Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Richard Garriott Could Wind Up Making Ultima Online 2
It’s all very up in the air, so don’t hold the guy to any of this, but Ultima creator and one-time space tourist Richard Garriott says it’s possible his new roleplaying game, Ultimate RPG, could wind up becoming Ultima Online 2.
“We’ve actually talked to Electronic Arts about it,” Garriott told Eurogamer. “I would love to have access to the Ultima property. We’ve had discussions at very high levels with Electronic Arts about access to the property.”
“We’re in discussions with Electronic Arts even now about a possible marketing and distribution relationships and things of this nature.”
The Ultima games were what really propelled me into PC gaming. I spent most of high school (the late 1980s) with limited access to computers, but when I got my hands on an Apple II and someone else’s copy of Ultima III, it’s all I was playing. I hopped on the Commodore 64 bandwagon late, just as Ultima V arrived, but got right down to business renting (that’s right, from a local computer store) a copy of Ultima IV and snatching up a copy of Ultima V in its gorgeous lift-open box stuffed with decorated manuals, a color cloth map, and other cool trademark Garriott miscellany. I wound up playing them all, including the “Worlds of Ultima” games and one of Warren “Deus Ex” Spector’s first (and best) ideas, something called Martian Dreams. In fact I remember placing several long distance phone calls to Origin’s hint service (remember, pre-Internet days here) to help me past more than one puzzle.
Full article: http://www.pcworld.c … ultima_online_2.html