Ultima Forever

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

From Bioware :

http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/7/1 ... atform-rpg

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'Ultima Forever' is BioWare's new free-to-play, cross-platform RPG

BioWare is reviving the Ultima series with Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar, a new cross-platform action role-playing game that will be released under Electronic Arts' Play 4 Free label.

According to the game's official web site, "the first great Western RPG has been lovingly restored" with Ultima Forever, which lets players take on the role of a combat-focused Fighter or the spell-casting Mage to "travel alone or with friends, restore virtue and become the Avatar." Lord British appears to have been replaced by the new ruler of Britannia, Lady British, in the Ultima revival.

The game will be available on both the iPad and PC later this year.

"There's a fundamental shift underway in how gamers play and pay for games, and Electronic Arts is a leader in providing new business models and new ways to consume content," said Dr. Ray Muzyka, General Manager of EA's BioWare Label and Co-Founder of BioWare. "With Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar, we're excited to give gamers the opportunity to play a high quality game with their friends anytime, anywhere, on both iPad and PC."

Little has been revealed about the gameplay of Ultima Forever. The game's title and aesthetic are clear references to Origin's 1985 role-playing game Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar. How the two are connected beyond that are not yet clear.

According to the site, you can play as either a fighter or a mage and play alone or with friends. Fighters are "one-man armies, trained to engage multiple opponents with a wide variety of attacks." The mage are distance fighters.

EA is currently accepting beta registrations for Ultima Forever, requiring an Origin account.

Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar is tucked away at Electronic Arts' Comic-Con booth, which we'll be perusing later this week.

http://ultimaforever.com/

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 15:09

iPad & PC, I assume I'll be able to play on a Mac too?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 15:11

Nah. Can't be arsed with thickest shin simulators anymore.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 15:13

I hope it has more substance than Diabollocks 3.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

If only they could include a cloth map ...

metalangel · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 15:28

zaphod79 wrote:

BioWare is reviving the Ultima series with Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar

"A Quest For the Avatar", surely? Given he's a person?

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Electronic Arts' Play 4 Free label.

*catches breath*

:DD

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players take on the role of a combat-focused Fighter or the spell-casting Mage to "travel alone or with friends, restore virtue and become the Avatar."

Will Britannia be riddled with chest-high walls, perchance?

Also, er... restoring virtue? Are you gonna restore the FUCK out of people's virtue, by stabbing them or setting them on fire? I can't imagine a game by EA trying to show the embodiment of the virtues Garriott put into Ultima IV, not when you could have a canned takedown animation of stabbing a man in the neck and watching his eyes roll back, a QTE where you throw yourself and your foe through a high window and kill them in slow motion as you fall, or maybe cast a spell to make them turn on their allies before killing themselves by slitting open their belly and pulling out their own intestines! Wow!

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Lord British appears to have been replaced by the new ruler of Britannia, Lady British, in the Ultima revival.

I can't wait to hear her "British" accent!

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"There's a fundamental shift underway in how gamers play and pay for games, and Electronic Arts is a leader in providing new business models and new ways to consume content," said Dr. Ray Muzyka, Chief Sellout of EA's BioWare Label and Co-Founder of BioWare.

"BioWare boss Ray Muzyka has spoken about last week's re-organisation of his own studios and Warhammer Online developer Mythic into a single EA group under his leadership. He stressed that, for now, there would be no formal change to the way each studio works or the projects it's working on." source

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Little has been revealed about the gameplay of Ultima Forever. The game's title and aesthetic are clear references to Origin's 1985 role-playing game Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar. How the two are connected beyond that are not yet clear.

EA owns the Ultima name. That's how. That's all.

I can't help but be cynical. Look what they did to Syndicate.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

SHUT UP IT'LL BE BRILLIANT.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

I seem to remember you saying the same thing about Fallout 3, too, Craster.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Hang on...

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 19:38

Craster wrote:

OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD

Oh really? Did you play the first one or something m

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 19:39

Grim... wrote:

Craster wrote:

OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD

Oh really? Did you play the first one or something?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

VII and VII part 2 are well up on my favourite games ever.

metalangel · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 21:50

Craster wrote:

VII and VII part 2 are well up on my favourite games ever.

Whereas this, being action oriented, sounds a bit too VIII.

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