I still have my hat pin and map from the collector's edition of the original game. I look back at UO as one of my fondest online gaming memories. I remember spending days in the forest lumberjacking and making crossbows to sell with my pack mule following me. Thanks for posting this.
I beat UO, sold all my stuff in 1999, made $1,500.00 that was when the virtual crap was worth money haha. Garriott can't make a free server uotox, because he sold the series with OSI in 1992. It would be nice if some billionaire bought the series from EA, because EA is doing nothing with it except make a evony ripoff on facebook and call it 'lords of ultima', EA sucks. Garriott should re-make Sosaria just call it something else.
I love this game, I just started playing it in my own let's play series. I'm gonna link this to my first Ultima video because for some reason the movie wont work on my game. This game is nostalgic to no end.
haha what an awesome intro. actually explains reason for multiple servers. always wanted to play this but didnt have internet back in those days! Used to read about it in magazines though. Always wished i could of played it
1997-1998 were the very best years of this game. Back when the game developers hadn't had time to respond to the complaints about what players lost. Back when even leaving town provided real risk and real excitement. Back when the character of your character meant more than the materialism you could amass in as little time as possible. I made real friends, even fell in love in this game. It was digital crack cocaine.
To everyone whom wish they could relive that UO feeling that era of great fun and adventure I urge you to visit inporylem! google: IPY 2. the biggest free UO shard!! over 1000( ONE THOUSAND often over 1500! ) people online at all time of the day!!!set upon the 1998-1999 pre-t2a era , pvp, dungeons, even a role player community!!
ulmaria.webs.com -Ulmaria is a private and free Ultima Online server. Our goal is to provide a more refined UO experience. We are true to the Ultima Series and base our world around that. Our world is a true sandbox offering actual land for housing, mortal guards in towns, so if you commit a crime you will have a fighting (or running) chance. 600 stat cap, no skill cap. RPG server, PKing and PVP allowed any time anywhere except for starting town.
ulmaria.webs.com -Ulmaria is a private and free Ultima Online server. Our goal is to provide a more refined UO experience. We are true to the Ultima Series and base our world around that. Our world is a true sandbox offering actual land for housing, mortal guards in towns, so if you commit a crime you will have a fighting (or running) chance. 600 stat cap, no skill cap. RPG server, PKing and PVP allowed any time anywhere except for starting town.
GameBot, a hardware-based type bot, doesn't make any trace on the game server unlike the other software-based program that you can easily download on the internet. so,NEVER worry about the delete of your account!
its still around, and i still play it... 120 mage 120 eval 120 meditation 120 vet 120 lore 120 animal tame... i have a 120 blacksmith 120 imbuer 120 tailor .. and now a 120 stealther and working on 120 thief.. oh yeahhh.. its ganna be good
every game out there is based off this mmo .. when they say they r based off wow... who brought in craftmanship. i say this game is still better because of the widely spread things you can do.. get a house deco it. shit this game is still the shit.
This intro came out in 1998 with the release of the T2A expansion, not with the release of UO:R like some have said. I remember this intro all too well!
UO Lives! Come check out Retribution, it's a freeshard that's exactly like old skool UO, circa 1997-2002. It's awsome, well ran, and lots of players already. I play everyday. Just google uo retribution and follow the steps to get it. It's free!
This wasn't for the original release of UO. Anyone who says they remember it from 1997 or anytime before trammel didn't play UO during that era. In fact I believe it was thrown together from shots used in the ultima ascension single player release, and the first expansion for UO after that was UO:R.
u must read this. once u have started there is no turning back. a little 10 year old girl was raped and murderded in 1945. her body was not found until 1947. then a boy last week read this and did not copy and paste this message. the dead girl appeared in his room haunting him and killed him. if you do not copy and paste this onto 10 vidoes in 30 minutes the dead girl will apear in your room tonight and haunt you and kill you. well you better start to copy and paste to be saved
Just as with many other people, I have a lot of nostalgic memories of playing this game back in the late 90's and early 00's. It brings tears to my eyes as I write this message as I know that there will never, EVER be a game like this ever again, and that the special precious memories this game invoked are a thing of the past, and cannot be recreated : ' ( Back when I stopped playing around 2002 was when I experienced my first life depression, and it lasted for years.
@VitalSigns1 I hear ya man, we were spoiled by UO, sometimes I wish I had never played it since I KNOW I'll never be satisfied by another game the same way I did.
It's like having sex and then having your penis/balls cut off, fucked up analogy but there you go.
I just started on the UO Second Age free server uosecondage(dot)com. Completely free and they even have the whole game for download if you don't have your discs anymore. Accurate 1999 UO gameplay and over 400 online. I'll hook you up with some gold if you start.
everytime i see this video i get the chills, i can´t believe i dont have the box of the game anymore, with the original map and all, i would put it on my wall if i found it stored in my stuff
Loved the intro. Watched it every time I started the game. Damn, I miss the feeling and excitment I felt when I was logging in to Britannia. It was awsome!
I remember the first time I watched this after installing way back in '97. To anyof you curious about this game: do NOT play EA's production shards. The game today is absolutely nothing like the "real" UO; the UO that birthed an entire genre. UO's best days (in my opinion) were from 98 until the introduction of power scrolls. After that it was just all down hill. Some would say UO:R ruined it and took the skill out of PvP, but that's not true. If you're curious about "real" UO, play a PRS.
I gotta say. this game was something special. I've never had such a sense of wonder at any online world, as i had with this game. Just wandering around collecting stuff or getting killed by a cow(you know what im talking about). I once found a bag full of organs that someone had taken from many many people they had pk'd. It was such strange game, and it was the first true new age mmorpg(non txt based)
Since you seemed to love it. Do you think it is a good MMO to play? I am currently downloading a SLOW download of UO (1.8 Gig patch) and might not be able to play tonight. I am not interested in todays games really. So do you think I will enjoy UO? :P
For years I have searched for a mmorpg that had the magic the beautiful the memories like this but no game comes clsoe to how UO was before it got ruined.
@SeTiDaYeTi yes there is rpg NWN, but there was also an online game called NWN in early 90s. so you better google the stuff you're going to talk about.
to all those missing uo , please , check out our private shard. we are struggling to get players to join but if you take the time to visit many of the new features , im sure you would stay ;)!
its true, the memories and feelings that i had playing UO were the greatest ive ever had playing an MMO......gosh i miss the years when i played this game...strictly because of this game.....just wish i could find something to bring those feelings back!
i started playing uo in 1999 and finally quit 3 years ago, it was real bad ass back in the day but it started to suck...my life will never be the same after that game
I played Darkfall it sucks unfortunately... the big hope is mortal online or large player run UO shards like UOGamers Hybrid... that still have a lot of the old rules.
Rune Scape was preaty much a solid copy of Ultima Online.
It had a play run economy, if you died evreything could be looted from you (exept 4 most valuable) and PvP was preaty much evreywhere exept in towns. I dont realy like PvP so Runescape with wilderness PvP was my fav. Nowerdays its just dead in my opinion. The economy is shattered, there aint any people left etc. Kinda like Ultima Online nowerdays...
You all should check out Mortal Online if you were fans of UO back in its heyday. The developers were also fans of the game. It is due to release at the end of the quarter. Very similar rules to old school UO, only in first person. =)
Haha I remember watching this the first time I installed UO back in 99. I played it from then til about 07.. I played OSI about a year after AoS came out.. And then free shards until about 07.
oh Oct 97... Not knowing much about MMORP then, I was wandering in the wood near Vesper. Came this guy LimP, I still remember his name till this day, with his Halbard. That was my virgin PK. lol. After UO, beside shadowbane and AC 2, I would say WOW is good. However, compare to UO, WOW has much to catch up. People who never played UO has no idea when an hour worth of ingots got pickpocketed by a thief! Nevermind the despair inside the cave where many chaos were in incognito.
for its generation wow is better than ultima online but given if ultima online was made graphics up to this day and age, and PRE EA when it was still ran by OSI, Ultima would destroy wow in a heart beat...... wow is such a shitty game anyone who considers that game good has no taste at all for the gaming industry and i'd go as far as saying that wow is PROBABLY the first game they've ever played, its crappy hands down....
The gameplay that Ultima Online had...I have yet to find another game like that. Just wish UO, would go back to the old ways, only with modern graphics.
i also agree i started uo in january 98.. and years after even now no mmo i have played has even come close to the game play and mastery that uo was . thinking about it saddens me
The new UO? Do you speak of Kingdom Reborn? I really don't like the interface and the graphic. But there are still shards (and free-shards) left, that use the old version and only changed some things for the better. I myself play on the German fun free-shard Vetus Mundus.
And I still like to watch this intro from time to time to remind me of the origins of the world I love.
Hahahah, I remember when I was 9 years old playing this game. I used to think that this opening video was so awesome and I always wanted to be like the guy (whom I assume is Lord British not really sure) that slew Mondain. Good times were had.
The guy in the video is the Avatar, not Lord British. UO is based on the Ultima series of games, in which Lord British sometimes called upon the Avatar for help. This is where the popular internet game term "avatar" originates from. Ultima actually has a cool story. Look it up on Wikipedia.
Old school UO was straight PvP/PvM with RP in the mix.
Hybrid is bank sitting all day hoping to get a rare, then sell/buy at the bank all day until you get enough money to buy the item you want or you go the poker table. Whats left of old school UO on their is this:
Tamers getting PKed and spawn killed by griefers
People getting scammed by a bunch of ass holes
staff that punish people for stupid shit but when it gets serious they don't give a shit.
@PowerSeer666 The New Pre-T2A: 97-98 UO with innovative events. The direction the expansions should have gone, retaining the basics: Notoriety System, Old Housing System, Combat, 1 account. Come relive the original experience of Ultima Online: UOGenesis(dot)com
@PowerSeer666 It got ruined before then. I feel lucky to have played this when it was amazing bakc in when this Intro was made and how awesome it was.
yeah why not? cause the features in the game should be present in every MMO that claims that it is a huge epic world...Gear and Dungeon crawls are not all that you need.
It's funny Wow has 11 million payying users but still UO offers much more freedom to charecters. Even not being a fantasy game Eve online is the tru successor of the UO
Sadly, I recall the first time I watched this video. I remember when the login interface was a chest that opened up and the different servers were listed. I completely agree with milkmit, the internet was so much different then. There was no Myspace and there were very few graphical MMORPG's such as Ultima Online. It was the beginning of a new era, something that was fresh and new. The internet was just beginning to evolve and become more appealing to the masses.
some serious nostalgia going on here.. the 'net and the gaming community was so much more pure back then. a few years after the release of UO, it started going downhill with all the kids, but what wonderful memories of what was a brand new, groundbreaking frontier at the time. the first few weeks of beta was incredible, despite the many bugs.
Ahhh I remember playing UO!! Holy crap do I miss playing it so much! I have so many great memories from it! Like going into the graveyard and watching a HUGE PvP guild battle going on for like 2 hours!
Great discussion lol! WoW vs UO. I played UO for 6 years, and play WoW now....It's true, a UO player would wipe the floor with a WoWer lol. UO was much more intense and awesome. I just wish it didn't die! or they upraded the client to a 3d version that isn't shite! Anyone know of a pre UO:KR free shard that is quite good?
I still love watching this intro! It's so epic, which is certainly very fitting for a game like this. I honestly don't believe I will ever grow tired of this game. The community is great and the original art is top-notch in my opinion. It's a game that won't just let you walk away. Somehow you always find yourself coming back to Sosaria. It's a shame UO doesn't get the attention it deserves from more gamers today.
I've been playing this game for 11 years. This is still the best and most diverse MMORPG out there. You have to play Pre:UOR shards though, it's not some repetitive level up WoW bullshit.
the very first MMO i ever played.... Ulitma Online... i play WoW now but i base my paladin from there on the teachings of the 7 Virtues of the Avatar... LONG LIVE LORD BRITISH!!!
that voice... that molevelant voice... (I am neither the begining nor the end...) what ever happened to the second part of the movie? Anyone out there have a copy of it?
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umm are u joking me? WoW is much better as far as interface and graphics are concerned.. lol lets all turn our atari's back on... thats what its like downgrading from wow to UO
that might have something to do with the fact that UO was released 12 fucking years ago. let's all wait 5 years and come back here to say "oh, WoW was always a piece of shit because its graphics can't compare with the games of today". and i'd take the old UO with its (now) ugly graphics over carebear-WoW any day
UO's gameplay still beats WOW by far, You can do so much in it. And those that have played UO and WOW know that for sure. Graphics dont make a game good or sh*t. Its the gameplay
yea the 12 year old wow player gets murdered by the twelve year old UO player....some people on UO have no skills so they attack young characters so that no one can do anything....but then they made trammel to prevent that...so I guess if you go to a shard that has tram its ok.
More realistically, if he were to be killed it would be by a much older UO player who has had an account for the last eleven years. Remember, today's twelve year old WOW player would have been crawling around in diapers when UO was already a thriving online world.
That said, UO is quite a different place today. PvP is essentially consensual these days and can be avoided by staying out of certain areas.
I still have my hat pin and map from the collector's edition of the original game. I look back at UO as one of my fondest online gaming memories. I remember spending days in the forest lumberjacking and making crossbows to sell with my pack mule following me. Thanks for posting this.
DysturbedGM 1 hour ago
I beat UO, sold all my stuff in 1999, made $1,500.00 that was when the virtual crap was worth money haha. Garriott can't make a free server uotox, because he sold the series with OSI in 1992. It would be nice if some billionaire bought the series from EA, because EA is doing nothing with it except make a evony ripoff on facebook and call it 'lords of ultima', EA sucks. Garriott should re-make Sosaria just call it something else.
Razimus 4 days ago
I love this game, I just started playing it in my own let's play series. I'm gonna link this to my first Ultima video because for some reason the movie wont work on my game. This game is nostalgic to no end.
gamingwithscott 1 week ago
haha what an awesome intro. actually explains reason for multiple servers. always wanted to play this but didnt have internet back in those days! Used to read about it in magazines though. Always wished i could of played it
draxx85 2 weeks ago
I miss you Ultima! Mainly 97-98. Looking back though it was still amazing up until right before AoS.
Kriegfreak 3 months ago
1997-1998 were the very best years of this game. Back when the game developers hadn't had time to respond to the complaints about what players lost. Back when even leaving town provided real risk and real excitement. Back when the character of your character meant more than the materialism you could amass in as little time as possible. I made real friends, even fell in love in this game. It was digital crack cocaine.
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join theuoproject.co.uk
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ulmaria.webs.com -Ulmaria is a private and free Ultima Online server. Our goal is to provide a more refined UO experience. We are true to the Ultima Series and base our world around that. Our world is a true sandbox offering actual land for housing, mortal guards in towns, so if you commit a crime you will have a fighting (or running) chance. 600 stat cap, no skill cap. RPG server, PKing and PVP allowed any time anywhere except for starting town.
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automouse2dotcom 9 months ago
Best game ever
BeRedk1 10 months ago 2
Richard Garriot is making an new game called Lord British's New Britannia, but he said its sort of a social networking game....so we'll see...
Lyrikkalmurda 10 months ago
Richard Garriot should make a free server for all the old UO Vets! :D [like me]
UOTox 10 months ago 3
@UOTox Yeah, I agree. :D
mjurney 7 months ago
its still around, and i still play it... 120 mage 120 eval 120 meditation 120 vet 120 lore 120 animal tame... i have a 120 blacksmith 120 imbuer 120 tailor .. and now a 120 stealther and working on 120 thief.. oh yeahhh.. its ganna be good
FunnyLooking77 10 months ago
the graphics way ahead of it's time i use to play this game when was 3
kookieless 10 months ago
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everyone who misses the old days of UO from like 1997-2000 should check out UO Gamers: Hybrid. best free shard out there!!
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coconuticecream22 10 months ago
it still is the best game allways will be
sayuri54 11 months ago
Greatest game ever made
ZBkiller96 11 months ago
Definitely some of the best times of my life. I was 12 when I played this game back in 2002. Second Age was so fun!
EyeCapturing 11 months ago
i cant believe how fantastically they interpreted the realm system(shards) of the game.
i just bow before the creators of ultima online.
kespec 1 year ago
EA, and SONY, both know how to fuck up a game.
infamousgorn 1 year ago 2
every game out there is based off this mmo .. when they say they r based off wow... who brought in craftmanship. i say this game is still better because of the widely spread things you can do.. get a house deco it. shit this game is still the shit.
realmaple87 1 year ago
Best Game EVER!
crbuke 1 year ago
Google "In Por Ylem" for classic UO being remade and improved upon!
virindi1 1 year ago
Original UO ruined UO Beta
ratzskinakie 1 year ago
EA seem to have talent at screwing up some of the best things in the gaming world don't they?
1MagicAndMayhem1 1 year ago
::sniff sniff:: i miss UO
swafdawg23 1 year ago
This intro came out in 1998 with the release of the T2A expansion, not with the release of UO:R like some have said. I remember this intro all too well!
Valor85 1 year ago
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UO Lives! Come check out Retribution, it's a freeshard that's exactly like old skool UO, circa 1997-2002. It's awsome, well ran, and lots of players already. I play everyday. Just google uo retribution and follow the steps to get it. It's free!
Pvtbrex 1 year ago
This wasn't for the original release of UO. Anyone who says they remember it from 1997 or anytime before trammel didn't play UO during that era. In fact I believe it was thrown together from shots used in the ultima ascension single player release, and the first expansion for UO after that was UO:R.
Mattitracks 1 year ago
@Mattitracks This is the original intro, I had the charter edition on preorder lol, this is the intro it came with
TheAwptimusPrime 1 year ago
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uosecondage(dot)com/
Free download. Come play right now for free.
drur6589 1 year ago
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I played in UO on "Age of Power" - the good server! Come to this world, i'm help's new player.
my icq number 498031800
TrickFoxIno 1 year ago
I played in UO on "Age of Power" - the good server! Come to this world, i'm help's new player.
my icq number 498031800
TrickFoxIno 1 year ago
@TrickFoxIno Fuck man...ICQ is as dead as UO
SkInHoUnD 1 year ago
@SkInHoUnD
hahaha,i remember everyone used to give each others ICQ accounts on UO. Oh good times
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u must read this. once u have started there is no turning back. a little 10 year old girl was raped and murderded in 1945. her body was not found until 1947. then a boy last week read this and did not copy and paste this message. the dead girl appeared in his room haunting him and killed him. if you do not copy and paste this onto 10 vidoes in 30 minutes the dead girl will apear in your room tonight and haunt you and kill you. well you better start to copy and paste to be saved
Sstteepphh9 1 year ago
Goose bumps! Wow... This video brings back a lot of memories.
EDKsurly 1 year ago
Just as with many other people, I have a lot of nostalgic memories of playing this game back in the late 90's and early 00's. It brings tears to my eyes as I write this message as I know that there will never, EVER be a game like this ever again, and that the special precious memories this game invoked are a thing of the past, and cannot be recreated : ' ( Back when I stopped playing around 2002 was when I experienced my first life depression, and it lasted for years.
VitalSigns1 1 year ago
@VitalSigns1 lol
NoxmanGGLC 1 year ago
@VitalSigns1 I hear ya man, we were spoiled by UO, sometimes I wish I had never played it since I KNOW I'll never be satisfied by another game the same way I did.
It's like having sex and then having your penis/balls cut off, fucked up analogy but there you go.
Fleabr 11 months ago
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GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME
VitalSigns1 1 year ago
Trammel destroyed the game. The end.
sirenize 1 year ago
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I just started on the UO Second Age free server uosecondage(dot)com. Completely free and they even have the whole game for download if you don't have your discs anymore. Accurate 1999 UO gameplay and over 400 online. I'll hook you up with some gold if you start.
drur6589 1 year ago
everytime i see this video i get the chills, i can´t believe i dont have the box of the game anymore, with the original map and all, i would put it on my wall if i found it stored in my stuff
stormbre4ker 1 year ago
omg ...i must go play :D
TheMistrG 1 year ago
tee hee, the Avatar's greatest mistake was the accidental creation of Ultima Online, j/k this was a fun game ;-)
gusbaker4u 1 year ago
Loved the intro. Watched it every time I started the game. Damn, I miss the feeling and excitment I felt when I was logging in to Britannia. It was awsome!
KainBenwi 1 year ago
UO+tibia=best mmo ever
09Anything09 1 year ago
I remember the first time I watched this after installing way back in '97. To anyof you curious about this game: do NOT play EA's production shards. The game today is absolutely nothing like the "real" UO; the UO that birthed an entire genre. UO's best days (in my opinion) were from 98 until the introduction of power scrolls. After that it was just all down hill. Some would say UO:R ruined it and took the skill out of PvP, but that's not true. If you're curious about "real" UO, play a PRS.
eatmyass123456789 1 year ago
I gotta say. this game was something special. I've never had such a sense of wonder at any online world, as i had with this game. Just wandering around collecting stuff or getting killed by a cow(you know what im talking about). I once found a bag full of organs that someone had taken from many many people they had pk'd. It was such strange game, and it was the first true new age mmorpg(non txt based)
jebes909090 2 years ago
Since you seemed to love it. Do you think it is a good MMO to play? I am currently downloading a SLOW download of UO (1.8 Gig patch) and might not be able to play tonight. I am not interested in todays games really. So do you think I will enjoy UO? :P
Godshelp09 2 years ago
No you won't and you never will.
The greatness of UO passed many years ago it's nothing but a shell.
SkyExplosion 2 years ago
There will never be a game like it.
For years I have searched for a mmorpg that had the magic the beautiful the memories like this but no game comes clsoe to how UO was before it got ruined.
SkyExplosion 2 years ago
Wow where did you get this video, I havnt seen that Intro in years... I to would like to see the original chest login page :)
Deepblue466 2 years ago
This was the game that initiated the dawn of the MMORPG genre that is today. Ultima Online was the first, and in my opinion the best MMORPG to date.
RicoNuko 2 years ago 8
@RicoNuko Neverwinter nights was first
holysab7 2 years ago
@holysab7 NWN whas what? Dude, please google the stuff you're going to talk about if you're not sure...
SeTiDaYeTi 2 years ago
@SeTiDaYeTi I'm talking about the original neverwinter nights. Dude, please google stuff that you're going to talk about if you're not sure.
holysab7 2 years ago
@SeTiDaYeTi yes there is rpg NWN, but there was also an online game called NWN in early 90s. so you better google the stuff you're going to talk about.
FameNotNeeded 1 year ago
@FameNotNeeded I sincerely apologize for my ignorance. Thanks for letting me know about this original NWN.
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itscarve 2 years ago
to all those missing uo , please , check out our private shard. we are struggling to get players to join but if you take the time to visit many of the new features , im sure you would stay ;)!
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debs222 2 years ago
just the best mmo ever
MaThWeL 2 years ago
its true, the memories and feelings that i had playing UO were the greatest ive ever had playing an MMO......gosh i miss the years when i played this game...strictly because of this game.....just wish i could find something to bring those feelings back!
WaniyanLives 2 years ago
i started playing uo in 1999 and finally quit 3 years ago, it was real bad ass back in the day but it started to suck...my life will never be the same after that game
bakedevryday 2 years ago
everyone says UO was the best game of all time, and then they get all sad ),:
im kinda glad i didnt play it back then, i'd hate to look at every mmo i see as a failure when stacked up againt my nostalgic memories...
MISFIT585 2 years ago
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987654321Tiger 2 years ago
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987654321Tiger 2 years ago
Darkfall is still the most likely game to succeed out of the fantasy full loot pvp-mmos.
Giblar 2 years ago
I played Darkfall it sucks unfortunately... the big hope is mortal online or large player run UO shards like UOGamers Hybrid... that still have a lot of the old rules.
CrazyChitTV 2 years ago
@Giblar
Rune Scape was preaty much a solid copy of Ultima Online.
It had a play run economy, if you died evreything could be looted from you (exept 4 most valuable) and PvP was preaty much evreywhere exept in towns. I dont realy like PvP so Runescape with wilderness PvP was my fav. Nowerdays its just dead in my opinion. The economy is shattered, there aint any people left etc. Kinda like Ultima Online nowerdays...
ChaplainDMK 2 years ago
You all should check out Mortal Online if you were fans of UO back in its heyday. The developers were also fans of the game. It is due to release at the end of the quarter. Very similar rules to old school UO, only in first person. =)
AnimeSohma 2 years ago
I remember when they said that about darkfall
Mauser91 2 years ago
The end of this intro is the coolest plot excuse for separate MMO servers ever.
Onsube 2 years ago 61
one amazing game
valarua 2 years ago
Haha I remember watching this the first time I installed UO back in 99. I played it from then til about 07.. I played OSI about a year after AoS came out.. And then free shards until about 07.
ZenAesthetic 2 years ago
LoL, The fist one i met in this game was called "Anjo Vingador". Best Online game ever
ManinhoXD 2 years ago
that's pretty good cg for 97
jcdentonowns 2 years ago
oh Oct 97... Not knowing much about MMORP then, I was wandering in the wood near Vesper. Came this guy LimP, I still remember his name till this day, with his Halbard. That was my virgin PK. lol. After UO, beside shadowbane and AC 2, I would say WOW is good. However, compare to UO, WOW has much to catch up. People who never played UO has no idea when an hour worth of ingots got pickpocketed by a thief! Nevermind the despair inside the cave where many chaos were in incognito.
bsun2008 2 years ago
Funny, I remember the first person I met too. Some guy named Kyle on Pacific helped me get a hang of things in Yew. Feb of 1998.
Adino1 2 years ago
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I played UO for 10yrs and then moved to World of Warcraft!! WoW is MUCH MUCH BETTER!!!
Tyiarramarie 2 years ago
for its generation wow is better than ultima online but given if ultima online was made graphics up to this day and age, and PRE EA when it was still ran by OSI, Ultima would destroy wow in a heart beat...... wow is such a shitty game anyone who considers that game good has no taste at all for the gaming industry and i'd go as far as saying that wow is PROBABLY the first game they've ever played, its crappy hands down....
degeneratex 2 years ago 2
Agreed. 100%
The gameplay that Ultima Online had...I have yet to find another game like that. Just wish UO, would go back to the old ways, only with modern graphics.
auroral 2 years ago 2
i also agree i started uo in january 98.. and years after even now no mmo i have played has even come close to the game play and mastery that uo was . thinking about it saddens me
BeBopDeluxe85 2 years ago 4
Vas Flam EA!
bsun2008 2 years ago
I wanted to see the old school skull treasure chest login interface.
jamescgale 2 years ago
Best intro movie ever for an MMO. UO was ahead of its time and had one of the best implementations of a living breathing world in an MMO to date.
orendo 2 years ago
The new UO? Do you speak of Kingdom Reborn? I really don't like the interface and the graphic. But there are still shards (and free-shards) left, that use the old version and only changed some things for the better. I myself play on the German fun free-shard Vetus Mundus.
And I still like to watch this intro from time to time to remind me of the origins of the world I love.
Calonis1971 2 years ago
I'm one of the freaks that likes the old UO and the new UO.
Burn me at stake plox.
JohnHolt69 2 years ago
Game used to be totally awesome. Got ruined by desperate attempts to get it back in the shelves.
Zerg82 2 years ago
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vid looks cool , but game is shit
greggy93 2 years ago
Hahahah, I remember when I was 9 years old playing this game. I used to think that this opening video was so awesome and I always wanted to be like the guy (whom I assume is Lord British not really sure) that slew Mondain. Good times were had.
R.I.P Ultima Online...
DigityDank 2 years ago
The guy in the video is the Avatar, not Lord British. UO is based on the Ultima series of games, in which Lord British sometimes called upon the Avatar for help. This is where the popular internet game term "avatar" originates from. Ultima actually has a cool story. Look it up on Wikipedia.
Lettucethink 2 years ago
Avatar Bro
platdrac 2 years ago
I love how one of the most related videos is "what is the best MMO" - how fitting. UO fucking ruled.
twincann0n 2 years ago 3
nothing like getting loaded on fishing and thievery. house looting kicked ass. had a 16x16 in buc's den forest and ran a tavern.
nerfdude3k 2 years ago
Ultima! Hell yah
UOG:Hybrid Long Live UO!
HYBRIDruffians 2 years ago
UO is definitely the one and only.
But Hybrid is the pussiest fucking shard I've ever seen. Fuck Hybrid and fuck those players there. Only shit players are on Hybrid.
drealm 2 years ago 3
Man this brings back some good memories. Talk about a company having something great and not doing anything with it today.
Watercr3ss 2 years ago 2
man i miss this game..it was great back in the day! had great times on chesapeake pk'n with my friends
swafdawg23 2 years ago 2
Played chessy too. Owned a tower in bucs den in the woods. PKed there daily.Did you hang around there at all?
turtal46 2 years ago
Heyyyy, I get it now! Broken gem = shards! Genius.
chainsoar 3 years ago 2
MULTIVERSE, I think they did this so we could fit ultima lore in the context of multiple shard
greaseDonkey 3 years ago
Ah in the 90s Ultima was great until it became to crowded and then it dropped and just got worse and worse and worse.
SkyExplosion 3 years ago
they should make a new one!
cause I was fuckin addicted to this game
EmirFelfel 3 years ago
R.I.P. Ultima Online, Thy legacy was a great one!
bubba224422 3 years ago
best fucking game ever... going to check our darkfall online, yous hould too if oyura fan of UO
Zadok12321 3 years ago
Awesome, many that game was great 1997-1999. RIP pretrammel UO.
wonderboy2402 3 years ago 2
*sniffle* trammel ruined the whole game
platdrac 2 years ago 7
A lot of things ruined the game. People using scripts were like macros on steroids didn't really help.
Gating was also detrimental since it took away from the whole exploring aspect and the randomness of encounters.
It's a shame because this could easily still be the best game out there but it's not because they fucked it up.
MrWinston1984 2 years ago
Hit up UOGamers Hybrid, bro. It's old school UO with a blend of amazingness.
champagnehyu 2 years ago
It's not even close.
Old school UO was straight PvP/PvM with RP in the mix.
Hybrid is bank sitting all day hoping to get a rare, then sell/buy at the bank all day until you get enough money to buy the item you want or you go the poker table. Whats left of old school UO on their is this:
Tamers getting PKed and spawn killed by griefers
People getting scammed by a bunch of ass holes
staff that punish people for stupid shit but when it gets serious they don't give a shit.
WolfxxShadow 2 years ago
best game ever! fucking ea ruined it!
PowerSeer666 2 years ago 56
110 % TRUE BROTHER!
platdrac 2 years ago
@PowerSeer666 The New Pre-T2A: 97-98 UO with innovative events. The direction the expansions should have gone, retaining the basics: Notoriety System, Old Housing System, Combat, 1 account. Come relive the original experience of Ultima Online: UOGenesis(dot)com
SHARD IS STILL NEW
excelinferno123 1 year ago
@PowerSeer666
Ea killed a lot of games.
UO was more than a game, was epic.
chanchi789 1 year ago 2
@PowerSeer666 It got ruined before then. I feel lucky to have played this when it was amazing bakc in when this Intro was made and how awesome it was.
SkyExplosion 1 year ago
@PowerSeer666 When Richard Garriott left, so did I.
Gruumsh4 1 year ago 2
best pc game ever!!!
marcelocaceres561 3 years ago
Cant belive its been nearly 10-11yrs since i last played UO. And to this day its still the only game that ever had real impact on me.
Every mmorpg today i quit after a few months. But UO lasted years. =/
zhijn 3 years ago 7
that's because it was your first mmo - you compare everything else to it. It's like that no matter what game you play
snuffsan 3 years ago
yeah why not? cause the features in the game should be present in every MMO that claims that it is a huge epic world...Gear and Dungeon crawls are not all that you need.
platdrac 2 years ago
It's funny Wow has 11 million payying users but still UO offers much more freedom to charecters. Even not being a fantasy game Eve online is the tru successor of the UO
mkoo 3 years ago 3
Sadly, I recall the first time I watched this video. I remember when the login interface was a chest that opened up and the different servers were listed. I completely agree with milkmit, the internet was so much different then. There was no Myspace and there were very few graphical MMORPG's such as Ultima Online. It was the beginning of a new era, something that was fresh and new. The internet was just beginning to evolve and become more appealing to the masses.
RicoNuko 3 years ago 5
And now.. That time Is long forgotten.......
Tawaxyon 3 years ago 2
some serious nostalgia going on here.. the 'net and the gaming community was so much more pure back then. a few years after the release of UO, it started going downhill with all the kids, but what wonderful memories of what was a brand new, groundbreaking frontier at the time. the first few weeks of beta was incredible, despite the many bugs.
milkmit 3 years ago
Completely agreed. I miss this game something awful. Kids these days don't know what they're missing.
GeraldWatercrest 3 years ago
Mortal Online is supposed to be in the spirit of pre AOS UO only with way better graphics and a much better interface. We shall see.
speaknoevil2008 3 years ago
I was fuckin 7 years old when I started playing this game.. I'm 18 now and still play.
UO beats any MMO anytime anyday
DigityDank 3 years ago 3
i played uo since i was 7 too and now im 13
vitopsp1 3 years ago
So is the jewel thing there explanation to servers cause thats kinda cool?
SadPanda7694 3 years ago
Yes indeed, each realm or server had a unique name but they were each "shards" from the intro vid you just saw. Pretty clever.
wonderboy2402 3 years ago
wtf?!
is not fair all games vs wow
ratzhushk 3 years ago
UO will come back one day.
noxemo 3 years ago 9
Ahhh I remember playing UO!! Holy crap do I miss playing it so much! I have so many great memories from it! Like going into the graveyard and watching a HUGE PvP guild battle going on for like 2 hours!
Zerg006 3 years ago
A mio parere,per quanto vecchio sia non è ancora uscito un gioco migliore di UO...
Gr4z1V89 3 years ago
Great discussion lol! WoW vs UO. I played UO for 6 years, and play WoW now....It's true, a UO player would wipe the floor with a WoWer lol. UO was much more intense and awesome. I just wish it didn't die! or they upraded the client to a 3d version that isn't shite! Anyone know of a pre UO:KR free shard that is quite good?
Katsomoto 3 years ago
I still love watching this intro! It's so epic, which is certainly very fitting for a game like this. I honestly don't believe I will ever grow tired of this game. The community is great and the original art is top-notch in my opinion. It's a game that won't just let you walk away. Somehow you always find yourself coming back to Sosaria. It's a shame UO doesn't get the attention it deserves from more gamers today.
Sadrok 3 years ago
I've been playing this game for 11 years. This is still the best and most diverse MMORPG out there. You have to play Pre:UOR shards though, it's not some repetitive level up WoW bullshit.
excelinferno123 3 years ago 2
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theultimakid 3 years ago
Man i miss the old game, i quit after SE came out, EA has ruined two of the best mmo's ever UO and Earth and beyond.
BardLinos 3 years ago 2
the very first MMO i ever played.... Ulitma Online... i play WoW now but i base my paladin from there on the teachings of the 7 Virtues of the Avatar... LONG LIVE LORD BRITISH!!!
darkdavid28 3 years ago
the grand daddy of em all
kryptikhan 3 years ago 3
that voice... that molevelant voice... (I am neither the begining nor the end...) what ever happened to the second part of the movie? Anyone out there have a copy of it?
TravelingBob1966 3 years ago
Damn this is great. Good time memories coming back!.
zhijn 3 years ago 2
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play wow!! uo sux so bad.
DetroitCrackHead666 3 years ago
noob
pwEclipse 3 years ago 6
wow is not even a shit compared with uo ;p
Thedarksnw 3 years ago 7
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umm are u joking me? WoW is much better as far as interface and graphics are concerned.. lol lets all turn our atari's back on... thats what its like downgrading from wow to UO
helgasonk 3 years ago
that might have something to do with the fact that UO was released 12 fucking years ago. let's all wait 5 years and come back here to say "oh, WoW was always a piece of shit because its graphics can't compare with the games of today". and i'd take the old UO with its (now) ugly graphics over carebear-WoW any day
1dontknoww 3 years ago 2
poor wow players..
CrossBre3d 3 years ago 4
UO's gameplay still beats WOW by far, You can do so much in it. And those that have played UO and WOW know that for sure. Graphics dont make a game good or sh*t. Its the gameplay
Teedo145 3 years ago 4
Can you imagine some kid from WoW play UO? Imagine he gets killed and looted -)) i can imagine all this tears.
Naughtyhead 3 years ago
yea the 12 year old wow player gets murdered by the twelve year old UO player....some people on UO have no skills so they attack young characters so that no one can do anything....but then they made trammel to prevent that...so I guess if you go to a shard that has tram its ok.
Gaeuvyen 3 years ago
Wtf? Dude, I don't want to say anything, but you're from US, and your english is horrible.
Anyway, what's your point?
Naughtyhead 3 years ago
My English is horrible? How is my English horrible? Point out one thing wrong in what I typed out.
Gaeuvyen 3 years ago
You need only one thing? Ok, lets start from the beginning. You have to start your sentence with capital letter. Should I continue? -)
Naughtyhead 3 years ago
Shut your ass up. You and your little wow players could not last more then a minute in the old UO. Ill see you at the Fel-Brit moongate.
rshharrison 3 years ago
More realistically, if he were to be killed it would be by a much older UO player who has had an account for the last eleven years. Remember, today's twelve year old WOW player would have been crawling around in diapers when UO was already a thriving online world.
That said, UO is quite a different place today. PvP is essentially consensual these days and can be avoided by staying out of certain areas.
Sadrok 3 years ago
roflmao kiddy, UO rulz...
Tzukuyomi 3 years ago 4
UO fathered that bastard child called World of Warcraft, son.
Know your shit.
PacificFlows 3 years ago 7
WoW has better graphics and crap only because its newer. UO is totally better than WOW will EVER be
Bshelton18 3 years ago 3
WTF is going on....How did this turn into a UO vs. WoW match?!
Gaeuvyen 3 years ago
Ultima > EverQuest
NBCsChrisHansen 3 years ago 6
Best MMO ever.
sunflash456 3 years ago 8