I met my wife playing Ultima Online back in 2000. She hired me to PK somebody that was bothering her, and we started chatting on ICQ. Been married now for 22 years. As soon as the guy at the end said he had rares for you, I knew exactly what was going to happen. Oldest trick in the book.
There's never been another MMORPG like Ultima. I'm happy that I found the game back in the day. I've since tried every MMO on the market without being able to replicate the feeling I got from UO.
Still play? UOForever is a good old schoolish free shard. UO Outlands is also another great free shard and theyve done some amazing things with all those useless skills and character templates can be wild.
Late 90s - Early 00s Ultima Online still remains one of my most memorable online gaming experiences. There were no cookie-cutter classes, or generic questlines. Just a sandbox to share with thousands of other players, creating our own adventures. The menu theme music "Stones" is permanently burned into my brain to this day. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5X1gC3BLq2w.html
Used to listen to this whilst glaring at the giant map that came with it and the nice cloth art work cut out. Truly immersed and memories I will never forget
The only game that ever recaptured the feelings I had in the first months of Ultima Online was, weirdly enough, Day Z when it was still an Arma ][ mod. Something about that combination of literally everything being overwhelmingly dangerous AND other players also being able to kill you and take all your stuff is just unlike anything else, even if 99% of the time I would still rather play a game where nobody is going to sneak up behind me and take all my stuff
@@Dr.Quarex Yeah, UO before they split the shards into Trammel & Felucca (safe zone & PVP zone) was an amazing time. After the split, the game's atmosphere just took a nosedive.
I had a friend that was the only thief on the server, over the years he became a legend and even had some followers. Other of my friends was a treasure hunter, he hired us to protect him on his silly adventures, fun times.
I was 13 and I was addicted to watching my brother PK. Ultima was the greatest game I ever played. Full loot and death was just a part of the game you accepted. It was glorious.
Though it was indeed part of the game we accepted, Ultima Online was also where I first realized the perfect overlap between player-killers/griefers online and abusers in real life
It really was the wild West of online gaming. I remember a house about to decay right next to the chaos shrine and it had so much good stuff in it. So my guild decided to just kill everyone until the house fell. Everyone just kept running to the shrine and getting ressed. It was absolute chaos for over 4 hours. At the end I picked up at least 50 murder counts but that house was so valuable.
I was super lame and just hid on Trammel as SOON as they introduced it. But I definitely appreciated the value of having that kind of gameplay available to those who like it.
When I was a kid, this must have been the year 2001 or 2002; I went to a friends house and his older brother was playing an MMO on his computer, I only saw it briefly but it burned itself into my memory somehow. To this day I have never seen that game anywhere, but after seeing this I think the game that I saw that day was Ultima online! It was an unanswered question that I’ve had for like 20+ years in my memories 😂
We couldn't afford the monthly subscription either. So we played on free shards. It was really nice, because you could avoid the many shit expansions later and stick with a specific build.
@@ItIsYouAreNotYour yeah I haven't played an OSI shard since 2002. TONS of good freeshards over the years. Metro, IPY, Rel Por, T2A, Purely Primitive, of course Outlands, Angel Island, and a bunch that I can't remember!
I was part of the UO beta trial. I still remember the CD arriving from America and how exciting it was for a 90's aussie teenager on dial-up. Many hours spent playing this...
4 months late but do you have any memorable moments to share from the beta or shortly after? I only just recently got into UO and I find the world fascinating.
@@marcussmith4913 or set the modem commands... ATM0 The modem's speaker is always off ATM1 The modem's speaker is on until a connection is made ATM2 The modem's speaker is always on ATM3 The modem's speaker is off during dialing, and on after dialing until the connection is made
One of the best things about UO was these big events they would do. I remember one of the towns got overrun with undead and the whole city was under siege. It was pretty great, especially for back then!
Not gonna lie, that does sound pretty epic. There is something about this time period with MMORPGs that just feels really magical and different from the standard MMO formula that you see in most games today.
The player run events were fun sometimes, the older system of UO counselors what got cancelled were too, and the newer one were GM wanabies got picked by whomever to run periodic events had a few fun events some hit or miss but all that was unique to shards and helped to give each shard it's own lore. The big ones were were multi shard wide and used to explain the lore as the game progressed with expansions. I was part of the charge of the Blackthorn events, later carrying on the lore on the next expiation slaughtered while protecting Lady Dawn by a mass of damage reflecting hydra. Instead of reading about the lore, you took part every now and again.
I got to create some of those types of events. For a short time I got to be an Elder, which was basically a lower level Seer, but the way our "boss" ran the team, we were basically all the same. It was fun while it lasted. We did events on the Pacific Shard. I played on the Napa Valley shard myself.
I remember on Baja getting transported by an Elder to a cave with glowing runes everywhere to talk about the part I was playing in trying to become an officially recognized player-ran town. It was an amazing experience. And then the gulid leader had a meltdown and accused me and some other people of trying to undermine him and tried to exile us. So we went on a rampage killing everyone and went deep into gray trying to turn red. I miss those days.
@@benjoslen4824 Yeah, there were some unused portions of the map that were used for things like that. We had a little area sectioned off it one of them that we could use and teleport to and from but were basically forbidden from the area beyond what was sectioned off from us. Dunno why as I doubt there was really anything out there. Lots of unused dungeon type tunnels and such.
Outlands imo is just a better experience. You'll see dozens of people in every dungeon, people out mining, random events, new expansion in Q3 2023. Most UO Twitch streamers exclusively play Outlands. It's free and doesnt have a monthly fee.
I mention at the end of this video that I discovered and played Outlands for a while after recording the retail version and I have to agree that it was a better experience in almost every area. If this video performs a little better, I’d love to devote some time to a video covering Outlands next
I first played UO back in 1999 and pretty shortly transitioned over to an RPG freeshard and have been a part of the german rpg freeshard scene since then. I was 15 back then and this game will probably stick with me for years to come.
As a fan of the Ultima RPG series, I had to check it out. Tried the free trial and then went to a hardcore RP freeshard, where I played for many years. It will always have a special place in my heart as my first MMORPG (not counting the trial of Meridian 59). The housing, at least on freeshards, where you didn't had player houses on every corner, was awesome. Also lots of custom enemies with some being able to outrun you and even keep up with mounts plus hitting like a truck. Fighting these as archer surely wasn't boring. xD Btw, the game didn't used to have quests. It's a later addition. Also no spinning target markers (I find the big golden rings are looking stupid). Seems like the made the UI actually worse in some regards. Like you could simply drop stacks of gold coins into your bank chest, no extra menus needed. PS: Riding into houses and dungeons with your horse still feels wrong as it was seen as roleplay breaking.
@@EmperorAttila Skariatain (Austrian Freeshard), but for a while, I also played on another. Can't remember it's name. Schattenwelt sounds very familiar though.
My greatest moment in Ultima Online was finding a boat on the shore of tutorial island, just outside of town, that had a copy of its key stored in the hold; which let me pick it up. So I promptly used it to sail to a treasure map I'd had for a long time which pointed to an island. Using a sextant, my gift from the gods(the boat), and pure luck that I didn't encounter any sea monsters. I arrived to an island, dug up the treasure. And was promptly assaulted by said treasure: a lich. Using every trick in my book as a grandmaster swordsman, healer, and the many houses dotting the island, I LOS'd and battled this lich for 30 minutes, using dozens of bandages. Until some other player came out of his house, cast a couple spells, and killed the lich. I promptly made a recall rune for the island, having spotted a square during my battle that looked like it could fit a custom-sized house; newly added in an expansion. And returned to place down my own house, settling down on a remote island with my classy lich-killing neighbors. Completely forgetting the boat; with the key back in its hold, on that same island.
I love all the stories that people got out of this game. My server had a head hunting culture where people would collect heads and I died so often people would try to trade like 10 of my heads for 1 of someone more impressive. My favorite memory from the game.
Some of my most fondest memories was forming treasure hunting parties and fighting 6 or more dragons that spawn. I had a lot of GM characters but my favorite was a provoker/mage and a assassin/leatherworker. One of my most epic fights 1v1 was in the dragon cave with a mage. I had GM poison katanas and hiding and we fought between the dragons for about 20 minutes. I was hard focused and we were both using every trick in the book. We would invis on purpose, causing the dragons to aggro on each other and I'd try to poison with my katana. We both seemed to have enough and vanished in the darkness with a draw.
Aside from all the different skills, items that could be crafted, personal vendors and properties, I think what really set this game apart from others today was the skill synergies. I was in the Navy when I first played this gem. If you worked up Lumberjacking and your Axe melee skills, it boosted your Axe dmg in combat. Similar synergies with Inscription and Spell casting. If you maxed Inscription and Spells, it made your spells hit extra hard and spell effects lasted extra long. This was a wicked combo for PK adventures (playerkilling). Another interesting thing about this game was the framerate tied to your connection speed. During this time, most were on slowpoke dial-up connection. But if you had something faster, you could run around and merc folks on your llama in a flash. Taming a Nightmare (Spell casting horse) and training it by healing it and making it attack mobs was great and later you could tame dragons and stuff. It was the best way to clear Ettin caves and whatnot. If you maxed out your crafting, you could put your name on the item. My buddy was a Blacksmith named Spandex. Everyone was running around with Chainmail by Spandex. Great times and one of the best MMO's ever.
The game was a lot of fun and really captured what I like to think old Ultima would have been like in its prime. If this video does well, I will definitely cover Outlands next
Great video. I started playing UO in 1997. Also, finished Ultima 3,4,5,6,7 etc...Most people nowadays don't have the patience to play a traditional old school rpg like UO. Different generation, and time. Wouldn't be fair to compare to today's games. I'm definitely impressed that you took the time to give it a chance.
Have you played UO Outlands by any chance? It is a custom shard and it is really really good IMO. I’ve actually been pretty hooked on it lately and will be making that video for it soon too. I definitely recommend checking it out
I played every Ultima game I could get for my Commodore 64, then my Commodore 128D, even my Amiga 500. Ultima IV was my absolute favorite, where I would spend almost a year playing it to experience literally everything in the game. It had unbelievable depth; endless replays. 🥲
I played in 1998 and it was amazing.. My buddy and I were straight rats... We used to teleport ancient dragons into other dungeons with people farming and loot their dead bodies. We even used to pretend to buy deeds and steal them within town and put them on donkey before we were killed by guards.. Lots of good memories..
The best... Make a thief that looks exactly like your pk.. Give him brawling and weapon disarm and steal.... Snoop their bag Or equiped wep and use weapon inspection on it.. when they attack you and you disarm macro steal last target and run off with their main weapon.
In 1997 I had my kids mining for me 😂 God I loved that game so much.... I played until 2018 when life became a pain, so I gave away all my rares and castles and keeps and stuff.
Ah, yes. How many of you remember spending like an hour sorting your potions and trapped pouches, and regs, only to teleport into the graveyard and be ganked in 15 seconds. All that organization for nothing. 😂
Yess, make a full Outlands video! They're releasing a second land expansion in Q3, and I would love to see the shard get publicity from a channel as big as yours.
Dude, Outlands was wild. I was running dual accounts with coded macros for farming lumber to earn cash for a while and was really into it haha. Way more fun than retail UO IMO
@@PixelRookieOfficialEA ruined UO trying to make it more like EverQuest meets Diablo. Most 3rd party servers remove most of the changes after T2A or Renaissance, which is why they're way better.
Tao here and I just had to pause the video at the 6:22 mark to thank you for letting me live out my dreams of being a horse! Please no spoilers, I'm so giddy to see the fun-filled adventures I'll get to go on :)
Oh my god. Saul Goodman, one of the most mentally unhealthy gamer I've ever encountered. He's been spamming Atlantic east with all kinds of bizarre stuff from drinking vodka to commit suicide to his unique political theories. This dude spams global chat all the time with crazy shit.
To this day, I still rave about how good this game actually was. Maybe because it felt revolutionary! But I have so many fond memories of UO. From the people selling tamed drakes at the bank, to the order/chaos and 4 faction pvp battles stealing their sigils, to the role playing in Yew dressed as a foot soldier living out of a castle going on patrols. It was immense and will always be my favourite gaming memories of all time. I'm 34 now, still game but nothing will come close to those UO + golden eye days. Dial up modems which made a hideous sound when connecting and disconnecting when someone rang the home phone 😂 *edit* to add, it was the only game where I ever had a chance to interact with devs/GM's.. they used to teleport you to an empty dungeon room and have a word when you put a ticket in.. imagine that these days!
Ya there was even politics involved in ULtima. I know on the Lake superior shard there where many guilds at war with each other. Some guilds controlled certain dungeons etc. It was fascinating all the things people did in this world. The players really did create their own content to drive the story line of the server I was playing on.
Dude. Actually have a GM pop up with his hooded shroud on and handling your problem. People have no clue how amazing this game really was … hell yeah. PvP raiding people’s champ spawns.. just no game has even came close to the amount of things you could do in this game at any given time. So epic. I still talk this game up to all my buddies I play destiny with … this game was special
UO is an incredible experience. I've played mostly on a private server called Outlands. It's pretty fun stuff. I'll never forget how genuinely scary it can be when a red one approaches and you hear the hooves of their steed in the distance. This experience where people can steal from other players, kill and loot everything, I still don't think it's been replicated. The genius behind UO is Raph Koster.
The goals you set in this one video were like lifetime goals in the Original Ultima... Pre Ultima Death.... meaning before EA bought it and screwed it up. To get the deed to a house is a little expensive but really it's nothing even for the largest house. The problem isn't getting a deed but actually finding the open land to place it without having to buy another house so you can use that land..... Then if you wanted a castle you had to buy the houses around you. Those prices back then were 10-100x's the price of the deed itself. or you spend a lifetime with a deed in your pocket looking for luck. If you need anyone to talk about the good old days of Ultima like a bar drunk I'm the guy....
The lack of real estate spots was actually a massive problem in UO. If you werent one of the firsts to get a Castle, you simply never got one unless you had no life.
I think it made there being a point to having a castle. It's not a single use abode it's got enough rooms and lockdowns for a guild and to me that was what a guild did. Playing singularly I had no hope of even claiming the smallest home. Joining a guild gave me a network and a home plus space and use of the castle. It wasn't my castle but it was the best of both worlds. A Castle should be something that hard to get and you got them buy buying the space around you till you had the space for a castle.@@nowayjosedaniel
I remember getting my sword skill to grandmaster basically while afk, someone had a portal to something like “putrid corpse” or something and it just had assloads of health, for some reason you would level stuff really fast fighting him, and he lived forever
I come back to UO every 6 months or so. Its the over all character skills that draws me back. Its my char and I can do what ever I want with it. I have a thunting thief that I love to play around with. If it wasnt for the constant boring grind fest of farming for loot I would play more often. Been playing on and off since T2A.
Still wishing to this day for a 3d MMORPG to incorporate all the features of this game and the PvP that kept it replayable. Like WoW the gameplay became too cluttered, in the beginning it was good.
This is the only MMO I still come back to after all these years. I will quit sometimes for a couple years, then get an itch to play and jump back in. (Player made Shards are the most fun. Lots of variety there.) Ultima Online will always be my MMO. For me, it's all about the nostalgia.
@@PixelRookieOfficial That's one of the great things about this game, it just feels like an old friend. A game that you can sit and play for a few minutes, or several hours and just feel like you are a kid playing video games on the family computer. (At least, that's how it makes me feel.) It's got its problems. But there is something endearing about it that always brings me back. Glad you made the video and had a great experience with it. The Free Shards are where the real fun is at, sounds like you are already exploring those. They make the game infinitely playable. I have an old friend who also plays and we will jump on different shards, play for a while and then check out another. We've been doing it off and on for more than a decade. Hope you keep finding reasons to come back as well! Fantastic video! I enjoyed the hell out of it.
So hilarious because this is the only game I still come back to from time to time with my orny and my 2/6 casting. This PvP is what I wish other games would implement. Instead they cater to people that cry when something goes wrong .. if you didn’t insure your armor and you get killed and someone loots it all well thats your fault. Ultima is a very special game lol
@@PixelRookieOfficial I roleplay as one of the orcs on there and I also have characters in the RP guilds PATH and the Yew Militia which is a military focused RP guild.. it's the best RP experience I have had to date in a MMO cause there's little to no ERP and players get to use their imagination more with all the freedom and creativity at our fingertips makes better for roleplaying and the orc guild is absolutely wild.. the FFA pvp we can take part in through guild warring and inner guild PVP without consequences also just adds to the flavor and the fact that there's very little real lore to the game.. Makes the RP that much better.. I have often said, do you know who the actual roleplayers are in World of Warcraft? It's the devs who are the writers and people coming up with the lore and the stories.. On retail UO things we roleplay out actually becomes official shard lore cause the shards (servers) are actually part of the lore of the game when you watch the Cinematic..
I'm an old Ultima fan, but I never got into Ultima Online because I only like single player games. It's interesting to see a bit of it. Shame was always a rather nasty dungeon - I remember it being particularly bothersome in Ultima V. Destard is another good one; it eventually became home to dragons, and it will kick your butt in Ultima VI or VII if you aren't prepared, but if you are prepared, there is a lot of dragon treasure to loot. Hopefully, they honored its heritage by populating it with dragons in Ultima Online. Hythloth was generally the nastiest, though the Abyss, the final dungeon in Ultima IV, was memorable for the room of nine reapers. I wonder how nasty Hythloth is in Ultima Online, and I wonder what horrors can be found there. I suppose I won't find out unless I watch RU-vid videos since I still refuse to play multiplayer games to this day.
It is interesting to see your perspective as an Ultima fan that has not played UO. I didn't consider that many of these locations would be consistent with older Ultima games. I didn't get to explore as deep into retail UO due to the restrictions that I ran into. Instead, I got really hooked on UO Outlands and I don't think it follows any of the Ultima lore (I could be wrong though), but it felt really true to what the gameplay and community would have been like in UO's prime.
I started playing UO the month it was released. I've never played the single player ones to be honest. If you enjoyed the others I think you'd fall in love with UO. You can play it alone w/o a lot of interaction with others. But you'll find that interacting can make it even more fun and exciting! In fact there are dungeons and monsters that I don't think a single person can kill. If you get an account you can think of the cost as being less then going to the movies once a month and you'll be entertained for a whole lot longer!
Mt Kendall is a functioning mine. Minoc is kind of a town meant for crafters. It's funny because I used to play a miner years ago and Minoc wasn't much of a place for adventure. But I'm glad you found the ants heh. The ant quests lead to bags of sending and such.
I just love how your first experience of exploring is about saving harambe from the sacrifice altar. Just shows what sandbox games do to gamers lol. Exploring is what made me love UO. No "level 30 zone" ,"level 50 zone", etc... Just hey look theres an ork cave here, wanna look inside???? :) Also, lol fell for the classic noob trap : Come to my home, i've got RARES :D Hoping to see you more on outlands :)
This game has eaten so much of my teenage years... The fee stopped me from playing on the official servers but there are plenty of freeshards (Essentially fan servers that exist in a legal grey area), some were massively modified with custom maps and custom systems akin to what you would see with Skyrim mods. I eventually discovered servers with enforced RP (You have to stay in-character 100% of the time or you get banned) and my best RP experiences were playing a priest of a fantasy goddess from the lore of one of these servers.
My first Ultima, was Ultima Exodus on the NES and then when I got a computer years later I got Serpent Isle and Pagan. I always wanted to play UO but I didn't have the funds either. Richard Garriot(founder of Origin) is a genius and deserves to be honored in some RPG Hall of Fame if they ever make one. I remember reading his autobiography as a kid and thinking, this guy is cool as hell, it was all about programming and DnD man.
I worked for EB Games in the '90s and played Ultima Online from 1997 until about 2011 when I started to play less and less. The early years playing with friends were some of my best memories in gaming.
Playing a free shard is so much more fun. Started playing in 1997 and stopped after 10 years in 2007. Back playing UO in 2022 on a free shard. So much better!
Ultima Online... this game is what made me a gamer growing up. The community and events were always wonderful. I even enjoyed going to auctions with no gold just to hangout and see all the amazing loot get sold. The PvP was also insanely addicting. Guild wars everywhere, competing for spawns and scrolls, stealing and killing. If you get past the learning gap in this game, it offers a experience that puts games to shame in 2023.
Those massive faction wars when another faction randomly tries stealing your sigils and there is fire and poison walls all over the screen my Intel pentium processor on win98 was lagging to the shit house 😂
I play on the Freeshard Outlands because there are a lot of players there, more than on other servers. I think, despite its extras, it comes very close to the old UO. I love this server :)
The map and dungeons alone made it way cooler IMO. In retail UO, I had a heck of a time trying to find a straightforward "dungeon" that we could do. Outlands lets you teleport to every single one at your leisure and it was awesome
I had a rich friend who had it when we were 11...we spent all night mining ore and getting his strength score up, lmao...it was THE BEST! I've always been jealous to this day haha
Looks like they've significantly updated the graphics to 2.5D models. The 1999 graphics were hand drawn, badly. The artwork was way worse than Diablo 1. Of course Ultima 4 was a grid of icons, so a thousand times better than U4.
The nice thing about pixel art is that it ages really nicely. I'm sure this is much much nicer than the original game sprites, but I remember as a kid thinking it looked AMAZING based on the game box
Acrually I changed my mind. This video was awesome for one reason: how bad official uo is. Absolutely terrible, cringey and hard to watch the whole way through. Your editing, narrating and angle was fine. The game is awful though. Try some outlands; a 1,000% better experience, closer to the original games vision and basically UO2 (and learn how to say the town names right - my ears are still bleeding). Hfgl
I'm glad you were able to suffer through the video haha. I got pretty into Outlands for a while and want to make that my next big video project as a follow-up to this one. It really did feel like it captured the essence of what UO would have been like in its prime, and it was glorious. _(Also suck it, I will mispronounce town names all day long mwuhahaha)_
Vendor buy bank guards---->put this as a macro...vendor buy-opens purchase window, bank-opens bank box at bank, and guards, summons guards that attacks anything that attacks u in town.
It's a pretty cool take to see someone play after so long. I was one of the early players, so it is also neat to see the changes the regular UO took here. I'm also glad there are still all those out there enjoying the free 'alternatives' to UO. I played them now and then, but to me personally it is just chasing the old feelings and not really the same. That isn't to say there isn't fun to be had, but to me the feeling is no longer the same. MMOs aren't a new thing, 'everyone' knows more what to do. When first playing it was this weird thing of people getting together and not really getting it yet that can't be redone and I loved that. Not to be an old man yelling to get off my lawn or anything - if you still enjoy it, keep playing. But I had my fun years ago and it is always going to be a great memory for me. If by chance there are any of you old Chesapeake players out there, shout out. I mainly ran around as Grom. Blacksmith turned mage turned PVPer.
I think part of the charm came from the fact that the devs had no idea how a mass of players would affect the game as well. We found thousands of bugs and exploits and many just became a part of the meta. It was kinda like the wild west
@@GonzoDonzo That's definitely a good way to put it - like the wild west. It was this weird interaction of people learning how to deal with other people, these systems, how everything interacted. It just was a really cool effect that seems hard to replicate just because now MMOs are such a 'standard' thing, even for ones that try to deviate a bit. Not that they can't be fun or someone else's first experience of course. Just different.
Firstly, liking the animation, props to whoever made it cus it looks really nice And secondly at 1:52, My guy, Clinton, what’s next you want a piggy back ride? My brother in christ wdym And Thirdly, I think I now know where Albion Online got its inspiration
Hey thanks for the kind words! I actually did all of the animations myself, which is why this project was particularly difficult to put together. I hope it was enjoyable though!
May I suggest you look into the custom shard called Outlands? I will be making a video on this version soon and it is 100% free and IMO, much much more fun to play. It also has the added benefit of having thousands of concurrent players pretty much all the time so it always feels lively almost everywhere!
Hahaha it felt like something you would hear in a black and white cartoon that only had music and no other sound. It was charming but a bit much for me haha
UO was the first MMORPG that I played like 20 years ago when I was around 12 years old. I would go as far as to call it a "fantasy life simulator" as it was really amazing back then... owning/selling plots/houses, crafting, opening up shops, raiding, PK-ing, and so on... I've tried to come back to it a few times after that but It just requires too much time and persistence, and I give up shortly after. It is still great to this day if you don't mind the graphics - I haven't really seen anything to provide that level of detail - especially the taming and crafting/items - I loved that they are randomized, and you can get pets with higher skills/potential and crafting is also with randomized stats, so there's always a better pet/item that you can tame/craft.
I'm only a couple minutes into the video but just paused it so I can type this- Ultima Online was the greatest online game/MMO of all time for one reason- REAL risk. Huge payoffs. When the game was new, money was so hard to come by. I worked a literal job in Ultima as a tailor. For hours and hours every day, like 12 to 16 hours, I'd cut shirts, dye them, etc etc. it took me weeks of playing all day but I remember when I finally bought a ship. I was finally SOMEBODY in-game when I bought that ship lol because high level characters needed me to take them places and then I'd benefit by having them with me and racking up experience points and stuff. It was a symbiotic relationship. But the reason I say the game was great because of risk was if you wanted to use the ship you had to carry the deed with you and you used that to place it in the water. If someone killed you they could then raid your pack and take your ship deed and it was theirs now. So WEEKS of working would be lost, lol. So you had to be very careful who you took on your ship with you. I eventually got scammed out of my house deed a SOON as I bought it and got sent to a world of monsters and I quit that day because I lost like a month of my life saving for that in-game house only to get scammed hahaha. Was brutal at the time but I'm telling you, that RISK made the game feel so alive and rewarding. I'll never forget when I tried WOW years later and found out the RISK was... Oh no, I have to start over in the graveyard and run 4 minutes back to my body ...
UO. Ah yes. I remember this game. This was the game that would have players who were many levels higher kill you and then camp over your corpse to keep killing you with glee as you respawn. Game was the biggest griefer's paradise ever made. Heard rumor that they made an attempt to fix griefing months later but was long gone from the game before that. I thought it was fitting poetic justice that Lord British was murdered by a hacker so that he got the smallest taste of what players got on a daily basis.
Lol TO BE FAIR, I think most online games in the late 90s and early 2000s were not equipped to handle the absolute trolling nature of *g a m e r s* lol. I used to play Starcraft 1 on the battle.net all the time and the stupid stuff I did back then to troll other players was so obnoxious. You don't realize how good it is to have restrictions in place so you can't completely ruin another player's experience until you play a game that doesn't have it
@@PixelRookieOfficial This is true but trust me they were extremely slow to react and did little to curb it at the time. In fact I think it was only after Lord British got a taste of his own medicine that decided to get serious about it.
@@PixelRookieOfficial It was the perfect set of circumstances. Guy stole a fireball scroll with a hack off a guard if I recall correctly and Lord British had forgotten to enable his invulnerability on his dev character. Guy fireballed. He died. Lord British stares at screen in disbelief in one of those WTF moments cause he is dead. Then I think he sort of rage quit the moment by summoning demons? Well... something showed up not sure what and started killing everybody so yeah he basically rage quit.😂 Then they later had to decide what to do because it was a public event so officially everyone saw Lord British die for story canon. At least I think that is how it went best I could recall. They banned the hacker but personally I think he should of been allowed to play because they didn't do anything to all the hackers and griefers that did this kind of thing to the player base before the incident. I bet that guy is proud to be the one to say he killed Lord British. Wonder if they resurrected him in story canon or went with the story that he was assassinated. I think assassination makes for better story personally.
It's totally viable to play alone, or it was back then anyway. Lots of content for the single adventurer. It's appropriately dangerous, and that's part of the fun.
I loved this game. It's honestly probably still my favorite MMO out of every one I've played though much of that can likely be chalked up to pure nostalgia. I have fond memories of repeatedly having to locate my body (on my first few days of playing especially) to retrieve whatever items hadn't been looted and making my character run through town naked. Ah, simpler times...
I played from beta into T2A and eventually Blackthorns Revenge. I was sitting behind my brother watching when Lord British was killed while appearing at the Castle in 1997. As my first MMO it was a memorable experience. So Many old names like Kazola's Tavern and Heather's Cove Merchant's Guild CMG in Great Lakes, Silk's Tavern on Lake Superior where we fought alongside Xavori and Magical Bubba against the Great Lord Calandryll.
I was on Great Lakes too as Costanza. I was even the town mayor of Britain for awhile, ran the first item giveaway, and yeah, enjoyed Kazola's immensely (and I rememebr CMG).
I played UO when it was first released. The Dread Lord Den of Earth, i ended up with KoC, had a castle , best game ever. Got married. Quit. 25 years later i stumbled onto your vid. .. Just downloaded UO outlands , omg , here we go again😮
Haha I was about to say that I enjoyed a fair amount of Outlands and hope to make my video covering it separately sometime soon :) Even if the video isn’t for you, I always appreciate the comment with your thoughts on the subject matter ;)
