I decided to test out the Enhanced Client. I'm still not impressed with it. On a computer that can run most modern games with relative ease, it still lags and crashes more than it should. (Not to be deterred I am still using it in the hopes that - like vegetables or my last girlfriend - I will either learn to love it or die trying.)
But one thing in particular stood out. A lot of the creatures have changed, or have gotten smaller.
The Troll, for one, is described in most Ultima fiction as a giant, axe-murdering beast. Yet running past one of these gents the other night in EC, the Troll is about the same height as me.
Same is true of the Golem. It too is this massive, mechanical monster that is said to tower over humans. Yet the thing seems to have been reduced the height of a human. (And for those who think Golems and the Mechanical elements of LBR don't belong in a fantasy world, Ultima had metal automatons, gunpowder and more in common with Science Fiction than the Elves and Dwarves of Tolkien.)
Who doesn't want one of these lumbering behemoths following you around?
Then there is the Blackthorn Juggernaut is no longer a machine at all.
At last there's Scalis. For a creature that seems based on Cthulhu in the launch poster, he seems rather ...small. Both in the EC and CC. This is a creature that was depicted as a Lovecraftian Old One. One who juggles battleships for fun.
(So let the discussion about shrinking appendages begin!)
But one thing in particular stood out. A lot of the creatures have changed, or have gotten smaller.
The Troll, for one, is described in most Ultima fiction as a giant, axe-murdering beast. Yet running past one of these gents the other night in EC, the Troll is about the same height as me.
Same is true of the Golem. It too is this massive, mechanical monster that is said to tower over humans. Yet the thing seems to have been reduced the height of a human. (And for those who think Golems and the Mechanical elements of LBR don't belong in a fantasy world, Ultima had metal automatons, gunpowder and more in common with Science Fiction than the Elves and Dwarves of Tolkien.)

Who doesn't want one of these lumbering behemoths following you around?
Then there is the Blackthorn Juggernaut is no longer a machine at all.
At last there's Scalis. For a creature that seems based on Cthulhu in the launch poster, he seems rather ...small. Both in the EC and CC. This is a creature that was depicted as a Lovecraftian Old One. One who juggles battleships for fun.
(So let the discussion about shrinking appendages begin!)