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Richard "General British" Garriott leaves NCsoft
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He's going to do something incredibly eccentric now, I bet.
MetalCraze
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Sorry dude, but who are you? And most importantly - what at least remotely decent did you make in the past 10 years?General British said:
Kingston
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Mayhaps he is leaving the gaming industry?
Herbert West
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Kingston said:
Mayhaps he's leaving planet Earth for good?
Silellak
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skyway said:
To be fair, this was posted on the Tabula Rasa website, and anyone who still plays that piece of shit must have some sort of unflinching loyalty to Garriott, and probably wants to know every time he stops to take a shit.
Personally, I stopped caring about his existence when he released a letter publicly defending Ultima 9 as a good Ultima game.
Psycroptic
Liturgist
Wing Commander VI? Sequel to Martian Dreams maybe? Privateer 3?
With our luck it'll probably just be another MMO.
With our luck it'll probably just be another MMO.
Trash
Pointing and laughing.
He never worked on the wing commander or privateer games.
Wyrmlord
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Here's a genuine question: What would you rather do? Remember a developer only for the good stuff he made in the past? Or condemn him as a has-been who makes crappy games?
I would probably say that the former is better, because every developer runs onto the end of his creativity after years. It's bound to happen, because lightning does not strike twice. But that's just my opinion.
I would probably say that the former is better, because every developer runs onto the end of his creativity after years. It's bound to happen, because lightning does not strike twice. But that's just my opinion.
Fat Dragon
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Leave it to skyway to be the one to disrespect one of the RPG genre's best developers.skyway said:
Trash
Pointing and laughing.
I like to remember them for the good stuff they did. I'm guessing it's also because I was allready into games while guys like Garriot and Molyneux did their best stuff that it's easier to do so. For me games like Populous and Ultima 7 where once the cutting edge and boded well for the future of gameing.
Fuck knows where it all went wrong.
Fuck knows where it all went wrong.
MetalCraze
Arcane
10 years ago he was. Now he is quite the contrary.
Saxon1974
Prophet
Even though I know he won't make anything or do anything remotely interesting to me, this news still interests me enough that I have a tiny sliver of hope he will make something I will like.
Man, I wish he would make another single player Ultima. Sometimes people eventually return to what they started out with......yea I know he wont
My guess is he is gonna make a space type of game. Im not a big fan of space games, but if it were a single player RPG I might like it.
But as someone else said, its most likely gonna be some kind of space MMO.
I do have to say I still respect the heck out of Garriot, because he was the one who singlehandedly got me interested in my favorite hobby.
I have never been the same since the day I brought home Ultima Exodus.
Man, I wish he would make another single player Ultima. Sometimes people eventually return to what they started out with......yea I know he wont
My guess is he is gonna make a space type of game. Im not a big fan of space games, but if it were a single player RPG I might like it.
But as someone else said, its most likely gonna be some kind of space MMO.
I do have to say I still respect the heck out of Garriot, because he was the one who singlehandedly got me interested in my favorite hobby.
I have never been the same since the day I brought home Ultima Exodus.
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ah well, he could have at least tried to go out with a big bang instead of that lukewarm fart that tr is.
cryptic studios, not ncsoft (and it's still fun, as far as mmorpgs go).Xor said:
Fat Dragon
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No. He still is. He's done a fucking shitload for the RPG genre. Just because he made a few games you didn't like and went into the MMORPG industry (which he's also done a fucking shitload for) doesn't change that.skyway said:
He didn't become retarded. He just changed his vision. He created the first MMORPG and naturally he now tries to make good games from that genre. If you founded a new genre, wouldn't you want to make a few games in that genre too before moving on to something else?
I hope he makes another singleplayer RPG again, though, or if not that, at least something that is extremely awesome and eccentric.
I hope he makes another singleplayer RPG again, though, or if not that, at least something that is extremely awesome and eccentric.
Wyrmlord
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When I played Quest For The Avatar a year or two ago, I really found it fascinating. I mean, you start out as ordinary guy just sitting outside, when suddenly the whole place transforms and you find a gypsy's hut somewhere. The gypsy asks you questions about your sense of virtue, and then you are transported to another realm.
The whole circumstance is so wierd and interesting, like a modern and revised version of the Alice In Wonderland story. Though I just haven't played much of the game, but I should get around to it someday.
The whole circumstance is so wierd and interesting, like a modern and revised version of the Alice In Wonderland story. Though I just haven't played much of the game, but I should get around to it someday.
Xor said:
Wikipedia is not reliable.
Micmu
Magister
I bet on that, too.JarlFrank said:
We can only hope it'll get public what.
Fat Dragon
Arbiter
NCSoft was Cryptic's publisher and Garriot himself has helped with pretty much ever MMORPG NC has been involved with since he joined up with them
Fat Dragon said:
Not to defend Skyway, but what has Gariott actually done to "move the RPG genre" since Ultima 9?
Nothing.
Now say, if he suddenly is inspired to make a new RPG series, THAT would be most interesting. Though I don't know if he could pull off the same brilliance and innovation he did with the Ultima series.
Jaesun said:
Nobody can. Ultima series were the first RPGs ever. You can't get any more innovative than creating a whole genre.
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