This is a Story Rework from Ultima 8 written in German. The goal is to preserve the general Ultima 8 Storyline but finish the sideplots and dialogs in the game.
Ultima 8 is an unfinished game. Issues like story plot holes, bad combat gameplay, jumping "puzzles", unfinished maps making it not that good.
I like to rework the story, that means I will play the whole game and research the internet to transcribe every dialog, every book and any information I find about the world of Pagan and try to remap it in this Repository.
The ultimate goal is to rework Ultima 8 in a game engine like Elder Scrolls Skyrim which has great mod support. I do this in my spare time and not every day. It will take a long time and I will plan to start the reworking in Elder Scrolls 6 maybe with a team of modders who'd like to help me on this journey. And yes only if Elder Scrolls 6 provides proper mod support, otherwise I have to rethink my plan and realize the game in something else.
This journey of recreating Ultima 8 will take a long time. I would say probably 2-3 years just for the story. Why? Yeah well, to be honest, this project is not the only one I am doing right now. I can only do this recreation in my spare time and when I don't know what to play. Don't get me wrong, but I thought about this project for two years and now I take the first step to begin it.
For the first transcription I relay on https://gigi.nullneuron.net/ultima/u8/walkintr.php. Thank you very much, maybe I can give you some transcription back or can work together some day :)
- Play Ultima 8 as I used to (so as authentic as possible) and mark possible plot holes
- Augment existing maps on the internet (there are maps of the game, there I have to mark NPC, Quests, Chests)
- Replay again and enhance the plot holes
- Transcribe the main story in german
- Transcribe the sideplots in german
- Starting a blog on how my journey is going on
- Creative phase: Take the plot holes and try to make own interesting stories
- Waiting for Elder Scrolls 6 and the Modkit
- (Optional) Recruit Modding Team to speed up Development
I do not want to sound rude, but I don't think so you want to contribute in this early stage. Especially if you are worried if I lose the motivation.
If you really want to contribute, you can contact me, but I will tell you that you have to wait for another 2-3 years.