Pretty much like the title stated, feel free to post your ideas, etc.

I always find people's opinions and ideas interesting, so that's pretty much my reason for creating this thread.

Guild/ clan/ whatever- would need to sustain / protect each other.  Hunting, gathering would need to be the main quest types.

You could make your own weapons.  Quite bored of it already tbh. 

The problem would be that spending hours learning to sharpen a club to make a spear, or how to spark a fire would probably get quite tedious for someone surrounded by all sorts of gadgets running on electrickery. 

Are you trying to be authentic or a little more flexible, like make it "mythical" in the sense of making the setting the "pre-historic" times described by many mythologies or religions. Say set in the time of the Titans of the Greeks or something. 

Proto-humans would be the playable 'races'

Homeo Erectus, Homo Floresiensis, Homo Habilis, Neanderthalensis

They would vary on intelligence, strength.

I'd add Megafauna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna

my favorite

http://www.itsnature.org/rip/dinosaurs/giant-short-faced-bear/ 16 hundred pounds!

and mess up pre-history some in putting a lot of extinct animals (and the above different homos) together in the same time.

Eating and clean water would be the main currencies.

Slow, 'race' wide technology development through crafting. The game might eventually get to metal working after a few years.

Originally posted by thebigchin11

Guild/ clan/ whatever- would need to sustain / protect each other.  Hunting, gathering would need to be the main quest types.

You could make your own weapons.  Quite bored of it already tbh. 

The problem would be that spending hours learning to sharpen a club to make a spear, or how to spark a fire would probably get quite tedious for someone surrounded by all sorts of gadgets running on electrickery. 

 I think you can half 'sharp wooden spear' obey many of the conventions of normal MMOs. You don't have to spend hours making it, it doesn't need to be a simulation, just a game.

I don't know, maybe selecting the different shapes of scrapers, the size weight of atlatls, etc. could be a mini game. But anything approaching even 10x faster than real time would get boring to me real fast.

Heavy survival and crafting centric. Small communitites, huge space in between. Shamanism with neanderthal and homo sapiens to spice it up. Realistic design, almost historical (maybe mix some era to make it more interesting) would be a lot more interesting than a pseudo fantasy one.

If I were going to make a prehistoric game,  I'd want it to be like E.V.O

One of my most favorite games of all time.  I was hoping spore was like it,  but it just didn't do it for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv6FHOYf-Sk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MhIQhpfvus

Man,  I think I'm going to find a rom of it or something and play it right now.

Originally posted by Karesh

Pretty much like the title stated, feel free to post your ideas, etc.

I always find people's opinions and ideas interesting, so that's pretty much my reason for creating this thread.

There would be a fundamental paradox with a prehistoric MMO.  Prehistory by definition refers to a time before recorded history.  That means a time before people (whatever races inhabit your MMO world) could communicate via language to pass down stories and lore either orally or through written text.  This would eliminate all possibilty for lore, background story, context, and, logically, even communication in your MMO, which are all rather essential "MMORPG" features.  A game lacking these features could hardly be called an MMO or RPG, thus the paradox.  

The only way I can comprehend a "prehistoric" MMO is if you control a particular beast in a sort of Darwinian, cut-throat, survival of the fittest jungle world.  You would focus on strengthening your beast in typical RPG/MMO progression fashion.  Perhaps a milestone to shoot for would be to "evolve" a la Pokemon.  Perhaps if you work with others to take down a larger beast, you then (inexplicably) gain control of that beast as a means of "progressing."  

I always thought it would be cool to play a creature instead of a humanoid.  Being a dinosaur or sabertooth would be awesome in a prehistoric MMO.  Instead of items you can equip evolutions, like spore style, to get stronger.

That being said, Im really enjoying some co-op in darkspore at the moment.  It  would be awesome for a game like that to be expanded to have deeper lore.

A time traveling MMO would be awesome too where you can have factions from different era, dinosaurs vs cowboys vs aliens vs colonial vs cavemen vs you get the idea :]

  Ive actually thought about this before.. 

Make a game similar to xyson (except make it not the worst game ever made), add dinosuars, would be so sweet.

  I would play it even if it was 2d lol

Oh and for pvp, it could be Dino vs Human, sort of like Lotro where you had a seperate dino character..

I'd make it like Rift, WoW, Alganon and the others. Just with "kill 20 small dinosaurs" and "protect your eggs from 30 carnivores" and by replacing "slash" and "strike" simply with "bite".

...

Ok that's how 99% of the companies out there would do it.

If I'd have the funds, I'd make it a sandbox game. You know, dark and gritty, with stuff like:

• seasons and weather
• environment having an impact on your skill (ie making fire when it rains compared to when everything is dry)
• detailed character stats (hunger, cold (calculated by the amount, type (like leather or wool) and status (perfect, soaked etc) of your clothes
• interaction with about everything in the world. Like building huts and stuff everywhere
• having the game calculate temperature and wind speed and such according to your immediate surroundings (like getting a bonus in caves and huts and such, for regeneration and so on)
• experiences shape a charakter in some ways permanently (like receiving scars)
• aging

i would make 2 classes Ooka, Ooka Ooka, and finally Ooka Ooka OOka

They would all have 1 single attack.... Throw rock

Originally posted by Homitu

Originally posted by Karesh

Pretty much like the title stated, feel free to post your ideas, etc.

I always find people's opinions and ideas interesting, so that's pretty much my reason for creating this thread.

There would be a fundamental paradox with a prehistoric MMO.  Prehistory by definition refers to a time before recorded history.  That means a time before people (whatever races inhabit your MMO world) could communicate via language to pass down stories and lore either orally or through written text.  This would eliminate all possibilty for lore, background story, context, and, logically, even communication in your MMO, which are all rather essential "MMORPG" features.  A game lacking these features could hardly be called an MMO or RPG, thus the paradox.  

 

The only way I can comprehend a "prehistoric" MMO is if you control a particular beast in a sort of Darwinian, cut-throat, survival of the fittest jungle world.  You would focus on strengthening your beast in typical RPG/MMO progression fashion.  Perhaps a milestone to shoot for would be to "evolve" a la Pokemon.  Perhaps if you work with others to take down a larger beast, you then (inexplicably) gain control of that beast as a means of "progressing."  

I don't want to be rude but i think you should check a dictionary because your definition is really off.

Originally posted by Requiamer

Originally posted by Homitu

Originally posted by Karesh

Pretty much like the title stated, feel free to post your ideas, etc.

I always find people's opinions and ideas interesting, so that's pretty much my reason for creating this thread.

There would be a fundamental paradox with a prehistoric MMO.  Prehistory by definition refers to a time before recorded history.  That means a time before people (whatever races inhabit your MMO world) could communicate via language to pass down stories and lore either orally or through written text.  This would eliminate all possibilty for lore, background story, context, and, logically, even communication in your MMO, which are all rather essential "MMORPG" features.  A game lacking these features could hardly be called an MMO or RPG, thus the paradox.  

 

The only way I can comprehend a "prehistoric" MMO is if you control a particular beast in a sort of Darwinian, cut-throat, survival of the fittest jungle world.  You would focus on strengthening your beast in typical RPG/MMO progression fashion.  Perhaps a milestone to shoot for would be to "evolve" a la Pokemon.  Perhaps if you work with others to take down a larger beast, you then (inexplicably) gain control of that beast as a means of "progressing."  

I don't want to be rude but i think you should check a dictionary because your definition is really off.

 You are correct, but it raises a great idea for a Darwinian MMO, raising your creature to fight or flight, hunt, gather, giving it armour or pointy teeth.  That would be good.  Edit- of course that wouldn't actually be Darwinian and would more closely resemble Intelligent Design, but it would need to be to make the game work. 

I actually like the idea.  Of course I would prefer the Jurassic period.  So there would be all sorts of dinosaurs.  However, it'd be super dangerous to venture out.  Like playing the game would always be heart pounding and adrenaline pumping.  Players don't really stand a good chance against most dinosaurs.  Also the reason for people (players) to be there would be some sort of time travel deal.  Not like any sort of cave people or something.

I dunno.  Just people who've gotten sent back in time and have to try to survive.  That would be pretty fun.

Originally posted by Requiamer

Originally posted by Homitu

Originally posted by Karesh

Pretty much like the title stated, feel free to post your ideas, etc.

I always find people's opinions and ideas interesting, so that's pretty much my reason for creating this thread.

There would be a fundamental paradox with a prehistoric MMO.  Prehistory by definition refers to a time before recorded history.  That means a time before people (whatever races inhabit your MMO world) could communicate via language to pass down stories and lore either orally or through written text.  This would eliminate all possibilty for lore, background story, context, and, logically, even communication in your MMO, which are all rather essential "MMORPG" features.  A game lacking these features could hardly be called an MMO or RPG, thus the paradox.  

 

The only way I can comprehend a "prehistoric" MMO is if you control a particular beast in a sort of Darwinian, cut-throat, survival of the fittest jungle world.  You would focus on strengthening your beast in typical RPG/MMO progression fashion.  Perhaps a milestone to shoot for would be to "evolve" a la Pokemon.  Perhaps if you work with others to take down a larger beast, you then (inexplicably) gain control of that beast as a means of "progressing."  

I don't want to be rude but i think you should check a dictionary because your definition is really off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory  

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prehistory

Actually, my definition was spot on.  The only ammendment would be that prehistoric peoples, although non-literate, could communicate in a primitive way without a fully developed language.  

Originally posted by Homitu

Originally posted by Requiamer

Originally posted by Homitu

Originally posted by Karesh

Pretty much like the title stated, feel free to post your ideas, etc.

I always find people's opinions and ideas interesting, so that's pretty much my reason for creating this thread.

There would be a fundamental paradox with a prehistoric MMO.  Prehistory by definition refers to a time before recorded history.  That means a time before people (whatever races inhabit your MMO world) could communicate via language to pass down stories and lore either orally or through written text.  This would eliminate all possibilty for lore, background story, context, and, logically, even communication in your MMO, which are all rather essential "MMORPG" features.  A game lacking these features could hardly be called an MMO or RPG, thus the paradox.  

 

The only way I can comprehend a "prehistoric" MMO is if you control a particular beast in a sort of Darwinian, cut-throat, survival of the fittest jungle world.  You would focus on strengthening your beast in typical RPG/MMO progression fashion.  Perhaps a milestone to shoot for would be to "evolve" a la Pokemon.  Perhaps if you work with others to take down a larger beast, you then (inexplicably) gain control of that beast as a means of "progressing."  

I don't want to be rude but i think you should check a dictionary because your definition is really off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory  

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prehistory

 

Actually, my definition was spot on.  The only ammendment would be that prehistoric peoples, although non-literate, could communicate in a primitive way without a fully developed language.  

 Cave paintings are a form of literature.  These things evolve gradually, there is no line in the sand (other than the arbitrary era's we give them which in practice must overlap). 

It would make for an interesting sandbox in the least. Though I would substitute some of the 'realism' you would have with cave paintings  and allow players the ability to communicate via chat box =)

You could do it Dinotopia style!

or..Maybe liek Civilization/Xysom?

Start out in prehistoric age with dinosaurs and such, and as the game goes or maybe a big new (expansion or patch) comes, which ushers in a new "era", which will start obsoleting prehistoric era items and such.  I think that could be cool, if done properly.

Imagine RP'ing on voice chat.  'Ugh ugh ugh', 'what the fvck are you on about?', 'UGH!!!'.