Ultima Online in 2024 is wild

[@DrunkVolcano]

DrunkVolcano is the best mage.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

He was just really gaming hard

[@libradragon]

There is love everywhere, but; mostly here in the UO Verse. Drunk Volcano is also, the best Name.

[@RichardMitchell-nk9ec]

I been playing that game my whole life

[@RichardMitchell-nk9ec]

I named some guys son then fight Ted against the son

[@lisabay6189]

Jazz was a top shelf mage too. (me) :)

[@fluffytuff]

I met my wife playing Ultima Online back in 2000. She hired me to PK somebody that was bothering her, and we started chatting on ICQ. Been married now for 22 years. As soon as the guy at the end said he had rares for you, I knew exactly what was going to happen. Oldest trick in the book.

[@2stroke438]

That is beautiful, dude.

[@toddvance1568]

awesome story! ICQ ... still remember that little UHOH! noise it made

[@panicfarm9874]

I meet my husband in a gay bathhouse in Japan 21 years ago

[@Und34d_R]

Game was all downhill after the thieves guild.

[@kiasta1]

UO and ICQ, man that brings me back.

[@Michaelno]

There's never been another MMORPG like Ultima. I'm happy that I found the game back in the day. I've since tried every MMO on the market without being able to replicate the feeling I got from UO.

[@JimBob-jr5up]

Still play? UOForever is a good old schoolish free shard. UO Outlands is also another great free shard and theyve done some amazing things with all those useless skills and character templates can be wild.

[@novaneo]

The 4th coming is

[@FilledHunchbacks]

Its so true. A lot of the stuff was weird here - like why was the bank box all weird?Since when did the backpack have a grid? etc etc

[@Michaelno]

Maybe Richard shouldn’t have started Shroud of the Avatar and made Ultima Online 2 instead

[@OWB1osrs]

osrs

[@moforyguy6803]

I was 13 and I was addicted to watching my brother PK. Ultima was the greatest game I ever played. Full loot and death was just a part of the game you accepted. It was glorious.

[@Und34d_R]

Remember tinkering trapped chests and arranging them in the shape of a decayed house to lure people in? If not you missed out.

[@Dr.Quarex]

Though it was indeed part of the game we accepted, Ultima Online was also where I first realized the perfect overlap between player-killers/griefers online and abusers in real life

[@bimmerthing]

i hate todays gaming everything is keep you loot carebear shit

[@Halesburg]

It really was the wild West of online gaming. I remember a house about to decay right next to the chaos shrine and it had so much good stuff in it. So my guild decided to just kill everyone until the house fell. Everyone just kept running to the shrine and getting ressed. It was absolute chaos for over 4 hours. At the end I picked up at least 50 murder counts but that house was so valuable.

[@MichaelAdams3D]

I was super lame and just hid on Trammel as SOON as they introduced it. But I definitely appreciated the value of having that kind of gameplay available to those who like it.

[@dr.wolinsbelt]

What I loved about this game was that I was perfectly viable playing a non-combat style. Made all my gold being a grandmaster fisherman!

[@Kazanov1936]

I had a friend that was the only thief on the server, over the years he became a legend and even had some followers. Other of my friends was a treasure hunter, he hired us to protect him on his silly adventures, fun times.

[@TheArimatheus]

I traded in real estate and rares! Never reached GM in any skill on my main. 91% Mining, ~80's in Smith, Tinker, LJ.

[@Oleoay]

Made all my gold as a grandmaster blacksmith/tailor and as mayor of Britain on Great Lakes. Even hosted the first item giveaway in UO.

[@illcritikz]

I was part of the UO beta trial. I still remember the CD arriving from America and how exciting it was for a 90's aussie teenager on dial-up. Many hours spent playing this...

[@Liam.Lacoste]

4 months late but do you have any memorable moments to share from the beta or shortly after? I only just recently got into UO and I find the world fascinating.

[@marcussmith4913]

oh ya the Dial up noise you had to listen to before every gaming session.

[@mark-c9r3s]

​@@marcussmith4913 or set the modem commands... ATM0 The modem's speaker is always off ATM1 The modem's speaker is on until a connection is made ATM2 The modem's speaker is always on ATM3 The modem's speaker is off during dialing, and on after dialing until the connection is made

[@ayochill9716]

When I was a kid, this must have been the year 2001 or 2002; I went to a friends house and his older brother was playing an MMO on his computer, I only saw it briefly but it burned itself into my memory somehow. To this day I have never seen that game anywhere, but after seeing this I think the game that I saw that day was Ultima online! It was an unanswered question that I’ve had for like 20+ years in my memories 😂

[@libradragon]

What an amazing adventure! Thanks for sharing this.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

That is awesome. I hope this was indeed the game that you saw and that your memories of your friend are fond. Cheers!

[@yugen]

Was either Runescape or UO. Ask your friend!

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

We couldn't afford the monthly subscription either. So we played on free shards. It was really nice, because you could avoid the many shit expansions later and stick with a specific build.

[@yugen]

@@ItIsYouAreNotYour yeah I haven't played an OSI shard since 2002. TONS of good freeshards over the years. Metro, IPY, Rel Por, T2A, Purely Primitive, of course Outlands, Angel Island, and a bunch that I can't remember!

[@chadreese9501]

One of the best things about UO was these big events they would do. I remember one of the towns got overrun with undead and the whole city was under siege. It was pretty great, especially for back then!

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Not gonna lie, that does sound pretty epic. There is something about this time period with MMORPGs that just feels really magical and different from the standard MMO formula that you see in most games today.

[@krisreddish3066]

The player run events were fun sometimes, the older system of UO counselors what got cancelled were too, and the newer one were GM wanabies got picked by whomever to run periodic events had a few fun events some hit or miss but all that was unique to shards and helped to give each shard it's own lore. The big ones were were multi shard wide and used to explain the lore as the game progressed with expansions. I was part of the charge of the Blackthorn events, later carrying on the lore on the next expiation slaughtered while protecting Lady Dawn by a mass of damage reflecting hydra. Instead of reading about the lore, you took part every now and again.

[@Lockecole81]

I got to create some of those types of events. For a short time I got to be an Elder, which was basically a lower level Seer, but the way our "boss" ran the team, we were basically all the same. It was fun while it lasted. We did events on the Pacific Shard. I played on the Napa Valley shard myself.

[@benjoslen4824]

I remember on Baja getting transported by an Elder to a cave with glowing runes everywhere to talk about the part I was playing in trying to become an officially recognized player-ran town. It was an amazing experience. And then the gulid leader had a meltdown and accused me and some other people of trying to undermine him and tried to exile us. So we went on a rampage killing everyone and went deep into gray trying to turn red. I miss those days.

[@Lockecole81]

@@benjoslen4824 Yeah, there were some unused portions of the map that were used for things like that. We had a little area sectioned off it one of them that we could use and teleport to and from but were basically forbidden from the area beyond what was sectioned off from us. Dunno why as I doubt there was really anything out there. Lots of unused dungeon type tunnels and such.

[@LPerro_]

I first played UO back in 1999 and pretty shortly transitioned over to an RPG freeshard and have been a part of the german rpg freeshard scene since then. I was 15 back then and this game will probably stick with me for years to come.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

It's amazing to hear that it's been that impactful it has been for you!

[@moomah5929]

As a fan of the Ultima RPG series, I had to check it out. Tried the free trial and then went to a hardcore RP freeshard, where I played for many years. It will always have a special place in my heart as my first MMORPG (not counting the trial of Meridian 59). The housing, at least on freeshards, where you didn't had player houses on every corner, was awesome. Also lots of custom enemies with some being able to outrun you and even keep up with mounts plus hitting like a truck. Fighting these as archer surely wasn't boring. xD Btw, the game didn't used to have quests. It's a later addition. Also no spinning target markers (I find the big golden rings are looking stupid). Seems like the made the UI actually worse in some regards. Like you could simply drop stacks of gold coins into your bank chest, no extra menus needed. PS: Riding into houses and dungeons with your horse still feels wrong as it was seen as roleplay breaking.

[@EmperorAttila]

What was the name of the freeshard? Schattenwelt?

[@moomah5929]

@@EmperorAttila Skariatain (Austrian Freeshard), but for a while, I also played on another. Can't remember it's name. Schattenwelt sounds very familiar though.

[@shellyfagan6931]

Great video. I started playing UO in 1997. Also, finished Ultima 3,4,5,6,7 etc...Most people nowadays don't have the patience to play a traditional old school rpg like UO. Different generation, and time. Wouldn't be fair to compare to today's games. I'm definitely impressed that you took the time to give it a chance.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Have you played UO Outlands by any chance? It is a custom shard and it is really really good IMO. I’ve actually been pretty hooked on it lately and will be making that video for it soon too. I definitely recommend checking it out

[@brianmurphy6480]

I played every Ultima game I could get for my Commodore 64, then my Commodore 128D, even my Amiga 500. Ultima IV was my absolute favorite, where I would spend almost a year playing it to experience literally everything in the game. It had unbelievable depth; endless replays. 🥲

[@HighWarlordJC]

My greatest moment in Ultima Online was finding a boat on the shore of tutorial island, just outside of town, that had a copy of its key stored in the hold; which let me pick it up. So I promptly used it to sail to a treasure map I'd had for a long time which pointed to an island. Using a sextant, my gift from the gods(the boat), and pure luck that I didn't encounter any sea monsters. I arrived to an island, dug up the treasure. And was promptly assaulted by said treasure: a lich. Using every trick in my book as a grandmaster swordsman, healer, and the many houses dotting the island, I LOS'd and battled this lich for 30 minutes, using dozens of bandages. Until some other player came out of his house, cast a couple spells, and killed the lich. I promptly made a recall rune for the island, having spotted a square during my battle that looked like it could fit a custom-sized house; newly added in an expansion. And returned to place down my own house, settling down on a remote island with my classy lich-killing neighbors. Completely forgetting the boat; with the key back in its hold, on that same island.

[@rorschach775]

I love all the stories that people got out of this game. My server had a head hunting culture where people would collect heads and I died so often people would try to trade like 10 of my heads for 1 of someone more impressive. My favorite memory from the game.

[@Xmokko]

Some of my most fondest memories was forming treasure hunting parties and fighting 6 or more dragons that spawn. I had a lot of GM characters but my favorite was a provoker/mage and a assassin/leatherworker. One of my most epic fights 1v1 was in the dragon cave with a mage. I had GM poison katanas and hiding and we fought between the dragons for about 20 minutes. I was hard focused and we were both using every trick in the book. We would invis on purpose, causing the dragons to aggro on each other and I'd try to poison with my katana. We both seemed to have enough and vanished in the darkness with a draw.

[@tystnad2750]

:DDDD ​@@rorschach775

[@Diversifried]

Aside from all the different skills, items that could be crafted, personal vendors and properties, I think what really set this game apart from others today was the skill synergies. I was in the Navy when I first played this gem. If you worked up Lumberjacking and your Axe melee skills, it boosted your Axe dmg in combat. Similar synergies with Inscription and Spell casting. If you maxed Inscription and Spells, it made your spells hit extra hard and spell effects lasted extra long. This was a wicked combo for PK adventures (playerkilling). Another interesting thing about this game was the framerate tied to your connection speed. During this time, most were on slowpoke dial-up connection. But if you had something faster, you could run around and merc folks on your llama in a flash. Taming a Nightmare (Spell casting horse) and training it by healing it and making it attack mobs was great and later you could tame dragons and stuff. It was the best way to clear Ettin caves and whatnot. If you maxed out your crafting, you could put your name on the item. My buddy was a Blacksmith named Spandex. Everyone was running around with Chainmail by Spandex. Great times and one of the best MMO's ever.

[@BudikahYT]

UO Outlands is the true heir to the UO throne. The live server is a pale comparison. Awesome to see people still putting out content for this.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Outlands was a great experience for sure. It was a blast getting to experience this game finally, even if it was 20ish years too late!

[@libradragon]

@@PixelRookieOfficial Nothing is too late when it's this good. Thanks for your Upload! New Subscriber 💖👍

[@charsquatch600]

​​@@PixelRookieOfficialf you need a guild in outlands, NEW! Is a good place to start, but it's not the only one

[@sicklemie5248]

@@charsquatch600 recruit him thachok :D

[@yugen]

@@PixelRookieOfficial *26 years, you could round up to 30. Shit we're getting old. Yeah Outlands is the best UO experience.

[@thehamilton5678]

I played in 1998 and it was amazing.. My buddy and I were straight rats... We used to teleport ancient dragons into other dungeons with people farming and loot their dead bodies. We even used to pretend to buy deeds and steal them within town and put them on donkey before we were killed by guards.. Lots of good memories..

[@kenlocjusmurkedu691]

I used to love casting invisibility on all my dragons n hitting the town portal during wars

[@dirtpoorchris]

The best... Make a thief that looks exactly like your pk.. Give him brawling and weapon disarm and steal.... Snoop their bag Or equiped wep and use weapon inspection on it.. when they attack you and you disarm macro steal last target and run off with their main weapon.

[@AMHAPPY]

GREY IN town

[@albertt755]

I started playing it in 2005.

[@anarchoutis]

Late 90s - Early 00s Ultima Online still remains one of my most memorable online gaming experiences. There were no cookie-cutter classes, or generic questlines. Just a sandbox to share with thousands of other players, creating our own adventures. The menu theme music "Stones" is permanently burned into my brain to this day. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4mUmHZpd7GkaNk

[@Ackz89]

Used to listen to this whilst glaring at the giant map that came with it and the nice cloth art work cut out. Truly immersed and memories I will never forget

[@Dr.Quarex]

The only game that ever recaptured the feelings I had in the first months of Ultima Online was, weirdly enough, Day Z when it was still an Arma ][ mod. Something about that combination of literally everything being overwhelmingly dangerous AND other players also being able to kill you and take all your stuff is just unlike anything else, even if 99% of the time I would still rather play a game where nobody is going to sneak up behind me and take all my stuff

[@TheAzrai]

@@Dr.Quarex Yeah, UO before they split the shards into Trammel & Felucca (safe zone & PVP zone) was an amazing time. After the split, the game's atmosphere just took a nosedive.

[@diggitydriz]

BANK GUARDS VENDOR BUY! basically all i remember from UO :D loved it though.

[@aasfasfaa]

Love that song! I think it was first part of Ultima VI

[@gnomebrewing]

Ultima Online will always hold a special place in my heart. First MMO experience excluding MUDs and still one of the best games I've ever played.

[@indieknytt1427]

Tao here and I just had to pause the video at the 6:22 mark to thank you for letting me live out my dreams of being a horse! Please no spoilers, I'm so giddy to see the fun-filled adventures I'll get to go on :)

[@indieknytt1427]

oh

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

:( #riptao

[@juanchodelrancho5379]

#PrayersForTao

[@tikar8982]

In 1997 I had my kids mining for me 😂 God I loved that game so much.... I played until 2018 when life became a pain, so I gave away all my rares and castles and keeps and stuff.

[@TheAzrai]

Multiple castles!? You were living the dream. You probably spent longer decorating them than you spent adventuring, and I can totally understand that.

[@tikar8982]

@@TheAzrai lol yep! Decorating was my favorite part ♥️

[@Lord-of-Cats]

Yess, make a full Outlands video! They're releasing a second land expansion in Q3, and I would love to see the shard get publicity from a channel as big as yours.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Dude, Outlands was wild. I was running dual accounts with coded macros for farming lumber to earn cash for a while and was really into it haha. Way more fun than retail UO IMO

[@panemon187]

Yeah I play on outlands too, check out my channel for pvp action. :D

[@jesot]

​@@PixelRookieOfficialEA ruined UO trying to make it more like EverQuest meets Diablo. Most 3rd party servers remove most of the changes after T2A or Renaissance, which is why they're way better.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Lol okay

[@SH1TWORKS]

This was entertaining, funny, and well put together. Thanks for taking us back in time with you, brother. Liked and subscribed.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Hey thanks so much for the kind words! I saw you joined the discord server too so I’ll say hi to you in there tomorrow when I’m up and about ;)

[@8bitgoonies]

I played this game so much from 1997 until today, still the best game ever made IMO, when the world was full of people it was just amazing

[@karrde666666]

I love how there's no fetch quests. Leveling actually feels fun

[@octobeastX]

the classic door close at the end sums up my first pk experience back when i was like 14. :D played the game for years after that moment

[@wanderer3600]

I like the animation, can't wait for the journey in Outlands....also rip Tao 1-10?

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Thanks man! Glad you enjoyed the animations! Outlands is a lot more fun. It’s technically only #riptao 1-9 haha

[@Ackz89]

To this day, I still rave about how good this game actually was. Maybe because it felt revolutionary! But I have so many fond memories of UO. From the people selling tamed drakes at the bank, to the order/chaos and 4 faction pvp battles stealing their sigils, to the role playing in Yew dressed as a foot soldier living out of a castle going on patrols. It was immense and will always be my favourite gaming memories of all time. I'm 34 now, still game but nothing will come close to those UO + golden eye days. Dial up modems which made a hideous sound when connecting and disconnecting when someone rang the home phone 😂 *edit* to add, it was the only game where I ever had a chance to interact with devs/GM's.. they used to teleport you to an empty dungeon room and have a word when you put a ticket in.. imagine that these days!

[@marcussmith4913]

Ya there was even politics involved in ULtima. I know on the Lake superior shard there where many guilds at war with each other. Some guilds controlled certain dungeons etc. It was fascinating all the things people did in this world. The players really did create their own content to drive the story line of the server I was playing on.

[@BigStyles_]

Dude. Actually have a GM pop up with his hooded shroud on and handling your problem. People have no clue how amazing this game really was … hell yeah. PvP raiding people’s champ spawns.. just no game has even came close to the amount of things you could do in this game at any given time. So epic. I still talk this game up to all my buddies I play destiny with … this game was special

[@StanDocLovesMeHaynes]

I come back to UO every 6 months or so. Its the over all character skills that draws me back. Its my char and I can do what ever I want with it. I have a thunting thief that I love to play around with. If it wasnt for the constant boring grind fest of farming for loot I would play more often. Been playing on and off since T2A.

[@kevo.kungfu]

I enjoyed your video. I've been playing UO since December 1997. You're experience is very close to most everyone's beginning; dying. A LOT. I still play the game and enjoy it very much. The beauty of the game is doing what ever it is you feel like, setting your own goals and making your own story. Being able to play with you buddies really enhances the experience.

[@01What10]

This is the only MMO I still come back to after all these years. I will quit sometimes for a couple years, then get an itch to play and jump back in. (Player made Shards are the most fun. Lots of variety there.) Ultima Online will always be my MMO. For me, it's all about the nostalgia.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Heck, I never played UO before recording this and I even felt nostalgia hahaha

[@01What10]

@@PixelRookieOfficial That's one of the great things about this game, it just feels like an old friend. A game that you can sit and play for a few minutes, or several hours and just feel like you are a kid playing video games on the family computer. (At least, that's how it makes me feel.) It's got its problems. But there is something endearing about it that always brings me back. Glad you made the video and had a great experience with it. The Free Shards are where the real fun is at, sounds like you are already exploring those. They make the game infinitely playable. I have an old friend who also plays and we will jump on different shards, play for a while and then check out another. We've been doing it off and on for more than a decade. Hope you keep finding reasons to come back as well! Fantastic video! I enjoyed the hell out of it.

[@BigStyles_]

So hilarious because this is the only game I still come back to from time to time with my orny and my 2/6 casting. This PvP is what I wish other games would implement. Instead they cater to people that cry when something goes wrong .. if you didn’t insure your armor and you get killed and someone loots it all well thats your fault. Ultima is a very special game lol

[@Rayvon69]

Man this takes me back I played this way back in the day. Met heaps of cool people playing it and we had a fun crew we ran with. Seeing this makes me want to play again. Ive played alot of MMOs since then but man it was awesome playing UO and connecting with people around the world. Cheers for the upload ❤❤💪💪😍😍

[@LordTrav_]

The Outlands experience at the end was spot on lol

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

I... had a lot of experiences like this when playing lol

[@joemomma534]

EJECT!!!

[@Drawfill]

I just love how your first experience of exploring is about saving harambe from the sacrifice altar. Just shows what sandbox games do to gamers lol. Exploring is what made me love UO. No "level 30 zone" ,"level 50 zone", etc... Just hey look theres an ork cave here, wanna look inside???? :) Also, lol fell for the classic noob trap : Come to my home, i've got RARES :D Hoping to see you more on outlands :)

[@lamsmiley1944]

I remember playing this when it first released. I was only 7 at the time and had no idea what I was doing, but still managed to have fun. I remember finding a body with loads of gold on a random road (back when the economy wasn't completely broken), I used it to buy a boat and travel the map. I also remember when they added property to the game and clearly didn't anticipate that people would build castles everywhere.

[@2toeninja]

I can't believe this is still going. I played this in 1997 to about 1999

[@Skytrain84]

Okay, that last 45 seconds of footage was absolutely PEAK Ultima Online 1997. Congrats on a legit experience haha

[@SK8Enjoii]

That chrono trigger music at 15:40 just reawakened memories for me thank you for that

[@Omegalux]

UO is such an amazing game. Really looking forward to the Outlands video.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Outlands was like 15 times more fun, that is for sure :)

[@Yuegos]

Vendor buy bank guards---->put this as a macro...vendor buy-opens purchase window, bank-opens bank box at bank, and guards, summons guards that attacks anything that attacks u in town.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Lol oopsies!

[@Eyrothath]

Honestly looking forward to the UO Outlands review. That shard was a GOD SEND!

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

It was a very fun experience, especially compared to retail UO

[@Eyrothath]

@@PixelRookieOfficial I roleplay as one of the orcs on there and I also have characters in the RP guilds PATH and the Yew Militia which is a military focused RP guild.. it's the best RP experience I have had to date in a MMO cause there's little to no ERP and players get to use their imagination more with all the freedom and creativity at our fingertips makes better for roleplaying and the orc guild is absolutely wild.. the FFA pvp we can take part in through guild warring and inner guild PVP without consequences also just adds to the flavor and the fact that there's very little real lore to the game.. Makes the RP that much better.. I have often said, do you know who the actual roleplayers are in World of Warcraft? It's the devs who are the writers and people coming up with the lore and the stories.. On retail UO things we roleplay out actually becomes official shard lore cause the shards (servers) are actually part of the lore of the game when you watch the Cinematic..

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Sounds like a really fun time :)

[@Ejacula]

I have so many great memories from UO launch/pre tram & still talk with RL friends about the game & all our antics. Having a castle covered in the heads of our victims with monsters in all the rooms for everyone to train up to GM on. So many good times.

[@hoofzy]

I played from beta into T2A and eventually Blackthorns Revenge. I was sitting behind my brother watching when Lord British was killed while appearing at the Castle in 1997. As my first MMO it was a memorable experience. So Many old names like Kazola's Tavern and Heather's Cove Merchant's Guild CMG in Great Lakes, Silk's Tavern on Lake Superior where we fought alongside Xavori and Magical Bubba against the Great Lord Calandryll.

[@Oleoay]

I was on Great Lakes too as Costanza. I was even the town mayor of Britain for awhile, ran the first item giveaway, and yeah, enjoyed Kazola's immensely (and I rememebr CMG).

[@coofoo298]

Do an outlands video

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

If this video does well, I will definitely do that :)

[@unacceptablefailurerate6453]

It's a pretty cool take to see someone play after so long. I was one of the early players, so it is also neat to see the changes the regular UO took here. I'm also glad there are still all those out there enjoying the free 'alternatives' to UO. I played them now and then, but to me personally it is just chasing the old feelings and not really the same. That isn't to say there isn't fun to be had, but to me the feeling is no longer the same. MMOs aren't a new thing, 'everyone' knows more what to do. When first playing it was this weird thing of people getting together and not really getting it yet that can't be redone and I loved that. Not to be an old man yelling to get off my lawn or anything - if you still enjoy it, keep playing. But I had my fun years ago and it is always going to be a great memory for me. If by chance there are any of you old Chesapeake players out there, shout out. I mainly ran around as Grom. Blacksmith turned mage turned PVPer.

[@GonzoDonzo]

I think part of the charm came from the fact that the devs had no idea how a mass of players would affect the game as well. We found thousands of bugs and exploits and many just became a part of the meta. It was kinda like the wild west

[@unacceptablefailurerate6453]

@@GonzoDonzo That's definitely a good way to put it - like the wild west. It was this weird interaction of people learning how to deal with other people, these systems, how everything interacted. It just was a really cool effect that seems hard to replicate just because now MMOs are such a 'standard' thing, even for ones that try to deviate a bit. Not that they can't be fun or someone else's first experience of course. Just different.

[@BusinessMan1619]

I worked for EB Games in the '90s and played Ultima Online from 1997 until about 2011 when I started to play less and less. The early years playing with friends were some of my best memories in gaming.

[@GangstaSparkleFairy]

I loved this game. It's honestly probably still my favorite MMO out of every one I've played though much of that can likely be chalked up to pure nostalgia. I have fond memories of repeatedly having to locate my body (on my first few days of playing especially) to retrieve whatever items hadn't been looted and making my character run through town naked. Ah, simpler times...

[@thinkandrepent3175]

My first Ultima, was Ultima Exodus on the NES and then when I got a computer years later I got Serpent Isle and Pagan. I always wanted to play UO but I didn't have the funds either. Richard Garriot(founder of Origin) is a genius and deserves to be honored in some RPG Hall of Fame if they ever make one. I remember reading his autobiography as a kid and thinking, this guy is cool as hell, it was all about programming and DnD man.

[@SaD_kNiFeYT]

Your video editing skills and narrative are a 10/10. I used to watch my older cousin playing UO when I was younger and wanted to play too but couldn't afford the money, thank you for making this video!

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Thanks for such kind words! I was really pleased with how this video turned out and it really is a way to capture what I always wanted to experience as a kid growing up

[@rasmachris94]

Hey thanks man, wanted to say this inspired me to give it a try. I've played a lot of mmos but never UO, I'm in a retro stint atm going back and playing older games that are fan favorites to see why people like them - so this was a perfect video for me.

[@Gatzul]

UO Outlands is the only version of UO that worth playing today!. Very cool video tho, well done. Subscribed :D

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

I definitely agree that UO Outlands was a lot more fun to play. I appreciate the comment and sub btw

[@corehalliwell]

I have the best memories playing this game! I played from 2002 to 2007. Awww good old times

[@ChaoticTabris]

This game has eaten so much of my teenage years... The fee stopped me from playing on the official servers but there are plenty of freeshards (Essentially fan servers that exist in a legal grey area), some were massively modified with custom maps and custom systems akin to what you would see with Skyrim mods. I eventually discovered servers with enforced RP (You have to stay in-character 100% of the time or you get banned) and my best RP experiences were playing a priest of a fantasy goddess from the lore of one of these servers.

[@libradragon]

That's awesome! I loved your story. UO~!! So much, and all great.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

The free shards seem to be where it's at. Outlands was a wild ride and way more fun IMO

[@Creek54]

Brings back memories. Anyway, from what I recall, you go to a big city and look for a high skill blacksmith hanging around an anvil and ask him to repair your stuff. Then you offer him a tip for his effort. I believe there is a chance for the item to break if it's badly damaged.

[@TheAzrai]

Yep, those Grandmaster blacksmiths were very busy folks. You had to wait a week or more sometimes in order to get that one piece of gear that you requested. Sometimes it took 15 minutes just to get a repair.

[@nikoladedic6623]

Press F for Harambe and Tao. And Tao II. And Tao III. And Tao IV. And Tao V. And Tao VI. And Tao VII. And Tao VIII. And Tao IX.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

lol yeah... the first 9 Taos were part of the uhh... trial run

[@Shadow-w9l]

Coming soon… Tao XI

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

@Shadow-w9l oh, we were way past Tao XI at the end hahaha

[@johnblount1347]

Recently started playing on Ultima Online Forever.. Loving it!!

[@MiamiSammy]

This game actually has such a high learning curve it’s insane lol but it’s still very much alive and well

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Indeed it is. Outlands seems to be even crazier

[@derchromebacher4366]

That I still went "That's food!" when your pal cast In Mani Ylem hurt as much as it warmed my heart.

[@enjoyit81]

I play on the Freeshard Outlands because there are a lot of players there, more than on other servers. I think, despite its extras, it comes very close to the old UO. I love this server :)

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

The map and dungeons alone made it way cooler IMO. In retail UO, I had a heck of a time trying to find a straightforward "dungeon" that we could do. Outlands lets you teleport to every single one at your leisure and it was awesome

[@enjoyit81]

@@PixelRookieOfficial Exactly, and that's what makes UO Outlands uniquely special :)

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Wildlands will be out in like a week too. Better get ready ;)

[@ShakeyWilson]

its been 20 years since I last played.....this brought back a good ton of memories

[@vashstampede4878]

I started when third dawn came out. I was 12 years old. It probably seems sad to most people, but some of my most cherished memories are from playing uo back then. Yes, i have a life, and a good one. But no game has ever came anywhere close to uo the way it was back then. It was soooooo gooooood

[@nathanmalcore9033]

Ultima Online... this game is what made me a gamer growing up. The community and events were always wonderful. I even enjoyed going to auctions with no gold just to hangout and see all the amazing loot get sold. The PvP was also insanely addicting. Guild wars everywhere, competing for spawns and scrolls, stealing and killing. If you get past the learning gap in this game, it offers a experience that puts games to shame in 2023.

[@Ackz89]

Those massive faction wars when another faction randomly tries stealing your sigils and there is fire and poison walls all over the screen my Intel pentium processor on win98 was lagging to the shit house 😂

[@jasonviande5053]

Man this takes me back. Hanging out at the Britain bank, gatejumping, looting at the lich fields west of Britain... Good times. I think what I miss the most are the UO comics. Anyone remember those? Belan the Looter, Imanewbie, ALBoE, Doombringer (I think). They kept me playing long after Origin split the shards.

[@R0ksta2659]

What's really awesome with Ultima Online is all the private "shard" (server) that survived through the years wether its RP servers, PVE, PVP, lots of customization

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

The only custom one I played was outlands and it was really good IMO

[@lytalo]

Great video, brings back memories…and nightmares about Ultima Online.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Hahaha ah yes, the love/hate relationship with a game. You know it's a good one when you have really high highs, but really low lows too :)

[@mrnopain]

The goals you set in this one video were like lifetime goals in the Original Ultima... Pre Ultima Death.... meaning before EA bought it and screwed it up. To get the deed to a house is a little expensive but really it's nothing even for the largest house. The problem isn't getting a deed but actually finding the open land to place it without having to buy another house so you can use that land..... Then if you wanted a castle you had to buy the houses around you. Those prices back then were 10-100x's the price of the deed itself. or you spend a lifetime with a deed in your pocket looking for luck. If you need anyone to talk about the good old days of Ultima like a bar drunk I'm the guy....

[@nowayjosedaniel]

The lack of real estate spots was actually a massive problem in UO. If you werent one of the firsts to get a Castle, you simply never got one unless you had no life.

[@mrnopain]

I think it made there being a point to having a castle. It's not a single use abode it's got enough rooms and lockdowns for a guild and to me that was what a guild did. Playing singularly I had no hope of even claiming the smallest home. Joining a guild gave me a network and a home plus space and use of the castle. It wasn't my castle but it was the best of both worlds. A Castle should be something that hard to get and you got them buy buying the space around you till you had the space for a castle.@@nowayjosedaniel

[@RonMizman]

I was in the beta test and then played for several years before most of the expansions came out. Thanks for posting your experience was good to reconnect with UO via YT through your vid.

[@ugh_dad]

I had no idea UO was still online or went free to play, when I'm done with Baldurs Gate I might just have to get nostalgic

[@Zulu707_]

I had some of the best conversations of my life with total strangers in this game

[@Kunisaki]

Man, so many memories! I did play UO a few years ago and it was hard overall mostly because of it's design to not hold the players hand, just having to figure out things. My first MMO was Priston Tale back in 2002, then played Ragnarok and a few others before getting to be able to pay the subscription to play UO back in 2010, i think. Still, quite entertaining to see others struggle as i did! Great video! :)

[@kr4yzi32k]

I didn't have money back then either but I was 17 and started on Novus Opiate which was a free shard and it was the best years of my life.

[@LoganConnally]

I remember getting my sword skill to grandmaster basically while afk, someone had a portal to something like “putrid corpse” or something and it just had assloads of health, for some reason you would level stuff really fast fighting him, and he lived forever

[@Gastell0]

Ultima Online is MMO where even if you're maxed out you can be easily killed by pack of most monsters, and I love that aspect. Quests were added relatively recently, considering that NPCs were originally meant to be interacted via text messages (i.e. there was originally no context menus for a really longtime), also that "New" client is still atrocious xD Tamers use text commands to ask specific pet do specific stuff, which is quite interesting aspect of old game like that that no other mmo has. Also didn't know they added ability to store gold in bank account, when I last played the best you could have is 1m gold cheque that was placed in bank as item, so it took a lot of bank slots the more money you had xD

[@ufoguy]

I enjoyed your video from beginning to end dude! I wanted to play Ultima online since 1997 myself. Maybe the time has come !

[@wedge_one]

Oh boy, I remember playing this back in the day, I was 14, around 98, 99, using phone internet connection (56k) and the game was all 2D. The 3D came with an expansion. Had so many good and fond memories.

[@eROCKaustin]

this was wayyy more entertaining than i thought it would be hahaha well done

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Why thank you, kind internet stranger

[@eROCKaustin]

@@PixelRookieOfficial hehe ya the good dungeons/content can be hard to find, but at least you found some of my fav places as a newer player. i spent countless hours farming those solen ant guys lol

[@Iniak.]

I played UO for years and every once and a while get the nostalgia bug. Your vid was delightful. Thanks so much.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

I'm really happy you enjoyed it so much. Thanks for the kind words too :)

[@nothingtoseehere6828]

That Actraiser music tho... Brings me right back.

[@TheFoodieCutie]

7:42 I couldn’t hold it anymore… LOOOOOOLLLL!!! 😂

[@stanleystriker7065]

When I first played, it was on a 56k modem thru AOL... The good old days are a mixed bag, for sure. :)

[@sea4874]

0:28 excellent use of music. You just know the builder of this video placed a piece of spirit in the video.

[@hdplays4105]

Been playing UO since year 2 on ATL shard. Glad to see all the fun you had as a new player. Ahhh the memories.

[@Jokester954]

Please continue this series ❤

[@stompie5233]

Nice video and the animation looks great

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Thanks, random commenter ;)

[@lgx83x82]

the actraiser 1 music is timeless. thanks for that

[@edraith]

Minoc mine's are just regular mines, also the whole mountain is a place where you go mining ores. The Shrine in a place where you need to recite a specific mantra in order to pray and do stuff and things.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Yeeeaaaah, I discovered this afterwards but it was fun going in and just exploring the world, even if it wasn’t always what I was expecting

[@SamHamwich]

Back in the day my pc wasnt very good so the game was very laggy. But this game was so varied I didn't need good frame rates to play. I played a miner and blacksmith, and a basic tamer who would provide adventurers with horses for sale and armor repairs. I loved this game and I didn't even participate in combat. I was known around town as the trustworthy blacksmith for repairs and if you needed a horse come see me. Such a great game.

[@abisoft1]

Wooo thanks for the throwback and good memories :) bought the game in my 20 back in the days . Played the free month and then was introduced to private RP server ( free :) ) still have friends from back then . What a game

[@TheSareus]

I love this view of a game i have played daily since 2000.

[@justbobsmith]

Classic game, helped lead a guild of PK hunters on Sonoma in 97-98. Hilarious crazy game of pure insanity sometimes.

[@nhattuyenvodieu3103]

I played so much Ultima Online as a kid, to my parents not-delight. I dont know how it was in other countries but in germany we had a bunch of free servers, some of them a heavy emphasize on rp. until this day i didnt find anything that was like this experience.

[@jacobshelt01]

I used to live playing as a teenager, in 2000’s I was Mika oba a character from one of my old tsr novels. I’d play as a mercenary and hire myself out to players who wanted a guard or monster killer

[@LeorixSP]

I remember playing full Snooping, Stealing, Hidding and Stealth and taking bag of regagents of mages while they combat was glorious.

[@andrewc662]

The launch game was crazy. People could kill you anywhere outside the towns and take all you gear. The dupe gold exploit was found and soon the entire countryside was filled with castles. It was a complete FFA.

[@KingKaleb77]

I remember watching my uncle and my moms boyfriend at the time playing this constantly as a kid. All they ever did was play poker tho. Tried the game but it was too complicated for me at the time so off to RuneScape I was.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

I heard RuneScape is an absolute classic. Something I might try to visit one of these days… 🤔

[@scott4092]

Love it. I've been a fan of Ultima since the single-player games of the 80's, and it's interesting watching you discover the world. The mines of Minoc are really just mines for players to build up their mining skill lol, but they sound like a place of adventure! Yeah the player shards are really the way to go these days.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Haha yeah I was surprised that the mines were really just… mines haha. My first MMO in college was WoW and the first dungeon was the deadMINES so I created some expectations in my head haha. I’ve played Outlands quite a bit and it is definitely my favorite. Video on that soon :)

[@BiancaRoughFin]

I never played Ultima Online my self but i had a friend which played it a lot back in late 90s/early 2000s. I remember him first trying out the Demo of the game which his PC barely supported for some reason and the game would often freeze for no reason, later he got the full version from a 3rd party server's site and started playing. One of the funniest things i remember him speaking about in the game was Llama Bombs which people would often try using near banks to kill everyone around and get all the loot, basically they would stuff a Llama with explosive potions and leave it near the bank, once enough players were around the owner of the Llama would cast FlameStrike on it, killing it and detonating all the Explosive potions inside it dealing massive damage.

[@MichaelAdams3D]

I haven't logged in for years but I'm still grateful for the veteran player reward horse that you just summon. Was definitely super useful.

[@PwnstarrGaming]

See you on Outlands :)

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

Hey - I learned a lot about my lyric bard build thanks to you! Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment

[@ringo2715]

Ninja ability to copy yourself can lead to a pretty cool build where you turn into a white tiger and have insane dodge rates. Makes a dodge based tank. But it's pretty late game build

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

I gotta say that early game ninja clone build was basically worthless and absolutely hilarious to have as part of the team lol

[@gangstalkerofgangstalkers]

Good video. Looking forward to the outlands video if you make one.

[@PixelRookieOfficial]

I definitely want to do Outlands next. It was a lot more fun overall.

[@pauld9730]

I played UO back in the late 90's - early 00's. The whole video was wild seeing how much it has changed. Then I saw the last clip... That's the UO I remember.

[@Apocalypse_1.0]

Everyone should check out Shards Of Britannia. Amazing UO version with updated graphics. Definitely worth a play!