EA Origin to Reveal Ultima-X Odyssey

Sutekh-Acolyte writes "Richard Garriott and the other founders of Origin may be gone, but the developer is still alive and kicking. Electronic Arts is hosting an event in San Francisco on August 21-22, dubbed 'EA-X Event'. It'll give around 100 hardcore MMORPG gamers and select members of the gaming press a first look at Origin's secret project that previously has been almost entirely in the dark up until now: Ultima-X: Odyssey. It will be interesting to see if UXO brings some innovation to MMORPGs or lives off the genre's popularity." As well as the movie on the EA-X site, there's a good summary of current information at RPGDot, and Ianstorm.com has a gallery of new 3D renders from Liquid Development, who seem in some way related to an unannounced Ultima project.

Comments

Re:Not really related to UXO, but UO...

[dewke]

I always feel sad when I read things like this.

The game was hardly the PK-Hell environment it is made out to be. Did people PK, yes. Were there hordes of PK's everywhere? No.

What I find funny about the game is the only people still playing are the ones who like the PvP system and some roleplayers.

If LB and DD hadn't spent so much energy chasing away a lot of the PvP, with stat loss etc... set UO would be a lot more popular.

And if you want to see what DD's ideals on a game are, take a peek at SWG.