Storyline development: Impressed with Keith Quinn

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    Was watching the Telethon and around 2:46:00 the storyline talk starts.

    I was quite impressed with Keith's @Sannio s obvious enthusiasm, paired with obvious knowledge about how a Ultima-like story should work.

    I think he should work on the MAIN storyline quests. @Lord British and @DarkStarr promote that guy!

    (No I am not related to him, I am just an Ultima story fan...)
     
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    Corv, Jan 9, 2018
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    @Corvynn Thanks for the kind words! I'll do my best to live up to your praise and expectations!
     
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    Hear, hear!!!
    I saw that too and was very encouraged by it! Keep up the good work!
     
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    Woot! Agreed!
     
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    I never got to play any ultima games, but from hearing what others say about it, I really missed out.
     
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    Oh man YES you did! Play Ultima VII (can buy it on gog.com). it's still absolutely worth playing!

    https://www.gog.com/game/ultima_7_complete
     
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    Awesome!
     
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    Yes, I was also encouraged. I think if we can somehow inject more of an 'Ultima story-feel' into the game before launch that would be great!
    Last time I played through start of the story I was disappointed and have been avoiding until launch.
     
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    Is the video back on then? please please please say 'yes'
     
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    You mean my storyline playthrough? You know what, after seeing that panel and seeing how enthusiastic RG and Keith were I am actually tempted to do it again after all. It motivated me.
    (Thanks for actually liking my video btw :) )
     
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    If you end up playing through my side quests and making videos, make sure to post links so I can see what sort of improvements I should make, and which parts work well and I should absolutely keep in place!
     
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    I would make a video play through but the only use it would probably serve is how not to do it or how to do it and die shamefully, lol.
     
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    Truthfully, that can still be valuable information for developers!
     
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    Just save the death montage for the end while playing the Benny Hill theme. :D
     
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    I will definitely do that! Awesome that you are so open for feedback, way to go! I am quite new to the forum here, but is there a dev log or something that makes it easy for me to know which side quests you did or rather in which areas you did the side quests?
     
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    Hey, same will happen here. My excuse will be "I am just here for the story" ;)
     
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    Not really. (Maybe players have such a list that I don't know about?) However, whenever we post new release notes we also briefly mention new side quests. For example, you can go to https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/release-48-instructions.104223/ and search the post for "side quests" to get a summary of the ones that went in for that release. My first quests for SotA were in Solace Bridge Outskirts (release 41?) and two or three releases later I became our sidequest guy.
     
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    Ok great, thanks!
     
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    You're my new hero! It's so hard to gauge it sometimes when you're doing the work. "Is this fun? I sure hope so!" Hope you're having a lot of fun anyway. I'd imagine it'd be hard not to be fun getting to be part of the Ultima legacy. :)
     
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