Richard Garriott Gets Richer

[Aprilgold]

OH FUCK YOU GARRIOT!
You bastard, you probably just delayed Guild Wars 2 a week, ya ass.

 

[Treblaine]

Erm... is Garriot a Bond Villain?

Because he sure seems like one of lately.

 

[ultimateownage]

Garriot is one mad bastard. How is he so damn rich, anyway? He sold a couple of well received games over a decade ago, and he's probably the richest (or at least most eccentric) person in the video game industry.

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

I only played a bit of ultima 7 but I thought the series peaked at 5. The whole shadowlords/blackthorn thing was just awesome. That was truly an "open world" game where you had no sidequests. Just a huge expansive world to explore and a variety of tasks to complete in any order you wanted to complete an epic mission.

Anyone remember the scene where if you got captured by blackthorn he would permanently kill a party member? That kind of emotion displayed in 8 bit graphics is something you just don't get nowadays.

 

[The Lunatic]

NCsoft are a pretty nasty company when it comes to things like this. Maybe they'll think twice next time.

 

[boag]

It's not even like the times moved on without him. We could use MORE games that feature stories as deep and complex as Ultima. But he seems to choose not to make them anymore.

Ultima
Deep. . .
Complex. . .


I dont think we played the same series of games.

 

[JesterRaiin]

http://www.portalarium.com/

Jesus Christ, Lord British, is that really what you consider "the right move" ?

 

[Andy Chalk]

What the hell is he wearing? He looks like a Star Trek Ninja Sailor.

It's his "General British" outfit. Just google it or something, the mans crazy.

(Or is is Lord British? Can't remember :/)

He's best known as Lord British, but he did the General British thing for Tabula Rasa. I don't imagine he talks about that much anymore.

 

[drosalion]

$5 million in attorney's fees and interest. I suddenly want to be an American lawyer.

As long as you dont be a mathematician

 

[Iron Lightning]

Well good, maybe now he'll feel comfortable with retiring and will stop embarrassing himself making fucking Facebook P=poker games.

John Romero's Daikatana may have sucked balls but at least Romero was trying to make an excellent game.