I have always been a lover of online games, specially when they are fantasy based.
The game that I play currently the most is Everquest II, which is a very lovely game. With good graphics and excellent content. Before Everquest II have seen other games as Lineage II, City of Villians, Starwars Gallaxies, Guildwars… Some better as the other. That for various reasons. Content, community, lore and graphics to mentions some things I find important in this kind of games.
This all started in March 2001.
Over then was a series of standalone games called Ultima. Standalone means here that you don’t need the Internet and that you are only real person controlling a character in the game, all the others are managed by the computer. I loved these games.
With one of the CD’s there was an advertisement for an MMORP-version the game. I got curious and I ordered this “MMORP” version. I learned that that MMORP stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game… which is quite a mouth full.
The name of the game was Ultima Online. I installed the game and I was lost… Ever since then I loved to play this kind of games. The first character I created was Dimrost (he is on the picture above). And now you know where www.dimrost.nl comes from :).
Since 2001 a lot changed. Many new games came around. Specially on the matter of graphics a lot changed. Ultima Online has very simple graphics compared with newer games as Lineage II or Everquest II, but originally these graphcis were even more simple. Ultima Online knows 3 clients to play the game with. A 2D client and a 3D client (but not 3D as in newer games). With the 2D client you can play the game on older computers without any problem.
Why all this talk about Ultima Online? For some unclear reason I had a longing for the good times I had in that game. And as the game is still there, I reactivated the game and I am exploring the old worlds again… So many good memories…
You are so “playfully” lately 😛