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GM Enierga (gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
: 	Well, I only hope that when Ultima X:Virtual Reality is released, it
: will TRULY be VR rather than a cheap imitation.  And there lies my fear: by
: releasing U9 so "soon", they will have to wait a LONG time for VR tech. to
: become popular enough to enter homes... and I really doubt Origin will wait
: THAT long.
: 	Unless of course they release "U9.1....U9.99999". ;-)

I seem to recall a recent interview, with Richard Garriot about a game
called Bounty Hunter, which has been designed around Virtual Reality
equipment. He said the interface was designed especially for VR stuff, like
the power glove. Although it would also work fine on the normal computer.
The game is supposed to be some of cross between Wing Commander and Ultima.
I really can't remember where I read the interview though.

: > to improve whatever
: >: disappointments the game U8 caused (rather than keeping the trophy for the most
: >: excellent computer series ever).  Yes, I believe it eclipsed the Wizardy series
: >: a long while ago.
: >: 	So if anyone at Origin reads this, DON'T abandon U8 yet.  It does have
: >: POTENTIAL. :-)
: >They'd have to do to much work on it for it to live up to the undoubted
: >potential it has/had. Many parts of the world would have to be redesigned,
: >the story line more complete, basically U8 should never have been released
: >on floppy. I honestly believe that Origin are saving us money by having
: >abandoned U8, although a patch disk would be nice, to fix up some of the
: >more minor complaints ...

: 	Well, in that case they could go back to the drawing board and fix
: everything that was wrong in the original and then release it on CD (just as
: the CD ver. of Strike Commander was not the problematic floppy mirror)...
: or they could release it as U8.01... it has been done before.
: 	Or they could even go the half-a-dozen-patches way which Microprose
: used to do.  It can be done, it is only a matter of how.  Like someone,
: somewhere once said: `if you eliminate the impossible, then you have to find the
: "how" to make it possible' (forgive me Mr. Spock (Star Trek 6), I did not mean
: to misquote you).
I guess you haven't played Ultima 8. One patch would fix the minor
complaints, no worries. I don't know what they did with The Lost Vale, other
than cancel it, but the previous Ultima Add ons have had fixes to fix minor
problems, so I figure the Lost Vale would have had the same. From all the
I've read about the Lost Vale, it was all but done. That's why I suggest a
patch that would probably have been included the disk(s) to be released.

: 								- Falcon

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