OT - Favorite games

[RegnorVex]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

You can download the latest version of the Ultima Online game legally from their official server (blizzard.com)

Blizzard owns UO these days? I went to Blizzard.com and looked around but saw no references to UO. Do you have a link to the client download? I had way too much fun playing UO in beta and release and would consider giving it another try to introduce my wife to it. Shazzy's Shard does look cool.

[Gandalf Parker]

Sorry I meant EA.
For Shazzys we use Mondains Legacy version of UO.
You can get it here and download a manual also.
http://www.uo.com/uoml/

The software for hosting an Ultima Online world is just finishing up a version that can run on Ubuntu Linux servers which has me drooling. I understand that WoW has started to create player servers also but from what I gather they are still abit buggy. Worth watching though. Id also love to see player servers for StarWars Galaxy, and for City of Heroes.

[RegnorVex]

This idea of player servers is very interesting and smart for IP owners. The idea of a player-owned SWG server is appealing, if it's the original version. I don't think I'd be too interested in the more recent vintage. And player servers for WoW? I can't imagine a world in which Blizzard would ever authorize that. Remember how actively they went after the battle.net clones? Will wonders never cease?

My wife and I have been in contact with Shazzy about getting set up, I'm DL'ing the ML client as we speak. She said something about getting Razor, too. Not sure what that is.

Maybe we'll see you there! Sounds like a cool environment.

[Gandalf Parker]

Razor is a front-end that people like. You can click on razor and it will open UO for you going to Shazzy. But since its "in between" you and the UO program it can do helpful things like provide easy access to more options, count things in your backpack and display it so you know if you are running out of something (like arrows), auto-actions (like picking up arrows on the ground from misses, or buying them anytime you click on a vendor), and create some really useful macros for some of the more irritating re-occurring actions.

You also want to be sure and download Shazzy's hues file and unzip it. then move it from the subdir it creates to the UO directory. That has some specific colors for some of the things Shazzy has programmed into the game. For instance, your new character will appear in the town of New Haven. If the Donations Chest there is all black then you need the hues file to make it a pretty green.

Gandalf Parker
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Absolute power corrupts absolutely, virtual power is almost as good.
Ultimate Virtual Power dances on the edge of sanity.
I AM AN ULTIMA ONLINE GOD

[Strabo]

Hmm.. I play only DotA, Dominions 3, Dungeon Crawl, Spring and Cortex Command

[AlgaeNymph]

In alphabetical order:

Aquaria
Avernum series
Chaos Overlords
Final Fantasy VI
Oxyd

[Foodstamp]

Originally Posted by AlgaeNymph

In alphabetical order:

Aquaria
Avernum series
Chaos Overlords
Final Fantasy VI
Oxyd

I've been following aquaria for a while, I really like the look of the game and I thought about picking it up, but it slipped my mind until I saw your post .

[GrudgeBringer]

Yes, I have played Diciples 2 and won with all 4 races.

Long time ago tho and took a few restarts.

[vladikus]

Out of curiosity, has anyone played Disciples 2 and beat it with all the races?

[Strabo]

And similar question: has anyone played Doom 2: The Plutonia Experiment and beat it on Nightmare?