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What MMO settings or genres interest you?

irpugbossirpugboss Member UncommonPosts: 427
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TLDR: Poll here http://www.strawpoll.me/13088719

This topic pops up in discussions from time to time, even the occasional poll. Lets see what is popular now, results are vieweable and you can select any genres/settings that interest you. Try not to worry about the "IFs" too much, like "IF" it looks fun then genre doesn't matter or "IF" the art is amazing any genre is cool.

http://www.strawpoll.me/13088719

Went with strawpoll vs polling in here so I can reuse it more easily with other mmo communities I check daily since we are all one in the MMO Collective lol. 

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  • CryomatrixCryomatrix Member EpicPosts: 3,223
    What's difference between fantasy and high and low fantasy and science fantasy and science fiction? 

    I guess I prefer the fantasy setting but I don't mind trying others. I just won't do contemporary setting. 
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  • SEANMCADSEANMCAD Member EpicPosts: 16,775
    nice! I am in the outliers it appears

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  • waynejr2waynejr2 Member EpicPosts: 7,771
    SEANMCAD said:
    nice! I am in the outliers it appears

    Grats!  Who wants to a part of the herd?
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  • AmatheAmathe Member LegendaryPosts: 7,630
    I am a huge fan of the Vampires with ample bosoms genre, a la Van Helsing. I just need some company to make it an mmo. 



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  • ZionBaneZionBane Member UncommonPosts: 328
    Been looking for a good steam punk MMO

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  • waynejr2waynejr2 Member EpicPosts: 7,771
    Amathe said:
    I am a huge fan of the Vampires with ample bosoms genre, a la Van Helsing. I just need some company to make it an mmo. 




    I am becoming a fan too!
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    Kyleran:  "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."

    John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."

    FreddyNoNose:  "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."

    LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"




  • KellerKeller Member UncommonPosts: 602
    Low Tech Science Fiction, like Firefly.
    Historical, like Frontier Era (1800-1880).
    Steampunk meets Second Life and Sims.
    Fantasy, bring me WoW 2.0


  • General-ZodGeneral-Zod Member UncommonPosts: 868
    Still waiting for my Western MMO.

    Ill be a bountyhunter one day... one day.

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  • NikbulNikbul Member UncommonPosts: 6
    edited June 2017
    I wish there was good post apocalyptic or NOT SPACE Sci-fi mmo. Most of the currents one on the market blow.
  • CryomatrixCryomatrix Member EpicPosts: 3,223
    Amathe said:
    I am a huge fan of the Vampires with ample bosoms genre, a la Van Helsing. I just need some company to make it an mmo. 




    She was my favorite vampire. 
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  • MightyUncleanMightyUnclean Member EpicPosts: 3,531
    More orcs vs. humans, please.  So under-represented!
  • simsalabim77simsalabim77 Member RarePosts: 1,607
    An MMO set in Lord of Light or Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny would be pretty cool. 
  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,936
    Gorwe said:
    Cryomatrix said:
    What's difference between fantasy and high and low fantasy and science fantasy and science fiction? 

    I guess I prefer the fantasy setting but I don't mind trying others. I just won't do contemporary setting. 

    Well, the differences between High and Low Fantasy are rather easy to spot. HF is, typically, over the top epic and has EASY access to magic and other stuff, while Low Fantasy is usually grounded and doesn't offer you easy ways out. Similarly, the access to magic is restricted / difficult.

    Science Fantasy is Star Wars(Magic + Starships) while Science Fiction is more of a Star Trek(what if scenarios and NO magic of any kind, just tech).

    Now, don't ask me what the "Fantasy" category is supposed to be. It's an easy cop out and it seems that I wasn't the only one who picked it thusly.
    That's a good description. So many people think "Star Wars" is Science Fiction. It's not.

    Isaac Asimov = Science Fiction, Ben Bova = Science Fiction, Ray Bradbury =  Science Fiction

    Science Fiction is man and his relationship to science and how it affects his life.


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  • cameltosiscameltosis Member LegendaryPosts: 3,847
    I'm still a big fan of fantasy, particularly high fantasy. 

    However, I've never been particularly happy with Asian high fantasy and western high fantasy often gets stuck feeling very 80s so still on the lookout. 
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  • Po_ggPo_gg Member EpicPosts: 5,749
    simsalabim77 said:
    An MMO set in Lord of Light or Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny would be pretty cool. 
    A fellow Zelazny fan, hi there /wave  (apparently :waving: emote is gone too...)
    One can dream, but if you take a more realistic approach and look at the genre and the playerbase of today, it's either never gonna happen (luckily) or a total disaster (if a dev stupid enough attempts it).

    And it's not even the scale and the technical difficulties (especially in case of Amber, endless shadow worlds?). Just look at TSW, it was killed just to make a dumb, straightforward version of it, with action combat... and it wasn't even that much different from the generic formulae.


    Amber's rpg had a similar reception as far as I remember. "What do you mean, no dice throws, free character building, story focus instead of constant combat, and the need of actual roleplaying... what kind of a bullshit is that?" - said the average rpg player. As if roleplaying in an rpg, a "role playing game" would be something unexpected...
    And those average rpg players are still way above the generic mass of action-craved mmo players, since at least they have some kinda rpg background and not arriving straight from craps like diablo.

    Can you imagine the horrors a "usual" MMO implementation would do to those IPs?  Compared to that, the shitty Shadowssin of Creedor would seem like a true Tolkien adaption :lol:

    And if a really good and capable - and independent of big studios and their beancounters - dev team would say, f.ck it we're gonna do a worthy version, it would be just like TSW was for years: a small, avid fanbase, and massive voices of "make it action combat! change the animations! put there levels, it is too difficult!" from the non-playing mob.

    Remember, with Lord of Light they've attempted a movie version once, and then decided it is not possible... and with Amber a movie version wasn't even in question - though a few months ago there was an announcement that someone will attempt a TV series from Amber, but not a word about it since... :wink:
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  • simsalabim77simsalabim77 Member RarePosts: 1,607
    Po_gg said:
    simsalabim77 said:
    An MMO set in Lord of Light or Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny would be pretty cool. 
    A fellow Zelazny fan, hi there /wave  (apparently :waving: emote is gone too...)
    One can dream, but if you take a more realistic approach and look at the genre and the playerbase of today, it's either never gonna happen (luckily) or a total disaster (if a dev stupid enough attempts it).

    And it's not even the scale and the technical difficulties (especially in case of Amber, endless shadow worlds?). Just look at TSW, it was killed just to make a dumb, straightforward version of it, with action combat... and it wasn't even that much different from the generic formulae.


    Amber's rpg had a similar reception as far as I remember. "What do you mean, no dice throws, free character building, story focus instead of constant combat, and the need of actual roleplaying... what kind of a bullshit is that?" - said the average rpg player. As if roleplaying in an rpg, a "role playing game" would be something unexpected...
    And those average rpg players are still way above the generic mass of action-craved mmo players, since at least they have some kinda rpg background and not arriving straight from craps like diablo.

    Can you imagine the horrors a "usual" MMO implementation would do to those IPs?  Compared to that, the shitty Shadowssin of Creedor would seem like a true Tolkien adaption :lol:

    And if a really good and capable - and independent of big studios and their beancounters - dev team would say, f.ck it we're gonna do a worthy version, it would be just like TSW was for years: a small, avid fanbase, and massive voices of "make it action combat! change the animations! put there levels, it is too difficult!" from the non-playing mob.

    Remember, with Lord of Light they've attempted a movie version once, and then decided it is not possible... and with Amber a movie version wasn't even in question - though a few months ago there was an announcement that someone will attempt a TV series from Amber, but not a word about it since... :wink:

    All good points, but a man can dream. I think Amber, in particular, would be amazing. Maybe those IP's would be better off being single player experiences, but playing in a persistent world built around Amber would be a real treat. 

    I don't remember a Lord of Light movie. Did it actually get released? I had to read that book two or three times to pick up everything. I think if they were to do Amber, it would have to focus on small bites instead of the whole story, which would be a massive disservice to the work Zelazny did with Amber. 

    It's a shame he died so young. 
  • MikehaMikeha Member EpicPosts: 9,196
    After playing Age Of Wushu I really prefer the Wuxia setting. The world and the music really had me immersed and very few games have been able to do that. That is why Age Of Wushu 2 is the mmorpg I am really looking foward to playing. 


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  • GladDogGladDog Member RarePosts: 1,097
    edited June 2017
    Paragon City!  I want a world of tall skyscrapers and soaring heroes, searching for evildoers below!

    Actually I want a superhero game that is similar to, but better than City of Heroes.  I'll be trying all of the successors, but hopefully heroes in space will fill the void (Ship of Heroes).  At the end, that was where CoH was going with Issue 24!


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  • ste2000ste2000 Member EpicPosts: 6,194
    High Fantasy for me, I don't dislike Steampunk either.

  • Joseph_KerrJoseph_Kerr Member RarePosts: 1,113
    Please add Cyberpunk.
  • EldurianEldurian Member EpicPosts: 2,736
    I go primarily off of if they make the setting feel interesting and how good the mechanics of the game itself are. A good game could be interesting in any setting. Though a non sci-fi modern or military setting sounds like it would be difficult to make appealing to me.
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  • dave6660dave6660 Member UncommonPosts: 2,699
    I'm looking forward to the next superhero mmorpg.  The fantasy setting used to be my favorite but I've gotten tired of it.

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  • NildenNilden Member EpicPosts: 3,916
    I would love to see a Dragon Lance MMO but the setting doesn't mean anything if they are just going to inject it with cash shop cancer.

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  • Po_ggPo_gg Member EpicPosts: 5,749
    simsalabim77 said:
    I don't remember a Lord of Light movie. Did it actually get released?
    Nope, it was a similar attempt like Jodorowsky's Dune, only achieving even less, maybe a storyboard and an early version of the script.

    I admit I haven't even heard about it either until Affleck's Argo :wink:  after that movie there were several articles about the whole operation, the historical background and details, among those the original film the CIA used as the cover-up: which was the earlier attempt of the Lord of Light script with the rest of the artwork they've done before cancelling the project.
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