Ready for your daily dose of mad? It turns out Bioware Mythic (A division of EA leeching off the Bioware name) is coming out with a “new” Ultima game – a pseudo-remake of Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar to be exact.
Announced via Comic-con, Ultima Forever will be a free-to-play multiplayer re-imagining of the 1985 classic. So basically the same game many know and love, but with the very necessary and clearly beneficial addition of cash shops up the ass. It will be playable both on PC and on the iPad and will require the use of EA’s online distribution service Origin. Cross platform play is promised.
The most interesting part of this announcement might not even be the game itself, but the seeming confirmation that the EA Louse from two years back might have been the real deal after all. He was dead on about most of his SWTOR details before that came out, and the same seems true of this. His opinion of the game was hardly favorable, saying that “it sucks ass” and was highly criticised both by focus groups and EA’s own staff. The Louse wasn’t a big fan of team lead Paul Barnett either, describing him as “the crazy British dude who we have no idea of how he still has a job“.
It should be noted that the original Ultima IV is currently available for free over at Good Old Games. Those interested in getting a taste of what RPGs were like back in 1985 might want to take a look at that. Get it while you can, because with the remake on the horizon there’s no telling if and/or how long it’ll stay there.
My childhood has just been destroyed. I hate this company. I hate the projected art style of the game. I hate that it’s going to be an action RPG.
This article made me hate the world.
Why
damnit!
i just saw this on escapist too, i still go there on occasion to yell the truth of this shit like a madman, but they don’t listen. THEY NEVER LISTEN.
it was all “TOR is great! its amazing!” and whenever i point out its failings im just told “your just a minority” FUCK THEM
weeks later everyone says “TOR was a real let down, it isn’t good” and i swear they have no fucking clue i even said anything before. its like 1984, the messages just switch mid-sentence, and nobody even notices.
we were always at war with East Asia.
B-b-but they’d have to admit they were wrong! That’s communist!
People want to “belong” and there’s nothing better than being one in a herd of bleeting sheep. Nothing new, I’ve experienced the same quite a few times. They just won’t listen.
Check out the link on the EA Louse thing in the article and the comments below it. I loved the “he’s just bitter and lying, Bioware has never let us down and never will” one, it’s fucking amazing.
Oh cool, I’ll check it ou-
“Requires Origin”
Nope.
Let’s see here. I just go to GOG.com and download a DRM-free copy of Ultima 4 at no charge whatsoever, or I could wait until EA shits out a version aimed at Call of Duty’s audience.
What a dilemma.
Sooooo…. EALouse was practically spot on about everything. The only thing he leaked that is left unconfirmed is TOR’s $300 Million budget, and by the looks of things nobody will ever truly know how much it costs ($300 Mil isn’t a far off estimate though especially when you consider advertising costs ie. Renting out Times Square for a Jedi Flash Mob). EA will never give out the true numbers considering how hard it failed.
Even though I love the bastard, I bet David Jaffe feels like a dick now for calling him out.
id love to hear spoony`s opinion on this