Rather Infrequent Open Thread
The no longer anywhere even remotely approaching nightly open thread at Ultima Aiera.
Tagged: Oblivion
Kindoms of Amalur: Reckoning Wins Big at E3
Big Huge Games/38 Studios’ upcoming RPG title — Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning — won a lot of accolades at E3 this year, and looks really promising. And did I mention that its lead designer is none other than Tiberius Moongazer, former head of Team Lazarus?
The Serpent Isle Remake: Moonshade Screenshots
Thepal has made great progress on his remake of Serpent Isle, and has posted several new screenshots of Moonshade in demonstration of this.
Skyrim. Looks. Awesome! (Updated!)
Bethesda Softworks released a fourteen-minute video of gameplay footage from Skyrim, their upcoming (and gorgeous-looking) fantasy RPG. It. Looks. Bloody. Amazing.
Serpent Isle For Oblivion: Moonshade In The Works
Thepal continues his work on his Oblivion-based remake of Serpent Isle. He has finished with Fawn for now, and has begun work on Moonshade, the first screenshot from which is of the automaton barmaid Petra.
The Serpent Isle Remake: More Fawn Screenshots!
Thepal has posted some new screenshots from his Serpent Isle remake, showcasing new scenery and NPCs from Fawn.
Fawn at Sunset
A new screenshot from Thepal’s Oblivion-based remake of Serpent Isle shows what Fawn looks like in the dwindling evening glow.
Okay, Skyrim does look pretty sweet
Bethesda’s upcoming RPG looks incredible, and obviously has a very powerful, versatile engine.
Should Neverwinter Nights 2 become the go-to game for Ultima mod-makers to use?
Neverwinter Nights 2 doesn’t allow for the creation of a fully continuous world, a hallmark of the later Ultima games. But it does allow for the creation of a very fine-looking dual-scale world, a hallmark of the earlier Ultima games.
Added: Serpent Isle – An Oblivion Mod
Now this is how you bid farewell to the year gone by! The announcement of this remake also serves, in a way, as the cancellation notice for Thepal’s previous Ultima remake attempt, Infinity Eternal....
Restored: Infinity Eternal
This is (was?) another remake of Ultima 9, headed up by Thepal. It began using the Morrowind engine, and a demo (which is again available for download) was even released. At some point, Thepal...
