Stargate Worlds Trailer plus further details on classes, story, and more

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I'm pretty skeptical, myself. I was never a fan of the Stargate SG-1 series, but I do enjoy Stargate: Atlantis quite a bit.

But that said, Atlantis, at least, doesn't feel like a good property for MMOs. Maybe SG-1 was better. But on Atlantis, the only real consistent environment is the city itself. Otherwise they're on a different planet, a different environment, every week. The tech isn't really all that remarkable: it's mostly a character-driven show.

I just don't think as an environment it has enough depth to sustain an MMO. In TV terms, if you take any one planet they visit, is the environment/culture fleshed out enough to spend 10-12 hours gaming in it and having fun?

Granted the developers could do all this fleshing out, but I'm not sure its still Stargate at that point.

Anyway, I hope they prove me wrong and this turns out to be a great property. I guess they could use the Stargates as portals into instances, so they wouldn't have to build planets to visit, just small areas...

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I seem to recall hearing that they were branching from SG-1 continuity sometime a few years back - if I recall, the Tollan homeworld is announced for the game which means the game would be set before it was destroyed by Anubis, so no Atlantis, no Ori, and I don't remember exactly how much in the way of free Jaffa (though I'm presuming that's where the playable Jaffa will come from - I'm not even going to ask how the heck they justify playable Asgard).

I always wish every new game the best, cause more playable options is a good thing for everyone. I especially wish this one the best, cause I like the license. But realistically, I'm concerned. The fact that they're licensing an engine helps a lot, but even so, it would be quite a feat for a brand new studio's first release to come in on time and in an acceptable state for retail (many major releases by companies who have previous hit MMORPG's fall shy of one or both bars).

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