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Did not Lord British also appear in the Korean MMORPG entitled " Lineage: The Blood Pledge"? I know at least that it was intended that he would do so, but it appears to me that few have ever seen him in-game. We know at least that the production of Tabula Rasa has been performed under the banner of NCSoft (the Developer/Publisher of the Lineage games) since they offered a merger with Destination Games (a newly-founded company which was run by Richard Garriot and his brother; Robert Garriot) which was accepted.
-- User:Fraek 21:55, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Originally Shamino was one of Richard Garriott's aliases: in particular it was his alias for SCA. He came up with the name because SCA requires everyone to pick a name, and he noticed the name Shimano on his bike, which he misread as Shamino. (Reference: The Utlimate Book of Ultima)
Someone please clarify who his "friend Shamino" is, or remove the reference.
Currently the article reads "The name Cantabrigian British is taken from his birthplace's name, Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The name was given to him by his friend Shamino, and later Cantabrigian British decided to leave his old name in favor of the new one." This seems confusing. "Cantabrigian British decided to leave his old name" means to me that Cantabrigian British is the old name. So what is the new name? Douglips 16:42, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Do we absolutely need this as a complete section? The term doesn't seem to be wide-spread at all, I get 6 Google hits and that's including Wikipedia mirrors... -- wwwwolf ( barks/ growls) 09:08, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
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I'm pretty sure I read that he was born in the UK and moved to Texas at a young age, but to the local kids he still seemed to have an accent for much of his childhood, hence the nickname. Sorry about the lack of sources, but perhaps this could be looked into? It certainly seems odd that someone should be referred to as "Lord British" because they say "Hello" instead of "Hey". I've never been called Alien Overlord, despite saying "Greeting" since a very early age.
Here we go: http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,483/ - see also your wikipedia article on Richard Garriott. Funny that one article should have the info correct and another should have it completely absurd. Ah well, such is the wiki.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.20.97.220 ( talk • contribs) 21:57, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
A couple of the sources just lead to deleted pages... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.218.145.113 ( talk) 23:08, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
The Official Book of Ultima says there was no way to kill Lord British in Ultima 4 or Ultima 5. Page 31 says that. Can someone confirm the methods used to kill him in the article for Ultima 4 actually worked? Dream Focus ( talk) 20:42, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Lord British isn't just a major character in an extremely notable game franchise, but also the nickname of legendary game designer Richard Garriott. See here: http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/697376/Richard-Lord-British-Garriott-Speaks-On-Indie-Games.html Dream Focus 08:20, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Either start discussing, or stop reverting each other and edit war. Thanks, Sir Lothar ( talk) 14:14, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Computer Gaming World - March 2006 featured an article about the UO assassination. All of the deaths were listed in every gaming magazine there was back when those games came out. Finding archives of old magazines around at that time, is proving somewhat difficult though. The events have proven very newsworthy though. Found a major news site mentioning the character Lord British was back as General British. Dream Focus 23:06, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
This article is being discussed. Ikip ( talk) 21:58, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
I believe mentioning a key point about Lord British, he being his assassination in every game, and listing how it was done, is quite appropriate. Each assassination event is from a different game, getting plenty of coverage on its own at the time. And much of the other information deleted, is perfectly valid for an article as well. [1] After the changes at the top, I'm against all of the rest of it. Why erase the fact that the rights to the name Lord British were kept by its creator when he left, and that he appeared in his next game as General British? That and other facts are quite appropriate for the article. Also, I am concerned that the editor doing these sudden mass deletions of the article, is the only editor who said to delete the Avatar (Ultima) article when he nominated it for AFD, it closing as Keep today. Someone who already stated their opinions the Lord British article should not exist, shouldn't be the one editing it. It seems like pointless mass destruction of valid content to me. I'm reverting it. Please discuss any major changes, such as destroying more than half of the article's content, on the talk page. Dream Focus 02:59, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Lord British does not appear in Ultima VIII.
I think it should read: "Another reason the fans didn't like it was that it was set on the world of Pagan, not Britannia." And then the part about "so there was no Lord British to kill." should be separate. They ran two things together. Britannia was a lot more fun, more towns and people, well established and familiar to fans. Pagan had only a small fraction of the NPCs to talk to, and all sorts of problems(idiotic jumping thing). Could probably find magazine reviews that mention these things as well. Anyway, if there is a problem, we discuss each point here on the talk page and form a consensus, not just go and wipe out half the article. Many people looked forward to figuring out how to kill Lord British in every game. The Official Book of Ultima does confirm this, and I remember playing the games each time, enjoying figuring things like that out as well. Dream Focus 14:16, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
[4] "Lord British" AND "Ultima" get 316 results in Google News search. I added in something from Wired magazine about how the assassination of the character in Ultima Online, caused a protest, giving players an unprecedented ability to change and influence the game. Quite the historic event. Dream Focus 11:49, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
If a musician can have an article for the name they publish music by, such as Prince or Madonna, why not someone like Lord British, which gets mentioned in news articles quite often? That is the name Richard Garriott goes by a lot. All of his Ultima games have on the cover, "Lord British presents". Dream Focus 11:52, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
I have no experience with editing wikipedia, but link #10
"Top 5 Most Memorable Events in MMORPG History". Mmocrunch.com. 2008-08-26. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
Doesn't work anymore. 2001:983:BBCF:1:3906:D25A:76FA:150C ( talk) 22:53, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No consensus to move. ( non-admin closure) — Amakuru ( talk) 10:59, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Lord British →
Lord British (Ultima) – This is a bit of a tricky one, but here goes: I believe that one of the creators of the "Lord British" character,
Richard Garriott, is more notably known as "Lord British" than even the character which he had a hand in creating. So, I believe that this article should be moved (disambiguator chosen per
WP:NCVG) and then have
Lord British become a redirect towards
Richard Garriott. --Relisted. —
Amakuru (
talk) 12:51, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Steel1943 (
talk) 23:25, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
Weak support to move but suggest that Lord British be made a disambiguation page. A cursory search on "Lord British" seemed to indicate a number of references and i doubt, not that I think that it is necessarily that important, that any of them has clear primary. Greg Kaye 12:45, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
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Did not Lord British also appear in the Korean MMORPG entitled " Lineage: The Blood Pledge"? I know at least that it was intended that he would do so, but it appears to me that few have ever seen him in-game. We know at least that the production of Tabula Rasa has been performed under the banner of NCSoft (the Developer/Publisher of the Lineage games) since they offered a merger with Destination Games (a newly-founded company which was run by Richard Garriot and his brother; Robert Garriot) which was accepted.
-- User:Fraek 21:55, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Originally Shamino was one of Richard Garriott's aliases: in particular it was his alias for SCA. He came up with the name because SCA requires everyone to pick a name, and he noticed the name Shimano on his bike, which he misread as Shamino. (Reference: The Utlimate Book of Ultima)
Someone please clarify who his "friend Shamino" is, or remove the reference.
Currently the article reads "The name Cantabrigian British is taken from his birthplace's name, Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The name was given to him by his friend Shamino, and later Cantabrigian British decided to leave his old name in favor of the new one." This seems confusing. "Cantabrigian British decided to leave his old name" means to me that Cantabrigian British is the old name. So what is the new name? Douglips 16:42, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Do we absolutely need this as a complete section? The term doesn't seem to be wide-spread at all, I get 6 Google hits and that's including Wikipedia mirrors... -- wwwwolf ( barks/ growls) 09:08, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
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I'm pretty sure I read that he was born in the UK and moved to Texas at a young age, but to the local kids he still seemed to have an accent for much of his childhood, hence the nickname. Sorry about the lack of sources, but perhaps this could be looked into? It certainly seems odd that someone should be referred to as "Lord British" because they say "Hello" instead of "Hey". I've never been called Alien Overlord, despite saying "Greeting" since a very early age.
Here we go: http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,483/ - see also your wikipedia article on Richard Garriott. Funny that one article should have the info correct and another should have it completely absurd. Ah well, such is the wiki.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.20.97.220 ( talk • contribs) 21:57, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
A couple of the sources just lead to deleted pages... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.218.145.113 ( talk) 23:08, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
The Official Book of Ultima says there was no way to kill Lord British in Ultima 4 or Ultima 5. Page 31 says that. Can someone confirm the methods used to kill him in the article for Ultima 4 actually worked? Dream Focus ( talk) 20:42, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Lord British isn't just a major character in an extremely notable game franchise, but also the nickname of legendary game designer Richard Garriott. See here: http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/697376/Richard-Lord-British-Garriott-Speaks-On-Indie-Games.html Dream Focus 08:20, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Either start discussing, or stop reverting each other and edit war. Thanks, Sir Lothar ( talk) 14:14, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Computer Gaming World - March 2006 featured an article about the UO assassination. All of the deaths were listed in every gaming magazine there was back when those games came out. Finding archives of old magazines around at that time, is proving somewhat difficult though. The events have proven very newsworthy though. Found a major news site mentioning the character Lord British was back as General British. Dream Focus 23:06, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
This article is being discussed. Ikip ( talk) 21:58, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
I believe mentioning a key point about Lord British, he being his assassination in every game, and listing how it was done, is quite appropriate. Each assassination event is from a different game, getting plenty of coverage on its own at the time. And much of the other information deleted, is perfectly valid for an article as well. [1] After the changes at the top, I'm against all of the rest of it. Why erase the fact that the rights to the name Lord British were kept by its creator when he left, and that he appeared in his next game as General British? That and other facts are quite appropriate for the article. Also, I am concerned that the editor doing these sudden mass deletions of the article, is the only editor who said to delete the Avatar (Ultima) article when he nominated it for AFD, it closing as Keep today. Someone who already stated their opinions the Lord British article should not exist, shouldn't be the one editing it. It seems like pointless mass destruction of valid content to me. I'm reverting it. Please discuss any major changes, such as destroying more than half of the article's content, on the talk page. Dream Focus 02:59, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Lord British does not appear in Ultima VIII.
I think it should read: "Another reason the fans didn't like it was that it was set on the world of Pagan, not Britannia." And then the part about "so there was no Lord British to kill." should be separate. They ran two things together. Britannia was a lot more fun, more towns and people, well established and familiar to fans. Pagan had only a small fraction of the NPCs to talk to, and all sorts of problems(idiotic jumping thing). Could probably find magazine reviews that mention these things as well. Anyway, if there is a problem, we discuss each point here on the talk page and form a consensus, not just go and wipe out half the article. Many people looked forward to figuring out how to kill Lord British in every game. The Official Book of Ultima does confirm this, and I remember playing the games each time, enjoying figuring things like that out as well. Dream Focus 14:16, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
[4] "Lord British" AND "Ultima" get 316 results in Google News search. I added in something from Wired magazine about how the assassination of the character in Ultima Online, caused a protest, giving players an unprecedented ability to change and influence the game. Quite the historic event. Dream Focus 11:49, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
If a musician can have an article for the name they publish music by, such as Prince or Madonna, why not someone like Lord British, which gets mentioned in news articles quite often? That is the name Richard Garriott goes by a lot. All of his Ultima games have on the cover, "Lord British presents". Dream Focus 11:52, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
I have no experience with editing wikipedia, but link #10
"Top 5 Most Memorable Events in MMORPG History". Mmocrunch.com. 2008-08-26. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
Doesn't work anymore. 2001:983:BBCF:1:3906:D25A:76FA:150C ( talk) 22:53, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No consensus to move. ( non-admin closure) — Amakuru ( talk) 10:59, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Lord British →
Lord British (Ultima) – This is a bit of a tricky one, but here goes: I believe that one of the creators of the "Lord British" character,
Richard Garriott, is more notably known as "Lord British" than even the character which he had a hand in creating. So, I believe that this article should be moved (disambiguator chosen per
WP:NCVG) and then have
Lord British become a redirect towards
Richard Garriott. --Relisted. —
Amakuru (
talk) 12:51, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Steel1943 (
talk) 23:25, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
Weak support to move but suggest that Lord British be made a disambiguation page. A cursory search on "Lord British" seemed to indicate a number of references and i doubt, not that I think that it is necessarily that important, that any of them has clear primary. Greg Kaye 12:45, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
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