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[Column] General: 5 Movie Universes that Would Make Great MMOs

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  • loulakiloulaki Member UncommonPosts: 944

    i agree only with Mad Max, for the rest i would like to see movie universies turned into MMOs from other titles like : 

    Mad Max ok we agree..

     

    Dune, really great movie, there was also planning one more.. Also it could be a great sci-fi and fantasy mix like the one Skyforge is trying, but it lackss the background story..FlashGordon with a few expansion there could be 4 factions Dune natives, Imperials, and the other 2 houses, and later they could add more houses and planets..

     

    FlashGordon, the movie maybe it's cult but the movie itself and the comics offered an huge universe with rich enviroments and factions/races, also there fits a lot of fun.

     

    Jupiter Ascending, the movie was bad, but the world around it and the artwork feed (at least mine) imagination with a universe similar with EVE online (immortals and factions builded around profit and corprations) but it offers a much more brighter world and it's scaled from the ships to the players as units with exosuits etc. It could become this which EVE failed to do with Dust...

     

    Planet of the Apes, great movie, huge and old universe where you have to choose between high tech humans and strong with high endurance apes. The developers could also add bonuses in order to push players to create race based factions, trying to recreate the fall of humanity...

     

    John Carter, also great movie and another old universe from a wonderfull book. Also there the human could be a single nad non playable mostly like a heroic figoure (John Carter) and the players will have to choose between the 2 main factions of Mars and the exotic 4 handed aliens. also imagine if there was a home city which was moving around .. that would be great, also the ships there are great and the developers could fit a gameplay similar to WorldsAdrift, actually it could be a proper story background for that game...

     

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  • Feanor4egFeanor4eg Member UncommonPosts: 7
    TRON Online is great idea!
  • TheRabidsmurfTheRabidsmurf Member UncommonPosts: 146
    Bladerunner
  • apocolusterapocoluster Member UncommonPosts: 1,326
    Sound of Music MMORPG aww yeah

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  • NildenNilden Member EpicPosts: 3,916

    With a lot of these recommendations I feel the actual game we would see created would never live up to even mildly reserved expectations.

    In fact I would go so far as to say most would be cash shop money grabs that would actually turn out as sad missed opportunities. Like SWTOR was for me.

    I'm sure people are imaging how awesome it would be to make a character and be in whatever movie/book universe as a MMORPG but the reality of the released game would probably be a disappointment for a lot of people.

     

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  • VesaviusVesavius Member RarePosts: 7,908

    Mad Max is a given. As is a future set Terminator. Something like Firefly relies far too much on the chemistry of it's actors and it's writing to translate into anything special as a MMORPG though (despite how good the series was).

     

    On top of those two, I would throw...

    Planet of the Apes

    Journey to the Center of the Earth (I think there is a game in the hollow Earth idea... )

    Kung Fu Panda (yeah, honestly!)

     

     

  • ApolyonBSApolyonBS Member UncommonPosts: 23
    Avatar?
  • AviorAvior Member UncommonPosts: 54
    Mad Max mmo is a great idea. It would have to be a mmo with a big emphasis on crafting. Crafting weapons and vehicles, and maybe fuel?

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  • lostxnlostxn Member UncommonPosts: 13
    Dune would be sick

    Blade Runner bounty hunter si-fi

  • ReizlaReizla Member RarePosts: 4,092
    Originally posted by Daikuru

    Dune.

    Star Trek.

    Babylon 5.

    Uhm, we already have a Star Trek MMO - "It's Trek Jim, but not as we know it" :D

    Dune would be awesome. Babylon 5 I would back for sure if Michael would be at the wheel and it would be 'open world' without fixed player factions - the series had factions switch constantly as well...

    Kinda missed Blake's 7 in the list. One of the best Sci-Fi series ever (pretty dated now though), but if written well I think it could rock if you leave the last episode out ;-)

  • RhimeRhime Member UncommonPosts: 302
    Avatar. There would be your choice of tribes, mounts, locations and perhaps playing humans(marines, doctors, etc). Flying would be incredible as would some of the cool mounts. Spears, bows and guns...very cool!
  • FoomerangFoomerang Member UncommonPosts: 5,628

    Ghostbusters MMORPG:

    Built in group content. Boss battles. Modern day setting. Scientist as a crafting class. Vehicles. Ghost pet system. The list goes on :)

  • apocolusterapocoluster Member UncommonPosts: 1,326
    Steel Magnolia's the MMO

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  • MMOGamer71MMOGamer71 Member UncommonPosts: 1,988
    Bond, James Bond.
  • sumdumguy1sumdumguy1 Member RarePosts: 1,373
    I agree with some of them on the original list of five. Highlander would be epic. I would also like to see these two in the MMO, Stargate and Firefly.  I want them done well or else it ruins the entire concept. 
  • meonthissitemeonthissite Member UncommonPosts: 917
    Completely agree with Mad Max and Tron. Those would be so awesome! I would buy a Tron MMO in a heartbeat if they did it based on the last movie in which you had multiple locations to go to and could travel outside of the cities.  I'd also love to be either a program or an iso. 
  • sLY4JsLY4J Member UncommonPosts: 84

    Harry Potter should be up there. Huge world, different classes and professions, huge opportunity for it to be amazing. Every game has potential to be a failure so that can't be a reason not to make something like this.

     

    A silly but perhaps interesting concept could be a "Men in Black" MMORPG as well. I can see it being light hearted OR realistic. (Light hearted as in wildstar graphics, or realistic as in GW2 graphics)

     

    Also mentioned above was Ghost Busters, and I can EASILY see that as well. 

     

    I think nowadays, until the MMORPG breaks through any barriers of gameplay, I think it's all about theme and immersion into worlds nowadays when choosing an MMORPG for you. People want to feel engaged and involved in the world they are in, especially if they use it as an escape, so they choose the game that fits the mood. It's like music.. When you're angry, you choose the music that gets you through it. It's the same for games.

  • VelocinoxVelocinox Member UncommonPosts: 1,010
    Originally posted by Nanfoodle
    Originally posted by Velocinox
    Originally posted by Nanfoodle
    Still waiting for a "Wheel of Time" MMO. Best fantasy books I have ever read.

    No thanks. I don't want the class I play (or even magic I use) to determine the gender of my character.

     

    You really didnt read the books did you? Or quit like 3 books in?

    You really don't understand what a game design group would focus on, do you?

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  • AlumicardAlumicard Member UncommonPosts: 388
    Originally posted by Alverant

    Stargate SG-1 ... Oh wait that got canceled

    *cough* https://www.stargate-network.net/en/ *cough*

     

    At least they are working on it even if it takes 5-10 years.

  • MorBladeMorBlade Member UncommonPosts: 49

    It seems like  Fallen Earth was a good try at a Mad Max sort of MMO and it went Free to Play. Still around, but most folks I played with left long ago. My list would include some of these..

    StarGate Worlds - I was in Beta and it looked good, shame it went away.

    Firefly/Serenity - Not a browser game but a real MMO

    Dune - So much backstory and history.

    Highlander - If Done with  " Dark Age of Camelot type of PVP"

    Babylon 5 - Perhaps some sort of Ground/Space  mix, like old Star Wars Galaxies.

    Mor

     

     

  • akiira69akiira69 Member UncommonPosts: 615
    To the people who want a Vampire MMO there was one in the works called World of Darkness it was going to be created by CCP Games but was canceled last year.

    "Possibly we humans can exist without actually having to fight. But many of us have chosen to fight. For what reason? To protect something? Protect what? Ourselves? The future? If we kill people to protect ourselves and this future, then what sort of future is it, and what will we have become? There is no future for those who have died. And what of those who did the killing? Is happiness to be found in a future that is grasped with blood stained hands? Is that the truth?"

  • SamhaelSamhael Member RarePosts: 1,534
    Originally posted by Lord.Bachus

    Highlander, there can be only one, modern day saga....

     

    if they add things like time travel and offworld teleportation....  and create a homeworld based on RLC game, then we have a serious contender

    a homeworld like Zeist! 

    (no, the Zeist expansion would drive away even the rabid Highlander fans)

  • ArchlyteArchlyte Member RarePosts: 1,405

    The Aliens Universe might be a good one if you wanted something that was kind of gritty and has the accountant's appeal of EVE.

    -Space Marines, Astro-Capitalists, and Explorers vs. Colonists, Xenomorphs, Predators, Actual Predators, and Engineers.

    -Abbrieviated Space Travel (you're asleep)

    -Cut-Throat Business deals and general inhumane fucking-over of others for profit

    -Jump Scares that don't come from animatronic pizza parlor critters

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  • FlintsteenFlintsteen Member UncommonPosts: 282

    Starship Troopers.    I know it's a bit of a cliché,  but I could see it work.  It would probably have to be a 1 faction game human v bugs even though I guess you could let bugs be a faction.

     

    Blade Runner. Not 100% sure about the factions.  You could have a Bladerunner faction and a Replicant faction,  but you also could have Bladerunners and defiant Replicants played by NPC and players living in the world helping either Replicants or Blade Runners. 

     

     

  • DauntisDauntis Member UncommonPosts: 600

    5th Element

    Reign of Fire

    The Prophecy (or Constantine, or Legion)

    Red Dawn

    Stardust

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