SOTA single-player focused interview

Hey everyone !

I just wanted to share this with my fellow fans: a few days I got the opportunity to talk with Richard Garriott over one hour about Shroud of the Avatar for my wesbite (La L?gende d'Ultima) and french RPG Site The Dagon's Lair.

We mostly focused this interview on single player aspects of the game because I felt this is what interests hardcore Ultima fans first nd foremost.

We had to cut it up in two parts because of how big it was, this first part focus on the engine, the settings, Episodes, tech and magic, Virtues, NPCs... and companions!

We'll hopefully post the second par tomorrow!

Hope you guys like it, I'm thinking this will help alleviate a lot of concerns

You can check it out <a href="http://www.dagonslair.com/dossiers/interview-richard-garriott-12-shroud-of-the-avatar/">here</a>, in audio and reading format.

-Sergorn

Edited: Fixed Link -- cs2501x

 

The Links aren't working for me.

 

Confirmed that the links are broken -- The link to the site is here:

http://www.ultimalegend.com/interview-richard-garriott-shroud-of-the-avatar/

English Text Translation via Google here:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&amp;tl=en&amp;js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;eotf=1&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ultimalegend.com%2Finterview-richard-garriott-shroud-of-the-avatar%2F&amp;act=url

 

Whoops sorry about the links. I must have mesded with thr html code

Oh and no need to use Google translate. The English transcription is available on the same page if you scroll down past the French translation

-Sergorn

 

We would not have this problem without the story of the Babel tower

 

Oh dang I wanted to edit my post as I got home, but I forgot you can't. xD

So I feel compelled to post to mirror link to my friends Dagon's site since this was a joint effort:
http://www.dagonslair.com/dossiers/interview-richard-garriott-12-shroud-of-the-avatar/

(And his mirror has pretty pictures to go with the interview )

-Sergorn

 

I've edited your original post Sergorn.

 

Nice interview, lots of good information! I'm looking forward to part 2.

 

Thanks for the edit cs2501x

-Sergorn

 

Hey, where is part 2 of the interview? I'm interested in hearing it!

 

Second part is up people, get it there!

http://wp.me/P2CKiY-b4

or there

http://www.dagonslair.com/dossiers/interview-richard-garriott-22-shroud-of-the-avatar/

This time we talk about Interactivity, overland maps, dungeons and much more

-Sergorn

 

Simply the best stuff I have read since the campaign started. This really should be an update.

 

Great interview Sergorn! This with the joystiq interview are the best ones of the lot IMO.

I've finally decided to back this.

 

Since everyone is saying the is primarily an MMO now is this interview wrong?

 

No, this interview focused on single player play because the person conducting the interview CHOSE to focus on single player play, not because SotA is first and foremost a single player game. I think it is first and foremost an OPO game, where FPO and SPO play is possible.

 

I know what you think Owain, I don't agree.