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Ultima V: Lazarus Released
Vistaer writes "After over five years in development, Team Lazarus has finally released their full remake of the classic 80's RPG "Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny". This remake is built as a total conversion for Dungeon Siege, and not only does it retain the original story, characters, and setting of Ultima V, but also adds many new systems and improvements to the Dungeon Siege engine including branching dialogues, day/night cycles, portraits for every character in the game and much much more. Weighing in at just over 500MB, this game could prove to be a delight to many CRPG fans."
Congratulations to the entire Lazarus team for all their hard work.
You need Dungeon Siege 1 or Legends of Aranna to play this. Just FYI. I like the Thief add on stuff for Unreal Tournament. I don't remember where I got it but this site has a lot of Thief info
This is an Outstanding piece of free development and hard-work The new ultima VII engine, exult, is also amazing, but is still the original game. this is a whole beef-up WHITOUT losing anything from the original Better than origin's own 3d implementation, ultima 9, on ALL LEVELS
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Dungeon Siege 1 already had day/night cycles - this is not a new feature.
Before DS came out, I read the PCGamer article where they had screenshots and an interview with Chris Taylor. The game looked good so when it came out, I went down to my local Electronics Boutique (about 25-30 minutes from my house) and bought it. I played it for about 3 weeks and when I realized how lame the story was, I decided to shelve it. The game sat on my shelf for about 6 months, and I finally realized I had no intention of ever beating it so I decided to exchange it.
In most game stores, if you take back a used game (one that had been opened), they give you about $5 of store credit, then add it to their used game collection and charge someone else $30 for it. At this particular EB, they would allow exchanges of games for their full purchase provided you gave them a bullshit excuse (it wouldn't run on my computer), and the game had all the stuff it came with (I can't remember if they also require a receipt).
I walked over to the counter and told the clerk that the game ran too slowly and that I needed to exchange it. He opened up the game and said, you can't exchange it without the original manual. So I said "Fuck it, I'll go home and find it". I drove home and back to the store, manual in hand. By the time I got back from my hour long trip, the original clerck had left and the manager was working the register. I took the game up to him and said I'd like to exchange this game. He opens the game and says "we can't exchange this, the disks are all scratched". I said "I didn't drive an hour round trip to not get full credit for this game, you'd best chiggity-check yourself before you wreck yourself". He agreed to let me exchange the game and asked when I bought it, I lied and said "oh, about 2 weeks ago". He said "oh, if you had bought it more than a month ago, the price was $50 and now its $30 so here is your store credit of $30.
The moral of this story: A good lie pays off better than telling the truth, and exchanging a game close to when you bought it keeps you from getting screwed.
... wow!
When I first heard about this project, I wouldn't have given them a chance. This news really suprised me: a MOD team that actually keeps their focus through 5 long years and finishes the project successfully.
Congrats to the entire team!
Hack your mind out of its sandbox.
All I can say to the Lazarus folks is... thank you!
Even if I don't have Dungeon Siege myself (and no Windows right now to run that one either, hope that's temporary), this is major news: A really slowly developed community mod of really big scope has been actually finished! I hope this will serve as a big motivation to all of the other modding groups who have these big game remake ambitions. If it happened once, hell, it can happen again! Now I just hope Ultima IX: Redemption and Ultima VIII: Exile will get more wind under their wings, they seem to have accomplished so much and if Lazarus got their stuff together, they can, too!
So thank you, Lazarus, and good luck, the rest of the modders everywhere! Truly, this has been a great year for everyone who's been quietly working on fanstuff in their basements, hope next year is, too! =)
Anyone know where I can find an el cheapo copy of Dungeon Siege for OS X so I can try this out? It doesn't seem to be on sale anymore through the usual channels...
I Guess i'm just missing something right in front of me, but how do I even start the game???