Comments on: Old School UO Nostalgia http://www.nerfbat.com/2007/01/07/old-school-nostalgia/ Game design, development, and industry commentary by MMO Game Designer Ryan Shwayder. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:20:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stealthmode http://www.nerfbat.com/2007/01/07/old-school-nostalgia/comment-page-1/#comment-94526 Stealthmode Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:06:15 +0000 http://www.nerfbat.com/?p=190#comment-94526 ;-) I have played UO since 97' and i still have my old account from back then. However, my experience with the changing tide has been a bad one. Slowly they started to take the fun out of UO by taking away certain aspects of the game. UO was so sweet, it allowed you to find ways to kill monsters and ppl that are a thousand times stronger than you! Like trapping dragons or daemons with flour bags and taking your time working them down to nothing more than a few "Cor Por." The game was more of an adventure than any other MMO i have ever played to date! Yes it was my first MMO love also! Remember the server wars? especially at covetous! the blue pk? always staying at 4 kills ( i did turn red during a server war and when it came back up i was still red! lol lesson learned) Britian gy.... i can go on for ours, i loved the boom boxes and the deadly posion boxes those were the bomb! lol love the 1 hitter heavy xbow too! (GM made of course) and getting pked in dungeons and killing crap talkers too! was to much fun and i miss it tremendously!!!!!!!!!!! but i want it back to how it was before... My friends and i would play 23 hours a day! only sleeping during the server downtime... remember when they had to reboot the servers and you waited forever, it seemed like but it was only like an hour, then they had to reboot again!!! grrrr! but eventually we got to play and you got your daily or nightly fix lol. No potion timelimits ruled! you can drink GH all day! hid and bandage trick! awesome! I MISS YOU UO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have not played after they implemented Trammel (carebear land) and all the other B.S. That was like being dumped after years of faithfulness :) Perhaps one day that old first time feeling will come back in another game or maybe it was just that once in a lifetime experience.... however it may fall, i wish everyone could of experienced it! but i am glad i got to. ;-) I have played UO since 97′ and i still have my old account from back then. However, my experience with the changing tide has been a bad one. Slowly they started to take the fun out of UO by taking away certain aspects of the game. UO was so sweet, it allowed you to find ways to kill monsters and ppl that are a thousand times stronger than you! Like trapping dragons or daemons with flour bags and taking your time working them down to nothing more than a few “Cor Por.” The game was more of an adventure than any other MMO i have ever played to date! Yes it was my first MMO love also!

Remember the server wars? especially at covetous! the blue pk? always staying at 4 kills ( i did turn red during a server war and when it came back up i was still red! lol lesson learned) Britian gy…. i can go on for ours, i loved the boom boxes and the deadly posion boxes those were the bomb! lol love the 1 hitter heavy xbow too! (GM made of course) and getting pked in dungeons and killing crap talkers too! was to much fun and i miss it tremendously!!!!!!!!!!! but i want it back to how it was before… My friends and i would play 23 hours a day! only sleeping during the server downtime… remember when they had to reboot the servers and you waited forever, it seemed like but it was only like an hour, then they had to reboot again!!! grrrr! but eventually we got to play and you got your daily or nightly fix lol. No potion timelimits ruled! you can drink GH all day! hid and bandage trick! awesome! I MISS YOU UO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have not played after they implemented Trammel (carebear land) and all the other B.S. That was like being dumped after years of faithfulness :)

Perhaps one day that old first time feeling will come back in another game or maybe it was just that once in a lifetime experience…. however it may fall, i wish everyone could of experienced it! but i am glad i got to.

]]> By: Tox http://www.nerfbat.com/2007/01/07/old-school-nostalgia/comment-page-1/#comment-94020 Tox Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:13:24 +0000 http://www.nerfbat.com/?p=190#comment-94020 I know alot of old schoolers now play UOSA [second age] I know alot of old schoolers now play UOSA [second age]

]]> By: Anokel (AKA) Lekeno Xaphid - Lake Superior Shard http://www.nerfbat.com/2007/01/07/old-school-nostalgia/comment-page-1/#comment-91647 Anokel (AKA) Lekeno Xaphid - Lake Superior Shard Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:04:41 +0000 http://www.nerfbat.com/?p=190#comment-91647 Well Well, Old School UO Nostalgia I think your going to bring a tear to my eye. HA HA HA!! Ultima Online was the first online laggy game I ever played on a 56k modem, I got so addicted to it, I ate, breathed and slept uo 24/7 for over a year. Probably not a good idea, but I did learn some useful things from playing this game that are still with me. The first thing is: Don't eat, breath and sleep your life away for a game! Second, I actually finally learned how to type with all of my fingers instead of just two! I also learned not to trust anyone unless you know them personally and the game even taught me about real world economics. Oh and I almost forgot don't waste time lookin for a gf or a wife!!!!! If it happens great, but don't go looking for one you'll waste lots of time!!! I learned that Lesson the hard way!! When I first started playing this game and immersed myself into a while new and strange world, I have to admit I wasted a lot of time doing nothing. Just goofing around with a mediocre character (mage) who couldn't fight or even practice magic that well. Although he did look the part with a long gray beard and lots of hair on his head. Funny thing was, one day I found a guy at the bank in Moonglow who was quiting the game. He gave me all his stuff that he had in a small house between two mountains. I thought it was the coolest thing, because I didn't have that kind of money to purchase a house. I thought this guy was the man. Anyway, behind the house he gave me was a neighbor that was always fighting ellys and deamons where I could see him from inside my house. All of this terrified me, because I was new to the game and my character was so weak. Most of the time I played I would just wander around talking to people and asking them to come help me lvl up or go fight monsters. But who wanted to fight or go around with a noob! I never figured that out till later. The other half I was looking for chicks to date and be my gf lol.... I would move to another shard just to get a gf..... Well, eventually I thought to myself I better actually start playing this game. I knew I couldn't get anywhere with a mage that had no money. Because you have to have money to buy regs to get more money. Sorta a catch 22. So I made my first warrior and everything got better from then on. Well, except for the women and trusting people I didn't personally know. I could have gone so much further without that silly ol woman that I married in the game, who stole over half of my fortune that I later accumulated and took off for another man. As well as a uo friend who I thought was my friend. I trusted him with my account and he took off with the rest of my wealth. I ended up back and square 1 with nothing. Boy could I tell you some stories!!! I used to own a full set of Phoenix armor as well as a Large Tower, tons of rares and NEON BLUE SANDLES. The ones that existed before the bods that they gave to the tailors. I was the man, I even had runes to secret locations that you couldn't get to any longer. I used to have this guy who looked like my former mage char follow me around like a puppy because he thought I was the man! He's was always wondering how I got all my cool rares. Anyway, uo is a long lost love you could never truly forget or get over, no matter what you experienced in it. Well Well, Old School UO Nostalgia I think your going to bring a tear to my eye. HA HA HA!! Ultima Online was the first online laggy game I ever played on a 56k modem, I got so addicted to it, I ate, breathed and slept uo 24/7 for over a year. Probably not a good idea, but I did learn some useful things from playing this game that are still with me. The first thing is: Don’t eat, breath and sleep your life away for a game! Second, I actually finally learned how to type with all of my fingers instead of just two! I also learned not to trust anyone unless you know them personally and the game even taught me about real world economics. Oh and I almost forgot don’t waste time lookin for a gf or a wife!!!!! If it happens great, but don’t go looking for one you’ll waste lots of time!!! I learned that Lesson the hard way!!

When I first started playing this game and immersed myself into a while new and strange world, I have to admit I wasted a lot of time doing nothing. Just goofing around with a mediocre character (mage) who couldn’t fight or even practice magic that well. Although he did look the part with a long gray beard and lots of hair on his head. Funny thing was, one day I found a guy at the bank in Moonglow who was quiting the game. He gave me all his stuff that he had in a small house between two mountains. I thought it was the coolest thing, because I didn’t have that kind of money to purchase a house. I thought this guy was the man. Anyway, behind the house he gave me was a neighbor that was always fighting ellys and deamons where I could see him from inside my house. All of this terrified me, because I was new to the game and my character was so weak. Most of the time I played I would just wander around talking to people and asking them to come help me lvl up or go fight monsters. But who wanted to fight or go around with a noob! I never figured that out till later. The other half I was looking for chicks to date and be my gf lol….
I would move to another shard just to get a gf…..

Well, eventually I thought to myself I better actually start playing this game. I knew I couldn’t get anywhere with a mage that had no money. Because you have to have money to buy regs to get more money. Sorta a catch 22. So I made my first warrior and everything got better from then on. Well, except for the women and trusting people I didn’t personally know. I could have gone so much further without that silly ol woman that I married in the game, who stole over half of my fortune that I later accumulated and took off for another man. As well as a uo friend who I thought was my friend. I trusted him with my account and he took off with the rest of my wealth. I ended up back and square 1 with nothing.

Boy could I tell you some stories!!! I used to own a full set of Phoenix armor as well as a Large Tower, tons of rares and NEON BLUE SANDLES. The ones that existed before the bods that they gave to the tailors. I was the man, I even had runes to secret locations that you couldn’t get to any longer. I used to have this guy who looked like my former mage char follow me around like a puppy because he thought I was the man! He’s was always wondering how I got all my cool rares.

Anyway, uo is a long lost love you could never truly forget or get over, no matter what you experienced in it.

]]> By: Joseph Hale http://www.nerfbat.com/2007/01/07/old-school-nostalgia/comment-page-1/#comment-89138 Joseph Hale Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:23:43 +0000 http://www.nerfbat.com/?p=190#comment-89138 The bad experiences in UO were the most fun. I was slow to learn the mechanics so I never had a teched-up PvP character, but I did grow a danger sense and usually, mad escape skills made me unkillable. That would never happen in a newer PvP game, where level/threat scales so geometrically that it's very hard for a higher level player to fail, whatever the situation. The bad experiences in UO were the most fun. I was slow to learn the mechanics so I never had a teched-up PvP character, but I did grow a danger sense and usually, mad escape skills made me unkillable. That would never happen in a newer PvP game, where level/threat scales so geometrically that it’s very hard for a higher level player to fail, whatever the situation.

]]> By: Beeson http://www.nerfbat.com/2007/01/07/old-school-nostalgia/comment-page-1/#comment-84485 Beeson Tue, 19 May 2009 16:04:11 +0000 http://www.nerfbat.com/?p=190#comment-84485 Haha I can remember porting people to the ratman castle in the Ice dungeon or the savage camp while i had that white paint on (forgot the name its been so long) and another cool trick was to sell people what they thought we're nightmares but it was actually a SL warhorse(back when they were black instead of green) Or find a really cool looking house with alot of rares in and make a new character with the same name as the owner and trade it for a pet like dragon.nightmare etc but make them go 1st as u couldnt trade houses and pets at the same time then run off XD Most memorable moment for me was when I was in a guild where we wasn't allowed to use anything but basic weaps as the others "give too much of an advantage" then I saw someone in a guild we were at war with, attacked him and took next to nothing off him he turned round and whacked me for 1/2 my life in one shot....good times Haha I can remember porting people to the ratman castle in the Ice dungeon
or the savage camp while i had that white paint on (forgot the name its been so long)

and another cool trick was to sell people what they thought we’re nightmares but it was actually a SL warhorse(back when they were black instead of green)
Or find a really cool looking house with alot of rares in and make a new character with the same name as the owner and trade it for a pet like dragon.nightmare etc but make them go 1st as u couldnt trade houses and pets at the same time then run off XD

Most memorable moment for me was when I was in a guild where we wasn’t allowed to use anything but basic weaps as the others “give too much of an advantage” then I saw someone in a guild we were at war with, attacked him and took next to nothing off him he turned round and whacked me for 1/2 my life in one shot….good times

]]> By: Cramer http://www.nerfbat.com/2007/01/07/old-school-nostalgia/comment-page-1/#comment-82611 Cramer Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:50:54 +0000 http://www.nerfbat.com/?p=190#comment-82611 Holy shit UO is the best PvP MMORPG I've ever played, and I've yet to find a game that matches the fun of PvP that this game brought forth so if anyone comes across a game so great that focuses on PvP such as Ultima Online did, e-mail me please! Ou1Cramer@yahoo.com Holy shit UO is the best PvP MMORPG I’ve ever played, and I’ve yet to find a game that matches the fun of PvP that this game brought forth so if anyone comes across a game so great that focuses on PvP such as Ultima Online did, e-mail me please! Ou1Cramer@yahoo.com

]]> By: David Shipley http://www.nerfbat.com/2007/01/07/old-school-nostalgia/comment-page-1/#comment-77092 David Shipley Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:34:38 +0000 http://www.nerfbat.com/?p=190#comment-77092 Bloody 'ell this takes me back - used to run a mage called Yarash in the early days of the SBR on Lake Superior; happy memories of training sessions in the guildhall, boxing PKs up by the crossroads, I remember as well a night they attacked the guildhall. Haven't played since about 2000, but just so happens I'm downloading the client now - what's it *like* these days? Best, Yarash (SBR), LS Bloody ‘ell this takes me back – used to run a mage called Yarash in the early days of the SBR on Lake Superior; happy memories of training sessions in the guildhall, boxing PKs up by the crossroads, I remember as well a night they attacked the guildhall. Haven’t played since about 2000, but just so happens I’m downloading the client now – what’s it *like* these days?

Best,

Yarash (SBR), LS

]]> By: Dr-Evil http://www.nerfbat.com/2007/01/07/old-school-nostalgia/comment-page-1/#comment-67892 Dr-Evil Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:19:26 +0000 http://www.nerfbat.com/?p=190#comment-67892 Nice read. check out www.uodivinity.com New pre-cast shard with a badass ruleset. Just needs some more players, and WTFMAN.com is about to sponsor the shard. Sounds like another IPY to me. THey're putting in alot of nice changes too in the upcoming weeks Nice read.

check out http://www.uodivinity.com

New pre-cast shard with a badass ruleset. Just needs some more players, and WTFMAN.com is about to sponsor the shard. Sounds like another IPY to me.

THey’re putting in alot of nice changes too in the upcoming weeks

]]> By: Ryan Shwayder’s Nerfbat » Happy Anniversary Ultima Online! http://www.nerfbat.com/2007/01/07/old-school-nostalgia/comment-page-1/#comment-62883 Ryan Shwayder’s Nerfbat » Happy Anniversary Ultima Online! Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:05:22 +0000 http://www.nerfbat.com/?p=190#comment-62883 [...] go into detail here. Instead, I will simply provide you with links to my nostalgic ramblings: Old School UO Nostalgia, True Sosarian Stories Part I, True Sosarian Stories Part II, True Sosarian Stories Part III. Happy [...]

[...] go into detail here. Instead, I will simply provide you with links to my nostalgic ramblings: Old School UO Nostalgia, True Sosarian Stories Part I, True Sosarian Stories Part II, True Sosarian Stories Part III. Happy [...]

]]> By: Panemon http://www.nerfbat.com/2007/01/07/old-school-nostalgia/comment-page-1/#comment-62776 Panemon Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:57:59 +0000 http://www.nerfbat.com/?p=190#comment-62776 I remember when uo was first released when you could eat people... lol leg jerky. I remember when uo was first released when you could eat people… lol leg jerky.

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