He said he wanted to acknowledge that and, for me, that's the main thing that Ultima IV did. Even in games like Zelda you'd just walk into a house and steal from a chest. RPS: There was an interview with Richard Garriott from a long time ago, where he said that one of the main inspirations for Ultima IV was the realisation that so many things that you did in RPGs, including the original Ultima trilogy, were bad things. I wanted to do something that was as subversive, as interesting, as deep.something that could ask as many questions as Ultima IV. It was the first game to really tackle ethics. If you think about Ultima IV, the time it came out, 1985, it was fairly cutting edge in terms of technology and massively high concept. What I'm interested in doing is taking the effect and the intent behind Ultima IV and then applying that to a game. We're not here to remake exactly the experience you had in Ultima IV. It's a subtle distinction but an important one. RPS: Are you comfortable talking about Ultima Forever as a remake of Ultima IV? That's where you're looking back to, right?įlack: I like to think of it as less of a remake and more of a reboot. Should be obvious but just to be clear, the Honesty and Honor cards are from Ultima IV as are the two images following that. Beta signups are open now and I might be eating my words and going back to Britannia after all. I also managed to peek at a trailer showing the similarities between Forever and IV with transitions into the new visuals, an example of which is below. To learn more I spoke with lead designer Kate Flack and found that Ultima Forever could be a virtuous project, emphasising character development over looting, moral quandaries over monster-bashing and more interested in tracking player behaviour than spending patterns.
#Ultima online forever shrines free#
When I heard that there would be a free to play Ultima game, my knee jerked so hard that I fractured my leg in four places.
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