Ultima Online - A Trip Down Memory Lane & How to Play in 2020

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[@mustache_gaming6098]

An absolute honor to be a part of this. I will probably stream and play UO until I am in the retirement home!!! All hail Lord British!!!!

[@diogogo]

Thanks for the nostalgy travel you just gave me! I'm from Brazil and here my friends and I used to play it a lot... This is by far the best game in term of free open world... Finding Mithril while mining, Tamming a o'clock that you accidentally found exploring that world... or getting rich planting cotton, cropping it, making stiching thread, making fabric, sewing it and selling the product to NPC or real players... that was amazing... the continues wars on the bridges between PK and NPK.... Thanks againg!!!

[@sldallasbean]

@@diogogo Hail! Thank you so much. I still play UO and host a podcast as well. Ultima Online will always have a place for me personally and professionally. It is so hard to explain to people that have not played it.

[@jibjabbinjabberjaw5564]

Did you play in like 1998?

[@mustache_gaming6098]

@@jibjabbinjabberjaw5564 Hail - I played on Sonoma from around 2000-2003 time frame. I currently still play and stream it. Unbelievable how technology has brought us to this point as thousands still love this game!

[@jibjabbinjabberjaw5564]

@@mustache_gaming6098 does the name donking sound familiar? He said he was notirious for trolling people and transferring plat across the 3 realms lmao

[@Myndale]

UO remains by far the best online game I've ever played. I did a stint as a councellor while working for EA/Bullfrog, and I saw some absolutely amazing stuff. Most memorable incident ever was when I got summoned by someone who wanted to arrange an in-game funeral. We were often asked to arrange weddings and things like that, so I started taking down the details. I asked how the character died and the response was "motor cycle accident". Took me a few seconds to click and blurt out a "wait, what, as in...RL?" The guy in question had spent years playing the game and sharing coiuntless experiences with a network of friends from all over the world, and it was really the only way they could realistically meet together to grieve and pay their respects to him.

[@MatsDawson]

so few will ever understand how amazing and groundbreaking this game was.

[@ded2thaworld963]

To this day I haven’t had as much fun in any game like i did UO. I legit made long time friends and even hooked up with a few chicks i met in this game.😂 I can’t say that for any other i have tried

[@Bollibompa]

@@ded2thaworld963 What fucking kind of chicks were that lol?

[@kubhak]

I tried in year 200x and it blowed my mind

[@ded2thaworld963]

@@Bollibompa One from state over...another from Canada. Met up with both. Hell this was back in the day when this stuff was new, before social media really. Was a great way to meet people

[@Bollibompa]

@@ded2thaworld963 A problem I've had with that both on regards to friends and romantic interests are that their internet persona is so different from the actual person they are. How was that for you? Did they mostly line up with the person you thought they were?

[@Boogie7910]

Nothing has ever given me the feeling of UO. There has been an empty space and longing in my heart ever since. I had two accounts with maxed out characters. So many memories. So many friendships. So many rivals. I hope one day to play a sequel that lives up to the original.

[@s4murai74]

I feel exactly the same, it had every ingredient until the Brit invasion destroyed the bank and with it the community

[@Yoni123]

I'm looking at the site and it has Dark Age and Ultima, what am I supposed to download? Is it really 14 dollars a month, no way to play for free?

[@tylerm1491]

Play UO outlands my dude. It's incredible and super populated

[@christi8491]

It's still there and free to play now.

[@jibjabbinjabberjaw5564]

My dad "donking" used to play back in the late 90's and 00's he says all the time he was pretty popular

[@-NateTheGreat]

Vendor Buy Bank Guards! I played on Atlantic in 1998. I was a PK and also a blacksmith/bowyer. I lived in a house in the swamps and ran macro's overnight getting my skills up. Such a brutal and beautiful game. Sadly we will never see anything this challenging ever again. RIP Lord British.

[@mattiasakerlund4350]

I played Atlantic as well, my favourite character was a thief named Malice... The thrill of, for example, stealing a shield of invulnerability at the Abbey in Yew, only to then hide from the owner and his friends until I turned blue again, was the highest kind of adrenaline thrills I can remember from an online game ever... If lucky I even stole house/boat keys hehe. I could spend evenings, hands shaking from the rush, as I snooped backpacks and moved runebooks, and bags, searching for any special items I would want lol...

[@stephenolder4552]

I originally wanted to be a pk, but I then I found there were too many pks and too few people who fought them. There seemed to be pks or sheep, no in-between. So instead, I started fighting pks to create a balance. I sucked at first, but I got better and started killing the pks. I found out that most pks were hypocrits. They would pull every dirty trick in the book to kill you but expected you to fight honorably.

[@MrCwhitt75]

@@mattiasakerlund4350 Well said! I was Buckwheat on Catskill Shard. I remember thieving from people at Brit Bank, they would get there best Vanq weapon, come after me, I would hide and they would cast Reveal..dropping that Vanq in their bag and me swipping it! Funnest times I've ever had. Stealthily being people after they ran out of their homes. I robbed many of houses!! Will never be able to relive those experiences!

[@vincentramirez6967]

Played on Atlantic in 1998 too.. Was great.. Had a vila on a cliff. Forgot my name though.

[@ericlweatherhog]

I played Atlantic as well. I remember something about 6x6ing in the water for fishing skill… my Fav game ever.

[@Mike-cy5jg]

I played the game from about 13 yrs old till i was 27. Loved every minute of it. Such a good game. It really reminds me of my childhood. Thx

[@RanceCarmona]

UO is the best game ever created imo. The things you were able to do was endless. I can honestly say that in the over 10 years I played this game I never got tired of it. Brings back so many great memories

[@youtube-ventura]

Hold 50k gold, stand and wait for over 10 minutes for the world to save. Then find a spot on the map where there is a little hesitation when you're running, this means your character is being transferred from one game server to the next. If you time it right, give your 50k hold to your buddy then run and kill your client at the exact time as your character is being transferred from server to to the next. When you come back, the server can't find your character so it loads you from last known good point, which is you holding 50k gold. Now you've got 50k and your buddy has 50k. I did this on the Baja server back in the day and then built so many castles all touching one another to control a huge amount of map, all to myself. Good times.

[@bobbytwooo]

I remember doing that on a boat crossing server lines. Your double holding all your stuff would sail on and my friend would kill my duplicate stuff and bank the checks and other things. Rince and repeat and paper your entire castle floor with 1mill gold checks

[@youtube-ventura]

@@bobbytwooo I started out using a boat with this method, too. But when the boat came to shore with every square of the boat holding 50k+, people started asking questions. That's when I figured out you could do this anywhere where server lines crossed. I eventually moved up to duping diamonds.

[@MartinKendrik]

I played hardcore for a few years in the late 90s and early 00s in my teens. I remember managing to place a great house in a highly competitive area after an original house decayed. There were 4 players waiting around to place and I got it. Years of playing hours everyday got you very advanced in the game. Definitely the best game I've ever played and I always miss it too this day. Wish I could play again but know I can't dedicate enough time to it right now to make it enjoyable. Loved this video for bringing back those memories.

[@Stahlgewitter]

I went and revived my old account, and find that it's quite possible to come back and make some real money in it. Try Atlantic if you want population. If you want to be largely left alone, choose a different one.

[@bamofoSC]

@@Stahlgewitter same here man. Loved UO

[@Setsotama]

UO was one of those games where if you play it, even for a week, every other MMO will seem lacking in comparison. There's nothing like it and I always find a way to return

[@The_Gallowglass]

Well, the business centers of the game in UO were like big message board/chatrooms too. I talked to everyone. Who really does that in WoW outside of guilds.

[@capsoutdoors]

I played my original account for close to 10 years. Probably one of my best memories was the day they opened housing on the Trammel facet when it was first introduced. My buddy and I went to the office we were working at to use their T1. Servers kept crashing, reverting the placements we made, and finally after 4 hours we were sitting in our new tower North of Yew. Man those were the days!

[@Ayham4002]

Huh, a non Star Wars. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!

[@peterslupek6561]

Dude this video is word for word how UO players feel. The greatest game ever and so few people will ever know its beauty.

[@dblock5one4]

Haha bro I'm at the part in the video where you're now talking about Rust. I was going down memory lane today watching a few UO videos to see if it was still being played. Saw a few more recent videos but still came to check this out cause it does have some views ;) I'm now 39 and I started playing ultima online when I was 13 or 14. I loved this game so much. Agree with everything you're saying, and I realized after watching a few videos maybe why I love Rust so much is because my favorite mmo has so many similarities. Been playing Rust since it was released in alpha, later called Legacy Rust. Great video man. Thanks for taking me down your trip of memory lane

[@michaelshort2388]

I joined UO after trammel came in, and I loved it

[@benbrown4533]

UO and SWG (before it was completely revamped to mimic WoW) were two games that just have such a special place in my heart. The freedom, the adventures, the hilarious experiences. I still remember the first time starting UO, not knowing at the time what an MMO was. The awe from the size of the world and the fact that you could...just do whatever you wanted. There's just never been a game the replicated the feeling of UO and Galaxies gave me.

[@swishfish8858]

...dude. i was literally looking into UO last night. This is a sign. I must play.

[@XerennAnasazi]

Thats literally why YT suggested it to you...

[@CreatureGirlInc]

Same

[@irontit2480]

@@XerennAnasazi the unaware slaves of algorithms right here baby

[@nicholascuccaro9455]

THIS TARGETED AD COMMENT RIGHT HERE OFFICERS!!

[@swishfish8858]

Y'all missed the part where I'm a HelloGreedo subscriber and this video was released the night after I was doing my research, it had nothing to do with algorithms lmao

[@ProudFootProduction]

For anyone that has been playing UO for a while and needs something new and refreshing, I would highly recommend UO Outlands, I started playing on it a few months ago and it has revigorated my interest in UO. There is tons of custom content that gets patched and updated on the regular, the staff are friendly, and even though the make is mostly custom, it still has some left over places from the original map.

[@marcofabro]

Left Demise?

[@emtriplett]

Just found this video and it makes my heart hurt. Been looking for the same feeling of community, danger and adventure for so long now in the MMO realm and sadly it's never been met. I remember running around Yew on GL in 99 with my guild GoH as a total noob mage fighting off a local PK guild that we eventually befriend. Going to the player tavern by the moongate after a win or loss, making friends to train with at the graveyard (Squall you out there?), meeting the illustrious YEW Rangers and hoping one day I could join their ranks, dueling in our guild tower...ICQ, IRC..so many memories. Finally figuring out pvp on the test server (ran as Pugo) and just having a blast terrorizing around Moonglow. Man what a ride. Thanks for the memories.

[@toaonok]

I was playing UO in 1997, remember first day in UO I tamed a bear and trying to sell them in town.

[@marcussmith4913]

Lol... same 1997 I wasnt even 21 yet so drinking was off the table. It was raves and hours of Ultima online for me.

[@marcussmith4913]

@@Sudas80 Wonder if any of the new games could capture what this game did in 1997.

[@sanctionh2993]

@@Sudas80 Also played Pacific. TSL for Life!!

[@Macksbet]

@@marcussmith4913 never, game makers dont make games like they used to and they never will.. all they want is money now

[@myeroku4182]

Im a 45+ year old female started playing UO a year after release for 13 years. My story is much the same as yours - all the way on and through selling my account for a little over $1.5k [this was just after 13+] years of playing I began playing WOW and after 5yrs of being on WOW I sold my UO account. I had 5 home all grandfathered and maxed out characters. Here in the beginning of 2022 Ive decided to come back and your the first video Ive watched to get back started :) Thank you for making and sharing this video.

[@GauthierWorldWide]

Take a journey with me back to the year 1998, when 3 middle school kids roamed the world of Britannia as thieves, pick pocketing hard earned loot from other players at the town bank. Their names, various versions of 'bofadeez'. Many players feared us, some hated us for a bit and got smart with bomb bags and the meta changed forever. As a kid with very little influence, that felt amazing.

[@ondrejkrejcir4111]

Goddamn, the feel when I crafted those shiny purple shields with my name on them. Building homes for people. I loved it. Nice video. The mining place/smelting at 8:45 is still edged in my memory. SWG still got me a bit more as a SW fan, space fighter and a craftsmen making the money flow from top shit ship parts. :D

[@hakimESC]

UO has a special place. In these days, when kids want instant gratification, its something other.

[@diogogo]

Thanks for the nostalgy travel you just gave me! I'm from Brazil and here my friends and I used to play it a lot... This is by far the best game in term of free open world... Finding Mithril while mining, Tamming a o'clock that you accidentally found exploring that world... or getting rich planting cotton, cropping it, making stiching thread, making fabric, sewing it and selling the product to NPC or real players... that was amazing... the continues wars on the bridges between PK and NPK.... Thanks againg!!!

[@CJ-ur3fx]

5:55 I remember when servers were SO BUSY that you couldn’t see the cobblestones around Brit bank, just a massive crowd of players. It was crazy fun back then.

[@Macil2018]

Finally someone else who makes the bridge from Rust to UO. Another game that has come very close to UO in terms of nostalgia for me was Ark. It certainly had animal taming down, albeit everything was dinosaurs.

[@OldGenGamersNation]

Never played UO, but this is making me want to play.

[@The_Gallowglass]

VENDOR BUY THE BANK GUARDS!!!!

[@mindyourown6857]

Dont Bother it is more corrupt than politics

[@gustavobuquera]

This video is just perfect, you precisely tell every feel you get playing the game. Thank you.

[@orioncryptotrader9413]

UO changed my life in so many ways. I still have the original game box that I preordered. And after watching this I may just go back after these many decades. I was a a player-killer-killer and had the best time with the thrill of it all.

[@The_Gallowglass]

Hey Max Headroom.

[@The_Gallowglass]

I remember I formed a guild of Marshals briefly. We went around patrolling the world and killed many reds and highwaymen bandit types. We were on call too!

[@bluefuzz01]

I had a dream about UO last night. I woke up with a deep longing for the good ol days. I played back in the T2A days through AOS and a handful of private shards, such as IPY, UOR, and UOH. So many good memories that every MMO since cannot replace. Oh and the intro music... oh man... too good.

[@joehaglund]

thank you so much for for intricately and passionately describing this gem. UO has yet to be surpassed by anything, nor do i think it ever will.

[@kapiushon8428]

not gonna lie my guy teared up a bit , I got hit hard with how good my life was playing this everyday

[@Blatant88]

Respect man! I love uo even tho I don't play anymore, I remember back in 99 when my parents would play and I got hooked instantly

[@charsquatch600]

For those who haven't played uo, early RuneScape took a lot from it. Anyone interested, I suggest uo Outlands. A secure free shard that's like old uo with pks, and also a lot of new stuff. Skills do a lot of different things, more customization etc. A very large playerbase, greater than the official servers even

[@Yabuturtle]

Before there was WOW or even Everquest, there was Ultima Online. That is when MMORPGs REALLY got started.

[@crpggamer]

UO is the ultimate wild west game. I remember playing it when it first came out. I eventually move on to Everquest. i tried Star Wars Galxies, but didn't get into it. I think I was burnt out after the first two. Everquest didn't have PKs in the traditional sense, but people often brought trains your way and dying was a huge experience loss. UO will always have a place in my heart. I recall getting very angry as a teenager mining all day, getting killed, and looted. I had a lot of fun times none the less.

[@skald22]

Good vid! I’m original uo player also and like you keep coming back to this awesome game! Recently reopened my old accounts on the real official game... nostalgic!! Love it forever!

[@scottbowman8027]

Oh man this brings back SOOO many memories!!! I played on Great Lakes. Absolutely LOVED this game!!!

[@joey_cola]

Hardest part of UO: finding a spot to place your house

[@a.nicole420x]

Finding a badass remote spot to place your house away from everyone or right in the middle of prime Luna market lol

Me and my brother had a castle in Trammel on Catskills many years ago. We became kings.

[@kateallen7675]

remember my first house, riding by and saw all stuff on ground! Rode back as fast as I could to Brit and grabbed my lil house deed.

[@avery8852]

@@a.nicole420x dude I got one of those houses in Luna by the bank it was so so so exciting

[@twiss9341]

@ hello I am new gen gamer and was interested in your story wit your bro. Becoming a king sounds so freakin cool. If you ever felt like detailing the journey I’d love to read it 👍

[@cofkavos]

I started playing this when I was 7 or 8. I took a break at 15 and now I'm 20 and I've started over! I love this game. It's just as magical as it was when I was a kid.

[@chilledgamezone4950]

where are you playing.. what server

[@cofkavos]

@@chilledgamezone4950 Sonoma

[@MrOMZOK]

God I miss this game so so much. Nothing compares and nothing has even come close to what the experience was like.

[@SuhandiWijaya]

I was an exchange student in the US in 97, I dropped out of college because I played too much UO, but I have no regrets because all armors and weapons I made have names "MadeinChina" lol

[@BoomlandJenkins]

UO Second Age is going to give you a very authentic feel for the game from the 1990s that so many of us fell in love with.

[@tbone5757]

I started playing with The Second Age but not until 2001 after 3rd Dawn was already out. I was aware of the game since before it came out cuz I'm a huge Ultima fan, but I never had the chance to play until then. Also, I was never into PvP.

[@The_Gallowglass]

Played from mid 2nd Age Era, through Rennaisance and up to Age of Shadows is when I stopped. To me it was still playable and enjoyable, but I'd moved on to other things.

[@mikel7509]

UO

[@ghosttraining1015]

I remember when this came out. Oh the good ol 90s!!!

[@Nibiru999]

Couldn’t agree more . I was A long spear fencer on europa. Can’t forget the buzz of fighting for justice and hunting reds.

[@checoleman8877]

I remember logging on every day and meeting the guild. We would practice PVP strats for HOURS and occasionally a waring guild would show up to pick a fight. Man we had a good time. I have never experienced anything even close to that. Made a lot of great friends.

[@op3l]

Trammel is what made me love the game even more. Loved every minute of UO.

[@ParallelNewsNetwork]

Run to Trammell newb /s

[@Gnomesmusher]

UO was not only my first MMO ever it was my first online interaction with other people too. I remember first typing "Are you a real person?" to a player. I'll never have an experience like it ever again.

[@calmyourbeardson8259]

Haha dude, I remember the first time I logged onto UO, I was trying to talk to an npc, thought it was a person.. I thought he was just being rude and ignoring me...

[@jasonengland2361]

I loved this game, played like 14 years since 99, glad to see this!

[@KianneofTroi]

This is the first ever mmo i ever played and was the reason i loved ingame decorating, when i went over to EverQuest 2 thats all i ever did ... I loved this game .. training my night mare and wyrm.. and getting artifact rareity items from dungeons :D

[@techrev9999]

They broke MMOs when they switched to parties, then mandatory parties and guilds. Plus, I liked how you could just work on whatever skills you want.

[@neckboners]

So many memories... when the undead took over Trinsic. Finally inscribing a recall rune on the roof of Britain bank in order to get away from the common riff raff on the ground. The dye tub that made your clothes look like stars in the night sky. When trammel moonstones first started showing up and nobody knew what they were going to be used for but everyone hoarded them in case it was going to be something cool. Leaving town and knowing that you might get slaughtered and lose everything you have was such a thrill. The game was so much better when there was no safe space outside of town and absolutely anyone could come along and end you.

[@Dr.Quarex]

It is funny, but Ultima Online was definitely my favorite MMORPG ever ... yet I hated player-killers so much that to this day I would still punch the guy who killed me and took all my hand-written books (in the days before banks could store items... "Unholy" on the Pacific Shard, watch your back) ... yet I can hardly deny that once the player-killing and pickpocketing was taken out, the game was less fun to play, because you knew you could always escape any problem you found yourself in.

[@wftpradiogamer]

Thanks for the video. This is AWESOME! It has definitely renewed my interest in starting my old shard back up and using this method :)

[@trammie]

I have been dethroned as the largest active UO youtuber. It's an honor to be defeated by someone 100x my size 😅. I hope you make some more videos the community could use the support of a giant.

[@HelloGreedo]

I was checking out your videos when I was making this video! Love your shit, man.

[@marcussmith4913]

Didnt you play Darkfall dude? lol holy shit is that you?

[@trammie]

@@marcussmith4913 hello its me!

[@brianmensinger4229]

@@marcussmith4913 I loved Darkfall!!! Miss that game

[@botep5529]

The closest thing I've gotten to the rush of UO is Albion online. You are 100% about always chasing that high, chasing that dragon. Nothing ever filled that void of pure nail biting adrenaline when you see a red name coming at you.

[@BledsoeBluvd]

I could not agree more about Rust giving you the same feeling as Classic UO. Me and my friends played UO from like 1999 to 2002 (Europa) then on to player run shards (Defiance, UO Forever etc.) But around 2017 me and my friends started playing Rust and I remember having the exact same thrill and feeling that I had on those early UO days, it's the only game that's came close to giving that feeling of risk. BUT nothing will ever come to close to UO.

[@user-fo1qe2me3f]

The Greatest Game Ever Played. Ultima online.

[@marcussmith4913]

played this game on Lake superior shard with a bunch of kids from New york. They started a guild. Spent hours running all over the place in the world of Britania. My favorite part of the game was the server wars. Just before the servers would go down every day there was like an hour where you could kill murder anyone you wanted. If you went red the server would reset and set the time back an hour. So everything you did was forgiven. So everyone would gather in the north Britain grave yard and go ham on each other. It was a giant war so fun. I will never forget the Pk player killer named Cookie Monster. He had a 100k bounty on his head with something like a 1000 kill count.

[@derikhopkins9845]

Ya man it definitely satisfies the same type of feeling , I haven’t played rust as I’m waiting for console drop, but I play DayZ and it’s close to the same , but I’ve played on and off UO since I was 12 and im 31 now so I know exactly what ya mean

[@The_Gallowglass]

Survival type games like DayZ, Rust, even Ark are very much like UO in feel. You really don't appreciate the work you've done, progress you've made, things you've built and created, if you can't lose anything.

[@AcidKun]

Man I feel you. THE best MMO there ever was. I started playing on a private shard maybe back in ~2006 before the new expansions, and it was soooo awesome. I loved it how you could leave your house, get ambushed, stabbed and killed right on the doorstep, leaving the door open and get robbed. You could even get pick-pocketed by thieves, in the middle of the central bank filled with guards, if the thief was skilled enough. The game always had this danger looming at the back of your mind. Anything could happen at a moments notice. I've felt nothing so thrilling playing a game after UO :(

[@Sloffi1]

Started with Ultima online when i was11 years old...blocking the phone line with the 56k modem hahha... Galaxies ..when its started was great with only some jedi players ..like a myth and i loved the taming stuff in both games! ...great times

[@jflagor]

I played this game like 18 hours a day. I would unplug the fax machine at work and use that phone line over dial up to play at work. My boss could never figure out why I couldn’t get faxes. Years latter he added a new line for me. I made real friendships that lasted years. I wish I still had contact info. But aol instant messenger “AIM” don’t exist. I learned to type on this game. So many great memories. I loved my house. I actually kept paying for this game for about a year after I switched to WOW because I couldn’t bring myself to let go of things like my black dye tub and my green ranger armor and my amazing villa on the sea.

[@mistyedilson9629]

Agree. Best and never yet replaced. The memory is fond for this once great game.

[@The_Gallowglass]

One reason to love UO is that it is one of the few MMO/MMORPGs that feature mounted combat and your mounts are actual entities in the world. 11:02 Untrue. I played Rennaisance when it came out. Being in Trammel just meant that cities were off-limits to PKing and thievery. If you went outside the city and the range of the guards, you could still be robbed or killed. Murderers or grey-named characters would be killed by guards if someone called the guards on them, entering town--all except places like Buccaneer's Den where there weren't any guards. I was chased a number of times by groups of highwayman PKers trying to score some loot, adventuring around Trammel. The introduction of insurance in later instances of UO killed the risky feel of the game.

[@jerod5636]

I’m pretty sure that you’re misremembering that. You couldn’t PK in cities in fel. If your stealing skill check failed in town in fel the guards would smack you. If you baited monsters into town in fel the guards would smack them too. In tram you couldn’t, %100 could not pk anyone. Hell you had to go to fel just to flag on your friend (turn grey) in order to duel someone. You definitely couldn’t steal from players in tram either, no matter where you were. I don’t %100 remember if you could steal from mobs or not in tram. Most of my stealing was done with my disarm thief and it honestly was a ton of fun. I was as tough as a wet paper bag and was usually running for my life but it was really exciting. I think, and I might be wrong here, that you could attack oranges in tram, but I’m not completely certain on that one.

[@The_Gallowglass]

@@jerod5636 In the renaissance, you absolutely did not worry about guards in Felucca. I am not misremembering anything. Yes, you could steal from people in Trammel, just not in cities where you'd get guard whacked. I used to get chased all the time in Trammel by highway robbers.

[@jerod5636]

Huh. I’ve linked to the uo:r patch notes a couple times but the link keeps getting removed for whatever reason. Weird.

[@The_Gallowglass]

@@jerod5636 I even remember one time this "female" I met had me come north of Britain Blacksmith on the west bank of Castle Blackthorn's moat, where the player housing started and "she" wanted me to take off all my gear for "fun" times. I figured it was a trick and dropped a couple items to trick her back and she put her gear back on to attack me. I ended up killing her and taking her stuff instead. This was in trammel.

[@MIM-bz2ji]

Oh my gosh, it was amazing seeing this video! Such memories it brought back. My character actually got married in the game. GM's showed up to perform the wedding and even made us rings with our names on them. Lord British even had a meeting with us to set up the wedding. It was so cool. A huge wedding party and music. There was even a feast set up. It became the biggest blood bath I had ever seen in the game. lol The only ones left standing were the GM's and the bride (me) hehe Needless to say I had a great time looting all the dead bodies and filling up my house and bank haha

[@roby330i5]

Thanks for this trip down memory lane.

[@rum-ham]

UO was a very memorable game for me. I was a fan of Ultima in the 90s and played UO at the end of beta and when it was launched. My brother and I mastered the art of thievery and could steal just about anything from people around the bank. What a brutal game it was. Probably my most memorable moments were stealing the winch from the top of Blackthorns gate (it was stealable for some reason) and stealing a purple iron helmet that was dyed purple during a brief glitch that allowed dying armor. Good times.

[@gregdennison5753]

Exile/Avernum by Spiderweb Software. Exile III: Ruined World was the first game I ever purchased with my own money. Prior to that I just replayed Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade over and over.

[@muramasa24]

I've had so many adrenaline rushed sessions escaping from pk'ers I've only gotten that rush from a few games but UO lives in my heart forever. I played ABC Freeshard & AOV Freeshard.

[@ColdSiris]

Crafted by 'The Gods' oh, the glorious memories. so much pride in that name on the gear my friends used.

[@garry12777]

So many memories. The closet thing to UO today is Albion Online, but that's mainly due to the gathering. Since you can chop trees, mine, etc. Then it starts to deviate.

[@jakobfel2]

UO was and is a bit too hardcore for me but without wethis game, my favorite MMO -- RuneScape -- may not have existed or have been as good as it was and is. Frankly, I'm not sure why there aren't more sandbox MMOs like UO, RuneScape, SWG and to an extent, ESO, on the market. I mean, action MMOs like GW2 and such are fun but I've always preferred the sandbox approach because of how you're essentially given the freedom to live in the world the way you want to. I love how in games like this, you can run your character entirely as an artisan, as you mentioned. The constant combat that happens in theme park MMOs gets really old, honestly, and being able to break that up and do whatever you want is just the sort of freedom I absolutely love.

[@MikeMartin-ot9ic]

2009-2014 there were some EPIC player shards. Very good ones, you couldn't just buy gold, skill gains were tough, economy, really everything, was just like back in the day. And of course, all pre trammel.

[@lazybanditgaming832]

Waiting to log in at server up to get "rares" to sell at the bank, opening a vendor shop at my house charging 10k a week to players just to place one, making rune after rune to hand out to people to my shop and standing in town gating people to the shop all day, making boat loads of gold selling potted trees, plants, black dye tubs and the like, opening an auction house and having a blast... no game to date can come close to what UO was. The funny thing is, they should.

[@cerberus144]

Not everyone is going to get this, but I have to... "I'm the god damned Avatar!"

[@OverLordRyan]

That's from Spoonyone's Ultima retrospective.

[@primozimo3041]

We all are the damned Avatar you Avatar!

[@Crewzing6]

Havent left OG UO since 1997 other than forced breaks (pesky Afghanistan and iraq deployments). Never tried anything other than og servers.never cared about hindering my progress or leaving my friends for a free hacked experience. While the classic client has always been limited, its hardly-changed look/interface has always been my favorite.

[@hustlinharmon]

Best game ever made. It was life changing lol. I got it a year after it came out and played it for 6 or 7 years. Like obsessively for 6 solid years. I had no life. UO was life.

[@CreatureGirlInc]

WHAT?! WHAAAAAAAT?! I've been hankering for the nostalgia for this game for a long time. Everquest 1 and 2 didn't cut it. WoW was prettier but didn't have the same soul of "Hey let me hit this bir-I killed the bird?! How about this dog-okay the dog just killed me...maybe this deer....ahhhhh a blemyes what even is that?!" CoH and CoV. Fun character maker but that's it... Of all the subscription based games. OU STILL manages to cross my mind when I'm busy adulting, playing bills and changing diapers like I was still in high-school figuring out how to invest in the top skills I enjoyed using. Usually Lore and animal taming. Pure nostalgia.

[@swanchwan]

I played the Pacific and Napa servers before the introduction of Trammel. I was a crafter who hated pvp, and the idea of getting PKed absolutely terrified me, but I think that ever present danger was core to the experience of the game.

[@DycuswasHere]

This is fascinating to watch! I only know UO (and Ultima in general) by reputation but it looks pretty interesting. I can see so many MMO features and ideas coming from this game

[@j4rg0n83]

this has renewed my love for UO im reinstalling right now i havnt played since LBR

[@luckqe5710]

I’m 17 I’ve played this game for years tho my uncle has played it since Forever

[@garry12777]

8:49 oh wow there's where my gm Smith would stand repairing, and crafting armor. I remember there was always a HUGE line in front of me and the other GM Smiths.

[@viqq183]

I almost cry seeing this I have played UO:R mostly in defiance for thousands and thousands of hours..

[@schuylergutting8169]

I played UO from like 2005-2008. Put so many hours into that game. Never played the official server, my step dads friend had his own shard that we played on. Been trying to figure out how to get into the player made shards again.

[@lorax8172]

Played this in the late 90s, and never got into another MMO. Honestly, didn't know this UO still exists

[@HanweyWeasner]

i have to say three years old but far best hype video i seen ! makes me want to play more while i'm watching and playing at the same time! bravo ! plus i was talking on my discord when somone came and troll me and killed me took my gold and then i ask his wtf and then he brought in demons on me and and left and i died and i then felt if i want to play like this i would play rust! i thought i was only one until i saw this video lol!

[@lazybanditgaming832]

Great Lakes!! woot woooot

[@Kayvz1337]

this and d2 were my childhood. Dem good ol' days

[@oneandy2]

I can't believe UO still exists. I played it for a few years as a teenager when it came out. Holy crap. It was brutal. The player base was GLORIOUSLY toxic. Like, the real game meta was figuring out how to use the game mechanics to totally fuck over other players. It was very sink or swim, very "welcome to the rice fields motherfucker!"

[@ArthurV32]

Thats right, it was the beauty of it, today every game is a fucking safe space, UOL was literally the fittest survives and I loved it for that. PVP was awesome, I did play as blue and then as a red too, great times and the best game ever made from human kind.

[@turtlebean78]

I played this way back! I am old now! Thanks for bringing back some fun memories! 11 years of playing!

[@molehead2k7]

never forget this game, my dad found a headgear he could put off and on to gain strength. he had a crazy big house right next to a pvp building.

[@iamisandisnt]

LOVE the Rust comparison! lmao I was just talkin to my gf about the similarities before we randomly watched this video to show her what UO was like. Sooooo funny :D

[@culiacan2429]

I played lake Superior from 2000 til 2012 and its was the best gaming ever.i remember playing with v.o.v and the wolf pack.i tried to get back into uo but found out my account got deleted some how.i didnt want to start all over again

[@rmarques1]

I remember discovering this game with a friend back in 98. It's like discovering a whole new world. I stopped playing for around 15 years and found a free player run server and been playing ever since.

[@thiagoviscardi4899]

i have played for more than 10 years. i love this game. played in many many servers. i was a monster in pvp. I miss this game