The Neverending Story: Your character is actually a person who read the book and travels to Fantasia.
The Dark Tower: If you’ve read the books, you’ll know how it’s possible to travel to this setting. Gunslingers? Yes, please.
The Chronicles of Riddick: I love this setting. It could use a bunch more fleshing out and a MMORPG is the perfect place. You hear me, Tigon?
Stargate: In the works, but I foresee failure. SG:Atlantis is not as strong as early-mid SG1 was, and will have a hard time carrying the game.
Firefly: In the works, but I foresee failure in the mass market. It’ll be a good niche game, though. A lot will depend on the design. Not sure if the license can carry it alone (see SWG…although I believe the failure there was due to redesigns, not the initial design).
December 7th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Tachevert loves Dark Tower … always going on about it … and has also said he’d love to see a Dark Tower MMO. I think he may have once claimed it was better literature than LotR. Blasphemy!
The thought of a Firefly MMO scares me. I absolutely love the story … I don’t know if the appeal of the show could ever really be captured in a game. Certainly not a diku derivative.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:39 am
I would give significant portions of my anatomy to see a Dark Tower MMO. I can’t think of a single IP license I’ve seen that would present as many opportunities for variation, unique characters, lots of “cool stuff,” AND (if it were set in the right time) even “worldiness,” RvR/PvP, etc.
I’d also love to see a “cyberspace” motif. Less Matrix-like, more hacking! The fun of that genre is that you could break all sorts of rules that apply to “physical worlds” while you’re there.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Dark Tower would be excellent sans the King accident tie-in. The story took a left turn when it started going that direction. King often does that, though.
The early era would be perfect. Deschain’s Affiliation vs. the Crimson King’s followers. Great RvR potential.
Of course, my ultimate setting (which I’m slowly piecing together) would be a planet colonization setting where the players have to build the world and the new civilization from scratch using a few tools and the natural resources.
December 9th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Sorry to go a bit off-topic, but if you’re a Dark Tower fan, I highly recommend the recent graphic novel series.
I love the colonization setting idea. It would be like Alpha Centauri, the MMO!
December 15th, 2007 at 3:40 am
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