Your MMOG Setting?

[Bunk]

Promblem is, it'll never happen because you can't make an MMO an M rated game and the setting won't work on anything less than that.

UO was rated M.

Yea, but how long did people jerky last? Personally, I'm guessing that UO made it to release as an M rated game because of Raph's often mentioned fact that it was "under the suits radar".

I can't think of anything remotely M rated about the game after the first couple of months.

[Zetleft]

You must of had the profanity filter on.  It was rated M because you never know what other people will do.... and they found out all about internet anonymity pretty damn quickly.  

You see something similar in any game release now that can go online, console or pc, but now it just states something like 'rating does not reflect online play'.

[WayAbvPar]

Darklands Online (Medieval Europe with Saints and Alchemy)

Oooh good call. Buggy as hell, but wow that was a fun game. I still have nightmares about getting wtfpwned by the Wild Hunt. I have a sneaking suspicion that that band of roving centaurs in the Barrens of WoW were inspired by this (having been rolled by them several times).

[Samwise]

My most recent MMOG idea was Call of Cthulhu Online.  It'd be a predominantly PvE game with regular story arcs; the gameplay focuses on puzzle-solving and exploration (e.g. following trails of clues).  The twist is that if the players don't "win" the story arc (e.g. stop cult X from summoning the incarnation of old one Y), the server is wiped and everyone rerolls.  Bwahahaha!

[sidereal]

Also, 6% of all client downloads wipe your hard drive.

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!

[Tisirin]

Well, I hate to shamelessly plug one of the games my own company will publish, but with the references in this thread to Car Wars, I wonder how many folks realize that Auto Assault is coming out this year?

As to the main purpose of this thread, I always think of three unused liscenses:

Hyboria (Conan)
H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands
Earthsea

I also think that an interesting Western-style kind of game is possible.  You could set it on an alien world as a colony that reverted technologically for some reason.   Technological advancement in a steampunk kind of way could be a big part of a game like that, I think.

[Righ]

Firefly the game would be called Traveller. It has been rumored several times on the TML, but I don't know if Marc Miller has licensed it.

[Rodent]

Hyboria (Conan)

Would I be able to camp picts?

[WayAbvPar]

Well, I hate to shamelessly plug one of the games my own company will publish, but with the references in this thread to Car Wars, I wonder how many folks realize that Auto Assault is coming out this year?

Can you give us a link for an update? What little I had heard made me feel like I would still be waiting for a true Car Wars game even after its release.

[Tisirin]

Well, I hate to shamelessly plug one of the games my own company will publish, but with the references in this thread to Car Wars, I wonder how many folks realize that Auto Assault is coming out this year?

Can you give us a link for an update? What little I had heard made me feel like I would still be waiting for a true Car Wars game even after its release.

Happy to. It's simply http://www.autoassault.com/ .  We've been adding quite a bit of material lately and are moving into a schedule to add more every week.

[Tisirin]

Hyboria (Conan)

Would I be able to camp picts?

Dude , camping Picts is for noobs.. Everyone knows that the Hyrkanian Steppes is where you get the l33t drops..

[MahrinSkel]

To pimp for a game that I'm *not* working on (after doing everything but padlocking myself to their offices trying to get an interview), Auto Assault looked like it was going to be really good.  A lot depends on how they went about building the world, but the core gameplay was just a complete blast, so as long as they didn't screw up, it should be a hell of a lot of fun.

--Dave

[Riggswolfe]

What I'm about to type makes me wince, but has NCSoft considered doing what SOE did and making a game pass with a flat rate for all of their games? I love COH and might try this autoassault as well.

*feels very dirty for suggesting another company do what SOE did*

[Shannow]

Firefly the game would be called Traveller. It has been rumored several times on the TML, but I don't know if Marc Miller has licensed it.

I believe at one stage CRS (ww2ol makers) had a license to do a Travellers MMOLG and had discussions about doing it after ww2ol release.
Of course that aint gonn happen now.

[Velorath]

I'll agree with Tisirin on Conan.  I'd also like to see a Western/Supernatural mix like what Lansdale and Truman did with Jonah Hex.  Maybe a Resident Evil MMO (or any zombie MMO really).

Other things I'll just throw out there without really thinking about how they'd work:

Tron
Prophecy (Angels vs. Angels and all that)
Oz (the HBO series).  Prison-based MMO where there could finally be true player enforced justice as griefers are made to put on dresses and dance, or are beaten and then shit on.

[stray]

Oz (the HBO series).  Prison-based MMO where there could finally be true player enforced justice as griefers are made to put on dresses and dance, or are beaten and then shit on.

Holy shit. Now THAT's a great idea. Seriously.

EDIT: Damn, I forgot about the ladies...Can't have a coed prison. Ah well, it'd still make a good single player game.

[Numtini]

Skotos is running a text based Call of Cthulhu game.

[d4rkj3di]

Looking through this thread, I see alot of references to specific IP's and licenses that have already been tried and cancelled or failed outright.

I'm not saying that the license or setting was a bad one, just that it was either done wrong or doomed from the start.

Multiplayer Battletech Online:3025 - Awesome game, I was in the beta right up until the game was about to launch and Microsoft bought FASA and told EA to fuck off.


I also see alot of people wishing for genres and settings that are currently in development.

Car Wars/Road Warrior is taken care of by Auto Assault.

Pirates?  Yarrr, being done.

And that Conan/Hyborian setting, hehe.  The license is not as unused as you would believe. /wink

I would have to say that a Cyberpunk/Shadowrun type setting would be my first wish.  Fallout would be second on that list.  And to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentation of the women. Scratch all that.  An MMORPG set in the War World book series created by Jerry Pournelle would definitely rock.

In 2004, the MMO world was being steamrolled by the combined EQ2 / WoW Juggernaut.  I think that 2005-2006 will be giving us a look at several games that are going to depart heavily from the standard Fantasy/Sci-Fi settings.

[Nebu]

I think that 2005-2006 will be giving us a look at several games that are going to depart heavily from the standard Fantasy/Sci-Fi settings.

Let 's hope that they also depart heavily from the tired D&D/Diku mechanics.

Setting = good, Gameplay = good, Setting + gameplay = win.

[Tisirin]

What I'm about to type makes me wince, but has NCSoft considered doing what SOE did and making a game pass with a flat rate for all of their games? I love COH and might try this autoassault as well.

*feels very dirty for suggesting another company do what SOE did*

Well, I don't think I'm giving anything away when I say that it's pretty obvious what kind of price-breaks and cross-marketing one can do when one has a suite of games rather than one or two titles.

A flat rate or "pass" is definitely something that any company with a suite of games should strongly consider.

[Righ]

Not that any Lineage player has time to do anything else, with that grind. CoH+AA+GW would be attractive however.

[kaid]

Boy if there was an all access pass for coh that included autoassult I would be terribly tempted. Then again I have no freaking time for all the games I currently have. I need to win the lottery buy a nice cave and close the door and not come out again.


kaid

[Mi_Tes]

Not that any Lineage player has time to do anything else, with that grind. CoH+AA+GW would be attractive however.

Add in Tabula Rasa and that NCsoft combo is really, really attractive to me.

[Rodent]

Not that any Lineage player has time to do anything else, with that grind. CoH+AA+GW would be attractive however.

Add in Tabula Rasa and that NCsoft combo is really, really attractive to me.

/Agree. But I was under the impression GW wouldn't sport a monthly fee anyways.

[Mi_Tes]

Not that any Lineage player has time to do anything else, with that grind. CoH+AA+GW would be attractive however.

Add in Tabula Rasa and that NCsoft combo is really, really attractive to me.

/Agree. But I was under the impression GW wouldn't sport a monthly fee anyways.

Your right, their will be no monthly fee for GW.  However, that combo of games sounds great (only thing that would make it better for me is if NCsoft would pick up and finish Mythica).  

Perhaps with GW, NCsoft could give a discounted price for the downloadable expansion packs (half price) for anyone who has a NCsoft-e combo pack.  That would be a way for NCsoft to give a decent break for people playing that game and still be in line with the "no monthly fee" cost model.

[BlackSky]

Color me childish, but I wouldn't mind playing a Watership Down MMO, I always loved those books . . .

(No furry coments, please)

[stray]

Color me childish, but I wouldn't mind playing a Watership Down MMO, I always loved those books . . .

(No furry coments, please)

Would you be interested in a game of Furcadia?

Seriously though, the Plague Dogs (at least from what I remember) is one of the best cartoons ever made. Never got around to seeing Watership Down though. Just as good?

[Righ]

I kept hoping Art Garfunkle would catch myxomatosis. Saccharin for the eyes and ears.

[HaemishM]

Cyberpunk 2020 Online would have been awesome as it was envisioned.

The Conan world, Call of Cthulu, Deadlands, and Shadowrun would all be interesting worlds as well. Oh yeah, and Star Wars, in the Old Republic days, when there were lots of Jedi running around.

[Murgos]

Cyberpunk 2020 Online would have been awesome as it was envisioned.

The Conan world, Call of Cthulu, Deadlands, and Shadowrun would all be interesting worlds as well. Oh yeah, and Star Wars, in the Old Republic days, when there were lots of Jedi running around.

Mmmm, Call of Cthulu 2020 Online.

[d4rkj3di]

Deadknights of the Old Cthulurun 2020 Online: The Hyborian Wars.  Only on Station Pass!

[mmo.maurice]

sorry to resurrect this (i'm new to the site, and i'm going through all the old posts)

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
Ravensloft
Twilight 2000
Raymond Fiest's Riftwar (set in the time of the Valheru, although maybe a young Valheru due to the disparate power levels)

[WayAbvPar]

Well, I hate to shamelessly plug one of the games my own company will publish, but with the references in this thread to Car Wars, I wonder how many folks realize that Auto Assault is coming out this year?

Can you give us a link for an update? What little I had heard made me feel like I would still be waiting for a true Car Wars game even after its release.

Wow. I am prescient.

[Nevermore]

Since this has been necroed, I'll say I'd love to see Shadowrun, Fallout and/or Deadlands done as MMOGs.  The old Fading Suns RPG could make a great MMOG as well.

[Signe]

I'm itching for something different.  Steampunk, maybe (NOT amime).   People have mentioned Sci Fi Western, like in those Stephen King books or something... that sounds good, too.  I've been bored to tears with CoH/V lately, but I wouldn't mind trying one of those new comic type MMOs that are on the horizon... I think I read one or the other was going to be skill based... that would be cool.