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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: Belfong on Tue, 10 February 2015, 19:29:27

Title: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: Belfong on Tue, 10 February 2015, 19:29:27
Paul Neurath founded Looking Glass Studios and he's remaking Ultima Underworld! This is a landmark event!!!!!

This guy shape the 3D first person RPG industry with Underworld. And now it's back! It's baccccckkkkk!!!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/othersidegames/underworld-ascendant

(Do you guys know what I'm talking about?)
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: Belfong on Tue, 10 February 2015, 19:43:24
In Vas Grav Corp


(http://i.imgur.com/rxMVSaD.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/YzMK16V.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/VkIcCmA.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/shED5lY.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/kRVhfs7.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/NaTNIdO.jpg)
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: Parak on Tue, 10 February 2015, 19:59:55
Awe yis. Another thing to look forward to once I'm thoroughly done with Pillars of Eternity and Tides of Numenera.. erm, whenever those come out.
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: Belfong on Tue, 10 February 2015, 21:12:13
Go support them in Kickstarter, I implore you!
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: Belfong on Wed, 11 February 2015, 20:20:28
Nobody knows this game here?
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: naasfu on Sun, 15 February 2015, 05:32:21
I remember the underworld games.  I didn't have my own pc at the time and so I didn't really get to play them for more than a few minutes.

One of the early bird slots freed up today so I snagged one of those.

Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: Belfong on Sun, 15 February 2015, 08:15:49

I remember the underworld games.  I didn't have my own pc at the time and so I didn't really get to play them for more than a few minutes.

One of the early bird slots freed up today so I snagged one of those.

Cool!! It's a superb game for its time. I bought a intel 386 (and a Soundblaster sound card) for this game, so it was pretty revolutionary at that time!
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: Belfong on Tue, 03 March 2015, 19:10:05
Just bumping it up again as they are at the final 2 days. Help them reach the $750K stretch goal so that we will have Lizardmen in the game. Come on Geekhack! Your Topre and LZ boards need to plug into this game!
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: paicrai on Tue, 03 March 2015, 19:12:42
 :thumb:
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: Belfong on Tue, 03 March 2015, 19:14:04
I need a hype master like Elrick to hype this up. But I think he's more interested in keyboard :)
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: cmadrid on Tue, 03 March 2015, 19:24:31
I pretty much don't participate in Kickstarter projects..
Title: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: Belfong on Tue, 03 March 2015, 19:31:16
I pretty much don't participate in Kickstarter projects..
I have had successes with Kickstarter so far: Wasteland 2 and Divinity Original Sins. I think we have to be selective and with Underworld, they will deliver! These guys are Looking Glass alumni.

Edit: Looking Glass made Ultima Underworld, System Shock, Thief The Dark Project. And people like Warren Spector made Deus Ex and Ken Levine made Bipshock. These are people from Looking Glass!
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: Novus on Thu, 05 March 2015, 01:03:24
Pay me and I'll support it  ;)
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: Belfong on Thu, 05 March 2015, 06:40:16
Last day people!

Whaddaya waiting for?
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: paicrai on Thu, 05 March 2015, 11:34:00
$779,598
pledged of $600,000 goal
**** yeah
this thing is looking hella
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: Belfong on Fri, 06 March 2015, 22:20:48
Funded. $850K reached! YEAHHHHHH!!!
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: dante on Sat, 07 March 2015, 09:58:05
Not too excited about this I guess... But I would totally lose my $%%t if they do a remake of Planescape Torment.


edit; well not a remake but good enough for me! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: sirisaac1982 on Sat, 07 March 2015, 21:43:37
This is awesome. I played all the ultima games back in the day. Even bought the massive box edition of ulitma IX ascension, which I still have.  :thumb:

Really looking forward to this. 
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: naasfu on Sat, 07 March 2015, 22:51:15
This is awesome. I played all the ultima games back in the day. Even bought the massive box edition of ulitma IX ascension, which I still have.  :thumb:

haha, i think i still have this sitting around somewhere.  i never got around to playing it though, since it was in pretty sad shape when it was released.
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: sirisaac1982 on Sat, 07 March 2015, 23:25:30
This is awesome. I played all the ultima games back in the day. Even bought the massive box edition of ulitma IX ascension, which I still have.  :thumb:

haha, i think i still have this sitting around somewhere.  i never got around to playing it though, since it was in pretty sad shape when it was released.

I remember it like it was yesterday. Got the game home, install it, went to play it and ...it crashed on start up.

Spent hours trying figure it out. Two of my friends had bought the game as well and had the same problem. Called tech support many times until days later they told me that the game had a bug and they were going to mail me a new disc. This was the good old days of the Internet, when it would take years to download a entire disc of data. A month later a new install disc arrives. Then a format and reinstall because of the botchery caused to windows by the pervious game install attempts. After that the game started...and it was horrible. Random glitches, freezes, crashes on saves, corupted save files but,  it was "Ultima" so, I soldiered on. I made it half way though the game and called it. The game had so much potential but was not finished upon release.
Title: Re: Ultima Underworld Remake by Paul Neurath
Post by: Belfong on Tue, 10 March 2015, 19:23:53

This is awesome. I played all the ultima games back in the day. Even bought the massive box edition of ulitma IX ascension, which I still have.  :thumb:

haha, i think i still have this sitting around somewhere.  i never got around to playing it though, since it was in pretty sad shape when it was released.
This motivates me to take some photos:
(http://i.imgur.com/7pg84UB.jpg)
A complete look at what's inside the Dragon Edition.

(http://i.imgur.com/3kDU2Zi.jpg)
Tarot cards to determine your fate.

(http://i.imgur.com/imzusFv.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/xP0sxob.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/itc0RTW.jpg)
Love the cloth map!

(http://i.imgur.com/yXvNeoz.jpg)
I've forgotten there's an ankh pendant!

(http://i.imgur.com/rsmzUFN.jpg)
This box is so huge. As a comparison to today's packaging. Must have cost me a bomb back then to ship this to Malaysia.