Richard Garriott Will Return to Games… Someday
Richard Garriott Will Return to Games… Someday
Posted 01/15/2009 at 10:36pm
| by Nathan Grayson
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Ultima creator and one-time Tabula Rasa big man Richard “Lord British” Garriott may have moonwalked right out of the gaming industry, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be phoning home after his geosynchronous jaunt. In an interview with GameDaily, Garriott spoke of his intention to give game development another shot – but only after raising the bar for mid-life crises a few notches higher.
“Do I have a plan that I can tell you now? No. I'm still finishing my space flight. I am literally still in the middle of NASA and ESA medical experiments. I am literally still in the middle of my earth observation analysis, as well as the particle crystal growth stuff we're wrapping up. And that's going to take me some weeks and months to wrap up,” Garriott said.
“But, some day in the future, it's hard not to assume I will get back into gaming. I still personally believe I have lots of great ideas and desire to build games. It's just today, it's space.”
Garriott also mentioned that he might be interested in developing a new Ultima title – something we’d be mighty okay with.
Until then, see you, space cowboy.
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hg2WJW
January 16, 2009 at 12:07pm
The news here is that Ultima creator Richard Garriott went to space. Don't tell us what might happen. There are plenty of interesting things that might happen. I might get into game development. Will that story make it onto MaximumPC.com? Please stick to the news.
Mike
nekollx
January 16, 2009 at 12:09pm
no the focus of the story is what LordBritish said...and i quote
“But, some day in the future, it's hard not to assume I will get back
into gaming. I still personally believe I have lots of great ideas and
desire to build games. It's just today, it's space.”
hg2WJW
January 16, 2009 at 12:33pm
I know what the focus of the story is. But I think the news should report things that actually happen otherwise we start sliding down a slippery slope. If I say I am going to write the best video game ever. And it definitely will happen. Is that news? What difference does it make if Mr. Garriott says something or I do? Talking about things that might happen is not news.
Mike
nekollx
January 16, 2009 at 12:37pm
Are you Lord British? Are you the founder of Massivly Multiplayer Online Games as we know it?
When you become famouse "What you say you goign to do"IS news.
IF your not famous it isn't
its lie kthe geek version of learning what Britney spheres is goign to do for her "next albulm...someday"
bjoswald
January 16, 2009 at 9:51am
When I was a kid, I loved the storyline of Ultima 8. The game was a buggy piece of shit, as we can all recollect, but to me, it was "deep" enough to wade through. I hope he can truly reinvent the RPG as we know it: More story, characters with depth, and quests that actually have a purpose. Seems like the only thing left these days are hack-and-slash and the WoW juggernaut.
nekollx
January 16, 2009 at 9:00am
135,000 UO subscribers for one. Since it migght mean Ultima Online 2....
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