How Ultima Online Changed RPGs Forever and the Future of RPGs (IGN Unfiltered #17, Episode 3)
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- Ultima creator Richard Garriott discusses the challenges and triumphs of the industry-changing Ultima Online MMORPG, plus his vision of the genre's future.
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Beautiful interview. The interviewer let the man speak at length without trying to control the conversation. Great job!
No one should ever interrupt lord British when he is talking!
Ultima Online ruined all other games for me. Nothing comes close.
yep...... UO was the best mmorpg
Yeah about the same way for me. I wouldn’t say ALL other games though. It ruined all other MMOs for me. Because it was one of a kind. There has been no other MMO made to date that had the kind of freedom that UO had.
for the past twenty years it did yep... but now im able to tolerate SWTOR, LOTRO etc
Check out UO: Renaissance
Check UO: Outlands
The 3d polygonal games that are 20 years old (Asheron's Call, Everquest 1) DO look terrible, but I'd argue that 1997-era UO held up much much better. Pixel sprites will just always look more elegant than smeary low poly 3d graphics.
Ultima Online, was my absolute favorite game ever created. I have a passion for video games, and you did an excellent job Richard. I worked with Raph Koster on Metaplace and Joshua Kriegshauser on Clone wars adventures. I played that game into the ground, it was the minecraft of our generation. It was like real life in a video game. You could do anything, it was absolutely beautiful, thank you so very much for making that experience for my life :) BANK MY GUARDS!
I bet that was awesome working with Raph Koster, he is definitely on my MMORPG Mount Rushmore
Ultima online best game ever made
Still playing UO to this day. I'm playing right now actually. Still the best game ever made.
What server are you using - how are you doing it? I would imagine you are not playing the bastardized version available through Origin.
@@kylerobinson6102 UO outlands
Try uo the second age free server
Lord British, the best of the best in creators of PC RPGs. Happy 20th Anniversary, UO!
Uh, have you seen or played Shroud of the Avatar 🤣🤣
@@Vulgaren2012 Yes, and no; and no because yes. Your compound question led to this confusing answer but if you try you can figure it out.
@@fifteenbyfive nuff said :)
UO was the best, actually had the most fun on the player run servers years after I stopped playing.
It was an amazing game, still the best mmorpg ever made in my opinion
I've got mad respect for Richard Garriott. He's a smart dude.
He seems to have lost his mind in recent years. Shroud of the Avatar is just a big question mark.
Great interview with a great man!
UO Renaissance does that era so well. I played uo in that era and am now hooked on UOR for free.
UoR is the bomb
Agreed!
Richard Garriott was such an Idol to me through the 80s and 90s. Now the best Ultima like game seems to be Legends of Ultima on the Legends of Aria engine. Looking forward to getting back into the game. Wonder if Lord British ever visited there? I think it's so interesting too that he used to go around UO invisibly and just watch how people played. I'd always wondered if devs did that kinda thing in MMO's.
How's ur experience on it? I'm back to UO, playing on UO Outlands shard, it has new maps!
Richard Garriott/Lord British is a national treasure. Thank you for all the great memories!
Kids raging cuz they got owned in fortinite?
lulz
Me in 98 ooooOOOOooooOOOOOoooOOOOOOoooooo
OOooOOoOOOo!
"Be sure to check back each and every week for a new segment"Wait, so they're holding Richard hostage and forcing him to do an interview each and every week for the reminder of his existence?!
I remember playing hours of Ultima Online.
Nah, you spent literally weeks/months of RL time playing that game...I know you did...we all did! It was nearly a perfect game at one point in time. Google the song 'Stones' and let the memories flow through you...its great, I do it at least a few times a year. No game has or probably ever will affect me like UO did.
People don't know the meaning of ganking! hahahaha... Ah the days of Britania looting noobs in fel..
I don't think we will ever have a gaming experience like UO again until a really great VR based real time MMO comes to be. That could be awhile.
Adino - I waited nearly 20 years for a game to come along that gave me the same feelings that UO did. That game is DayZ. It gets a lot of flak (just like UO did) but it is the one and only game to give me the hand shaking, heart racing moments that UO alone gave me.
I had two accounts from 1998 until 2007.
great interview. I saw Richard at a MMO panel at PAX East last year. he told the same EA pitch story. do more of these please 😀
He is so compessionate when he talks about Ultima Online, so as i was talking to my friend about killed by Falco Zimmermann. It was so intense that i will never forget about this moment. So Falco if you read this, give me a call :)
A Ulitma Online channel a tribute to Ultima Online! The Best game ever made.
For people that have never heard of UO, it gives them a sense of wonder and enlightenment as to how the MMORPG began 19 years ago. For players, previous or current, it gives them a sense of nostalgia. For thousands of people, UO has a special place in their hearts; many have memories and stories that have happened in UO that they will remember for the rest of their lives, whether they played 10 years ago or currently. The videos give people a window into the game they have known and loved. They begin to recall all the great memories they've had over the years; it gives them a feeling of enjoyment sometimes coupled with butterflies. These videos showcase UO and pvp at its best, not just for the ipy player, but the uo player. Words of a wise man.
High Quality is a must 720p - 1080p and always good content to show.
Ultima Online will always live on.
you can still play on free servers!
As someone who was born in the end of era of the mmorpg and the start of moba era (correct me if im wrong - born in 1999) this really makes me jealous because mmorpgs' are fun for me and the one of the many that I played that really took some of my tens of hours (some of my sleep hours) of my life is ragnarok... T^T
Trust me when I say , as someone who beta tested Ragnarok, UO was/is FAR better....which is saying alot because Ragnarok is great too.
make a new 2D ultima with cartoony graphics and a megamassive world
Don Bonus I still think the way UO looks and plays to this day is perfect. I would be down with that. Classic UO look by the way.
@@DiGiTyDarKMaN i agree
I agree! That would be awesome!
I could listen to Gariott talk for a long time. Clearly he views games in a completely different way than most designers.
Ultima Online was my first online gaming experience in 1998 ... I've been MMOing since lol
Legends of Aria (formerly Shards Online), is now going this route . Played the Alpha version about 60% similarity so far to UO. Skillpoint system capped at 600, no character levels, no classes, Pre-casting, battle mage (hally mage), tameable mounts, dyes, alchemy, potions, regeants, spell scrolls, mining lumberjacking, full pvp loot, guard zones, notoriety system, persistent housing and dungeon, blacksmith, tailoring, cooking, food,, fishing, backpack snooping, stealing house keys, corpse decay, dropping stuff on ground, isometric view. The creator worked on UO, they are a small team called Citadel Studio in San Diego,remnants of Origin. LoA is more close to UO than SoTA, Albion Online at its current state. Alpha will be out on Steam on August!
Beside UO pre trammel-felucca so around t2a, only eve drop my jaw, but UO was unique considering it was 1997-1998.
I still play..and I remember playing in 2000 in high school until 2 or 3 in the morning..really great game !! Thank you for creating it
Pre AoS was amazing
pre trammel, not just aos
I quit before AOS, but AOS was actually a decent time for UO. They had record subscribers, and they took away stat loss in Felucca as well as added the skill scrolls in Felucca Dungeons, bringing guilds to the dungeons and spurring great pvp scenarios. Unfortunately with things like swamp dragons in the game, it just looked horrible.
Pre-trammel is what felt real although I cursed it alot as I wasn't a pk. My best memories of online gaming mostly comes from UO. It was wide open and so unstructured compared to today's rigid formats, leveling and order. Sure games are pretty now and more realistic looking but you no longer need skill, just levels and stuff. Game skill has become equated to levels and equipment. I don't think many really even realize it. Those times are gone forever.
Legends of Aria
I was at that drunken protest at Lord British's castle! LOL I can't believe he actually talked about that event.
never played a Ultima game only know of it because of youtube but i did enjoy the interview
Thank you Ryan, thank you IGN. A wonderful, interesting interview with one of the legends of videogames.
UO... Best Game ever
What an amazing and revealing interview.
Shame I didn't discover this **over a year ago**..! :O
Thanks for covering this games and their importance !!!!!!!!
This takes me back. I remember getting my first UO cd. I also remember soo many hours of roleplay and the forging of the circle of emerald knights. I played from the early days up to blackthorn brfor launching my first UOX server. Long live Lord British.
I love to meet him in real life and in game
Ultima Online still my fav game, waiting for a complete graphic remaster if that is even possible.
I'm not a gamer , I've never played this game, I've never even heard of it. Though, I sat through the hole video and REALLY enjoyed it. I wish I could have been part of it ....
Nice interview! I would never expect such high quality from IGN!
nice comb front and pony tail
I was Pretender on LS. Shout out to Ultimatus, Joe Camel of Writ, Neval, Profit, and sooo many others I cannot remember
IceDeath on LS.
calliph Nice, do you remember any of those other guys? Were you a red?
I was Shame. A red.
Best game ever, never got to play the original as I'm only 23. But I play on UO: Renaissance, for anyone looking for a great server!
I love interviews about gaming history
Might want to avoid a skinny tie with a normal cut shirt collar....or just avoid ties altogether.
I still play pre-AoS freeshards. Go give UO Forever a try!
im illiterate
Renaissance shard is way better.
Wait... We could have had Wing Commander Online?!
I was a beta (alpha) tester for UO! I may still have the CD somewhere. Loved UO
Wurm Online is like Ultima Online but in first person view.
Hey flat earthers, check out Richards space photos.
Loved it, I played on Pacific in the guild MEC, TAR, and then finally FL. lol funny cause FL and TAR-MEC were sworn enemies ;D
Best MMO of its time. I still have my account active, I can't bring myself to cancel it completely even though I only pop in a few times out of the year to check on my pet dragons in the stables.. lol.. funny they still there.. every time.. *sigh* :,-(
I miss training them.
Wow man, that's insane. I started in '98 and sold my account in 2000 for over $2k. Came back multiple times of course. But now I play DayZ, it's the only game to ever match the heart racing adrenaline of UO.
I was in FL on Pacific too lol best game ever made hands down
Still no game as ruthless as ultima online, darkfall online was close in the first 3 months of the game. I want a 3D ruthless full loot ultima online.
Is this going to show up on iTunes in the usual feed?
This guy earns EA a landfill full of cash and they basically can him and turn him down in response. Yeah, sounds about right.
Greatest game (rpg) of all time.
I miss old UO before Trammel
Meridan 59 was my FAVE!! Server 101, 102, 107, 108, 110, 111! Best PVP EVER. Team 3DO! Not sure about Air Warriors being the biggest - I was thinking AOL around then giving GemStone 3/Terris/NeverWinter Nights the largest subscriber base. Hearing that Asheron's Call had closed by way of this video broke my heart. I had re-joined and played no more than two years ago and though it was still running great. Those were the good old days - when you could claim you had played EVERY MMO that had been made - now it's simply impossible to sample every one out there. M59, UO, AC, T4C, DAoC, EQ - those were the greatest. Anyone remember when Mordor created Demise? Gosh I wish I could travel back in time.
I spent alot of time with Mordor 2 demo. Always wish I could of played demise.
I'm not sure i got what he said at the end when comparing to Hollywood. Did he said games need more story? That makes no sense since his games are so mechanicaly deep. But he is right when saying graphical evolution is stagnating games. Why make compeling mechanics when you can just slap pretty graphics and call it a day?
The Greatest Game Ever Played. Ultima online.
Epic rat tail on this legend.
That braid though :(
Richard Garriott's Shroud of the Avatar surely isn't UO's succesor. That game is nothing but a money scam! And the overworld map? What were they thinking? Complete fail.
I think Legends of Aria will be the successor of UO...
Matt Snyder Sadly, you’re right. RG probably peaked as a game designer 20 years ago, still admire the man for his past achievements.
I know right! I’m disappointed.
Richard Garriott is amazing. So glad he won that legal battle. What a bunch of BS.
What is the name of the book you mentioned at 12:00? thanks
Does anyone actually know WHY Ultima is called Ultima? Did it stand for something? Was it ever explained in the game series? I've watched every interview Garriott has ever given and read every piece of info I've ever seen on Ultima on the internet and I just CAN'T seem to get an answer to this question! Anyone got any ideas?
He invented it in the early 80's probably as a teenager. It's just 2 letters short of "ultimate", I don't think there's anything deep there.
Ultima mean lands beyond the known lands
Not even half way through yet but this is a great example of how EA has had incompetent management for 20+ years.
ok.......... can u guys show how ultimata 9 was ahead of its time??
I can never take this guy seriously again after giving Alien: Isolation 5.9
I miss Ultima ..
Try uo outlands. It has the pre-trammel feels. Richard would be proud.
Really great interview.
I love every Ultima ty strange Brit guy.
Wondering how Hard it would be make Mobile UO. 🤔
This is the gamers guide to birth of a nation
I wanna play d&d with this guy!
We all thought EA was to blame.. and there it is the facts that EA ruined it
yeah, we all knew it was happening back then too.
EA did ruin it but if it wasnt for EA UO would have never been made
im playing ultima while watching this
So am I... RAZOR!!!
I looked into Ultima Online Evolution. It's nice but I can't find people to play with ;) it was a short and fun experience
Same
Most people in these special shards are in very tight groups. I tried several times to start a full blown role playing system.... but no luck.
do you play on the official shards or the free shards?
Never played Ultima but this is awesome.
Zephin VS Best game ever made.
Please don't split them into parts anymore. I love this stuff but missed some content because it was spread out first.
Still playing
This guy did a great job with UO, however, and not to be a nay-sayer, Shround of the Avatar is NOT Ultima Online. Not even close. It's a highschool version of Guildwars. I'm not sure what he tried to do, but if he would of stuck to the UO blueprint more closely, it would of been a successful game. Now, true, considering they raised 4million for crowdfunding, its in a way, already successful, but it lacks the heart and soul of UO. Very disappointed.
True. UO worked because it was a pioneer. Shroud of the Avatar is not original and cannot compete with the modern MMORPGs like GW2 or Black Desert. Those games require huge budgets and hundreds of artists, coders and designers.
The only thing I have against UO is not going with times graphics wise.I think this is EA's best cow to milk.. I stoped playing UO once uo assist became a must have to do decent pvp..
This guy has so much history lol.
i played UO second age shard for a while with my buddys so amazing so addictive!!
I played second age too, I play Renaissance now!
perfect to perfect mmorpg
What ruined UO was development beyond vanilla. When the game first came out it was perfect. Then EverQuest screwed the genre forever with instances and levels.
The best game ever
Please Ultima IV remake. The game is so dated I cannot play it like it is now. and the NES version is not a good port.
Why is this man in the beginning of the video shouting at me?
born in 94 my self. played wow for about 12 or so years... bored of that game for a good while now, gonna try shroud of the avatar.
Please don't split them up next time.
How is EA still in existence? O.o
When the first 10 secs of the video are you shouting at me, I tend to move on. Thought you might like to know for future reference.
dam this sht is not luck this is fate working behind-the-scenes if it was not for fate we would not have some epic game to play onlie. i thank fate for doing its jod and i thank this man for who he is much respect to ur accomplishment.
Did lord British once let everyone know that if you don't have direct contact internet you will be 3 times slower then they that do. That's why the game died
EA should give the license back to Garret, since its run its course.......*wink wink* pssst Hey Rich come here, UO vr bruh. either get the license or squeeze as much likeness as you can
RAINZ!!!!!
Try uo the second age free server
Wanna join my guild on cats?
Why would anyone ever have a goattee
I want to slurp nacho cheese off that rat tail
"Tabul Rassa"? Is that some Afghan village? Cmon latin ain't that different for english speakers. You can do better.