I think I'd go with a Privateer MMO over Wing Commander. It would have to be more like Privateer 1 than 2 tho.
With Wing Commander unless they did a radical change you more or less have just the two sides.
With Privateer you had factions (many at war), Pirates etc etc would be very easy to incorporate a more open pvp type environment. I was a big Wing Commander fan tho so don't get me wrong.
I also think that The Road Warrior (Mad Max sequel) would be the kind of thing I'd like to see.. but I guess that one game might be like that.
I always liked the idea of a post apoc type setting with more civilized areas (aka no pvp) and the "wasteland" where it was anything goes.. but being out there would be where most of the interesting (aka good loot) stuff to find was. aka risk v. reward.
1: Cyberpunk (Based off the old R. Talsorian p&p RPG)
2: Chill (Old p&p RPG, survival horror theme)
3: KOTOR
4: Mospeada
Not in any particular order, but I would pay a $30 per month sub fee for any of these games.
Although, I am looking forward to AoC. I like the idea of a more "brutal" feeling,medieval style MMO. Back when I ran AD&D games, they were always dark and visceral like this.
This is why I've had an aversion to most phantasy games...enough of the pretty elves and pretty magical effects. Medieval times to me conjures up visions of lawlessness and brutality....of barabarism and horrifically painful methods of death. Dirt, and darkness, stone and steel.
Conan was never popular, scharzenegger did a conan movie which was good but it was in 1980. Its very old. Oh and I mean better licenses that arent taken so no Star wars or lotr
The ones I remember about are Dungeons and Dragons, Oceans twelve, Strar trek and WWE wrestling kind of thing, maybe UFC "
Seriously?
That Guild Wars 2 login screen knocked up my wife. Must be the second coming!
There's really one MMO I would love to play before I die. An MMO based on the world of Lunar games. Lunar: Silver Star Story and Lunar: Eternal Blue, for those who may not know about it.
It's pretty much a cult classic. It defined the way I looked at RPGs and was my first true RPG with an "OMFG" twist that had me daydreaming back then.
Edit: FUN topic, too bad it's only in the AoC section. It could be generalized and put on a higher forum :-)
A Cyberpunk MMO ala either Shadowrun or William Gibson's world from Neuromancer / Mona Lisa Overdrive / Count Zero / Virtual Light etc., would be totally awesome. I'm for either one. Still wondering how the Neuromancer movie is going to turn out considering Hayden Chirstenson (anakin) is playing Case... Looking forward to seeing what they'll do with the World of Darkness MMO which is a great license, though hard to say how well it'll translate to an MMO. Fallout MMO is "possibly" in the works as when Interplay sold the rights to Bethesda they put a clause or such in the agreement for the rights to make a Fallout MMO. Whether or not it'll happen is anyone's guess, though. But I'm definitely for a dark modern MMORPG (WoD) or near future/cyberpunk (Shadowrun /etc.) or Post Apocalyptic (like Fallout, and yes I know about Fallen Earth.) As far as other IPs, yeah like one guy mentioned a Star Ocean MMO would be cool. I know they're making Star Ocean 4 for the ps3, be interesting if Square Enix made a Star Ocean MMO. I think it would work quite well. It'd be interesting if this happened as well: http://www.rpgamer.com/games/megten/imagine/imagine.html As I like the Shin Megami Tensei setting, wondering if a MegaTen game would ever make it online... Conan is a great license, though. As the original books are very, very good IMO. The Secret World that is being made sounds very Lovecraftian, though translating a direct Lovecraft lore game would be quite impossible as those stories don't fit that well into many genres. Some kind of Alone in the Dark MMO, perhaps the Secret World is it, would be quite interesting. And just thinking of something random, some kind of Mortal Kombat or other fighting type game (Soul Calibur, etc.) would be quite interesting as a different kind of MMO. "Questing" or training moves instead of gaining levels and then fighting against people for money/prizes/etc. With clans/tournaments, all in some big world. You could buy different outfits I suppose like Tekken 5. But in an MMO like fighting game. Might be interesting. Just thinking out loud on that one though =P. Kind of like the quest modes on some of those newer fighting games, taken to the extreme. Create your own character, moves, etc. Could be quite interesting, and highly competitive.
Snowcrash!! Would be an awesome MMO. I'm with you on all things Cyberpunk ala Shadowrun/Neuromancer/Snowcrash etc. It would take a lot of work to do right, but it could be amazing.
A few i would like to see would be: Vampire hunter D, The Book of The New Sun, A Song of Ice And Fire,Bas-Lag.
Something with a European flavor is lacking, i liked elements of Sword of the new world, but overall the game was poor. Something with the high art grandeur of old Europe. I'm not sure what could fit in to this, Michael Moorcock's hugely influential Elric novels would be interesting; certainly seeing Imrryr,The dreaming city in all of it's glory would be cool.
And I agree; Mechwarrior would be amazing! Did anyone say Transformers yet?
Thundarr rocks!!!...We could have sun swords and lasers but would only be able to kill robots and other non- bleeding entities...I want to play a Mok.....Lords of Light that would rule!
Smurf MMO FTW!...but i'd imagine the names would run short ..real quick...and people would be forced into calling themselves...anal retentive smurf...or Showers once a week smurf....or some such nonsense...that would be smurfed up.
Lankhmar. Call of Cthulhu. Doubt to be seeing eiher of those though.
Call of Cthulhu would be fun. The end game would be really easy. Hit lvl 50 and your character goes insane. Hmmm guess that would really limit expansions and we wouldn't need to work about raiding and end game content
I love the idea of a good shadowrun game! I think that would be one of the most interesting and diverse type worlds but it would take some serious work to make it a good game.
I still think Barsoom online would have been FAR better then Conan. In Barsoom you got everything that Conan has plus you have aliens! what could be better!? And it takes place on Mars mostly.
Funny. Until LOTR became movies, it was looked upon as "geeks world", and not really a "popular" IP in these days really.
Funny, technically by definition anyone who is reading that line is part of a 'geek's world' in the first place, and most "popular IP" for games is definately geeky. On the plus side its nice to see geekdom spreading to the world Apparently its become 'cool' to be a computer geek (which includes all you mmo gamers )
IP that perhaps could work
- Transformers
- Mechwarrior
- countless misc random cartoony IP's that we've seen over the years on tv that could be modded into mmo format, ie pokemons or beastwars or etc, as well as all the offshoots of the above
- and of course: Firefly
- or perhaps they can create a sandbox style alternate history mmo that is basically getting the players to set sail from europe and colonize the new world (with a massive land scale etc), or be an injin and fight off/join with such and such colonial group (aka pvp/social/politics/economy, etc)
Glad to see there's interest in the Shadowrun world, or any Cyberpunk at all. that is definitely what I would call "ripe for the picking." Hopefully by floating the meme long enough that developers will finally take notice (COUGH*Microsuc...err...soft*COUGH) I.e. FASA. And not only take notice, but not make some junk game out of it either, which can be a challenge.
Call of Cthulhu (or any of HP Lovecraft's works) has too much of a cult following to ever be able to meet the expectations required of it, at least IMO. More likely to get a MegaTen (Shin Megami Tensei) smallish MMO with a following live EVE than get a good Cthulhu/Lovecraft MMO. Unless, of course, they develop an entirely new MMO genre and actually put some impressive work into it....
I do hope WoD (World of Darkness) Online turns out to be good, though.
To tell the truth I'd like an original game to come out of nowhere and do good, but for some reason people feel the need to...need a great IP(developers or players.) Even though most IP related games blow/sub par, or at the very least are rated higher simply because of their known IP status. Of course this is just my opinion.
Hopefully Bioware's MMO will be something new and totally different and nothing known or existing. Yeah, yeah, Star Wars MMO by Bioware, but still...I'd rather have something totally original and great. Because no game (or at least most) don't live up to the IPs hype/reknown.
That said, I'm still interested in the IPs I've listed as making a good MMO or doing well as an MMO if they're already in production, albeit limited.
I do hope AoC does well though, as Robert E. Howard deserves it, even if he has passed on. Great stories.
And it is good to see other people's different ideas. Good to know that the "norm" is definitely getting stale and people are desiring something new. Not saying there is no place for games that are currently available or soon to be released, I'm just saying that this genre has a vast amount of room for expansion.
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And a strange fact about Conan, the He-Man toys were originally based on the Conan movie, however, somewhere in the development Roy Wagner, the same genius who passed on Star Wars toys for Mattel came to the conclusion that since the movie was rated R few kids would be able to see the movie so the revised and revised again back story of He-Man was born.
Almost as odd of a story as LJN producing an entire toy line for the 80's version of Dune, well before toys became a collectable item for adults. (LJN was the producer of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Toys, Thunder Cats, and S.W.A.T., so not totally useless)
And to close the loop, LJN after converting to a video game only company produced the original, and in my opinion still the best, WWF game series, on which I wasted too much of my youth playing.
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Wing commander and mech warrior would rock
Wing Commander and/or Mech Warrior = LIFE TIME subscription
Can even pay monthly fee during production process
Man! You beat me to it!
Ok, how about Land of the Lost online?
And I agree; Mechwarrior would be amazing! Did anyone say Transformers yet?
I think I'd go with a Privateer MMO over Wing Commander. It would have to be more like Privateer 1 than 2 tho.
With Wing Commander unless they did a radical change you more or less have just the two sides.
With Privateer you had factions (many at war), Pirates etc etc would be very easy to incorporate a more open pvp type environment. I was a big Wing Commander fan tho so don't get me wrong.
I also think that The Road Warrior (Mad Max sequel) would be the kind of thing I'd like to see.. but I guess that one game might be like that.
I always liked the idea of a post apoc type setting with more civilized areas (aka no pvp) and the "wasteland" where it was anything goes.. but being out there would be where most of the interesting (aka good loot) stuff to find was. aka risk v. reward.
conan is on spot but i would love to see planescape mmo.
I need more vespene gas.
1: Cyberpunk (Based off the old R. Talsorian p&p RPG)
2: Chill (Old p&p RPG, survival horror theme)
3: KOTOR
4: Mospeada
Not in any particular order, but I would pay a $30 per month sub fee for any of these games.
Although, I am looking forward to AoC. I like the idea of a more "brutal" feeling,medieval style MMO. Back when I ran AD&D games, they were always dark and visceral like this.
This is why I've had an aversion to most phantasy games...enough of the pretty elves and pretty magical effects. Medieval times to me conjures up visions of lawlessness and brutality....of barabarism and horrifically painful methods of death. Dirt, and darkness, stone and steel.
Bring on AoC.
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The ones I remember about are Dungeons and Dragons, Oceans twelve, Strar trek and WWE wrestling kind of thing, maybe UFC "
Seriously?
That Guild Wars 2 login screen knocked up my wife. Must be the second coming!
There's really one MMO I would love to play before I die. An MMO based on the world of Lunar games. Lunar: Silver Star Story and Lunar: Eternal Blue, for those who may not know about it.
It's pretty much a cult classic. It defined the way I looked at RPGs and was my first true RPG with an "OMFG" twist that had me daydreaming back then.
Edit: FUN topic, too bad it's only in the AoC section. It could be generalized and put on a higher forum :-)
Anyone remember HG Well's Novel "War of The Worlds", the mother of all alien invasion stuff?
- 2 Movies
- 1 TV Miniseries
- 1 PC game
- several cartoons/comics
- the famous radio broadcast from the 30ies
- 1 Musical
But no "WoTW"-MMO so far...
If we're talking about game IPs, I would like to see:
If we're talking about movie IPs:
Snowcrash!! Would be an awesome MMO. I'm with you on all things Cyberpunk ala Shadowrun/Neuromancer/Snowcrash etc. It would take a lot of work to do right, but it could be amazing.
A few i would like to see would be: Vampire hunter D, The Book of The New Sun, A Song of Ice And Fire,Bas-Lag.
Something with a European flavor is lacking, i liked elements of Sword of the new world, but overall the game was poor. Something with the high art grandeur of old Europe. I'm not sure what could fit in to this, Michael Moorcock's hugely influential Elric novels would be interesting; certainly seeing Imrryr,The dreaming city in all of it's glory would be cool.
Lankhmar.
Call of Cthulhu.
Doubt to be seeing eiher of those though.
Man! You beat me to it!
Ok, how about Land of the Lost online?
And I agree; Mechwarrior would be amazing! Did anyone say Transformers yet?
Thundarr rocks!!!...We could have sun swords and lasers but would only be able to kill robots and other non- bleeding entities...I want to play a Mok.....Lords of Light that would rule!
Smurf MMO FTW!...but i'd imagine the names would run short ..real quick...and people would be forced into calling themselves...anal retentive smurf...or Showers once a week smurf....or some such nonsense...that would be smurfed up.
I love the idea of a good shadowrun game! I think that would be one of the most interesting and diverse type worlds but it would take some serious work to make it a good game.
I still think Barsoom online would have been FAR better then Conan. In Barsoom you got everything that Conan has plus you have aliens! what could be better!? And it takes place on Mars mostly.
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Funny, technically by definition anyone who is reading that line is part of a 'geek's world' in the first place, and most "popular IP" for games is definately geeky. On the plus side its nice to see geekdom spreading to the world
Apparently its become 'cool' to be a computer geek (which includes all you mmo gamers )
IP that perhaps could work
- Transformers
- Mechwarrior
- countless misc random cartoony IP's that we've seen over the years on tv that could be modded into mmo format, ie pokemons or beastwars or etc, as well as all the offshoots of the above
- and of course: Firefly
- or perhaps they can create a sandbox style alternate history mmo that is basically getting the players to set sail from europe and colonize the new world (with a massive land scale etc), or be an injin and fight off/join with such and such colonial group (aka pvp/social/politics/economy, etc)
Glad to see there's interest in the Shadowrun world, or any Cyberpunk at all. that is definitely what I would call "ripe for the picking." Hopefully by floating the meme long enough that developers will finally take notice (COUGH*Microsuc...err...soft*COUGH) I.e. FASA. And not only take notice, but not make some junk game out of it either, which can be a challenge.
Call of Cthulhu (or any of HP Lovecraft's works) has too much of a cult following to ever be able to meet the expectations required of it, at least IMO. More likely to get a MegaTen (Shin Megami Tensei) smallish MMO with a following live EVE than get a good Cthulhu/Lovecraft MMO. Unless, of course, they develop an entirely new MMO genre and actually put some impressive work into it....
I do hope WoD (World of Darkness) Online turns out to be good, though.
To tell the truth I'd like an original game to come out of nowhere and do good, but for some reason people feel the need to...need a great IP(developers or players.) Even though most IP related games blow/sub par, or at the very least are rated higher simply because of their known IP status. Of course this is just my opinion.
Hopefully Bioware's MMO will be something new and totally different and nothing known or existing. Yeah, yeah, Star Wars MMO by Bioware, but still...I'd rather have something totally original and great. Because no game (or at least most) don't live up to the IPs hype/reknown.
That said, I'm still interested in the IPs I've listed as making a good MMO or doing well as an MMO if they're already in production, albeit limited.
I do hope AoC does well though, as Robert E. Howard deserves it, even if he has passed on. Great stories.
And it is good to see other people's different ideas. Good to know that the "norm" is definitely getting stale and people are desiring something new. Not saying there is no place for games that are currently available or soon to be released, I'm just saying that this genre has a vast amount of room for expansion.
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"Hero of Time! Face me!"
I'd be down for a good Shadowrun or Robotech mmo (Protoculture ftw! : ' )
Another vote for
Add a vote from left field for
And a strange fact about Conan, the He-Man toys were originally based on the Conan movie, however, somewhere in the development Roy Wagner, the same genius who passed on Star Wars toys for Mattel came to the conclusion that since the movie was rated R few kids would be able to see the movie so the revised and revised again back story of He-Man was born.
Almost as odd of a story as LJN producing an entire toy line for the 80's version of Dune, well before toys became a collectable item for adults. (LJN was the producer of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Toys, Thunder Cats, and S.W.A.T., so not totally useless)
And to close the loop, LJN after converting to a video game only company produced the original, and in my opinion still the best, WWF game series, on which I wasted too much of my youth playing.