Well... I thought they were fun... but the art for that client was beyond atrocious. The fact that there are still some 3d misfit art assets running around (balrons) makes me grind my teeth in revulsion.
The original Balrons looked marvelously malevolent, not malnourished. Then again, perhaps they haven't been feasting on as many people in the last dozen or so years.
you have to admit tho, it is the only client we ever had with actual 3d (only in the paperdoll of course, but still)
Well that can't be argued, though I for one never saw the appeal of 3d for 3d's sake, beyond art updatablity. If the art looks like garbage, who cares how easy it is to update?
LOL I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that think the Balrons are fugly. I keep thinking they should look more like the Balrog in Lord of the Rings. Too bad Weta couldn't help with our game art...we'd have some very cool art! I played that 3d client yeah the art was ugly. We have some EC art I don't like either ....blue beetles! What did they do to my buggie, poor buggie!
*glances up from his seat by the fire and mutters a few words under his breath*
I just wish they would rerun to the black recolored demons with the giant swords they used to be.
Ah yes. I remember being so envious of the Brit Bank bank sitters all lined up with their fancy firesteeds. I wanted one so bad it looked amazing in the 3D. So spent months finally gathering up my money and taming skill to control one
So do I. And I agree with my friend the Dread Mares ought to have green flaming eyes and green flames running up from their hooves and the fire steeds should have flames running up their hooves like they used to. I miss that.
Long, long ago we were promised an update to the male paperdoll... They did update the female paperdoll in the EC but now she looks rather like a dike... or a very manly female or a woman bodybuilder trying to look all dressy or like some guy trying to pass as a woman... can't really tell but she's not really very feminine. Males we were promised an update to ages ago but never got one.... instead we are stuck with the same scrawny looking old saggy male body who looks like he's almost trying to squat to take a dump. I'm not exactly sure what he's doing but it don't look very comfortable. Kinda like he's got hemorrhoids or something.
Art work wasn't removed. Balrons were originally just rehued grey demons. A lot of the original mobs were rehues before they got their own art. I personally wish they'd remove the unicorn art and bring back the rehued pure white horses they used to be...much prettier.
The basic image has always been there, but by "artwork" I'm referring to the separate, distinctly colored images. Just like having the original "gym rat" daemons displayed, it used to be possible to have the old Balrons. Maybe someone with Inside UO (if it still works) can verify, but as far as I can tell, the artwork was removed.
Actually, all the mobiles in the Third Dawn client were polygon based. The client only used sprites for item and some terrain art. This is part of the reason mobiles looked like crap; their poly counts were ridiculously low even by 2001's standards.
While the EC engine is fully capable of amazing 3D, it really only uses visible polygons to display the ground, mountains and water. Everything else is a sprite pasted on an invisible base polygon. So, it really isn't 3D like Third Dawn was.
Did someone say dance?!?
Yep... It's a shame how the EC doesn't have the graphics it's capable of and should have.
I was just thinking, after reading your post, how funny it'd be if everyone coughed after someone does *trick* on dreadmare!Did someone say dance?!?
I'm all for adding dancing to the game!
Animations like you described are very fun. I enjoy them. I want to be able to sit and lay down too. Because after I dance all night I need to rest
I remember you could fall down in the 3rd dawn client. That was always funny.
Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to add new animations to game unless the game goes truly 3D again. Which it won't.
So heres hoping Ultima Online 2 gets it right. (If they ever attempt to make it again and it doesn't get canceled!)
With over 50 animations and emotes players can access. Including being able to actually lay down on beds and such!
*waits*
By no means are animations a waste of time!
Could you imagine if everyone in real life just stood up straight stiff as a board all day? Boring!
Expressing yourself and goofing off and being silly is what makes life fun!
WE WANT ANIMATIONS!!!
Even just being able to raise our hand while sitting down would make in game auction houses funner. To see all the little hands go up. Ha!
I enjoy the small things like that
I like MalagAste's idea too about adding coughing, whistling, giggling, etc as a usable anytime on command function. I know we have some of those sounds in the game already but they should add more male and female voices in the game and let us pick our voice style so when we cough or sneeze they all sound slightly different.
That would also be fun to just randomly sneeze during an EM meet up or something. They could set a 5 minute timer on it so you can't just sneeze sneeze sneeze. Actually that would be kinda funny so maybe allow everyone 3 sounds every 10 minutes.
I also like his idea for being able to use the voices of the animals or monsters you polymorph/shape shift/costume/whatever into. There should be a drop down window to use the sound effects of your current shape. So you can morph into a gargoyle and start muttering. Or turn into an orc and start jabbering. That would be so cool.
I remember when skeletons could "dance" when you chugged healing potions in polymorph form. Does that still work?!
