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Topic: So. What's BioWare's MMO? (Read 67122 times)
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HaemishM
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But they certainly could decide to release the single-player game, gauge its popularity and then MMOG it? I mean, DA has been in production for over 2 years now, and in that time, they've probably been able to measure what they think its popularity will be.
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Morfiend
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My guess is they got the Forgotten Realms Licence. (Dr1zz70wnz0r has killed you) or a KotOR MMO. I have ALWAYS said that SWG should have been set in the KotOR period. So much more freedom and conflict.
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Furiously
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I'd still vote for an autoduel.
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I'd still vote for an autoduel.
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stray
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Bioware and Autoduel? Why? Am I missing something here?
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CmdrSlack
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The Jade Empire world could even be used for a MMO, IMO. I rather enjoyed Jade Empire. I really think there's potential for a martial arts MMO that makes weapons secondary to hand-to-hand. Hell, there's a reason I eventually started working to TKM in SWG -- a bothan throwing punches and roundhouse kicks was just plain nifty to me.
An Autoduel MMO would be nice, especially if the "not in your car, avatar walking around" stuff could be done as part of the original design, not tacked on later. I really liked Autoduel, that was one of the first games that I really spent WAY too much time playing on my Apple ][e...that and the Bard's Tale stuff. I'd rather not see anything anywhere near a Bard's Tale MMO, largely because part of what made BT cool was the use of puzzles and whatnot. With the way spoiler sites are today, and the way I am about spending my gaming time, the solutions would be online in a matter of months and I'd use them.
I would really hold out for a KOTOR-themed MMO, but I think that the stigma of SWG would carry over to any other attempt to do a SW MMO. Granted, it may just mean low initial box sales and then a bunch more sales once the initial reports of "better than SWG" come in. Or not.
Meh, I just want to be excited about an upcoming MMO. I want to drop some of this "last semester before I graduate" student loan dough on a new gaming rig, and I need a game to justify stepping up from my circa-SWG-launch PC with the Radeon 9000 video card. The current stuff runs just fine for my tastes on the rig I have, but the urge to assemble a new machine on my own (or punk out and just get a Dell w/ student discount) makes me really want to see something out that's not WoW. I've never played WoW and have no desire to play WoW. I certainly don't need a better machine for DDO or CoX, so yeah. Bioware should just make a game that can allow me to justify the cost of a new rig and monitor.
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pants
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While we're playing speculation - I want a Mad Max/Fallout/Wasteland MMORPG - complete with mutants, guns, burned wastelands and roving biker gangs. Extra bonus points if a brotherhood-of-steel-alike manages to make its way in there.
Oh, and an obligatory Thunderdome.
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Cadaverine
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In the spirit of pointless conjecture, I'm gonna cross my fingers for a Shadowrun MMO. I, for one, am so damned tired of the usual fantasy crap. Hell, I'd even settle for a decent World of Darkness MMO, if only so I could make fun of some 3000 year old vampire living in his mom's basement.
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schild
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In the spirit of pointless conjecture, I'm gonna cross my fingers for a Shadowrun MMO. I, for one, am so damned tired of the usual fantasy crap. Hell, I'd even settle for a decent World of Darkness MMO, if only so I could make fun of some 3000 year old vampire living in his mom's basement.
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Lantyssa
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Instead we get a FPS with three minute matches and little to do with the Shadowrun we know.  |
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lamaros
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No Lazers or magic please.
No Space.
And:I love Dune but it would make a shitty game. Not enough there to play with.
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Calantus
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Syndicate
Planescape (seriously, the IP sounds made for an MMO)
Fallout
WH40k
Those are the 4 IPs I'd care to have MMOed that are not already being done. Alternatively they could create an IP around a game concept instead of squishing a game inside an IP but I dunno, sounds crazy.
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Lantyssa
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I would like any of those four if done well. Planescape is likely the only way I could get excited about another 'fantasy' game since it has so many ways to be different from all the rest.
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Morat20
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Less swords!!!
More guns!!!!
More rifles!!!!
More space!!!!
More aliens!!!!
Simon Green's Deathstalker universe. Space opera. Swords. Guns. Space ships. Aliens. Espers. Clones. Cyberrats. It's everything you want out of a game, and fucking more. Of course, everyone would be Investigators..... |
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« Last Edit: September 14, 2006, 11:10:49 PM by Morat20 »
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WindupAtheist
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Shadowrun MMO God damn you Microsoft, why aren't you making this?!?!?! |
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Trippy
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Shadowrun MMO God damn you Microsoft, why aren't you making this?!?!?! They don't get MMOs -- their track record is as bad as EA's. |
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Yegolev
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For some reason a Dune MMO seems to make more sense to me than a Star Wars one. I can't really explain why.
I can. Dune rocks and Star Wars sucks. As for SnakeCharmer's fantasy list, you'll see all that shit in EVE before anyone poops out a MMO with all that. Either one is a long way away. |
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Soln
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maybe we should be looking at what IP Pandemic owns as well?
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SnakeCharmer
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maybe we should be looking at what IP Pandemic owns as well?
NCSoft and Spacetime Studios is also making a new MMO. *shrugs* Hell, Spacetime Studios just NOW updated their website graphics, but no new information. Somebody here go get an interview with those guys. Or at least invite them to f13. |
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WindupAtheist
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I can. Dune rocks and Star Wars sucks. One of these IP owners needs to go ahead and make their MMO an alternate continuity. Enough with this "omg no Jedi, continuity lol" or whatever. Just pick a starting point in the story and then let things go off in their own direction as game design dictates. |
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Yegolev
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I was, of course, just being a prick for the most part... however you are right about how an IP can constrain a game design. When you say "Dune MOG" to people, you probably conjure up something like WoW with Sardukar instead of orcs, or maybe even the old RTS which might give you Shai-hulud-Bane. That sort of thing can really limit the ideas tossed onto the table, which is bad even in a field with actual outside-the-box ideas being put into action. You would need someone with BioWare's skill at story in order to successfully do something as ridiculous as set a game 4000 years before the Star Wars movies.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
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Lietgardis
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NCSoft and Spacetime Studios is also making a new MMO. *shrugs*
Hell, Spacetime Studios just NOW updated their website graphics, but no new information.
Somebody here go get an interview with those guys. Or at least invite them to f13.
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WindupAtheist
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SnakeCharmer
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NCSoft and Spacetime Studios is also making a new MMO. *shrugs*
Hell, Spacetime Studios just NOW updated their website graphics, but no new information.
Somebody here go get an interview with those guys. Or at least invite them to f13.
Hi! Good gawd almighty! Talk about lurker of the year award. |
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Signe
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SnakeCharmer
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Good Grief! He scared the bubbles out of me!
I think "He" actually is a "She"! Sara Jensen? Formally of Shadowbane fame? |
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« Last Edit: September 15, 2006, 08:23:11 PM by SnakeCharmer »
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Surlyboi
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Signe
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That's right! Lead designer or something, no? She obviously came here for the free dinner at Olive Garden coupon. That's why I'm here.
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WindupAtheist
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That's Lietgardis who used to write for Lum, you newbs.
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Signe
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Doesn't matter, WUN... all that matter's is who's getting the Olive Garden coupon!
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WindupAtheist
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Quiet, Feet! Olive Garden isn't that good anyway!
PS: Newbs.
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« Last Edit: September 16, 2006, 10:39:37 AM by WindupAtheist »
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Venkman
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Derail: Why is WindupAtheist "WUN" all of a sudden? Seen that in a few posts...
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Oban
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Derail: Why is WindupAtheist "WUN" all of a sudden? Seen that in a few posts...
...nutsack. |
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WindupAtheist
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Schild (or whoever) changed my username to WindupNutsack once for larfs.
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