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A genre that is rarely seen
TreborLocke
Member Posts: 72
I can't remember if this has been brought up before, however I am curious as to how many people would favor a Cyberpunk MMORPG?
I will admit that it is a very, very, very niche genre to make any game out of but the litterature is out there to help support it.
I find that Cyberpunk as a genre could possibly bring more than just your basic "Kill joy" entertainment that you get in WoW. Of course, one would need to provide the right tools to make something like this work. A game like this couldn't work under a strictly "Missions/Quests" design so it would more than likely need to be Sandbox allowing for the creation of player created and imagined inventions, puzzles, the works.
I was wondering what everyones thoughts would be on such a genre given the fact that other than the Matrix, nothing is really mainstream about it.
(1997) UO --> EQ -> Runescape -> DAoC -> WoW -> EVE + WAR (2008)
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Isn't there also Neocron and Anarchy Online that could be considered cyberpunk?
(1997) UO --> EQ -> Runescape -> DAoC -> WoW -> EVE + WAR (2008)
It will take a bold company to risk anything too different from the mainsteam and sucsesfull games of today.
Hopefully, as the MMORPG market reaches maximum player saturation, companies will start to risk different ideas in order to hit on a winner.
For now though I fear we are stuck with magical Elves, axe wielding Dwarves and Goblins galore for some time to come
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The genre is vast and intricate; a world filled with intrigue, monolithic corporations, technological nightmares, genetic and cybernetic enhancements, brutal streetgangs, computer hackers, advanced weaponry, despair...but the will to survive.
Shadowrun would make an awesome MMOG but...
There aren't any MMOG developers competent or capable enough to tackle a project of this scope.
-W.
Originally posted by GrimSkunk2
Is Auto Assault a title to fall into this category? If it is, I'd say it is a genre that may be doomed.
Not really.
Cyberpunk is typically a semi-futuristic world where corporations and government have essentially merged into a police state. Technology is rampant...embedded within the human condition (implants, etc...). Usually it's a world of lone hackers battling it out against corporate security. It is most absolutely not a post-apocalypitic world. It's supposed to seem a lot like today, just reflected forward a few decades so as to allow for some imaginative conflicts.
This is definitely an under-realized genre, which is ripe for the picking. Someone, someday, will pick this up and run with it.
Oh, and CyberPunk != SteamPunk. Those are vastly different ideas.
Although I'd personally be more interested in seeing some Steampunk (Troika's Arcanum setting for example, technology vs magic, but rather without the elves, gnomes and orcs) or Post-apocalyptic games (if it would have the '50's vision of the future with zapguns, Mr. Handy, fallout shelters, and lots and lots of spandex as in Fallout, I' d be sold from the first minute), I would deffinatly be keeping an eye on such things being in development.
Cyberpunk would indeed offer a huge scope of roleplay and gameplay possibilities when done right. From picking your role in society (be it corporate lackey, streetgang member, ecoterrorist, bounty hunter or doomsday preacher) to how you will try to affect the world by for example hacking corporate databases to tracking down and eliminating the rogue elements in corporate society.
I'm not entirely sure if this is more of a sub-divission of the genre, but didn't there used to be a Cyberpunk Call of Cthulhu pnp game?
yeah, Ghost in the Shell concepts could easily be worked into a cyberpunk game, and it would rock.
Which FF Character Are You?
Blade Runner is also solidly in the realm of Cyber Punk...though maybe just a bit of a precursor to some of the full-blown fiction.
EDIT = I'm allmost tempted to do a poll of W. Gibson fans here but dread being either ignored or flooded
To learn more about Cyberpunk you can go here and here. The genre really has tons and tons of potential but, unfortunetly, to develop a MMOG that really realizes that potential would require a level of commitment far beyond the capacity of any developer in existence today.
Personally I think a really well made Cyberpunk MMOG would suck all other Sci-Fi MMOGs dry of subscribers!
I'm sure there is a developer out there that will do this eventually. There's always one developer that knows more than someone else.
i tell you man, the mmo market and the playerbase have a very short attention span when it comes to developers creating or created an mmo that is very different from fantasy rpg or sci-fi fps related games.
I'm sure there is a developer out there that will do this eventually. There's always one developer that knows more than someone else.
OK joe, maybe competent wasn't the best word to use, so how 'bout this...
Shadowrun would make an awesome MMOG but...
There aren't any MMOG developers with enough vision or courage to tackle a project of that scope.
There, that's better.
Cool.
Neocron and Face of Mankind are both cyberpunk.
Sadly neither did a big impact nor success so far.
AO i would not say it is Cyberpunk, not in the least.
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"
Theres a fine line between cyberpunk, sci fi and post apoc.
Most futuristic games out there are post apoc or sci fi.
There arent any MMO's out there right now which i would clasify as cyber punk.
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Face of Mankind could be considered cyberpunk i guess... Neocron is definatly post apoc.
I didn't say you did.