Your favourite thing about classic UO...

[Az]

Go.

[okaygo]

PKing nerds.

[Jay]

Tram doesn't exist.

[Admerylous]

Having to learn everything and constantly discovering new things.

Unfortunately, that's the thing most likely to frustrate most of us (myself included) now.

[Aarlock]

Risk. Risk necessitates and defines a community, and for me community is the only reason to play an MMO.

[skimmo]

Risk. Risk necessitates and defines a community, and for me community is the only reason to play an MMO.

Post of the century.

[PowerArmor]

Instahit dueling

[ReputableReprobate]

i suppose this doesnt really have as much to do with the mechanics of classic uo as it did with the great community that i remember being a part of during that time.. but ill post it anyways

my favorite thing about classic uo was being an orc on Atlantic with a thriving orc rp/pvp guild(as well as a thriving rp/pvp community in general) with an average of around 30 other blood thirsty, savage guild mates online everyday during prime hours. I remember having huge pitched battles in the mountain pass between shame and the orc fort next to yew, and defending ourselves in the fort from reds/tamers with dragons/griefers and whoever else that dared to challenge our power. then there was parading around the town of britain in full force, or launching raids on unsuspecting enemies. some of my best uo memories are from being a part of that guild.

[Elrick]

The crazy people who play are my favorite!

[Luke]

Man you've beat me to it arrlok. Two words, risk vs reward. That excites feeling you get when someone steals or attacks you. That's the best

[fudgesundae]

precast, instahit pvp

and some unexpected discoveries like you can have totally different appearance of roll of clothing when you use that housing tool

[Torin]

UOR PvP

[skimmo]

UOR PvP

That, and Artifacts in AoS.

[Epsilon]

Newbies

[Torin]

That, and Artifacts in AoS.

He was asking about classic UO.

AoS was what destroyed classic UO.

[Woodlife]

Learning how everything worked for the first time.

[Woodlife]

AOS was the intoduction of Trammel right? That was the second thing they did wrong. The first was Richard turning Orgin into a corporation. He had the funds to make UO, he just didn't have the confidence in the internet age. It didn't exist at the time. I bet he wishes he could go back.

[PowerArmor]

lol dude what

[Tuke]

Exploring.

[dontcounttoday]

UO was my first MMORPG, as I am sure is true of most of you, and the feeling I got the minute I first started the game will never be matched. To realize that you can do literally ANYTHING in a free roaming world with no set storyline or path to follow...that was truly awesome.

That, and the original black dye tub scam lol

[Pud.S]

Pre I Ban Thee

[Trystan]

For some reason, lumberjacking tree's outside of Brit and making wooden shields was the one thing I had the most fun doing. Also have good memories of fighting dire wolves outside of town and when you could summon ele's inside of town sparring against peoples summoned ele's all night in Brit then when my bro woke up telling him I was an expert warrior and thinking how badass my char was.

[Woodlife]

lol dude what

Richard dude.. I'm takin bout Richard :D

[atlas]

There's a lot I liked that many of you listed, but I think there's one feature of classic UO that deserves more credit:

The chat system. Someone mentioned community. You can't have community when anyone can just /whisper to anyone else in the world, /party /guild etc.

In UO, you have to physically meet up with people, talk to them, have others around to hear it. You could eavesdrop on a nearby conversation concerning the sale of a sword. You could even butt in and make a counter offer.

Hauling my loot to Brit Bank and hawking my wares made the world seem real.

[Brewskiebob]

fishin for blues, get 3 players and stand in the corner of a tower and open a gate to yew moongate, have a grey go through as bait and kill who ever comes through they will be instantly cornered. works best with DP kats

[Epsilon]

fishin for blues, get 3 players and stand in the corner of a tower and open a gate to yew moongate, have a grey go through as bait and kill who ever comes through they will be instantly cornered. works best with DP kats

So.... were you the guy who went in after the grey thru that mysterious portal and got cornered by the DP kats?

[Brewskiebob]

why do you think i started doing it, so much loot, i never had to buy supply for my tank again

[Vid]

Almost no one was 7x gm! A few elite players had 1 or two gms! That was WAY back though....

[SaiKoro]

Hard to point what the most awesome thing in UO. Idk what hooked me the most. Id go for its cheap graphic( which means the game is accessible to MANY). Those new MMO 3d and stuff are beautiful,yeah, but theres no depths in the game itself...its just cool graphics with poor gameplay. UO skills mechanics is also very basic but when you take the time to read each one of them, there you find synergies,new ways to use them or you even learn new ones! Theres always place to perfect you characters, the possibilities are almost infinite in UO! The bound between myslef and my character has never been stronger in any other games than it is in UO. Im so happy to re-unite with this game once again. Its like Corn Flakes: taste it again for the first time!

[Diz]

I'm now a huge SaiKoro fan.

Synergies, find em yo!!!

[Smackfools]

I remember when I first started playing, being up at like 2 am when I was like 14 years old and running from Britian to Vesper and when finally arriving the feeling of "safety" was epic!..

...eventually it became the rush of adrenaline when scouting 8 OiN at Moonglow bank, hollering in vent while recalling to the Guild house, where 8-9 other IC! are ready already with a gate up to glow before the recall finishes...lol epic times.

[Patrick's Bane]

My favorite things were the slow skill gain and the freedom for everyone to be as evil as they wanted to be.

And people were evil.

[Domnu]

My older brother and I started out as miners in Minoc, and we mined mostly in that big indoor mine. Eventually he started being a little more adventurous, and went up the winding mountainside, and even around to the back side of the Minoc mountain.

I remember when I saw that his character was listed as a "Journeyman Miner" I thought that he had gained the title by journeying around the mountain. I tried to do some journeying myself, and got promptly PKed and dry looted by some leet ass dude in full plate with a heavy crossbow named "Grave Digger II".

[starfeesh]

I think everything being confusing was the best part. Seeing O/C fighting in town and wanting in and promptly getting rocked by guards.

Also, the first time someone told me to hold tab and double click them for a special prize! Or how Alt-F4 would cast an 8th circle spell even though you didn't have the magery for it. Ah, ignorance.

[Punky Brewster]

My favorite thing about it was that if you got bored with the general gameplay (dungeons, pvp, etc), you could always make up your own stuff to do because the world is such a sandbox. Some of my best memories are of setting up my fortune tellers stand on the roof of moonglow bank and reading palms for tips, spending hours decorating my house, and of course going to the various events that guilds would hold all the time. I remember easter egg hunts, pvp tournaments, races, riddle contests, halloween costume contests (my sister and I won 2 mil in one those on Catskills as Ranger Smith and Yogi), scavenger hunts, weddings, etc etc. There were so many enthusiastic and creative people that loved coming up with fun things for the community to do. That is what made the game special to me.

[MrWilliams]

Factions and UOR combat in particular, however, i still love insta hit combat too.

[Brogina]

My favorite thing about it was that if you got bored with the general gameplay (dungeons, pvp, etc), you could always make up your own stuff to do because the world is such a sandbox. Some of my best memories are of setting up my fortune tellers stand on the roof of moonglow bank and reading palms for tips, spending hours decorating my house, and of course going to the various events that guilds would hold all the time. I remember easter egg hunts, pvp tournaments, races, riddle contests, halloween costume contests (my sister and I won 2 mil in one those on Catskills as Ranger Smith and Yogi), scavenger hunts, weddings, etc etc. There were so many enthusiastic and creative people that loved coming up with fun things for the community to do. That is what made the game special to me.

This. Well said. This is the magic of uo. It is what its population makes it. I remember being a teen and seeing a news story about 2 people getting married inside of uo. They said that it was a game wherein you could do whatever you wanted to do, be whatever you wanted to be. Ultimate freedom. At that time, this concept was unheard of, and revolutionary.

All i caught was the name Ultima. So i went out and bought Ultima 9 Ascension. I was very disappointed. A week later while in future shop, i saw ultima online sitting on the shelf.

[cronk]

ugh and ascension was HORRIBLE. even if you could play it it wasn't a good ultima. 6, both 7s, the underworlds (at the time)... even the older ones like 3 were classics! 8 and 9? not so much...

best memories of UO were of theme'd stuff. stealing santa suits + town crier outfits with the plans of making santa claus killers.

also: mining. i don't get it either but at the time i enjoyed it, especially when colored ore was added and you hunted for the good ores (especially on the shards where you learned their spots and made maps... eventually doing mining routes of all-colored veins)

[tomtrustworthy]

I would say a big time for me I was like 12 or 13, I stayed in a house in moonglow with my brother but wanted my own house.
I killed tons of harpies and earth eles, finally i had about 70k. A guy near brit bank said he had a placed house for sale and to check it out. We ran forever finally getting to the house, turns out his buddy was there. I killed one then ran from the other, and later saw the same guy near brit bank
Oh how we laughed.

Later i bought a house finally and placed it. Then I think we stopped playing because i didnt have a job for the account to keep going.

[kondif]

Mages in plate armor. Being able to invade people's houses without being banned and steal everything. The old order/chaos system based on the old noto system where only lords can equip an order and chaos shield and could cast with it on.

[Bostin]

I remember when I first started playing, being up at like 2 am when I was like 14 years old and running from Britian to Vesper and when finally arriving the feeling of "safety" was epic!..

...eventually it became the rush of adrenaline when scouting 8 OiN at Moonglow bank, hollering in vent while recalling to the Guild house, where 8-9 other IC! are ready already with a gate up to glow before the recall finishes...lol epic times.



Was Vent arount back then? the latest and greatest i ever heard of and used was Roger Wilco, and it was ****ing horrendous..

[Kenny]

haha oh yea, Roger Wilco. I remember that.

[Bostin]

haha oh yea, Roger Wilco. I remember that.

Yea, it was so bad but so much friggin fun....

[Kenny]

haha yup! I think ventrilo came out around AoS

[Bostin]

My best memories of uo were when i saved up 120k for a house, i followed a guy with my check in hand, we got to the house and he stood there and he put a set of keys in the trade window. i gave him the check..lol...........i learned quick. Then i actually bought a small tower in the trinny swamp, i was up till prolly 4 in the morning placing furniture and unloaded all my gear into chests and ****..I logged cause i was tired..next morning i had an empty house.. Who knew you had to type in a command that said to lock an item down..hehe i learned..****ty way to learn but made me want to play even more..the game rules..

[Bostin]

haha yup! I think ventrilo came out around AoS

Was it out before or after teamspeak? i went from roger wilco to teamspeak to vent..

[Kenny]

I was tricked into the forest with some creepy guy who was going to give me free stuff! Then everything turned gray :-P


Was it out before or after teamspeak? i went from roger wilco to teamspeak to vent..

I think they both came out around the same time period but I can't really remember

[Bostin]

[QUOTE=Kenny;20647]I was tricked into the forest with some creepy guy who was going to give me free stuff! Then everything turned gray :-P

Was he giving away candy?

[Xarkhan]

Hum....im somewhat sad about your answer guys, no one had fun whit some Role playing event? Some....holy ****, that bastard truly did that to my king....too arms!!

Yea the game is epic, pvp is 'cool'..getting a house is pretty cool....But for me, roleplaying and caracter 'fame' betwen players is always the most hardcore thing:)

[Bostin]

Hum....im somewhat sad about your answer guys, no one had fun whit some Role playing event? Some....holy ****, that bastard truly did that to my king....too arms!!

Yea the game is epic, pvp is 'cool'..getting a house is pretty cool....But for me, roleplaying and caracter 'fame' betwen players is always the most hardcore thing:)

Personally i dont have the intelligence to roleplay and learn a whole new language..just wasnt my cup of tea..But if it was yours more power man..i did however have fun watching people do that..

[starfeesh]

I remember being a teen and seeing a news story about 2 people getting married inside of uo.

I totally went to a wedding in Nujelm once. They got a counsellor to do the minister thing and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

[Brogina]

haha oh yea, Roger Wilco. I remember that.

Isnt that the main character from the Space Quest series?

[cronk]

I totally went to a wedding in Nujelm once. They got a counsellor to do the minister thing and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

http://blog.games.yahoo.com/blog/350-from-vow-to-wow-getting-hitched-in-online-games

[SJane]

NO ****ING TRAMMEL BULL****!!!!!!

[Tenebrion]

I think my favorite part about classic UO was feeling part of a real virtual world. I wasn't playing a " PVP game", had never heard the phrase "Progression Raiding guild", and wouldn't get laughed at for saying "Aye" instead of "Ya". But, above all that, I think my favorite part about classic UO was that there were no global chat channels, and no one knew what the **** Ventrilo was.

I miss the good old days.

[SirGaryColeman]

Guilds/Guild Wars

Being able to war people of your choosing instead of being forced into it due to faction/racial conflict added a ton of immersion. I really grew to dislike the guilds we warred and felt a lot of reward when we beat them and anguish when we lost.

In RvR/Faction stuff, I could care less who won or lost.

I'd like to see more focus on Guilds and warring - it's more personal and that's what UO is all about.

[grossghost]

Going to the asian shards with 4 RL friends when our shard was down and killing miners in minoc while cracking up about it over conference calls. Getting rage induced phone calls from a friend who would disconnect just to call me every time someone killed him. Yes, we were stupid little kids.

Later, getting dsl when everyone else was still using dialup.

[Budikah]

My favorite part about UO would probably just be the world and enviornment. It has a ton of nostalgia value for me. I know the world of Britannia better than I do some places in my own state.

That said, my favorite thing about UO would be the community. Theres something endearing about the constant ridiculousness and social interaction that goes on in this game.

[Krypt]

getting in to the beta.