Comments on: The Worst Ninja, Chapter 4 – Power

By: JarredStone

JarredStone — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:31:56 +0000

This was a fantastic read. Real damn shame I’ve never got a chance to sample the old Ultima Online.

Any reader can tell me, how’s the population? Does the game cater well to newbies?

By: Flaringo

Flaringo — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:36:09 +0000

Man, this site totally needs more stuff like this!

By: Coops07

Coops07 — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:55:31 +0000

That brings a tear to my UO heart :D

By: Elusiv3Pastry

Elusiv3Pastry — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:27:43 +0000

Wow, that cracked me up. UO was so awesome.

Does anyone remember the Imanewbie web comic? All done in UO, utterly brilliant.

“I would take my own life but my dagger skill isn’t high enough and I am too fatigued to move.”

By: ShaunCG

ShaunCG — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:45:08 +0000

We3 <3

By: Web Cole

Web Cole — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:03:38 +0000

Heh, that was cool, shame it’s so short, but good nevertheless :)

By: Delrius

Delrius — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:48:04 +0000

This was the game that hooked me, way back when…
The first year, for Christmas, they had a bunch of Santas in the cities. YOu could actually steal the suits off of them, so there were naked Santa’s all of Yew. I had a toon named Satan Claws who would stand next to the naked santas and spout communist propaganda and other fun stuff.

And Kilroy…do you remember the wierd zoning issues in the Yew Bank? Part of the bank was actually outside the town? I would use my “thief” to snoop in people’s stuff, then run outside the zone and hide. When the offended player would try to attack me, I would run back into the bank and call for the guards, which would appear out of nowhere and dispatch the poor sap who thought I was stealing from him. At this point I would open my vault and quickly loot the poor bastard’s things.

I was really kind of an arse…but I had many joyful hours

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“Return To Britannia”: Ultima Access | Rock, Paper, Shotgun — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:59:33 +0000

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By: Kilroy

Kilroy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:01:59 +0000

“When I played UO you had to talk to the NPCs !! ”

I remember the oldschool chat.. I used to hide SW of a group of people, color my chat to look like system messages, and pick the name of one of the people. Then I’d say, “Soandso is trying to steal from you!” and watch the killing begin.

I also gave books funny titles, and tried to give them to NPCs – to which they’d reply, for all to hear: “A leather dildo up my kiester? I do not want this.”

Ahh, when we were all newbs.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:08:34 +0000

The 10 year gift is not over powered LOL It is just that zombies and skeletons are EXTREMLY not dangerous.

You should thnak GOD you get to shift right click. When I played UO you had to talk to the NPCs !! You had to say Buy and Sell and bank to open your bank box, actually I kind of enjoyed it. You had to literally call guards for help even. They’ve dumbed the game down a million times and aparently it still isn’t dumb enough for some people. I guess this is in line when the woman who went on who wants to be a Mil and lost on the first question that was narrowed down to (What is larger, an elephant or the moon) She choose the elephant O.o

By: BigJonno

BigJonno — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:56:55 +0000

Random linkage from Eurogamer has brought me to this wonderful series. It’s just a shame that any similar articles about more recent MMOs would all sound exactly the same. “Some guy told me to go kill a few monsters. I did that, got a reward and then got told to go to some other guy who got me to fetch something. I repeated this process a bazillion times and now I’m max level.”

By: cowthief skank

cowthief skank — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:03:04 +0000

Fantastic. More articles like this please :-)