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horror mmo?
zling
Member Posts: 21
it would be pretty interesting to see a horror mmorpg. im not talking about something like diablo where its just dark, but a game that actualy gets your nerves on end and your heart beating. it would have to be dark and have things jumping out at you. alot of it would have to be instanced with quite a bit of randomizition to keep you on edge. thoughts? ideas?
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I have wanted a horror MMO for years. The Secret World and World of Darkness are the only ones I know in development. TSW is not slated for release til 2012, and I haven't heard anything about WOD in a long time. Gonna have to want for quite a bit longer.
Sounds intresting
Well the only horror mmo i have ever seen was Requiem Bloodymare.Not scary but blood and guts thing so not really much of your interest.Other than that like what the above stated world of darkness and other thing which you will have to wait for.
Like pong i keep bouncing back and forth between games.
That would be extremely awesome, now you can control those victims in Saw, instead of yelling at the screen " Don't go in there!"
" I Don't know what's worth fighting for, or why I have to scream."
-Linkin Park, speak the truth.
SAW the game single player game
Anyway not to sure if a MMORPG would be able to really create the sense of horror. I mean I tried/played Requiem Bloodymare but that wasn't really scary or anything other then lots of blood.
Must say that the only games I ever have played that gave me goosbombs was DeadSpace and Fear1/2. and slightly DOOM.
But love to see something H.P.Lovecraft made into a MMORPG. As some are working on right now, hope it turns out the way H.P would invisioned it.
Horror and MMORPs do not sit well together, but if the issues could be overcome a solid game would be there for the taking. There are two main problems, which depend on the horror genre you are looking at.
In the ‘we are meant to be horrified’ genre, we are the victims, the ones on the run. That is lost in a MMO where you are meant to succeed.
In the ‘we are the horror’ genre, we are the vampires or some other supernatural being from the house of horrors. But being truly a horror means you are evil, which does not fit well into the heroic mode that works best for books, roleplaying games and MMO’s.
So you end up with a gung ho version where horror monsters are interchangeable with mobs in WoW, they just look nastier. Requiem Bloodymare is like that.
Or you have the ‘we are the Horror heroes’ version, which has not really been tried. I think there was an old vampire MMO that had a graphical interface which was not bad, can’t remember its name. Maybe World of Darkness the MMO will do something great here.
But what about something original, a Horror Victims MMO? Here you succeed in quests by not being killed by the monster, you don’t beat it but you survive. Group play would be the like of someone distracting a Boss Horror with their screams as most of the team fended of the Bosses zombie posse. Meanwhile one team member drives a petrol tanker into the Boss, leaping out just in time to survive. The Boss now in an inferno can’t prevent our heroes escaping his lair!
The Boss does not die of course but nurses his wounds and plots his slimy tentacled revenge.
There was this game called Fiesta Online where the monster designs are from creepy places like floating stuff, headless fox, giant spiders and zombies.. And there was a map that was called moonlight tomb which is a cemetary..
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