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Fallout / Gamma World MMO
killercod
Member Posts: 30
ALLRIGHTY THEN! My Wild West MMO thread went so well, I racked my brain a bit to come up with another genre that has potential as an MMO.
I used to play a pen and paper RPG called Gamma World back about 20 years ago. Post nuke apocolypse wasteland type game. Fallout comes to mind (one of my top 20 all time favorites!), as does Mad Max or Damnation Alley (remembering that movie really shows my age here...). With Fallout 3 in the works, might be something to look at...
How about this one? Potential, or waste of time for an MMO...?
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"The Fallout games are a series that has seen better days. Once the epitome of PC RPG gaming, they've been reduced to crap RTS games and even more crap console shooters. While Bethesda scooped up the rights to a true Fallout sequel, Interplay, the original publishers of Fallout, managed to hang on to the rights to make a Fallout MMO, and according to this SEC filing, they intend to do just that, and very soon."
Your dreams may some day come true. Hehe.
Read the full news article here www.destructoid.com/fallout-mmo-interplay-says-yes--28559.phtml
You know what I would like to see? A MMO based on the old game X-Com .. now that would be awesome!
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
Click on Fallen Earth on this web site.
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/gameId/126
C'mon, FE isn't Fallout... Even if it would like to be.
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MMOs played-> UO: AoS, L2, GW, GW: F, HO, SoF, ToP
There are some who believe that Bioware's secret new MMO is going to be Fallout online. They base this on Walton's (one of Bioware's executives) ownership of the domain FalloutOnline.com. Would be cool if true, but we won't know until Bioware feels fit to tell us.
Apply lemon juice and candle flame here to reveal secret message.
LoL, do a bit of research before you post something like this
. Bethesda Softworks, besides Interplay (the original owner), owns a Fallout IP rights, and as for now - nobody else. So your idea with Bioware is ridiculous. Just because a guy from Bio wants to earn on domains doesn't mean they're working on Fallout.
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MMOs played-> UO: AoS, L2, GW, GW: F, HO, SoF, ToP
Ummm. . . You are actually allowed to liscense a company to make a game even if said company does not own it.
Don't worry, we've all made that mistake before.
However a BioWare Fallout MMO would bring into question of whats happening with Interplay. Interplay held onto the rights to make a Fallout MMO. The only way I can see BioWare getting involved is if Interplay brought in BioWare to help them create a Fallout MMO, it's possible just not very plausible. Only time will tell.
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Doesn't have to be Fallout, just something along those lines...(though a Fallout MMO would be awesome!). Fallen Earth looks like it has potential though...
Liked the idea about an XCOM one too...lots of territory to explore there...It'd be interesting to see how you work in some stuff like crafting and player housing or ownership there...guilds would be like SG bases i'd guess.
I don't care to do any searching at all at the moment as proof for my statements. But I am pretty sure it was said in the news section of this very site that when Bethesda got the rights for Fallout single player rpg it was in the contract that interplay or who they chose had to start development of a Fallout MMO within a certain time limit.
Actually it looks like Bethesda will be making Fallout. I don't really like their games so far and don't find them to be anything like the Interplay games which were more linear and story driven.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/fallout3/index.html?tag=result;title;2
C'mon, FE isn't Fallout... Even if it would like to be.
Given the choice between a game that is already in development, looks sweet as hell, and has everything Fallout did and more (except for Ron Perlman and Fallout Boy), or a game that will probably never happen because Interplay doesn't have enough people or talent left to scratch their asses and are to stupid/greedy to sell the license, I'll choose Fallen Earth.
well, i dont really know what the actual deal is, but i can say this.
i had an actual bethesda employee, tell me to my face, that his current project was in fact a fallout MMO. and he said MMO. i asked him at least 4 times if he was sure it was an mmo and not an rpg. and he said yes, MMO. and hes a gamer, and knows the difference between single player and mmo. however,
this was said to me before i knew anything about fallout 3, and as far as i can tell, fallout3 is just a sequal to fallout/fo2, and a single player game.
i suppose its entirely possible that he was actually working/is working on assets for fallout3 and was missinformed at the time. but, it is also entirely possible that he is in fact currently working on an undisclosed MMO that uses the fallout license, and probably wont be seen for years and years.
the comment about bioware possibly making a fallout mmo, i think is pretty unlikely. they have stated alot lately (mostly in press releases about dragon age) how they are at the point where they no longer need to use someone elses IP, and they are pushing to make pure bioware ip games.
i suppose it could be possible, because that is a good ip to explore, and they would do it right. but i think if they were to do a fallout game it would have been fallout 3, not an mmo. if bioware is trying to get a piece of the mmo market, they will be coming in with something that is all their own.
ive been watching fallen earth for a long time now. seems like the news letters havent come in awhile. im wondering what is going on with that game lately. its been in devfelopment for so long now, im wondering if they are going back and making changes to their base technology since so many things have changed in the industry. the videos of the game looked ok i suppose, but the graphics engine was starting to look a little dated the last time i looked at the footage. and to me, the monster/mutant npcs look weak as hell. kinda silly to the point of being just .. insulting. but that stuff aside, some of the things they are trying make me smile, like the deformable terrain. aka, the gun you can use to blow holes in the ground, then jump in the hole and use it as cover to fire from. really huge view distances, and seamless worlds. it has decent story and some potential. .. just not sure on the fun factor of the actual gameplay. ive been experiencing the psuedo- shooter/mmorpg with tablua rasa, and found the experience to be lacking. for me anyway. ( i dont want a simulated shooter. if i wanted to shoot things, id play bf2 or some good ole soldier of fortune2). i think that at least in FE, you can actually aim and shoot at heads and stuff like that, instead of getting some hard lockon that just fakes the shooting experience. /shrug.
i think the world they are trying to build is so huge, its probably taking them forever to get it all in there or something. maybe they are still shopping around for a publisher or ran out of money or something as well.
and i too played gamma world. was sweet. would make a good mmo if taken straight from that i think. maybe.
some of the palladium games would be so fun as mmo's too. or at least rpg's with co-op.
GAMMA WORLD!
Man I used to play the hell out of that game around 1991. I ran a campaign for something like 3 or 4 years. That would make such a super sweet MMO. However, it would be really challenging to have as much flexibility in character design as the PnP game had. Especially the third edition. You could literally play humans, humanoid animals, animals, plants, symbiotic plants that controlled the nervous systems of animals, cyborgs, or robots if you had all the supplements. I can't see a dev ever pulling off even half of those combos. You need something like the CoH character generator on steroids.
Regardless, a decent post apocalyptic MMO would be great fun.
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