The Daily Grind: Games that should be MMOs?

Diablo is an MMO, its called WOW, and it used to be an MMORPG, but thats gone now. Oh yea, and Guild Wars too, its a diablo mmo.

Anyway, Marvel ultimate alliance, Final Fantasy Tactics, and not that I would play it, but why isnt there an pokemon mmo, why hasnt anyone rode that gravy train into town yet?

though i would have no interest in playing it, I think Pokemon would make an excellent MMO.

once again, Battletech would be great. Operating your own company withing the Inner Sphere or the Clans, jumping from planet to planet, mech customization and a heads up display that would actually make sense to have. The trouble is, as stated above, with the legal mumbojumbo.

The Cyberpunk genre is pretty ripe. I expect it to be the next big push and we'll probably be hearing a lot about games in this genre in a year or two.

THQ needs to make Warhammer 40k. I want muh Powah Fist! This would make WAY more sense than Starcraft. How the hell do your play a Goliath?

I dont think baethesda should make anything, MMO or otherwise, ever. The dialogue they script is awful and their animators are probably fresh out of high school, or just got their degree online at best. BTW thanks for ruining Fallout. The gameplay from 1 and 2 were bad enough, way to wreck the story as well.

1. Castlevania
2. Pokemon
3. Final Fantasy 8
4. Legend of Zelda
5. Baldur's Gate (or NWN)

My comments on each were far too long, so I ended up making my own blog post about it. If interested, check it out at http://www.thewanderingrogue.com

I was wondering what a MMOG based on *Tron* would be like. The designers could go wild and eschew the laws of physics because it all takes place inside a computer.

I'd love to see an MMO set in Oddworld.

How about an MMO in an underwater civilization, an Aquanox/Bioshock hybrid?

And ... I keep telling those ATITD guys, instead of retelling their story over and over, next time take their game philosophy and DO RED MARS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Mars )

There's several games about a manga/anime that i revere so i guess it fits in this category:
My ideal MMO would be a One Piece MMO.

A pirate themed MMO, with FFA PvP based on guilds (this case Pirate gangs) that could build their own boats to travel around this world and with some crazy PvE against the Marines and the World Government.

If it wasn't a grindy borefest like most Asian MMOs it would be my favourite game.

Oh man...I didn't even think about it, but a Planescape MMO would be amazing. Absolutely amazing. The gameworld is unbelievable, the possible story lines, the races, the possible classes...I'm getting happy just thinking about what COULD be.

As a huge Elder Scrolls fan, it would not work as a MMORPG. It would work as a single-player game that can go online, but not as a MMORPG, at least as long as the typical RPG formula is:
pick up quest->grind out quest->get xp-> level up and so on.

How about Assassin's Creed, anyone? The game has set up the two separate factions, similar to the Horde/Alliance and Sith/ Jedi. It has a lot of potential. The combat system could be tuned to be very interactive and skill-based, there could be many different classes (ranged, melee, "technical" like gadgets, healing, and so on). Guilds could put out "hits" on members of the other faction, have bases, full scale battles between the two factions. I think that is another game that could be made into a great MMO. Perhaps the time setting would work best at the modern time. I don't think enough RPG games are set in a "modern" setting.

Duke Nukem online anyone?

Planescape MMO.

The Planescape 'universe' is ideal for an MMO. You got this huge, ever-changing city of Sigil that has doors to all other worlds in existence, which basically means... endless possibilities for expanding the game-world inside and outside of the City (near-infinite dimensions, planes and realities to visit and a city that changes itself on a daily basis).

Perfect choice for an MMO in my opinion.

Rifts would be pretty cool. I'd also like to really see a Battletech MMO, those mech battles would be cool. I've seen a bunch of good ideas on this list though!

My personal idea would be Warmachine. Each player could start as an infantry type unit and work up to becoming a Warcaster, who could control the Warjacks. And with Privateer Presses way of doing tourney seasons the devs could carry that into the games to make an ever changing world. It would be awesome!

I know it's not a game...but there is one MMO I would give my left testicle to see.


Firefly


Need I say more?

Imagine pluggin in your MOO2 to a balanced long scaling version of itself, with the same UI and controls, except there was no Orion, and no limits to the universe, and that every single player starts 18 stars away from a new player starting point.
Far enough so that they cant reach new players before they can defend themselves.