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.

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Yawn.

[Randolpho]

Am I the only one tired of MMORPGs? I mean, sure, game companies think they're a great way to make money, gotta love that whole subscribe to play thing, but I have yet to play one that managed to immerse me in the same way that, say, Baldur's Gate, or Ultimas 4 through 7 did. Sure, it's great to be able to chat with your peeps and nab P|-|@t L3\/\/t off the corpses in the game, but that gets kinda old after a while. In the end you spend most of your time going after that next level (or worse, making things) rather than furiously trying to figure out how to stop the Guardian.

In short, I want to say to the folks who keep making MMORPGs: where's the beef? Give us substance, not shallow rat-hunter 3d crap!