The Daily Grind: New worlds to explore

I think it'd be really good if games explored time travel a little more thoroughly. It'd be a bit of a bugger to program it properly, but if they got it right it'd be amazing!

I imagine you'd have some sort of gun that could open a time portal which can throw you a number of increments forward and back in time in order to accomplish goals and defeat enemies.

Example: Big nasty monster running at you, you either jump 20secs into the future when the beast has already run past/through you and shoot him in the back, OR you fire the portal in front of the beast so that it rematerializes long after you've left.

If you wanted to assasinate someone and you knew what time they were going to be at a place, you could open a portal to the right setting, shoot into it, then walk off. At the right time, a bullet would fly out of a portal in the future killing your target.

I'd love to see a good Steampunk MMORPG. And a Western. Or, better yet, a Steampunk-Western!!

I'm really not too fussed on the setting, as long as it's got a good story.

That said, I wouldn't mind a non-magic fantasy/medieval setting. (not necessarily realistic in any way, just without magic).

Magic is just lame.

Love to see a Wild West MMO - the obvious comparison is Red Dead Redemption but that game would really make a great immersive open world environment for an MMO.

Oh yea! With The Platypus all the way! A Steampunk MMO. Or a Steampunk Western MMO! Think of all the neat character designs and automotons, gears and victorian/western style clothing armors. Strange contraptions on the guns like in the fully upgraded Bioshock weapons models. Weird genetically enhanced robots and strange mad scientist bosses. Massive dirigibles of floating greatness! Sounds awesome, sign me up!

A western MMO makes sense but given the 'normal-ness' of the content they'd have to work very hard to make it authentic enough to spend time in.

Personally I'd like to see a Surreal MMO. Funnily enough, think of Inception. That's the kind of gameworld I'd like to inhabit.

Indiana Jones. Antarctic discovery. Cold war espionage. Cyberpunk. Nearly any setting can work if a developer has the courage, vision, and ability to execute.

Personally, I love the 1950's art deco Post Apocolyptic setting like in Fallout, Fallen Earth, Bioshock, etc.

A truly good cyberpunk type mmo. Perhaps a real version of shadowrun finally. Also once again, casting a vote for anything from the Rifts universe, just so much content to work with there, and never ending expansions through the rifts opening around the world.

If Everything goes well, Torchlight MMORPG, will be a perfect representation of Steam&Sorcery genre.

From what we know about Torchlight II (the game before mmorpg) the world setting is heavily influenced by industrial revolution era of our world with railroads being built as the only thing connecting various mines and towns.


The closest to real life will most likely be The Secret World.



What I would want to see as mmorpg? Dresden Files. There's just....so much potential for awesome sandbox game there...the setting and the lore allows for pretty much unlimited choice of races, classes, exploration, etc. And the setting itself feels alive and unique, with the whole noir feeling in it.