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[Column] General: 5 Reasons Why We Need a Fallout MMO
SBFord
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I’m just as excited about Fallout 4 as the next guy, and think our very own Bill Murphy wrote a great list of things that would be awesome to see in the game, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t say I was hoping it’d be announced as an MMO. Set aside your lukewarm reception of The Elder Scrolls Online and suspend your disbelief for just a moment and dream about what could be. What if there were a Fallout MMO and what if the developers actually made it the kind of game it has the potential to become?
Read more of David Jagneaux's The List: 5 Reasons Why We need a Fallout MMO.
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no. just look how they raped elder scroll.
MMO means no mods,medicore gameplay,every think is limited,silly mounts with cashshop etc...
Since im not a fan of Fallout i dont mind if a FO mmo gets developed or not. If its good ill play it.
That being said, if Bethesda and Zeni make a FO mmo, PLEASE use motion capture for the animations. I like ESO but watching those animations without motion capture is depressing. And of course, as any good samaritan mmo, dont forget to have third person perspective.
I have to agree with Arallu01.
I do however hope they are going to build co-op play into the game atleast that stay's somewhat true to the immersive fibe the game gives.
The whole vibe I get from playing Fall Out games would be eliminated seeing thousands of other people running around in the world.
Nope. I love the Fallout series. This would destroy the Fallout series.
Like Communism, Gender Equality, and Elder Scrolls Online; it sounds good on paper but wouldn't work so well in the real world.
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AAA mmo's backed by large corporations based on popular ip's would never work. They want to make as much money as possible and therefore try to appeal to everyone and their mother. Making for mediocre gameplay all around rather than focusing on one specific gamesplay style.
Indie developers on the other hand could make a proper well known ip mmo, yet would never accomplish the funding to purchase the rights to one of those ip's. So...yeah that's where we are with mmo's these days.
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Albion Online
Completely disagree. Not every single IP needs to be made into a MMO. Not every single IP should be made into a MMO. Fallout is something that doesn't need a mmo, imo. Elder Scrolls didn't need one either, imo, but that happened anyhow.
I would support some type of multiplayer for both Fallout and Elder Scrolls though as long as the game would meaningful support small sided multiplayer.
5 Reasons Why Fallout MMO should never be mentioned:
1) Fallen Earth
2) Elder Scrolls Online
3) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
4) Hellgate London
5) Bethesda
An MMO set in the Fallout-verse might be OK, but without that story that carries you through the game, it wouldn't really be Fallout. I think it's the same problem with Elder Scrolls Online. It's a game set in the Elder Scrolls-verse, but it doesn't feel like Elder Scrolls, or for a lot of people it just doesn't feel like Skyrim.
That's not to say I wouldn't love some sort of multiplayer in Fallout, but I'm just not sold on the idea of turning it into an MMO(RPG).
Gonna have to join the "No thanks" chorus here.
Just because a game is great doesn't mean it would make a great MMORPG.
I would play it. I really enjoyed Fallen Earth and a game with more polish and a lot more lore involved would be great IMO.
Just as long as they didn't dumb it down TOO hard, especially the combat. Keep the shooter gameplay IMO.
I guess i am too old,i have seen pretty much everything i know a developer is going to do.
I am growing tired of games always coming off the same and the world is always the same looking like modules rather than a world.
I am just waiting for a game that looks like some effort went into it.That means EVERYTHING in the world is interactive,from destructive surfaces to physics.
I tried Fallout 1 on a whim,got bored first day and have never went back,so i have no idea if the game warrants any recognition or not.
As always i am good to go on ANY type of MMO,but show me the effort and make the game somewhat plausible,i can't stand stupid looking ideas.Best of all i want content that fits the LORE and game,i do NOT want cheesy cheap content like jump puzzles or timed runs or map completions for xp,i want a game that feels like it would in real life or close to it.
I want to see a real fallout looking world ,example polluted water,struggle to find power/fuel etc etc.What i would expect to see is a generated game world with some assets slapped down then flag players for pvp and call it a game...:(
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I personally believe that both The Elder Scrolls and Fallout games would work better as drop in drop out coop like Borderlands, instead of actual mmos.
As a coop game you still have the strong Single player experience but this time you can invite 2,3,4 (or more) friends to enjoy it with you. But for that to work properly and not break immersion the story needs to be made so that if you invite someone to your game the game notices that person and npcs also react to them.
Right because ESO was SO much more successful than Skyrim.
No, no more Beth wasting their money on 'me too' projects.
Save the money and spend it on writers for ES:VI that can keep up with CD Project Red's writers.
'Sandbox MMO' is a PTSD trigger word for anyone who has the experience to know that anonymous players invariably use a 'sandbox' in the same manner a housecat does.
When your head is stuck in the sand, your ass becomes the only recognizable part of you.
No game is more fun than the one you can't play, and no game is more boring than one which you've become familiar.
How to become a millionaire:
Start with a billion dollars and make an MMO.
I would think that thousands of other players running around you would really destroy that "post-apocalyptic emptiness" feeling that Fallout delivers so well.
On the other hand, it would be kind of cool to blow up Megaton while it was full of other players...
No! Like others have said turning Fallout into a mmo would be watering down the greatness resulting in a eso mush at best.
The single major reason why I couldn't get into ESO: the combat animations (yes, also after the "revamp") look so horrible (for ANY weapon and especially staves) it completely kills the immersion and fun for me.
If you have Morrowind installed, give it a side-by-side try. You'll see the animations are almost the same level of "quality".
Quite telling, considering that even in 2002 I was appaled by Morrowind's horrible animations...
I love Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but no thanks. I just don't think it would translate into a very good MMO.
What I really want in terms of MMOs is a first person Star Wars game with Skyrim style combat and open-world. And ZeniMax Online would be a great candidate for potential developer.