Customer Reviews

Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge with Todd McFarlane Action Figure

5 star:		(10)
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2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

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.

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.

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

Granted, UO is THE best online game by far. However... there are things they don't tell you. Unless they are planning a whole new world, you DO NOT need LBR to upgrade. If you already have UOTD, then you are playing in 3D mode, and do not need ot buy LBR. The new world of Ilshenar is AWESOME, and can be accessed with UOTD. Many new monsters... most of which are DEADLY!! Believe me, I found out the hard way. Swamp Dragons can be ridden!! As I said, it is an AWESOME game, but be careful of OSI... they change rules in the middle of the game and can ruin characters you have worked long and hard on.

Ultima Online gives you what no other MMORPG can; community. EQ and DAoC try with the latter coming closer than any others. It's all leveling. In UO, you can go hang out with you friends and gain skill and have a good time without worrying about levels. Ultima Online is skill based rather than level based. Sure, you don't have a huge choice of races other than human, well, none infact. But, part of the fun is choosing a race and roleplaying this. You're given so many items you can use to portray yourself as a race (orc masks, tribal masks and savage paints). Yea, OSI is about to screw everyone over with Publish 16 that may ruin UO all together but, what can you do?

Ultima Online is unique to any other MMRPG out there. I have tried most of them, and they all pale in comparison. EQ and DAOC are copy cats of each other..where the object is to mindlessly level on the same monster renamed with people at your level. Forget playing with your friends if you aren't the same level. Ultima Online allows you to be totally diverse. If you want to be a cook..or a fisherman..or a tailor..or a armsman..you are. Unlike DAOC and EQ where you buy your materials for crafting off an npc..you can go out and gather your own materials and create items at no cost but time. You can also own a home, and run a store. No other game offers this kind of playstyle. You can go out hunting with someone who started yesterday. That said..they released Third Dawn with a lot of problems, not to mention its looks aren't very appealing..Warily I purchased LBR. I am very pleased. I'm so glad to be able to use the client I prefer (2D) to go to the new lands. I have not yet seen any downfall to LBR..it's running smoothly on my system..and furthermore..I was even able to run the 3D on it fine. If you are new to on-line gaming..give Brittania a try...

Ive been playing Ultima online renaisance and third dawn for over a year now and it still amazes me with the complexity and diversification of characters and the unexpected events player created or developer created. The ability to roam over the lands of Brittania whether in Felluca (PvP,Blocking,Guild war) or in Trammel( safe zone..i.e. no player killers) is just flat out addictive. Truly Video Crack!~! dont buy this game if you dont plan on spending most of your free time in front of the computer.Some players of the game complain of lag, bugs and what not ( what games online dont have these probs?) but just the same they are still there because they know its the best out there! A tight community where you can make long time friends and enemies from all over the world. I ve seen the 3d lands (Ilshenar) in the 2d mode and it is great with yet another ruleset to play( no easy escape). In my humble opinion there is only one online game and it is aptly titled ULTIMA!!! See you on the Catskills Shard! signed..The Glorious Lady T'mara:Subjugator of the Vermin Horde; Guildmistress of the Black Label Society.

Seriously probably one of the deepest MMO's still out there to date.

I wish I had the time to actually sit down with this game again and play it from scratch.
It's deep on so many levels. So much to do. So much to see.
If you like MMO's then you will love this.
Graphics are very dated compared to the newer fancy MMO games, and the actual gameplay can be choppy/laggy. Sound isn't much better either.

It's deffinatly oldschool and worth every dime!

How can anyone say they ruined Ultima when this product hits big is beyond me. It's a great game, with a great social structure build right in. UO is what the player makes it, and the new Scenarios and ongoing in game fiction make the players more willing participants in the goings on of Sosaria.

Much better then the new EverQuest, by far.

I had to write this because of the couple of poor reviews that might put you off.

Were talking about a game here that has over 200,000 people PAYING to play, ontop of buying it. It is by far the best game i have ever played, I've been playing now, for over 3 years and theres still so much i want to do, and i'm talking about playing, 8 hours a day, even now after three years.

Theres are hundreds of character types you can choose from the sensiblem to the damn right werid and Unique - meet my Sleath Miner Thief Scout character.

Bored with a character or a skill or want to try another, or even a whole new skill set, no need to delete your character, just mark your old skills as down and mark your new ones as up.

With new stuff, skills, monsters being added all the time (5-6 Major updates a year, plus lots of minor) You never run out of things to do.

The graphics are great, they do they job, they look a little outdated at first, but you will love them once you start playing, no clunkly 3D, but nicely drawn sprite and cell animation.

Sure i play less for a while when Squaresoft or Blizzard release a new game, but after a few weeks, when i've finished the game i'm back upto 8 hours a day, or what time i can spare.

The Day i lose interest in UO, i have no idea what i will do, it really is my rock, the game i keep coming back to. Just don't bother playing if you have to have a linear game or goal, there are no goals or paths in UO, other than Life.