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staindreality · Apr 12, 2005, 02:24 PM // 14:24

this is another mmo that ncsoft is working on and it seems to be pretty cool looking except i cant find any info on it except off of ncsoft site. http://www.playtr.com/ screen shots look good.

Sin · Apr 12, 2005, 02:28 PM // 14:28

Google "Richard Garriot" (Lord British) he is basically the "Father of online Gaming" essentially starting it or at least making it a wide known marketable phenomenon with Ultima Online, the successor to the stand-alone Ultima PC games. (That should fix it! hehe)

*Edit* I forgot to mention how this relates...

Tabula Rosa is his project for NCSoft. I've heard it kinda consulting with them on all their titles in one of the articles you'll find on the web.

For me that's what made GuildWars so different. It was like playing an original Ultima Game onlly in 3D and with the option of real people versus always some character you picked up in the course of missions, bascially a henchy.

The abundant map with lots of mobs and activity to level on down the trails is trademark Ultima I-5 to me. Also IMHO this sort of similar feeling about GuildWars to the Ultima games is why I think I keep running into people over 30 and even 40 playing it. All we had was Ultima and Wizardry then and we would play until we finished all the quests, sometimes that was months, that was our "teenage escape."

Just mentioning all this to share how GuildWars seems to align with a wide age demographic, the older of which haven't been into the online rpg gaming really, at least not as much as I am running into in GuildWars. That might be because it is beta players before release. I guess we'll see in 2 weeks!

*Edit* I apologize for confusing successor and predecessor, just in law they use preceding and it means after, and after and currently so it confuses over time.

spiritofcat · Apr 12, 2005, 02:33 PM // 14:33

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Originally Posted by Sin

Google "Richard Garriot" (Lord British) he is basically the "Father of online Gaming" essentially starting it or at least making it a wide known marketable phenomenon with Ultima Online, the predecessor to the stand-alone Ultima PC games.

Uh, there were Ultima games way before UO. There was Ultima 3 on the C64 even. They're very old.

iczer · Apr 12, 2005, 02:57 PM // 14:57

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Originally Posted by spiritofcat

Uh, there were Ultima games way before UO. There was Ultima 3 on the C64 even. They're very old.

Give him a break, he ment successor not predecessor.

- Iczer

Chaos Engine · Apr 12, 2005, 03:12 PM // 15:12

I have been waiting for Tabula Rasa since I saw the trailers last year. While I do not like the idea of instruments and high fashion on battlefields, Tabula Rasa looks like an acid trip, it's almost psychadelic. It won't appeal to the mass market (way too weird for the average gamer) however TR looks "different" to say the least.. and it uses a system similar to GoO's Tri-Stat dX.

Customizable clothing (noone has to wear armor, I do like that a lot as an ex-CoH player) and fast paced combat are enough to make me buy a non-medieval fantasy MMO.

Inde · Apr 12, 2005, 03:59 PM // 15:59

There is a community at http://tr.ogaming.com

Rushing Wind · Apr 13, 2005, 05:15 PM // 17:15

Doesn't TR get revealed next month during the Everyone E3 event? I don't think there will be anything about it (information wise... IMO) until it is uncovered and talked about/discussed next month when NCSoft starts shining some lights on it!

Til then... lets keep the "trip" and enjoy the psychadelic! It does look outrageous and worth a look see as soon as more becomes available!