H1DD3N.R350URC3 » ultima http://blog.hexagonstar.com turn-based glory and pixel pleasure Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:45:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Interview with Lord British http://blog.hexagonstar.com/interview-with-lord-british/ http://blog.hexagonstar.com/interview-with-lord-british/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:46:16 +0000 sascha http://blog.hexagonstar.com/?p=1781 An elaborate interview from 2009 with Richard Garriott aka Lord British talking about his beginnings as a game maker, his weird house and toy collection, Tabula Rasa and his flight into space. Some people call him a nerd (probably because they’re envious) but I think he just simply had the chance to do the right thing at the right time, following his passion about making games and becoming very successful with it, eventually earning millions. This is something that is not so easily possible anymore today like it was back in the pioneer days of home-computing. However he’s the living proof that the single most important driving force to be successful is to have passion about what you’re doing, being it creating games or anything else. Watch and be inspired!

]]> http://blog.hexagonstar.com/interview-with-lord-british/feed/ 0 Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams http://blog.hexagonstar.com/ultima-worlds-of-adventure-2-martian-dreams/ http://blog.hexagonstar.com/ultima-worlds-of-adventure-2-martian-dreams/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:22:07 +0000 sascha http://blog.hexagonstar.com/?p=1775 Another secret gem from the Golden Age of RPG, Origin’s Martian Dreams can best be described as a fantastic Steampunk themed role-playing game set in a ‘Ultima meets Jules Verne universe’ where you travel with Nikola Tesla, Sigmund Freud, Nellie Bly and several others to Mars to rescue a handful of important people that stranded there some years before.  If this doesn’t sound like a good premise then what does?!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MERLa33hY2k

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Ultima is the one role-playing game where you start in the present world and then travel into a fantasy parallel world of Britannia, usually via a portal. Here’s a nice video (from RetroHD) of the last game in the Ultima series, Ultima 9 – Ascension which introduces the beginning of the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wsFJa9VgWA

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