15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
50 months and counting, April 24, 2002
This review is from: Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge with Todd McFarlane Action Figure (Toy)
I recently upgraded to UO:LBR. I look at my account screen and it tells me I've been playing for 50 months. Between the time I signed on I've played Asheron's Call, Everquest, and Dark Age of Camelot, and what do I sit down and play? UO. It's primitive, it's difficult to control, it's dated, and it's still the deepest of the massively multiplayer games.
The game is skill based. It's very easy to get a character started and achieve a reasonable level of competance within a month or so (if you powergame you can actually max your character out in a few weeks). Whether you can go into the most dangerous and interesting areas depends more on your ability to find companions than your ability to "churn xp" for months on end.
When other games have broken tradeskills, UO has a player economy that provides the vast majority of what you use and wear as a player--you can play this game and be entertained by doing nothing but crafting. (You can play other games as a crafter, but I wouldn't say you'd be entertained by it.) Where other games promise horses or have just introduced them, UO features horses, ostards, llamas, dragons, Ki Rin, Ridgebacks, and Unicorns as rideable mounts. You want one of these? You'll have to tame it in the wild or buy it from another player who's done so.
The interface is primitive, the graphics tiny. But it's one of those games that just has lasting power. 50 months after I first heard the UO music play, I can think of hundreds of places I've never gotten around to visit, and types of characters I've never played.
All in all, it's a great game. It may not be for everyone--certainly if you judge a game on graphics, it won't be. But if you haven't experienced it and you're looking for something beyond endless "pulling" and "camping" then give it a try. You might be surprised.
Since there's a lot of confusion about "which UO should I buy?" UO LBR is the complete game, with all supplements and both full 2d and 3d clients. If you buy it, you have everything. If you have UO Third Dawn and play in 3d, there isn't much here. If you play in 2d, this will allow you to visit Ilshenar. In either case it will upgrade some graphics and the music. You get an action figure too, but at 36 years old, this just made me feel silly, YMMV.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
People who haven't a clue shouldn't write reviews, May 13, 2002
This review is from: Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge with Todd McFarlane Action Figure (Toy)
Sorry, just feel the need to rant a bit here. Would all of you who have no idea how MMORPGs work please just stop buying them and then complaining about your own inability to understand the ins and outs of how to play? Of course they charge a monthly fee, that's how they pay the support and design people, and that monthly fee, in turn, is what makes the items in the games worth money. How difficult is it to grasp the concept that the large tower you want took someone else several months, or even years, of playing the game to acquire during which time they paid their monthly fee, not to mention the value of their actual hours spent playing, which is reflected in the real cash value of said tower? You do not need to spend real cash to acquire the items in the game, however. If you prefer, you can spend the hours and months required to accumulate the gold needed to purchase what you want. As for the housing situation, join the rest of us in urging EA to reinstate the housing decay system so the houses of players who are no longer active will drop and you can buy a deed and place a house of your own. In the meantime, any 12 yr olds with systems that aren't fast enough to support the program properly and the inability to understand the need for EA to continue making money, and everyone who believes they should be handed the wealth that others have spent considerable time and money accumulating should cease and desist with their inane commentaries on things about which they clearly have no knowledge.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
WOOOT, July 26, 2002
This review is from: Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge with Todd McFarlane Action Figure (Toy)
Three words, best game ever. I have been playing for about 6 months maybe 7 and its still fun, I think pvp is the best aspect but some of you people might not agree (trammies) After pvming for a while, it always gets old so try something new and try to kill someone ;) I highly reccomend this game although its addictive.
WARNING: IF YOU HAVE A LIFE OUTSIDE YOUR COMPUTER, AFTER YOU BUY THIS GAME YOU WILL NOT
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