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Reputation: 9There's a poll making thing at the bottom. Hard to explain :/.
Reputation: 10sorry about that... ANYWAYS
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Reputation: 36Holic is a cutesy grind fest. Ultima - never tried.
Haven't played Ultima, but anything is better than Holic lol
Ultima is a classic, and well known for the PVP. Probably millions of private servers as well... Way better then Holic.
like them both but i stayed with ultima sooo much longer.![]()
I hope you know Ultima is p2p right?
Reputation: 9Yea I liked Ultima's PvP also. Holic is decent.
Reputation: 10I'm kinda interested in UO because so many people say it's very good....But it just looks too old
It's like Runescape. I don't know how that can be enjoyable in the new millenium
Maybe if it had at least.....say, Diablo graphics, I would try it
But to me it's just another Runescape, flash game look-alike
Unless someone can convince me otherwise![]()
Reputation: 11UO had a graphics update.
I don't think people will ever realize graphics aren't all that important. Ultima has some of the best gameplay ever. It has open loot (well did till they added 'insurance'), on some maps there is open pvp (again before they added the safe maps), there actually used to be skill needed to play, but EA Games destroyed that. All in all, you should try to find a 'server' that is before the Age of Shadows expansion to play, if you want a good server.
Reputation: 8holic cuz its newer and have hotter girl don't care about the cuteness![]()
Reputation: 10You cannnot comparative Ultima Online, the best MMO ever made, with HOLIC?!?!
Its very true ultiima is the best game out there!
its so frickkin on the on the right tracks.
i don't know why after all the years its been out!
Games haven't seen the light till just now.
Belle isle took some pointers, but not many have seen the idea of it.
Wow slightly copied most of its stuff, but left shitloads out,
wow realised its better to keep people at bay, that way,
they'd make a shitload more money.
the way wow is run!
i'm surprised its doing as good as it is.
Ultima's only bad thing is the company that dropped a toliet seat on Lord British
they are truly real misers,
if they dropped the price to half the cost
they'd be stormed with clients!
Reputation: 10I actually liked Holic Online but UO is still better.
uo emulators are open source projects and are granted the right to be hosted. Due to the high customizations any uo server it's different then an another and as a matter of fact the emulation crew stated that they are NOT going to emulate the new 3d engine because it's not in their business damage the company who created it.
So i do believe that now in 2008 UO is legally playable online on p.servers
BTW Ultima is one of the best hardcore mmorpg that i've never played. The only drow-out is the skill system very boring with the macro's stuff. But one you have created your character it becomes very addictive to play expecially in RolePlaying server where you can actually do anything (in relation to the implemented scripts) like conquering a town, fortress battle . All fashioned in a 2d classic graphic.
Altho the official servers are hosting a restructured version with graphics that looks alike mythos or something like that
no emulators is legal, unless you got written or documented proof from the owner. Currently the only games with legal and changing source code is Red Moon, and that 2D game (its at source forge)
Anyhow UO was ok in its hayday, it was like the wild west, a new place to visit , laws werent follow , nobody had any idea the outcome.
But in the end, it didnt change much from Ultima series , most of the stuff was is a carbon copy. Ultima tried many times to bring itself but to life, but much like the Disco Era its dead.
I still perfer Lineage 1 over Eq1 and UO, those were good times. Something like your first kiss, you remember a certain way , even if its wasnt truely how you remember it.
EA made the biggest blunders in MMORPG history with it canceling on UO 2 and Earth & Beyond.
I dont know if I could even go back to tile based games, though , its not the graphics or the game play, its just hard to recapture whatever it was that made the game so awesome.
About Holic, I got to 18 again , it just .. I dont know bland, and the pet is annoying the living crap out of me. It looks the time when my dad found a lawn mower at K-Mart on clearance. I was like wft , and felt so stupid pushing the thing.
I see people in Holic with pigs, the first that comes to my mind is bacon.
Reputation: 34Ultima Online is an epic game. It is definately the "founder" of current mmorpgs. Most games try to take elements from UO, but never get all of the features that UO has. People always say that current mmorpgs copy WoW, but really they are copying UO.
The thing that got me was the brutal interface in UO. I just couldn't stand it. That little bag for inventory that didn't have slots so you had microscopic rings and stuff getting overlapped with microscopic other gear. LOL
It was fun though back in the day storming weddings and PK the entire lot of em. HEHE.. honeymoon that!
Holic is decent, but I don't think any game that is currently out has close to the amount of stuff you can do as UO.
Reputation: 22never tried holic, and never really paid attention to learn how to play UO too but i guess UO is better coz its a classic game with decent gameplay ( proven by not soo good graphics and good popularity ) while for holic i dont think many would still be playing after a year
Reputation: 123Holic has nothing (except for graphics) on Ultima.
How can you compare 2 completely opposite games =\