Lord British interview

by Sander Pilon, May 24, 2002 1:11pm PDT

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Gamespy sat down with Lord British. Lord British, the man responsible for **** like Ultima IX, and pure gems like Ultima VII, talks about his upcoming projects - Lineage, City of Heroes, and Tabula Rasa. About that last one:

We're only one year into development of a three year project. We're definitely in full production, the tools and technology are in place and we've finished the three major components: the editor, which we'll continue to expand. We now have the full ability to build worlds and maps. We've finished the client, the render pipeline and the communications, and the server back end.

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"We're only one year into development of a three year project."

Last time we heard that it was followed up with.

"ULTIMA IX RELEASED!"

Such a shame; that game could have been great. I was lucky enough to have a Voodoo 3 at the time, so I could run it in Glide, where it was reasonably stable and fun.

May 24, 2002 10:42pm PDT

"We're only one year into development of a three year project." Last time we heard that it was followe... : Omaha

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Actually Lord British created many of the top RPG games in history. Ultima Ascension was rushed by the publisher (Fuck EA) and had bugs. I will tell you this Ascension came out in 99 and had stunning graphics large scale maps and a full story line. Compare it to Morrowind and you have pretty much the same game.

May 24, 2002 2:03pm PDT

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Richard Garriott is a liar. I've met him twice at a couple trade shows....the first time was before Ulitma 9 came out..and he said the game would run fine, and even the version he showed ran great. Then when the final game came out, it ran like complete shit on high-end machines. 2nd time I met, he showed Lineage, which again, ran smooth on the fucking Cray computer they were running it on...and when the full game came out, it ran like total dog-shit, and even in only 640x480 res. Do not believe his lies....he is the one, kill him.

May 24, 2002 7:35pm PDT

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- Dude thats just fucking sad. Sometime its good to cut back on the crack a little. : Hugh G Wrecksion

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ULTIMA ONLINE > EverQuest and DAoC

May 24, 2002 2:01pm PDT

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ULTIMA ONLINE > EverQuest and DAoC : RiNgMaStEr
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    do you play? : RiNgMaStEr
    - Played for a couple years, waiting for Star Wars Galaxies now. : Hugh G Wrecksion

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Dec 31, 1969 4:00pm PST

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  what's UO? : shizm
  - Ultima Online, Jacky : Hugh G Wrecksion

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THE REALM > ULTIMA ONLINE!!!

MERDIAIN 33 > THE REALM!!!!!!!

or whatever that one was.

May 24, 2002 5:38pm PDT

THE REALM > ULTIMA ONLINE!!! MERDIAIN 33 > THE REALM!!!!!!! or whatever that one was. : Keyser SÃ¶ze

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I would pop in my Ultima collection cd now and give it a whirl but dos games + win2k don't seem to mix very well

May 24, 2002 3:21pm PDT

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"Lord British, the man responsible for **** like Ultima IX,..." Such a good comment, because it's so damn true. Sander, you rule. Thank you.

May 24, 2002 3:19pm PDT

"Lord British, the man responsible for **** like Ultima IX,..." Such a good comment, because it's so dam... : jhof

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That was an interesting interview.

May 24, 2002 2:53pm PDT

That was an interesting interview. : h0rus

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* C E N S O R E D *

May 24, 2002 1:18pm PDT

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lord british is a loser. He thinks he invented all this !@#!@# but he aint done crap. At least nothing ive liked.

May 24, 2002 1:51pm PDT

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I don't understand why he's trying to bring these western perspectives to Korea when it's the top-down, tile-based game that is successful in Korea. Lineage 2 looks exactly like DAoC but DAoC is doing horribly in Korea.

May 24, 2002 2:05pm PDT

I don't understand why he's trying to bring these western perspectives to Korea when it's the top-down, t... : Intaglio5

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YES IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS INTERVIEW MY ENTIRE LIFE... where is the 11 minute doom3 video?!?

May 24, 2002 1:15pm PDT

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YES IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS INTERVIEW MY ENTIRE LIFE... where is the 11 minute doom3 video?!? : postal21
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- DRIVE OVER TO E3 AND ASK TEH CARWACK HIMSELF! : Sander Pilon
- YEAH, where's our goddamn 11 minute DOOM video. All i see is all this b.s. other game news, whil ... : [7]kami

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Haha, Lord British. I bet he wears a robe, and has tea and chips crumpets.

May 24, 2002 1:28pm PDT

Haha, Lord British. I bet he wears a robe, and has tea and chips crumpets. : h0rus

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What the ****?

May 24, 2002 1:22pm PDT

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Second (?) British Post

May 24, 2002 1:12pm PDT

Second (?) British Post : yobock

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FIRST BRITISH POST

May 24, 2002 1:12pm PDT

FIRST BRITISH POST : freshview

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