So what's stopping him? He's got the resources and time AFAIK.
What's stopping him, most likely, is having already spent 20 years making Ultimas. it's possible he got burnt out. Just saying...
So what's stopping him? He's got the resources and time AFAIK.
He certainly has the right to do as he pleases (and gamers are often spoiled brats) but surely if he is burned out he'd say that, instead of saying he'd love to work on more Ultimas and had tried contacting EA to do that. That's the whole point of this discussion, right?
What's stopping him, most likely, is having already spent 20 years making Ultimas. it's possible he got burnt out. Just saying…
I don't think he got the money to self-found a new development project of his scale. These kind of games costs insane amount of money, and it is not sure if there is a publisher willing to invest that much money in him now. Especially after the entire ncsoft debacle.
The thing is though, is that Garriott loves to look to future and try new stuff. This is what made Ultima so special, though also what made some of his endeavours fail.
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Now about Ultima and Richard Garriott, he obviously can't do an Ultima because EA has the rights, and I'd assume the reason EA declined to license him the rights to do a Portalarium Ultima game is related to that rumoured Bioware Mythic Ultima IV remake.
But do you know what his upcoming game at Portalarium is called at this time ?
"Lord British's New Britannia"
Which personally just screams "Ultima without the IP". And you can sure it'll have the Lord British character in it.
And from what we can gather, he seems to imagine this game as some sort of Ultima Online 2.0, with a big virtual world aspect but most importantly a strong story component. I'm not saying the project will necesarilly be good or great… but I'm cautiously optimistic about it and in any case, curious to see what will come through. I will not in any case dismiss it without having seen it.
-Sergorn
If they had talks that broke down, then it seems to me that Garriot wanted more than a consulting role.
Wasn't aware of this, Very nice, i might have to give this another shot. Thanks for the info.As for u9 it was a really good game after a fan's site( i can't remember the name). Tore it down and rebuilt it…all the EA bugs were out of it and played very nicely.
Forget Ultima and bring on The Witcher 3,4,5,6,7. At least I know those games are made for people like me who could give a rat's behind about this social/MMO nonsense.
QFT. Couldn't agree more.Ultima 7 uses one of the most advanced 2.5D game engines I know of, even until now. The Infinity Engine wouldn't do it justice.
While I would love a new Ultima game, I have serious doubts it would be anything resembling the old Ultimas in feel or gameplay. And while I have enormous respect for Richard Garriott, I fear anything he would do nowdays, would be something utterly different from the old Ultimas, even if he tried to make a new Ultima game.
He could start from somthing small like make remakes of old ultimas for padsters. But thats propably too small for a man who has travelled to space and lives in a castle. Hes a bit like michael jackson of game industry.