Ultima Underworld Mod

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DNACowboy
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Ultima Underworld Mod

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Ultima Underworld I or II, Bards Tale, Eye Of The Beholder, they all rock old school style.
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Best first post ever! :D

Welcome to the forums!
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Curunir wrote:Best first post ever! :D

Welcome to the forums!
Thanks very much, I was extremely impressed by LoG and can only hope Almost Human reach out to the licence holders of the above games or develop a new ip along similar lines, if they did I think that they would receive overwhelming support.
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DNACowboy wrote:hope Almost Human reach out to the licence holders of the above games
Ultima - Owned by EA
Bards Tale - Owned by Interplay
EotB - Owned by WotC (See: Hasbro)

I honestly don't see any of these big companies releasing their rights to a small indie dev. Or see Almost Human having the money to license out the rights. :P


I know we all have great nostalgia about these old games, but nostalgia is idealization of the past. It almost never lives up to what we remember. Lets leave these old games alone, and just remember how great they were, while we move forward taking what we've learned from them, and create something new, as Almost Human has done with LoG. They've created an entire world. I'm sure they have plans to expand upon it.
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Just grabbed underworlds 1 & 2 from gog games
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Patch wrote:
DNACowboy wrote:hope Almost Human reach out to the licence holders of the above games
Ultima - Owned by EA
Bards Tale - Owned by Interplay
EotB - Owned by WotC (See: Hasbro)

I honestly don't see any of these big companies releasing their rights to a small indie dev. Or see Almost Human having the money to license out the rights. :P


I know we all have great nostalgia about these old games, but nostalgia is idealization of the past. It almost never lives up to what we remember. Lets leave these old games alone, and just remember how great they were, while we move forward taking what we've learned from them, and create something new, as Almost Human has done with LoG. They've created an entire world. I'm sure they have plans to expand upon it.
If Arx Fatalis could not be the new official ultima underground I guess some franchises will be creating dust a lot of time.
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Patch wrote:
DNACowboy wrote:hope Almost Human reach out to the licence holders of the above games
Ultima - Owned by EA
Bards Tale - Owned by Interplay
EotB - Owned by WotC (See: Hasbro)

I honestly don't see any of these big companies releasing their rights to a small indie dev. Or see Almost Human having the money to license out the rights. :P


I know we all have great nostalgia about these old games, but nostalgia is idealization of the past. It almost never lives up to what we remember. Lets leave these old games alone, and just remember how great they were, while we move forward taking what we've learned from them, and create something new, as Almost Human has done with LoG. They've created an entire world. I'm sure they have plans to expand upon it.
If Arx Fatalis could not be the new official ultima underground I guess some franchises will be creating dust a lot of time.[/quote]
Arx fatalis is kinda dum imo... i did only give it about 20 minutes of my time though.
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Bard's Tale licence is the hands of InXile, which is a company of Brian Fargo who owned Interplay and created the first Bard's Tale. Talking with Fargo about old-school games is easy. His Kickstarter campaign showed that :)
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lord_boron wrote:Bard's Tale licence is the hands of InXile, which is a company of Brian Fargo who owned Interplay and created the first Bard's Tale. Talking with Fargo about old-school games is easy. His Kickstarter campaign showed that :)
Ahh, you're right. InXile does own the rights. Still doubt that they'd just give the rights to Almost Human for free, or cheap enough that Almost Human could afford them.
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Patch wrote:
DNACowboy wrote:hope Almost Human reach out to the licence holders of the above games
Ultima - Owned by EA
Bards Tale - Owned by Interplay
EotB - Owned by WotC (See: Hasbro)

I honestly don't see any of these big companies releasing their rights to a small indie dev. Or see Almost Human having the money to license out the rights. :P
Fuck 'em, anyways we'll make our OWN versions!

Ultimate Quest - Fuck EA...
Bard Song - InterPlay God, how I miss these guys...But we still have Obsidian and Bethesda!...Bioware is dead, or dying as they're a division of EA.
The Beholder's Eyes - Hasbro?...Really?...
Assumptions are the practical logic of the ignorant.
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