I'm not really sure how to convey this to the UO staff but SA doesn't capture UO any better then it did as KR. Sorry but it's true. The user interface feels like another cheap factory cut and pasted MMO mold. The character/creature art isn't really updated, it's oddly reminiscient of Diablo II and Dungeon Keeper, minus any sort of style or soul. Its like one of those kirf iphones (kirf = keeping it real fake) from china that kinda resemble one, but are anything but.
These words may seem harsh but it's really how I see it. Not just some cheap stab at it for not being exactly the same. It's like the difference between Watchmen the movie and Watchmen the comic. While some people may say the movie was great, all I saw was a sad knock off with everything truely compelling removed in order to kinda tell a somewhat similar story, and embarassing hip movements from some of the most psychologically well developed characters of all time. Yea... it feels like that to me.
UO isn't pretty, but still it retains even today an acceptable level of style for what it is. If you really want to improve it then do so, but you aren't going to be able to recreate it no matter how hard you try. You don't have the love and excitement for it that the original team did, and that's not a knock at you guys as a team at all, it's just that it isn't possible. When this client was created it was one of the first of it's kind and it was ALL new and original to everyone. It was a social experiment and everyone put 200% into it because they were all truely excited for the possibilities.
Now, I fully realize that UO may be shut down as a money draining failure if SA isn't accepted, and it would be a shame if that were to happen, but if there were ever a game that deserved to be brought back from the brink it would be UO.
Give us a classic shard.
;D
These words may seem harsh but it's really how I see it. Not just some cheap stab at it for not being exactly the same. It's like the difference between Watchmen the movie and Watchmen the comic. While some people may say the movie was great, all I saw was a sad knock off with everything truely compelling removed in order to kinda tell a somewhat similar story, and embarassing hip movements from some of the most psychologically well developed characters of all time. Yea... it feels like that to me.
UO isn't pretty, but still it retains even today an acceptable level of style for what it is. If you really want to improve it then do so, but you aren't going to be able to recreate it no matter how hard you try. You don't have the love and excitement for it that the original team did, and that's not a knock at you guys as a team at all, it's just that it isn't possible. When this client was created it was one of the first of it's kind and it was ALL new and original to everyone. It was a social experiment and everyone put 200% into it because they were all truely excited for the possibilities.
Now, I fully realize that UO may be shut down as a money draining failure if SA isn't accepted, and it would be a shame if that were to happen, but if there were ever a game that deserved to be brought back from the brink it would be UO.
Give us a classic shard.
;D