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Brand noo PC game blog Rock, Paper, Shotgun, which is already differentiating itself, in my eyes, in being a blog in which all correspondents are enthusiastic about the subject matter, has some amusingly mystified posts about Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn, as Alec Meer examines the graphical update of the now 10-year-old (!) MMO.
The series extends to a couple of posts, thus far, and the first one is bemusedly sarcastic to a tee, and reveals what I’d suspected - that UO is probably about half as arcane as Rogue-likes nowadays: “While I understand that the interface has to remain largely as it was so the veteran subscribers don’t explode, having to hold down shift, click on something in my inventory, then select ‘assign as key item’ from a baffling menu before I’m allowed to give it to the man who’s just asked me to give it to him is a […]
Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (simonc) and software by Elliott Back
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