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What IPs are left?
azmundai
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The biggest one I can think of is Shannara. Its almost staggering to an extent that there is no MMO for this.
Castlevania is another I could see somehow making a transition. WAR Witch hunter class and all.
Something more completely Steampunk (I dont know much about specifically steampunk IPs ... if there are any)
As cheesy as it might turn out I think the "How to train a dragon" movie could make a cool MMO where your focus is on your dragon, not you.
Hairy Plopper? /shudder
Anyone else?
1) Dune
2) babylon 5
3) firefly
4) farscape
5) Shannara (Terry Brooks)
6) Xanth
7) Castlevania
8) G.I. Joe
9) Battlestar Galactica - non-browser based
10) Farscape
11) Babalyon 5
12) When DAOC closes something related to Camelot
13) Highlander - would have to be PVP focused
14) Ringworld
15) Riverworld
16)Earthdawn
17) Theive's World
18) Fafhrd
19) Grey Mouser
20) Dragon Riders of Pern
21) Resident Evil
22) 24 Days Later
23) The Living Dead
24) Shadowrun
25) Necromunda
26) Bonanza (I loled .. but a wild wild west mmo is needed)
27) Blade Runner
28) Thundarr
29) Gor
30) Groo
31) Wheel of Time
32) Time Bandits
33) Masters or the Univers
34) Hot Wheels
35) Battletech
36) Mega Man
37) TMNT (Whats this stand for?)
38) Soldier of the Legion
39) Mafia
40) Dr. Who
41) Turok, Dino Topia, or Primeval
42) V
43) Alien/Predator
44) Deathlands
45) Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire)
46) Mad Max
47) Might & Magic online " Not Heroes of Might & Magic" But the RPG series that went for 9 Games
48) Wizardry Online
49) Elderscrolls Online
50) Lands of Lore Online "Must Have Patrick Steward doing Voice Overs"
51) Willow
52) Xmen
52) Mass Effect
53) Elder Scrolls
54) Malazon
55) GTA
56) Cops & Robbers
57) Redwall
LFD tools are great for cramming people into content, but quality > quantity.
I am, usually on the sandbox .. more "hardcore" side of things, but I also do just want to have fun. So lighten up already 
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There are plenty left... the ones I wouldlike to see made intoMMos are;
Sub Culture (submarine based sandbox from an old Pc, or maybe Amiga, game)
Bioshock (Rapture would make an amazing setting if fully realised fro a persistant PvP survival sandbox)
Space 1899 (Steampunk with a solid sense of humour, as the PnP RPG)
Interstate '76 (open world car combat with added funk, as seen in the original game)
Deadlands (Undead cowboys and indians, as per the PnP RPG)
Elite (As in the classic... jeezus, someone make it alreaady heh)
One's that I see working
G.I. Joe
Battlestar Galactica - non-browser based
Farscape
Babalyon 5
When DAOC closes something related to Camelot
Highlander - would have to be PVP focused
You could probably get the Ringworld IP. (It's been through a PnP game and at least one (old) 16-bit game.) Niven's still alive, so the lawyering may be considerable and I'm sure he's still maintaining control (currently renting out his Known Universe to other SF authors).
Riverworld, maybe. Phil Farmer's dead, and the only use of the IP I've seen is the TV series. Probably available.
Thieve's World IP isn't doing anything (that I know of) since the pen-and-paper days. Hanse Shadowspawn!
Conan's in use, but what about Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser? I don't believe I've seen Lankhmar in use for anything.
Saberhagen's Books of the Swords might make a good MMO. Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series?
All of these are pretty aged referents, but they were all multi-novel award winners in their times, and "forgotten" enough to have available IPs, maybe.
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A Ringworld / Known Space MMO could be amazing, especially if there was a lot of science involved.
Surely one of the various series written by Piers Anthony would work as an MMO. Most people would scream Xanth!, but to do it justice, it would probably need to be a lot more visually offensive to some to do the story justice. Personally, I'd rather see the Cluster series brought to life -- transfering the Kirlan aura into all manner of different aliens, each with a different set of controls, goals, and mindset. Phenomenal opportunity for Role Playing. But again, the graphics would have to push the boundaries of the 'Bust Selection' sliders.
Other authors works that might work as MMOs. Cook's Black Company or Turtledove's Videoss stories -- in each player is a member in the same company/legion. Eddings -- great world design, but would probably need to follow LotTO's lead in divorcing the setting from the story. Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince series -- lots of geneology necessary! One of my personal favorites, Elizabeth Boywer's various Scarpsey-based novels (check your local used book store).
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While your suggestion would be very cheesy, one based on the Dragon Riders of Pern novels would be an excellent universe to live in.
Would love to fight threadfalls on my blue dragon.
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I would love to see a an MMO based on Shadowrun since it has a long history and well fleshed out world, tech etc..
Also something based on Games Workshops Necromunda, it has all the elements to be a great PVP as well as PVE type MMO.
One of the most popular Fantasy IPs at the moment, A Song of Ice and Fire (AKA A Game of Thrones) is open and would make an excelent PvP game with plenty of Sandbox elements as well.
Players could make their guilds minor houses of a 3 sided war for the Iron Throne where people could actually hold the major castles of the area and the main focus would be on the fight around King's Landing. I have it all fleshed out in my mind, but don't want to write up the ridiculous amounts of text to explain it :P
Even if you don't share my vision of MY mmo, SoIaF is a prime IP to pick up.
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Pokémon.
All excellent choices if done correctly.
Blade Runner
Toriko.
Okay, so the art might be a bit of a turnoff for people, and it's not NEARLY as classy as some of the fantasy and sci-fi properties named here (Black Company would be interesting, but I think would work best as a permadeath game.... ...)...
... but it is interesting in that it would translate incredibly well to an MMORPG environment. First of all, the world is... well, huge, and incredibly varied. They've had adventures underwater, up in the clouds, in deserts, in forests, in swamps...
The series has an incredibly narrow focus, but then expands incredibly upon the core concept. The basic idea is that people really, really like food. The world is designed around food (In fact, it's called the Gourmet World). People pay exorbitant amounts of money to hunters, to go out and gather ingredients... either tasty parts of incredibly deadly monsters, or ingredients located in hostile climes.
As an MMO, there would be several factions (Representing things like the hunters, the conservationists, the evil types of hunters, and various unaligned mercenaries), several types of fighting styles (The main character fights using his hands and feet, but he has friends who fight with methods like ingesting lots of poisons and having a poison-based fighting style, somebody who fights using sound waves, and somebody who fights using his hair (It really makes more sense in context, I swear), and an incredibly involved crafting system (Mostly involving cooking, but the series gets into things like how important people like knife sharpeners are.)
Exploration, in depth and incredibly useful crafting that even extends into the world of combat (Being familiar with ingredients allows you to eat the best parts of things you kill... eating being the main method of recovering both health and energy), wide variety of combat styles, well integrated reasons to fight monsters, an actual economic system... it's hard to find all of these in a single series, much less laid out with this much depth. :T
The evil dead movies would be awesome. Also....Someone actually needs to make the Wheel of time mmo happen.
Honestly I've always wondered why there was no Thundarr MMO... Future earth cross between fantasy and sci fi..
Depends on what IP's you want to talk about as well. You know when EA took over Origin Systems they became the owner of a ton of IP's and many of them could be translated to MMO's. I could easily see a cross between Wing Commander and Privateer. They have every kind of genre you can imagine from some of those OSI games. Tho one I really enjoyed Autoduel was off a license (steve jackson or something like that..)
Personally I wouldn't be that keen on developing any MMO on someone elses license but that's just my opinion.
Barsoom AKA John Carter of Mars.
Tales of Known Space - Larry Niven
Nehwon, Fafhrd and the gray mouse - Fritz Leiber
Elric, Michael Moorcock
Just a few.
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They have whole sims dedicated to GOR. All the degradation towards women you could possibly ever need in this lifetime!
Lots of IP ideas out there:
Pokemon, Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, Wild Wild West, Steampunk themes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer/ True Blood, Thundarr, Thundercats, Green Lantern corps
Wheel of Time series
The Culture Universe the Iain M Banks novels. Saying that though it would be a hell of a thing to try and do and I can't see Banks agreeing to it :P
Masters or the Univers / She-Ra
Hot Wheels
Battletech
Shadow Run
Mega Man
TMNT
Thundercats
Earthdawn
DinoRiders
Garbage Pail Kids
Soldier of the Legion.
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What about historical mmo's such as Wild West, Civil War Era, Gangs of New York. How about an MMO based on Australopithecus Afarensis/cavemen (2.9-3.9 million years ago) call me crazy but I think that could be cool, I dont know maybe not. An MMO based on the Mediterranean Sea aroun 1000 BC could be fun too, as far as IPs what about Blade Runner?
Edit: Resident Evil