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Interested to see what Shroud of the Avatar will be like, whenever it's finished. I got thousands of hours of entertainment from Ultima Online, and Shroud is sa
by clowd 10y ago
Interested to see what Shroud of the Avatar will be like, whenever it's finished. I got thousands of hours of entertainment from Ultima Online, and Shroud is said to be "UO 2 with a different name." He makes a good point that the Steam audience is a different beast; as a whole they aren't very tolerant of alpha releases, with good reason.
- pmoriarty 10y agoI've been an Ultima fan since Ultima III, and rate Ultima IV the best of the Ultimas. Yet today, all of the Ultimas are pretty insufferable to me. They're too simplistic. Too cliche. Too limited. I expect a lot more from a game today than pretty much any game of the 80's or 90's could deliver. I haven't played Shroud of the Avatar, and have only read the reviews of it on Steam, but I don't think I'm a typical Steam gamer, if only because I'm much older and have played many of the original Ultimas when they came out. Still, the Steam reviews, if they are to be believed, make Shroud of the Avatar sound like a gigantic disappointment. Garriott does not seem to want to take any of the criticisms seriously, and never really addresses any of the really deep criticisms, of which there are many. He just brushes them off with a few words about the game looking "unfinished, unpolished, with only a few weapons and an obtuse UI". The impression I'm left with is that either he's in denial or hundreds of negative Steam reviewers are fools or exquisite liars. I really doubt the latter is the case, and don't hold out much hope for this game, though I'd love to see Garriott emerge triumphant and for Shroud of the Avatar to become a groundbreaking classic like his early games.