Not a huge name, but George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series would make an awesome MMO in my opinion. Very few races, but tons of class possibilities, and more factions than you can shake a stick at.
As popular as it is, an action-centric Naruto MMORPG could be very interesting. I can come up with a great amount of detailed conceptual stuff for this, including a leveling, control, and technique scheme to keep everything fairly balanced (meaning that a player could, with a good bit of talent and some luck, defeat a player of about twently levels their better), but I'm sure you folks don't want to read though one of those epic, lengthy, massive posts at this moment.
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Not a huge name, but George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series would make an awesome MMO in my opinion. Very few races, but tons of class possibilities, and more factions than you can shake a stick at.
That would be a pretty epic...and a roleplayers dream.
Well, D&D...agreed it missed on numbers and a light content launch, but has since grown into a pretty damn good MMO, IMO that goes against a lot of traditional MMO ideals for something actually different.
Star Wars...started off with great numbers, in reality, and one of the more creative games (with bugs, granted) around and then got ruined. Started as something totally different, then tried to be like everything else...yuck.
LOTRO...if it has 300k subs right now, that's not a success since there were 600k pre-orders or so. On top of that, I believe most of their press releases aren't sub numbers but character numbers, which is pretty damn meaningless. Added to that, I just think it's an extremely run of the mill game.
I actually have thought a Harry Potter MMO could work very well, and in fact suspected after the Bioware/EA merge that Bioware's MMO could be just that (since EA owns the IP for HP). Sure, it may end up being a lot of kids...but at least it's kids who like Harry Potter, vs. the kids who will sign up for AoC because they look boobs, urine, and fatalities (read Beavis and Butthead).
I'd honestly say, on pure IP value alone, Harry Potter would take it.
It's not easy to capture the magic of many IPs in their original medium and move it to another. How many movie adaptations of novels have been disappointing? How many have made major changes in the adaptation process that disappointed fans of the original?
Mind you, this is without the necessary POV change that transforming a property based on a few characters into a MMO entails. Because not everyone can be the hero, by the very nature of heroes. So the IP is watered down to make it workable as an MMO, and people are disappointed. It's not "Harry Potterish" enough, or not "Star Warsy" enough, or not "Dunish" enough.
CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested.
Where you make a character and can do things like play basketball to raise your stats and stuff, then you can select to play and join a team in whichever sport franchise in the world you wan to play or join!
and all the games take place is arenas or instances or whatever, and people can spectate.. BUT you dont always have to play on a team, and can go to the gym and you have to buy new gear and buy stat enhancing foods (but must BALANCE your meals or end up losing stats in other areas ex. could be some sort of caffeine drink that gives you short term energy and or power but takes away from your stamina after a few or multiple uses in one day..)
This would be an awesome way for EA to combine ALL of their sport franchises in one easy to play game (as well as mechanics and ALL).. Just thinking about it kinda makes me ooze goodness!!.....
I'll tell you the MMO I'd buy sight unseen, although not really an IP
The Mafia.
Exactly what I've been waiting for. Why has this not been done yet?
I can only guess, but it seems to me the biggest "no brainer" MMOs would be The Mafia and a GTA/Criminal style. The biggest drawback, of course, would be the publicity/bad press thing, and maybe that's enough to keep it from being made.
I'll tell you the MMO I'd buy sight unseen, although not really an IP
The Mafia.
Exactly what I've been waiting for. Why has this not been done yet?
I can only guess, but it seems to me the biggest "no brainer" MMOs would be The Mafia and a GTA/Criminal style. The biggest drawback, of course, would be the publicity/bad press thing, and maybe that's enough to keep it from being made.
There's currently a GTA type mmo in the works, All Points Bulletin. It's supposed to launch this year but there haven't been any updates in a while.
I'll tell you the MMO I'd buy sight unseen, although not really an IP
The Mafia.
dont know about mafia but the godfather would be a good mmo lots of different gangs to choose from or create one from the ground then you got the good cops and bad cops and the extortion lots that could be added to this game
What about a "TERMINATOR" sci-fi mmo where players tried to survive against the robots and many other machines in the future after the nuclear holocaust? If done right, I bet this could be good mmo as well.
Or maybe a "Insect World" mmo where instead of races like elves, dwarves and humans and crap you could be an ant, a bee, a fly, a butterfly, a grasshopper, and other insects. You'd get the fighting styles of whatever particular insect you chose to create your character as. You could join colonies (instead of guilds) and if you were an ant for example, instead of buying or building a guild mansion, you could help build your tunnels. If you chose a bee or a wasp, you might help collect needed supplies for your bee hive or wasp nest.
I can see this one already... It would be in the Walmart and BestBuy stores at launch for like $19.95 and nobody would but it hardly. So then all those Christian book stores and Christian supply stores and stuff would get the game on their shelves and sell it at like $89.95 and those stores wouldn't be able to keep the game in stock, lol. ($89.95 to help support the Church you know, as if "the Church" needs any more money selling their 75 trillion bibles per year and collecting BILLIONS per year in the offering plates in the USA alone, hehe.
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Not a huge name, but George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series would make an awesome MMO in my opinion. Very few races, but tons of class possibilities, and more factions than you can shake a stick at.
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As popular as it is, an action-centric Naruto MMORPG could be very interesting. I can come up with a great amount of detailed conceptual stuff for this, including a leveling, control, and technique scheme to keep everything fairly balanced (meaning that a player could, with a good bit of talent and some luck, defeat a player of about twently levels their better), but I'm sure you folks don't want to read though one of those epic, lengthy, massive posts at this moment.
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Playing: Nothing
Played: Champions Online, CoX, STO, PSO, WoW, lots of free-to-play crap
Looking Forward To: DC Universe Online, Blade and Soul
That would be a pretty epic...and a roleplayers dream.
Well, D&D...agreed it missed on numbers and a light content launch, but has since grown into a pretty damn good MMO, IMO that goes against a lot of traditional MMO ideals for something actually different.
Star Wars...started off with great numbers, in reality, and one of the more creative games (with bugs, granted) around and then got ruined. Started as something totally different, then tried to be like everything else...yuck.
LOTRO...if it has 300k subs right now, that's not a success since there were 600k pre-orders or so. On top of that, I believe most of their press releases aren't sub numbers but character numbers, which is pretty damn meaningless. Added to that, I just think it's an extremely run of the mill game.
I actually have thought a Harry Potter MMO could work very well, and in fact suspected after the Bioware/EA merge that Bioware's MMO could be just that (since EA owns the IP for HP). Sure, it may end up being a lot of kids...but at least it's kids who like Harry Potter, vs. the kids who will sign up for AoC because they look boobs, urine, and fatalities (read Beavis and Butthead).
I'd honestly say, on pure IP value alone, Harry Potter would take it.
A new star wars which is not made by SoE.
Gotta agree with the mechwarrior those games were sweet a MMO based on them would be really cool.
LEGO?
Don't know if it is that much of an IP. But it could be fun.
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Correcting people since birth.
It's not easy to capture the magic of many IPs in their original medium and move it to another. How many movie adaptations of novels have been disappointing? How many have made major changes in the adaptation process that disappointed fans of the original?
Mind you, this is without the necessary POV change that transforming a property based on a few characters into a MMO entails. Because not everyone can be the hero, by the very nature of heroes. So the IP is watered down to make it workable as an MMO, and people are disappointed. It's not "Harry Potterish" enough, or not "Star Warsy" enough, or not "Dunish" enough.
CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested.
Once a denizen of Ahazi
A futuristic Final Fantasy with real time game play unlike FF11.
Ooh Ooh... EA SPORTS WORLD!
Where you make a character and can do things like play basketball to raise your stats and stuff, then you can select to play and join a team in whichever sport franchise in the world you wan to play or join!
and all the games take place is arenas or instances or whatever, and people can spectate.. BUT you dont always have to play on a team, and can go to the gym and you have to buy new gear and buy stat enhancing foods (but must BALANCE your meals or end up losing stats in other areas ex. could be some sort of caffeine drink that gives you short term energy and or power but takes away from your stamina after a few or multiple uses in one day..)
This would be an awesome way for EA to combine ALL of their sport franchises in one easy to play game (as well as mechanics and ALL).. Just thinking about it kinda makes me ooze goodness!!.....
I'll tell you the MMO I'd buy sight unseen, although not really an IP
The Mafia.
Exactly what I've been waiting for. Why has this not been done yet?
Exactly what I've been waiting for. Why has this not been done yet?
I can only guess, but it seems to me the biggest "no brainer" MMOs would be The Mafia and a GTA/Criminal style. The biggest drawback, of course, would be the publicity/bad press thing, and maybe that's enough to keep it from being made.
Exactly what I've been waiting for. Why has this not been done yet?
I can only guess, but it seems to me the biggest "no brainer" MMOs would be The Mafia and a GTA/Criminal style. The biggest drawback, of course, would be the publicity/bad press thing, and maybe that's enough to keep it from being made.
There's currently a GTA type mmo in the works, All Points Bulletin. It's supposed to launch this year but there haven't been any updates in a while.
dont know about mafia but the godfather would be a good mmo lots of different gangs to choose from or create one from the ground then you got the good cops and bad cops and the extortion lots that could be added to this game
lord of the rings and star wars done right.
Wing Commander mmo.
'nuff said.
Bollocks!
What about a "TERMINATOR" sci-fi mmo where players tried to survive against the robots and many other machines in the future after the nuclear holocaust? If done right, I bet this could be good mmo as well.
Or maybe a "Insect World" mmo where instead of races like elves, dwarves and humans and crap you could be an ant, a bee, a fly, a butterfly, a grasshopper, and other insects. You'd get the fighting styles of whatever particular insect you chose to create your character as. You could join colonies (instead of guilds) and if you were an ant for example, instead of buying or building a guild mansion, you could help build your tunnels. If you chose a bee or a wasp, you might help collect needed supplies for your bee hive or wasp nest.
I dunno, just a couple of random ideas.
- Zaxx
I can see this one already... It would be in the Walmart and BestBuy stores at launch for like $19.95 and nobody would but it hardly. So then all those Christian book stores and Christian supply stores and stuff would get the game on their shelves and sell it at like $89.95 and those stores wouldn't be able to keep the game in stock, lol. ($89.95 to help support the Church you know, as if "the Church" needs any more money selling their 75 trillion bibles per year and collecting BILLIONS per year in the offering plates in the USA alone, hehe.
- Zaxx