Comments on: True Sosarian Stories, Part II

By: Ryan Shwayder’s Nerfbat » True Sosarian Stories, Part III

Ryan Shwayder’s Nerfbat » True Sosarian Stories, Part III — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:15:37 +0000

[...] of follow-up posts to my original entry on Old School UO Nostalgia. You can check out the first and second parts, then read on for stories of old school Ultima Online, along with a song from the original [...]

By: BelahDonah

BelahDonah — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:30:40 +0000

I can only imagine these memoirs as my husband played “back in the day”. As for me, I have my own memories of UO, which I adore, but I can only feel a loss and sadness that I will never know what it is to be “ganked” as I’m leaving town or mining or whatever. I can never really build my PK skills or get mad or get even. Unless, of course, I choose to venture over to the other side. As of yet, I have no plans to go there. I don’t want to go out and look for trouble…I just want to know what it feels like to have trouble come looking for me, completely off guard. I don’t wanna be “ganked” by 15 reds who are practicing their murder skills and I run through their energy field. That’s not the same feeling, I’m sure.

By: Nerfbat » Old School UO Nostalgia

Nerfbat » Old School UO Nostalgia — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:38:50 +0000

[...] True Sosarian Stories, Part II [...]

By: Nick McLaren

Nick McLaren — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:26:13 +0000

Hmm… that explains a lot. =)

By: Ryan Shwayder

Ryan Shwayder — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:44:05 +0000

I originally played on Atlantic and Chesapeake back in the day. I think Chesapeake launched after Atlantic and I switched at that time, can’t entirely remember.

By: Nick McLaren

Nick McLaren — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:38:17 +0000

Aye, indeed those were good times. I fondly recall similar boat-jacking hijinks on Atlantic…. and random death potions, and exploding chests in town, and the grey robed thieves that steal from me often, and running from many o’ PKs decked out in bright red clothing in the woods.. desperately hoping to make it back within guard-range.

That’s it.. I have to go pick up 9th anniversary and toy with the game again.. That Kingdom Reborn client is looking pretty sweet too actually, but I have no clue when it will be released. Either way, I’ve found myself growing very tired of the same ol’ same ol’ MMORPG.

Which makes me feel it necessary to remind you that I’m counting on you to develop a really good game that is very disruptive to the current MMO paradigms. That is what the world needs right now. Hell, that’s what I need right now. Remember, the landmass does not have to be gigantic to be epic, it just needs to change and evolve based on the impact of the players. Reason.. purpose.. We need it. Killing ten rats to keep a player questing for longer does not make the game more immersive nor fun. It’s tedium for the sake of keeping a player paying their monthly subscription fees. It’s much more fun to have a decent struggle in a single encounter than to have the shopping list of random common spawns. The shopping list quest task system must die!

Ok, this thread was about UO and the adventures there in. I will stop raving madly on and on about my hopes and dreams of the holy grail MMO in the interest of not straying any further off-topic.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled broadcast.

By: Tuebit

Tuebit — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:00:03 +0000

lol at the little island trick. I remember standing their myself … once … I wonder if it was you I notice you apologized to the GM’s and not the nooblets.

By: Massively Multiplayer Online Round Table

Massively Multiplayer Online Round Table — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

True Sosarian Stories, Part II