Oh, to wander some long-forgotten game worlds once more.

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Cear Dragon, Cocoa, WtF Dragon, and Goldenflame discuss a bunch of games that they used to play, which they can’t ever play again for various reasons.

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Ultima VI Gates of Creation by OC ReMix

Ultima 6 Theme (from Punchfest) by Lorto Dragon

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Andrea Contato’s Through the Moongate, per its Kickstarter page, “illuminates the path of the Ultima games' history and the creative people behind this landmark series. It also covers some of Origin’s other games, especially Wing Commander, and touches on several contemporary titles. Many of these tales have never before been told.” The book “aims to be a more complete account of Origin’s history than has ever been presented before.”

This episode covers Origin Systems' struggle to adapt to developing Ultima 6 for MS-DOS.

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Thoughts on some of the questionable design decisions made over “Ultima Online’s” lengthy history.

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Other News Stories

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Cear Dragon and his friend Cocoa discuss changes made to the game that negatively affected Ultima Online, and what sort of solutions to the problems being addressed – with benefit of hindsight – might have worked better.

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Andrea Contato’s Through the Moongate, per its Kickstarter page, “illuminates the path of the Ultima games' history and the creative people behind this landmark series. It also covers some of Origin’s other games, especially Wing Commander, and touches on several contemporary titles. Many of these tales have never before been told.” The book “aims to be a more complete account of Origin’s history than has ever been presented before.”

This episode covers the development and release of Ultima 5 across various platforms.

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‘Warriors of Destiny’ - an Ultima V Orchestral Remix by Scott Buckley

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How would YOU reboot the Ultima series?

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If you could have the ear of somebody who could make a new Ultima game, even for a minute...what would your proposal for that game be?

That was the topic suggested just prior to this episode’s recording session, and by and large it’s the topic we stuck with all through the conversation.

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Ultima V - Stones 2001 Remix by DJ Lizard

Ultima VI Gates of Creation by OC ReMix

Ultima 6 Theme (from Punchfest) by Lorto Dragon

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Humility, of all the Eight Virtues, is the most difficult to really understand.

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The virtue of Humility, in Ultima lore and in real life, is one of the more difficult virtues to describe. In fact, it is often easier to analyze by looking at what it is not, rather than at what it is.

Saint Josemaria Escriva, in life a Catholic priest, was a philosopher who mused quite a lot on the concept of Humility, and in one of his “Furrows” (writings), he put forth a list of signs of a lack of humility. The seventeen points on this list will form the basis of this Byte-Sized Virtue season; if all goes well, we’ll handle one a week, but if need be we’ll consider multiple signs in a single episode.

This week offers a look at the sixth and seventh signs (we’ll come back to the fifth later): “Not being aware that all the gifts and qualities you have are on loan,” and “not acknowledging that you are unworthy of all honour or esteem, even the ground you are treading on or the things you own.”

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New Magincia and New Magincia End, from the Ultima 9 Soundtrack by George Oldziey

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Humility, of all the Eight Virtues, is the most difficult to really understand.

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The virtue of Humility, in Ultima lore and in real life, is one of the more difficult virtues to describe. In fact, it is often easier to analyze by looking at what it is not, rather than at what it is.

Saint Josemaria Escriva, in life a Catholic priest, was a philosopher who mused quite a lot on the concept of Humility, and in one of his “Furrows” (writings), he put forth a list of signs of a lack of humility. The seventeen points on this list will form the basis of this Byte-Sized Virtue season; if all goes well, we’ll handle one a week, but if need be we’ll consider multiple signs in a single episode.

This week offers a brief - very brief - look at the fourth sign: “Giving your opinion without being asked for it, when charity does not demand you to do so.”

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New Magincia and New Magincia End, from the Ultima 9 Soundtrack by George Oldziey

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Humility, of all the Eight Virtues, is the most difficult to really understand.

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The virtue of Humility, in Ultima lore and in real life, is one of the more difficult virtues to describe. In fact, it is often easier to analyze by looking at what it is not, rather than at what it is.

Saint Josemaria Escriva, in life a Catholic priest, was a philosopher who mused quite a lot on the concept of Humility, and in one of his “Furrows” (writings), he put forth a list of signs of a lack of humility. The seventeen points on this list will form the basis of this Byte-Sized Virtue season; if all goes well, we’ll handle one a week, but if need be we’ll consider multiple signs in a single episode.

For this week, only two more of the signs are under discussion: “Always wanting to get your own way,” and “[a]rguing when you are not right or — when you are — insisting stubbornly or with bad manners.”

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New Magincia and New Magincia End, from the *Ultima 9 *Soundtrack by George Oldziey

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Humility, of all the Eight Virtues, is the most difficult to really understand.

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The virtue of Humility, in Ultima lore and in real life, is one of the more difficult virtues to describe. In fact, it is often easier to analyze by looking at what it is not, rather than at what it is.

Saint Josemaria Escriva, in life a Catholic priest, was a philosopher who mused quite a lot on the concept of Humility, and in one of his “Furrows” (writings), he put forth a list of signs of a lack of humility. The seventeen points on this list will form the basis of this Byte-Sized Virtue season; if all goes well, we’ll handle one a week, but if need be we’ll consider multiple signs in a single episode.

For this week, only the first sign is under discussion: “Thinking that what you do or say is better than what others do or say.”

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Andrea Contato’s Through the Moongate, per its Kickstarter page, “illuminates the path of the Ultima games' history and the creative people behind this landmark series. It also covers some of Origin’s other games, especially Wing Commander, and touches on several contemporary titles. Many of these tales have never before been told.”

This episode covers the development of Ultima 5, and the fracturing of Origin Systems into its New England and Texas offices.

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Let’s explore the Virtue of Spirituality, the Virtue that encompasses all the others (in Ultima lore, at any rate).

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