview with Lord British on Rock Paper Shotgun. Have to say that I'm quite disappointed. What I was hoping for was essentially a re-make of UO with modern advances implemented to improve the overall experience.

I have such fond memories of being scammed / griefed when first playing UO.
- Being repeatedly killed by someone who tricked me into attacking them whilst they were poly morphed.
- Being blown up by a booby-trapped chest at the bank
- Being robbed by a brazen thief and then attacking him as he was naked and only armed with a dagger, only to have my **** handed to me.

Looks like I will never have the chance to re-live these thrills.
 
The big question is how open the client/server system is going to be. If you can set up your own servers, it won't take long until someone's got one running with a ruleset you like.
 
hmmm most of these kickstarter projects are nostalgia driver steaming piles of turd, just like elite will turn out to be, all these people donating money are suckers, if the game was that good an idea a publisher would be funding it.
 
I notice one of the bonuses to get you to fund more is a guaranteed house slot and free rent. How is housing going to work on a non MMO type game? I have this feeling this has been put in there in the list of bonuses because people remember the epic difficulty in getting a housing plot in the original UO and will panic buy to some extent.
 
I was concerned about the graphics until I noticed they haven't even employed an art team yet and what is shown is effectively programmer art. So as earlier jury is out for me I'll wait and see.
 
To be honest, anyone who's focusing on the graphics first and foremost is missing the point. He really needs to clarify the multiplayer aspects though. It sounds like shards with only a few hundred people at most, and yet the housing plots are unique across the whole thing? This confuses my tiny brain :(
 
I initially backed this at over £100 thinking it would be UO2. But the more I've looked into it, the more it appears to be a furtherance of the single player Ultima Series with MMO instanced aspects tacked on. I've since cancelled my funding.

I'll keep an eye on it, but don't think I'll be funding again.
 
Luckystrike123 said:
I have such fond memories of being scammed / griefed when first playing UO.
- Being repeatedly killed by someone who tricked me into attacking them whilst they were poly morphed.
- Being blown up by a booby-trapped chest at the bank
- Being robbed by a brazen thief and then attacking him as he was naked and only armed with a dagger, only to have my **** handed to me.

Looks like I will never have the chance to re-live these thrills.
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My first experience of UO was running around with another newbie. Some guy said he'd show us around and he led us out east of Britain. We were killing snakes and he said he could show us his house, he took us inside then killed and looted us ahah. I had been kitted out by a kind guy earlier, so whilst I didn't have loads of stuff, it was a huge loss to lose it all. You just can't generate those kinds of emotions!

Being in a dungeon and seeing a PK run through with his pocket healers, you actually got nervous and tried to escape asap.

Many of my best times were pre-trammel, running around with my GM thief. You could cause a lot of chaos. I had GM wrestling, so I could steal, get people to attack me, then diarm and steal their weapons. Pure adrenaline hehe.
 
Sleepery said:
To be honest, anyone who's focusing on the graphics first and foremost is missing the point. He really needs to clarify the multiplayer aspects though. It sounds like shards with only a few hundred people at most, and yet the housing plots are unique across the whole thing? This confuses my tiny brain :(
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If it's anything like many of the games he's been involved in recently it'll rely heavily on instancing. My take on it is that it's essentially single player until you enter somewhere on the map, then it's instanced multi-player for dungeons, housing etc.

Like you said though he needs to clarify that.
 
MrMoonX said:
hmmm most of these kickstarter projects are nostalgia driver steaming piles of turd, just like elite will turn out to be, all these people donating money are suckers, if the game was that good an idea a publisher would be funding it.
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I am willing to bet a fair sum against Elite being, as you put it "piles of steaming turd".
Name your bet - I'll take it.
 
MrMoonX said:
hmmm most of these kickstarter projects are nostalgia driver steaming piles of turd, just like elite will turn out to be, all these people donating money are suckers, if the game was that good an idea a publisher would be funding it.
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Publishers are interested in one thing, and that is making money. That means remakes of games such as COD, FIFA etc as well as dumbing down of a game to make it attractive to the majority of gamers.

Anything outside of that is a risk that many aren't willing to take so a publishers reluctance to fund a project has no bearing on how good the game will be, purely how profitable it will be.

You've also got to consider that many publishers like to stick their noses in and have a say on a game to push it to be more profitable for them even if it goes against the original idea of the game.

Kickstarter doesn't mean a game will be crap, just that it doesn't necessarily appeal to the mass market. However, I do agree that many games are funded because of rose tinted glasses.
 
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