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[Column] General: Five Things We Want from a Borderlands MMO
SBFord
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I’ll admit it: Borderlands is one of my favorite single-player/multiplayer RPG series du jour. There’s something about Gearbox’s tried and true formula of wacky humor, satisfying gameplay, and insane amounts of loot that gets me hooked and looking forward to whatever kinds of crazy DLC updates they have planned. I’m also not the only one who’s thought that the series would lend itself well to an MMORPG setting, with some gameplay tweaks and world expansions to make space for thousands of other players.
Read more of Som Pourfarzaneh's The List: Five Things We Want from a Borderlands MMO.
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My best advise for a Borderlands MMO is the same advise I'd give for any single player to MMO conversion. Just don't. How many failed single player to MMO conversions do we have to suffer through before developers just realize it's a terrible idea to begin with? Single Player games just have to give up too much of what they are to become MMOs. It's just a bad idea so just don't do it to begin with.
Bren
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If it must be made into an mmorpg, leave it be heavily instanced, make a player Forge centered the Forge achievement around time to complete, leader boards and various stats. The only thing non instanced, is the player main bases, have a global ah, you can have a main player base non instanced with lfg chat window, not a random game finder, no, instead make people comminicate and form a group in game, the main base or city should have a structured city like Street with the instances each having their own portal, I want to see other groups walk into the portal and start the instance. Make the trinity matter, add in 10 man raiding.
Limited coop play now qualifies as an MMO? I guess Call of Duty and Battlefield are now MMOs as well?
Bren
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Borderlands would be great as an MMORPG. The dark humor and troll nature of the game fits well into how people actually are in MMORPGs. It wouldn't be immersion breaking.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Five things?
1. Don't make it a MMO
2. Don't make it a MMO
3. Don't make it a MMO
4. Don't make it a MMO
5. See 1 - 4
I'll wait to the day's end when the moon is high
And then I'll rise with the tide with a lust for life, I'll
Amass an army, and we'll harness a horde
And then we'll limp across the land until we stand at the shore
Smile
This.
I remember back when I first played Oblivion, I was like: "Damn, if only Bethesda made an Elder Scrolls MMORPG - it would be the best game ever created."
Careful what you wish for.
This ^^