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Bringing Ultima Online To The Masses
Thanks to GameSpy for their section featuring extracts and articles centered around the previously Slashdot-mentioned new book, Dungeons And Dreamers, which discusses "the rise of computer game culture" through figures such as Ultima creator Richard Garriott. The feature includes a three part extract from the book, dealing with "the trials and tribulations Richard Garriott and his team at Origin underwent in order to bring Ultima Online to the masses." There's also an interview with the book's authors, as well as a chat with Garriott himself, in which he trails his new NCSoft-backed massively multiplayer title, Tabula Rasa, which he says "combines MMP with story-based scripted adventures for parties of players."
I hear chapter 7 deals with the trials and tribulations and ways of dealing with the problems of of having no/losing all face to face friends during the process of playing UO.
Chapter 8 then reconsiles the importance of having a suitable sized cod piece and the advantage of choosing a fair, blonde maiden over a one eyed ogre. For starters, the maiden will cook and shop for you and save all those important rupees so you can get the Almagamationatorium Potion.
The final chapter has a hidden knife in it and via subliminal messages convinces the reader that their life is shit and pointless and that they need to kill themselves.
It's a great read. I haven't got to the last chapter yet and have only read the summary, but it sounds greaaaaat!
Eh I will go back to Lineage, at least NC soft lets us Mac users play that.
I must say it is quiet annoying that in this day and age of code being easily compiled for multiple platforms, still very few MMORPGs out there for mac users, with online Lineage, Everquest, and Shadowbane, along with a few much smaller ones.
The one that pisses me off the most at not getting is Uhr.
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