Richard Garriott, Felicia Day, and Greg Kasavin Talk Ultima

Greg Kasavin, creative director of Bastion and Transistor, joins his friend Felicia Day at E3 2014 and picks Richard Garriott's mind about all things Ultima.

[@Spumis]

I could definitely listen to MUCH more of this interview. Thanks for making this happen.

[@GeekandSundry]

Ah the traditional 'Shared-Chair' style interview! ^_^

[@morelius]

This is awesome! Three of my top intellectual heroes together! Thanks!!

[@AndrewMilton_TJ]

Wouldn't even offer a lap? How rude d8)

[@TonyCastley]

traditional "share a chair" interview.

[@RobertMcGovernTarasis]

Very enjoyable interview, though I wish Felicia has stayed.

[@myau_cat342]

shared? LOL. Greg is literally taking up 80% of the chair, and let's Felicia('s leg) barely sit on the other 20%

[@thuaners]

I love the ultima games and richard garriott. Its so cool felicia day is a fan of ultima, i never knew. What a fantastic interview, loved it!

[@cybrpypr]

This was the best Richard Garriott interview I have ever seen into game design. Thank You.

[@gameinformer]

Thank you for finding it!

[@VasCorpBetMani]

You're a good man, RG, arguably a great man, and I appreciate the relevance and eloquence of this interview, particularly from the standpoint of a jack-of-all-trades game developer and designer. Thanks, and never give up.

[@Wolfsheim23]

Two of my idles together here. Greg and Richard, both gaming geniuses.

[@codranine6054]

Guys a real legend. I even came later in the stages I was maybe 8-9 when uo popped off. I miss the pre renaissance and renaissance days.

[@cdschwan]

Talk about a combination I definitely did not expect to see today.... Looks good though! Love it!

[@richmon78]

I do not usually watch the entirety of 20+ minute videos, but this one had my attention the whole time. Very interesting!

[@markissboi3583]

2021 Discovering every day videos we never seen on tv in OZ .

[@fusedtoast5367]

Brilliant interview. Greg knocked it out the park.

[@AndyKnudsen]

That was a really good interview. Thanks.

[@MilenioOscuroComics]

I only finished UW, and I have but no finished all the others (thanks gog), even U7-2 and U9 in boxes with the maps and books, they are awesome, and bring me fantastic memories, like the first time I heard the voices in UW... Great interview by the way!

[@selbie]

This interview is messing with my head. Greg is back at his old job again :P

[@wexenhex]

Ultima 4 and 7 are still incredible games

[@idnintel]

ahem....so are 5 and 6 - imo 5 is better than them all in most ways, but 6 is near perfect!

[@VOHEntertainment]

And Ultima 5 Lazarus = PHENOMENAL!!!

[@dreamstorm3297]

@@idnintel 5 is the most atmospheric and ominous one, not a gem like it since.

[@unacomn]

I loved that, great interview.

[@resioil1]

I love Greg, but he looks like a kid talking to Santa in this video. He looks totally captivated. Which is fun to watch.

[@fusedtoast5367]

Exactly

[@Aginor27]

Funny watching Garriott say “Chris Robert’s gets it done” this many years in to star citizen development

[@EilertAlemat]

25:00 Fun fact. I have a friend that played only 'Ultima Online' before we met. I played only 7th (although all expansions), 'Underworld' and 8th. We both completed 8th on my rig that was sufficient to do it. So I was the guy who introduced him to something beside online version.

[@licemeat]

Felicia Day should do TableTop with Ernest Cline and Richard Garriott

[@kespec]

legend, can't wait for sota.

[@Podings]

I'm amazed he mentioned Time Bandits. I've always been aware of the similarities between that movie and Ultima 2, but always considered it coincidence.

[@Keltik0ne]

Bastion and Transistor are both phenomenal games, thanks Greg. Oh, Garriot is ok too I suppose.

[@ZapatosVibes]

Shroud of the Avatar is awesome, loving it big time. Can't wait to see it more fleshed out.

[@tbone5757]

Ultima Dragons!

[@Wolfsheim23]

Having to share 1 chair. They must def be fans doing this interview for an hour too.

[@shootybaking]

This is so cute, my heros meet!

[@CesarIsaacPerez]

Loved it. Even though I have never played an Ultima game. Looking forward to Shroud of the Avatar though.

[@mikeyoung9810]

Ultima Online. Will always be my favorite game. Wish the masses could of loved it like I did before it went trammel.

[@Codethe_Road]

dude everyone hates trammel-- it ruined that game.. fucking care bears.

[@GameHopping]

Wait! He doesn't actually like my flying saucer idea????

[@zetetick395]

I personally love it! ....unfortunately all I own is a rusty spring and a half an apple. (a bit yellow) - them freemasonic trance-lizards took my wallet, with mindwaves! (and my job... and my sanity) :(

[@Wolfsheim23]

first time Richard uses a gaming Engine, and it's Unity? And the game was a disaster. I want to see the interview on how that happened. He got everything he wanted to make that game. Fully crowd funded so nobody else dictating a schedule, all the time he needed to do it right, and hand selected people to work with. How did it fall apart? Shroud of the Avatar looks great in videos.. but all the mechanics are not working. I'd love to see Richard team with Larian Studios. I think they would work so perfectly together.

[@MiniMackeroni]

Richard Garriot on TableTop?! Make. It. HAPPEN!

[@PA951]

What's that medal he's wearing? It looks like a WW2 french war medal.

[@stephenmccusker352]

just a snap shot into the mind of a genius. todays developers should take a page or two from this man, make games great again for the players and not their revenue, revenue will come if the players are happy, period =)

[@theguardian8317]

This video feels weird: I don't know if the intro is staged or improvised; the editing is strange; it last 50 min. yet they start talking like if they were being rushed; they seem to be in a big and empty room however they sit in a nook near the corner; Are there only 2 free chairs in the whole building?

[@bloody_albatross]

28:00 I'd like to know how they are doing it? What "brain dead" features will they leave out? What features will they invent?

[@carlschupbach8360]

I think I played Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny remember trying rescue the king. Very good for custom avatar. Real good interview a lot of info. Great information on video around 29 minutes to 33 minutes about personal choice and use with video games.

[@ZombieMonkey7]

70 views, probably the exact number of people familiar with the ultima series that is subscribed to GI

[@helgrafdragon5095]

Up to 155 views now...

[@TheSareus]

Helgraf Dragon almost 10k now. we Uo players aren't many but we are strong.

[@Ixnatifual]

Yeah yeah yeah right right right.

[@yamahaultimaonline7012]

Ultima Online is the best game ever!

[@blech71]

CODEX looks so different IRL

[@jarabis1]

Huh, I've watched markeedragon for years who was part of the dragons on UO O.o

[@EilertAlemat]

Actually a term 'avatarism' in application to games means exactly that: playing yourself in game environment contrary to playing some kind of character that has nothing to do with your identity. Being an avatarist my whole gaming life I was glad to put last piece of story into this. I knew the playstyle did not exactly born with Ultima, but got it's name certainly because of series. Heh, so he did this on purpose, to get rid of players' excuses. Heh.

[@Teeb2023]

3:05 Go home tripod, you're drunk.

[@maglorgraywulf3825]

Why is there a black box in the center of the screen ?, just wondering.

[@chiip90]

dude has a medal. what's the medal for dude?

[@chiip90]

***** cheers

[@petewest3122]

It's for refusing to slouch, ever!

[@RyanDacca]

Pete West He does have notably excellent posture.

[@Strideo1]

For going to space.

[@dragnonhd1310]

And here we are, 3 years later and Shroud of the Avatar is still a total mess.

[@stonyfanballoon]

Lol tabula rasa

[@EilertAlemat]

34:00 'Infamous'... :D Yeah, you are. All hell broke lose. And no one even tried to think about one simple truth: how many games that makes you disappear from this world for a few hours? That are 'on the level' with games we played back in the day? He was right on money that time. Compared to number of other brilliant people in the industry same level game designers are few. Chris, by the way, is very good example. And not because they are pals or I am fan of 'Wing Commander' series, which are true. Results. He brings results.

[@EilertAlemat]

'Ultima 8 and 9 I was manager of the managers and I think it shows in the game'. You betcha! :D I could not find computer powerful enough to run 'Ultima 8'. And don't get me started on 9. No, because I cannot get started. I barely played it.

[@carlschupbach8360]

Robert Jordan the Wheel of Light title A Memory of Light. Robert Jordan died but final scenes of the saga pick up by Brandon Sanderson.

[@johannesmusta5746]

She’s breddy cüte even if she kinda look like Joe camel

[@MrMatirendicontoporc]

Richard Garriott: "We're gonna make a game that is at least as big as UO with 30 people" Other game developer nobody really cares about: "Yeah, these days with stuff like Unity, Assets Store......" Assets store? Sure, but have you ever considered the fact that the assets store is public? Everyone can buy and use the same assets. And in that case it's no longer a genuine product -to me -to many. Is it really game development at this point? because it looks more like a collage. Or.. what do you call that these days.. modding?

[@vanaus1]

Greg, you are awesome, very awesome, but please please stop saying 'yea' and 'right' while the person you are interviewing is talking.

[@Sheltemz]

Its a pity SOTA ended up being a complete pile of crap!

[@motus]

yeah, right, mmhmm, yeah, right... this interview would have been much better if Felicia stayed.. Kasavin was just annoying and he obviously isn't cut out for interviews.

[@KarlMonsos]

I don't think he's researched his religions very well.... there alot of similarities between religions... Taoism has connections to Buddhism and Buddhism has connections to Hinduism. Judism has connections to Christianity, and Christianity even has connections to alot of Egyptian mythology...

[@Jitawa]

Richard Garriot certainly has an ego and likes to talk. Though it's possible I was just expecting more of a back and forth after watching the "No Man's Sky" interview. Of course, I'm a long-time fan of Ultima, so I guess a certain amount of that ego is justified. I think if I were interviewing him, I'd have really hard not pelting him with questions about what happened with 8 and 9 (more-so 9).