Originally posted by Dreadlich

With the glut of crappy MMOs on the market, it would seem someone would have converted every halfway successful pen & paper RPG into an MMO by now. DDO was a HUGE dissapointment, but I hope Wizards of the Coast will someday get someone else to try remaking it into something successful.

I know RPGs themselves are not really what was meant by the thread, but a lot of them have spawned literature beyond the source books. Shadowrun, World of Darkness (Vampire: The Masquerade), D&D, Rifts, Cyberpunk, or Call of Cthulhu to name a few. I know this has been tried with a few games, but the attempts were poor and half-hearted it seems.

I'm glad Warhammer is getting it's shot, and 40k has been announced, but no Battletech? Maybe if 40k succeeds...

You'd think that after CoH/CoV's success, Marvel or DC Comics would have teamed up with someone to create a cool superhero MMO. Lots of books and content there.

Marvel and Cryptic (makers of CoH and CoV) announced a partnership to develop the Marvel superhero MMO.  Cryptic was quick to clarify that they have not down-sized the CoH/CoV teams, and that they are continuing with their commitment to those games and to ongoing free expansions that they call issues.  We've had 3 issues since the announcement, and in my mind they've been the best, so I see the commitment is their in deeds not words alone.

Tuesdays With Morrie. Hands down the obvious choice.

Rather than listing these out again, I will just cut and paste from a previous post:

Some of the IPs already listed would make great MMOs:

Dune

If done correctly, this could be wonderful.  Politics was always very important in this story.  I would hope that this would carry over to the MMO.

Mechwarrior

I have always envisioned this MMO as similar to EVE, but with a little more emphasis on PVE.

Underworld

Lycans and vampires and men, oh my!

Transformers

This could also be fantastic if done right.  Instead of groups, players could combine to make super transformers. 

Starship Troopers

Who doesn't like killing bugs.

KOTOR

Jedi vs. Sith

Wheel of Time

All of the players (Aes Sedai) could have a stable of warders to let them take on different roles.  Maybe even a function to play as the warder instead of the Aes Sedai.

A few more IPs that I believe would make good MMOs are:

Chronicles of the Cheysuli

You could choose to be a Cheysuli or an Ihlini.  Who doesn't want a Lir?

Cabal by Clive Barker (aka Nightbreed)

The citizens of Meridian fight for survival against the parts of humanity who are trying to wipe them out.

Chronicles of Riddick

Go, Go Necromongers!

Deathgate Cycle

Patryn against the Saryn.  Both races could be trapped in the Labyrinth.  Instead of levels, character progression could be measured by gates.

Van Helsing

Human witch hunters face off against various supernatural beings.  This MMO could be a world where human myths and nightmares of every culture find life.

E.E. Doc Smith  -  Lensman series

ERB -  John Carter, Warlord of Mars series

Fritz Lieber  -  Fafard and the Gray Mouser series

MM  -  Eternal Champion series(s)

Lots more, but these have a wide breadth and lots of depth.

Originally posted by Dreadlich

With the glut of crappy MMOs on the market, it would seem someone would have converted every halfway successful pen & paper RPG into an MMO by now. DDO was a HUGE dissapointment, but I hope Wizards of the Coast will someday get someone else to try remaking it into something successful.

I know RPGs themselves are not really what was meant by the thread, but a lot of them have spawned literature beyond the source books. Shadowrun, World of Darkness (Vampire: The Masquerade), D&D, Rifts, Cyberpunk, or Call of Cthulhu to name a few. I know this has been tried with a few games, but the attempts were poor and half-hearted it seems.

I'm glad Warhammer is getting it's shot, and 40k has been announced, but no Battletech? Maybe if 40k succeeds...

You'd think that after CoH/CoV's success, Marvel or DC Comics would have teamed up with someone to create a cool superhero MMO. Lots of books and content there.

actually i think i read somewhere on gamespot that marvel has an MMO comming out where u play as superheroes, not sure on the details, but i remeber it when i was looking up console MMOs somehwere, it was on x360 pc and ps3, not sure if its 100% true

A series of books I always thought would make for a good MMO based on cultural variances, racial differences, exotic terrain, and sci-fi elements would be the Barsoom (Martian) Series...

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote 7 or so books in the early 1900's after he wrote Tarzaan.  The books are pretty cool and extremely creative for the time...  You could change it to be Mars in the past so there are no issues with the fact we now know Mars has no current civilizations on it...

Underworld and  The Transformers would also be good ones.

Originally posted by DCTitan

While I certainly love many of the unique worlds fantasy writers produce, I'm not a big fan of playing in an established / well documented time lines.  This is why I never played SWG and had no interest to play LOTRO.  IMO it works a lot better when you take something like the Wheel of Time and either advance or reverse the time line to a point where the major characters aren't even a live.  It allows developers to add something new (and hopefully exciting) to an already existing setting and players don't find themselves feeling like secondary / minor scrubs to a major story that has already been played out (you know the outcome).

As to a possible candidate, Terry Goodkinds "Sword of Truth" world might not be to bad.  With Wizards, War-Wizards, Confessors, Mord-Sith, Dreamwalkers and a host of other characters it could offer a good deal of interesting twists (perhaps set it well in advance of Richard's time frame, when the Wizards were at war with each other). 

Though I love the books the Sword of Truth never crossed my mind but it should have, even has pvp factions with the old world vs. the new world. Would probably have to be set when Zedd was 1st wizard and Panis Rahl was his arch enemy for story reasons though. I would play it!

The Jon Shannow novels take place in a future earth where the poles have shifted, swamping earth's current land masses, and leaving bare the sea beds. Human society endures, stuck in a kind of post-apocalyptic frontier lifestyle. In the first novel, the level of technology has slipped back to percussion cap pistols, and is quite static until a nation of a satanists re-invent repeating firearms and mount a crusde. Facing these 'Hellborn' fanatics is Jon Shannow, a particularly bloody wandering 'brigand-slayer' and seeker after mythical jerusalem.

Originally posted by kazoo13

The dune series would work well. Also, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (well that whole series actually).

 

Kazoo

Enders game would work really well.  So many options to play different factions etc.  However I think Dune would be an easier MMO to make regarding clear differences with factions, creatures etc.

* Alan Dean Fosters' books set in the Commonwealth.  For battles, you have the Humanx alliance, an alliance between humans and Thranx (insects),  the warlike reptilian Ann and other alien species.  Varies rpg stories are set in that world such as the Flinx adventures.  You can be a sting ship pilot, freighter/trader, scientist, member of the Church, explore new worlds, discover new aliens and find clues for discovering ancient alien artifacts.

* E. E. Doc Smith's Lensman series.

* John Carter's Warlord of Mars series

The Eragon movie and Eragon computer game both have bad reviews.  I loved the books but so far attempts to transplant the story into other media have been woeful.

How about Stephen Kings Gunlinger/Dark Tower series?.....I thought that would be a good mmo.

Harry Potter. That is all.

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Originally posted by Orthedos

 

Originally posted by Narcissus_X

My choices would be:  A Forgotten Realms MMO (as suggested by Loke666) and Battletech/Mechwarrior (as suggested by Dreadlich)

Yeah yeah yeah

 

Battletech will be great.  5 factions and the empire, then the outer clans.  Lots of types of mech, armored vehicles infantry.  LAM (Land and air mechs), air forces, jump ships and drop ships.

How about Dune?  We have the empire, the Atreides lots of planets, lots of plots and conspiracies.

Forgotten realms is definitely a thumbs up, hmm, have we seen too many elves, dwarves and orcs passing through our monitors lately?  Can I see a laser gun instead of a composite bow please?

Dune would be perfect you could have Harkonean. The univers is huge tons of pvp.Tons of pve content

Originally posted by star.buck

I'd love to see an MMO set in the world of His Dark Materials (The Golden Compass).

There are an infinte amount of possiblities using that universe. Personally, I'd want to start somewhere in Lyra's world with a Daemon of my own, and the ability to do whatever, wherever. Find passages into other worlds/dimensions, battle specters, fly with the witches of Svlabard. Fight or negotiate with the Panserbjørne. I think my meaning is clear :D

But it'd have to have some sort of 'personality' test at the beginning of character creation so everyone isn't running around with a Lion/Snow Leopard/Wolf daemon.

On the other hand, it might make a better single player RPG.

 

GRRR

the golden compass, jesus christ. this is like how philosophers stone got dumbed down to "sorcerers stone" for america. the americanisation has struck again...

its a friggin aletheometer. golden compass sounds so lame. I love the books but dont think they are mmo material. good games and mmos tend to have a combat focuss and while there is plenty of combat in the world of the books the books themselves are in no way focused on combat or anything mmo related.

Sabriel (garth nix's old kingdom)

would be awesome imo. I have already said why in another thread like this. the classes and everything is all sorted plus its not kiddy like harrypotter/eragon/northernlights. nothing wrong with kiddy, just there are too few non kiddy mmorpgies (ie just AoC).

My first choice would be shadowrun, secone would be WoT assuming that the game could be decently balanced...iirc the only times one power users got killed by non power users was via plot devices like forkroot or ambushes. I'd really like to see a Wild Cards MMO. It would be interesting to have a superpower game where your powers don't have to connect to your profession, like being a private detective that can teleport, and regular humans can still be a factor. The tough part would be designing the powers and limitations.

Originally posted by Consensus

 

FFS

 

the golden compass, jesus christ. this is like how philosophers stone got dumbed down to "sorcerers stone" for america. the americanisation has struck again...

its a friggin aletheometer. golden compass sounds so lame. I love the books but dont think they are mmo material....  blah, blah, blah (deleted rambling)

Hey now, you hold on just a minute there! I'm American and I resent that statement. We don't use alethermometers, we have labels that tell us when it's cold. And it's not ale, it's called beer here. Beer thermometers are just stupid anyway. You just better watch yourself pal

EDIT: And you mispelled thermometer!

I'd like to see Pern, Gor, and/or the Sprawl Trilogy.