There's one, and only one, IP that I would love to see that hasn't been done, BATTLETECH!!!!! This game would be so awesome. Not only could you upgrade your mech, you could upgrade your pilot too! PvP in this game would be awesome. If not Battletech, then I guess I could settle for a Gundam or Esca Flowne IP. I want something with Mechs!
Fallout 3. It's perfect for an MMORPG. It already has mobs, NPC's, a post apocalyptic world, weapons, etc.
Also, Gamma World. Probably not many remember it, but it was a great gaming system, published by TSR. Sort of a post apocalyptic psychedelic sci fi version of D&D.
P.S. If you're going to leap into the personal attacks some more because you have trouble following arguments, you might as well get it right: my intoxicant of choice is alcohol and I only waste time here when surfing internet porn gets boring.....
George Romero's Dead series. Maybe.. "Chronicles of the Dead"
Zelda for sure. This is a gold mine. Not sure why nobody has tried it yet.
Dragon Quest
Breath of Fire
Lunar
How about something Medical? Trauma Center was a decent game, why not a massive version of it where you can gain reputation with patients, make more money, operations could be like raids.. get a group together. And all the drama and storyling of a House MD type show. Get a 5 man group together, perform heart surgery. Woot.
Street fighter and Megaman are both screaming for an MMO title. And it's not like Capcom doesn't have the money to do it.
Castlevania
There's tons of ideas, but you can't make them too miniscule. Sure you might like some 46 part book series written by a D&D nerd who makes barely enough to pay rent, but no company is going to drop millions on turning his vision into an MMO because twelve people will be dying to play it. And no I don't meant like Robert Jordan or Terry brooks, but some of these series mentioned in this thread don't have as many people reading them as the worst P2P MMOs have subscriptions.
Science flies people to the moon. Religion flies people into buildings.
Warhammer 40k is already under development, offshoot studio of THX - was announced last year, no eta yet.
No Dungeons and Dragons worlds other than the one out now are likely unless some real fancy legal work happens...or Turbine does it as a spin off of DDO. Same goes for a lot of older "TSR" owned/developed worlds, might be a legal nightmare.
As for specific IPs that haven't made it into MMOs yet that might do well:
There are a couple of "big name" fantasy universes that might be doable - Thieves World, RR Martin's "Fire&Ice", Mercedes Lackeys "Bardic" universe, etc...problem is most of these aren't really that distinctive or iconic and there are a ton of "generic" fantasy MMOs already. Glen Cook and Stephen Eriksons worlds are great but would make incredibly crappy MMOs.
Sci-Fi is a little brighter: Riddicks universe, Pournelle's Co-Dominium future, Babylon 5 universe, Aliens universe, Weber's Honorverse (game based on this was announced but seems to have flopped/vapored), Starship Troopers universe..I can't see the Battletech universe making it into an MMO - could be done well, but I suspect getting the IP would be a legal tangle of epic proportions now. Although the Renegade Legion universe could be a nice possibility.
Horror/other has some good contenders too: Lovecraft/Cthulhu, various Vampire/Buffy esque worlds, Mutant Chronicles, Chandler/30's gangsters, James Bond etc.
Well Ravenloft is owned by White Wolf now, and Dragonlance is owned by the creators, as was done when WotC bought out the D&D rights from TSR so both are viable options
It's been said already but something giant walking battle tankish... Mechwarrior/Battletech have not been done well for a long time, and never as an MMO, but I think the technology is there for it now. However, I could also get into a Robotech mmo.
That said... any really "sim" feeling car based mmo would be a dream. Auto Assault missed the mark by going the Twisted Metal/Arcade route. Imagine Interstate 76 gone global, or Road Warrior if post-apocolyptic is your bag. Where i76 excelled as a solo game was the feel of driving across real countryside in a hot rod with a machine gun strapped to the roof.
I'm going to go against the grain and say no to the Sword of Truth series. I love the books, but like many other fictional settings they're too oriented on the hero and his friends being the "only" this, or the "last remaining" that. Kind of puts you back in the, what do you do with a million Jedis conundrum that SWG struggled with.
I'm also not sure about how a Romero-styled zombie mmo would work over time. I suppose it'd make things real easy on the dev team, only having to deal with human models, and rotting human models in terms of animation... I just can't see what you'd do over a long period of time though.
Jim Butcher's series that he was challenged to write after a bet. Some guy bet him he could not right a story off of a bad idea, and Jim upped the challenged and said he could write a series off of TWO bad idea.
The Ideas
The Lost Roman Legion and Pokemon
That series is called Codex Alera (Furies of Calderon, Academ's Furty, Cursor's Fury, Captain's Fury, Princep's Fury and the soon to released First Lord's Fury)
I am not going to go all into describing the series and why it would make an awesome MMO but this wiki page I found on it will help people out. The wiki page is excellent in laying out the classes, races, and lore of the Codex Alera Universe
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MacGyver
hardcore crafting mmorpg
Fifth Element
Mad max
There's one, and only one, IP that I would love to see that hasn't been done, BATTLETECH!!!!! This game would be so awesome. Not only could you upgrade your mech, you could upgrade your pilot too! PvP in this game would be awesome. If not Battletech, then I guess I could settle for a Gundam or Esca Flowne IP. I want something with Mechs!
Steven Erikson's - Malazian book of the fallen
Truly epic in scope, will have material for decades to use
Fading Suns/Dune
As mention before, Firefly, and Dune. I think I'll also throw in Battlestar Galactica. One episode left folks,and it's a 2 hour finale.
Wasn't the rumors surronding the Firefly mmo, is that it was shelved for some crappy lame Buffy the Vampire mmo?
Second this.
Fallout 3. It's perfect for an MMORPG. It already has mobs, NPC's, a post apocalyptic world, weapons, etc.
Also, Gamma World. Probably not many remember it, but it was a great gaming system, published by TSR. Sort of a post apocalyptic psychedelic sci fi version of D&D.
Dark Sun
Ravenloft
Forgotten Realms
Vampire the masqerade
Fallout
The Elder Scrolls
Halo
|Mass Effect
SOme of the old Chaosium games like Runequest or Stormbringer (based on the M Moorcock) books would be great.
Thanks! I had forgotten about that...silly me
When i say AD&D, i mean use the 2nd Edition rules, and not the D20 system =/
one word
DUNE
Warhammer 40k
Mad Max
Fallout
Any other good postapocaliptyc ip
Originally posted by ericbelser
P.S. If you're going to leap into the personal attacks some more because you have trouble following arguments, you might as well get it right: my intoxicant of choice is alcohol and I only waste time here when surfing internet porn gets boring.....
already posted but
DUNE
end of thread. it would probably get shat on like turbine did to tolkien
My blog:
George Romero's Dead series. Maybe.. "Chronicles of the Dead"
Zelda for sure. This is a gold mine. Not sure why nobody has tried it yet.
Dragon Quest
Breath of Fire
Lunar
How about something Medical? Trauma Center was a decent game, why not a massive version of it where you can gain reputation with patients, make more money, operations could be like raids.. get a group together. And all the drama and storyling of a House MD type show. Get a 5 man group together, perform heart surgery. Woot.
Street fighter and Megaman are both screaming for an MMO title. And it's not like Capcom doesn't have the money to do it.
Castlevania
There's tons of ideas, but you can't make them too miniscule. Sure you might like some 46 part book series written by a D&D nerd who makes barely enough to pay rent, but no company is going to drop millions on turning his vision into an MMO because twelve people will be dying to play it. And no I don't meant like Robert Jordan or Terry brooks, but some of these series mentioned in this thread don't have as many people reading them as the worst P2P MMOs have subscriptions.
Science flies people to the moon. Religion flies people into buildings.
Shadowrun
Battletech
The Dark Eye
Shadowrun
lol
I'm going to reiterate this, just because it was the first thing to pop into my head too.
Dune!!
I would also love to see Salvatore's work get its own MMO. Have him right for it and everything.
H.P. Lovecraft
Warhammer 40k
Dune
Ravenloft
Dragonlance
Macross
Castlevania
Mad Max (though Fallen Earth sounds like it would fit that style)
Romero's Dead (need a good horror survival MMO)
Warhammer 40k is already under development, offshoot studio of THX - was announced last year, no eta yet.
No Dungeons and Dragons worlds other than the one out now are likely unless some real fancy legal work happens...or Turbine does it as a spin off of DDO. Same goes for a lot of older "TSR" owned/developed worlds, might be a legal nightmare.
As for specific IPs that haven't made it into MMOs yet that might do well:
There are a couple of "big name" fantasy universes that might be doable - Thieves World, RR Martin's "Fire&Ice", Mercedes Lackeys "Bardic" universe, etc...problem is most of these aren't really that distinctive or iconic and there are a ton of "generic" fantasy MMOs already. Glen Cook and Stephen Eriksons worlds are great but would make incredibly crappy MMOs.
Sci-Fi is a little brighter: Riddicks universe, Pournelle's Co-Dominium future, Babylon 5 universe, Aliens universe, Weber's Honorverse (game based on this was announced but seems to have flopped/vapored), Starship Troopers universe..I can't see the Battletech universe making it into an MMO - could be done well, but I suspect getting the IP would be a legal tangle of epic proportions now. Although the Renegade Legion universe could be a nice possibility.
Horror/other has some good contenders too: Lovecraft/Cthulhu, various Vampire/Buffy esque worlds, Mutant Chronicles, Chandler/30's gangsters, James Bond etc.
Well Ravenloft is owned by White Wolf now, and Dragonlance is owned by the creators, as was done when WotC bought out the D&D rights from TSR so both are viable options
It's been said already but something giant walking battle tankish... Mechwarrior/Battletech have not been done well for a long time, and never as an MMO, but I think the technology is there for it now. However, I could also get into a Robotech mmo.
That said... any really "sim" feeling car based mmo would be a dream. Auto Assault missed the mark by going the Twisted Metal/Arcade route. Imagine Interstate 76 gone global, or Road Warrior if post-apocolyptic is your bag. Where i76 excelled as a solo game was the feel of driving across real countryside in a hot rod with a machine gun strapped to the roof.
I'm going to go against the grain and say no to the Sword of Truth series. I love the books, but like many other fictional settings they're too oriented on the hero and his friends being the "only" this, or the "last remaining" that. Kind of puts you back in the, what do you do with a million Jedis conundrum that SWG struggled with.
I'm also not sure about how a Romero-styled zombie mmo would work over time. I suppose it'd make things real easy on the dev team, only having to deal with human models, and rotting human models in terms of animation... I just can't see what you'd do over a long period of time though.
Jim Butcher's series that he was challenged to write after a bet. Some guy bet him he could not right a story off of a bad idea, and Jim upped the challenged and said he could write a series off of TWO bad idea.
The Ideas
The Lost Roman Legion and Pokemon
That series is called Codex Alera (Furies of Calderon, Academ's Furty, Cursor's Fury, Captain's Fury, Princep's Fury and the soon to released First Lord's Fury)
I am not going to go all into describing the series and why it would make an awesome MMO but this wiki page I found on it will help people out. The wiki page is excellent in laying out the classes, races, and lore of the Codex Alera Universe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alera