Harry Potter MMOrpg PLZ!!!!

one word to the 5 movies/mmos listed....NO!

This isn't a movie, but I think Game of Thrones would make a good MMO.  There could be 7 different kingdoms for players to choose from and they are all at war with each other.  The ultimate goal would be to take the iron throne in King's Landing  and rule all 7 kingdoms.  It could work similar to the way TERA's politcal system will work, however with some differences.  In the GoT MMO, the iron throne could only be won by PVP.   The winner (however that would be determined) would rule the iron throne for 2 weeks and then the throne would be up for grabs again (or something like that).  Only max level players could take the iron throne.  I don't have everything thought out, but I'm sure something could be developed to make it fun.

As far as races, most are human in the series, but other races could be conceived for variety as well as the different classes. 

Originally posted by VikingGamer

Dune was another great world. Not sure how well it would work with spice only coming from one planet and that planet being controlled by one group or family at a time usually but otherwise a great and huge environment to go after.

 

have to say that this is a fabulous idea. spice could be the currency regardless of who controls Arrakis (or parts of it) at any given time. although there are, i believe, over a dozen "houses" and the spacing guild etc, certainly that could be reduced to a manageable number for faction control purposes. of course, older gamers might remember Dune II, which really initiated the whole RTS genre we still see today. i can only imagine this license is caught in some kind of legal hell right now, and it won't ever see the light of day as an MMO.

I cant help myself, but reducing Blade runner into action no-brainer conflict of two sides is just sick.

Aliens vs predator would make a great MMO!  You could have 3 sides, which for me is a must in any pvp...2 sides just stinks (LEARN IT ALREADY DEVS!)

Aliens, the original scariest of any of the monsters in any film.  I can remember watching that, then not sleeping for 2 days.

Predators, the Hunters of the universe.  Who doesn't want a shoulder mounted pulsar launcher?

Humans, thought of the weakest of the 3, however when pushed nothing beats the will of humans.  Plus we get gunships, arnold swartzengerman, Bill Dukes, apollo creed (carl weathers), Elpidia Carrillo (BOIOIOIOING), and Jesse Ventura.

Might as well add The Outsiders to that list.

Greasers VS Soc

Personally I say no, no ,no, no , and HELL no!

Now thematically I feel any of these ideas could make an excellent MMO, just not with an actual name brand IP attached that the game company will have to try to live up to. The reason being is when a company takes on trying to bring an IP to an MMO, or even from book to big screen, a large percentage of the fan base is usually disapointed. There will always be the pall of fan disapproval hanging over the endeaver.

If however a company just makes an MMO based on say, their own brand of giant fighting robots, or killer genetic hybrids vs normal joe humans, people can't justify complaining about it just by saying it didn't live up to their own jaded fanboi expectations.













 

Originally posted by VikingGamer

Dune was another great world. Not sure how well it would work with spice only coming from one planet and that planet being controlled by one group or family at a time usually but otherwise a great and huge environment to go after.

Dune was the first thing I thought of too, but I think the biggest problem with it is that the planet (Arrakis) was one big desert, and there's only so much you can do with that from a visual standpoint. Yes, you can have rock formations here, rolling dunes there, mountains here, salt flats there, but you're working with a very limited color palette in an environment whose primary descriptor is "featurelessness."

That would be difficult to pull off in anything other than a Farmville or text-based format, where expectations are much lower with the former, and entirely different with the latter. Subscription graphical MMO players, most of whom are already used to traversing ten vastly different environments in twenty minutes, would get sick of the brown and beige pretty quickly. Dune definitely has all the politics and conflict for a great MMO, but the stage it's set on would be a very, very tough sell.

1) Stalker!

2) Mad Max

3) Dune

4) Bladerunner

5) Uhm... Dunno.

Also, Anime:

Akira, Princess Mononoke, Ghost in the Shell, Battle Angel Alita, Jin-Roh?

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Seriously, it doesn't get any better than that. Of course, the movie only scratched the surface of the Manga. Besides, who wouldn't want to be immersed in a game whose soundtrack is written by Joe Hisaishi, or play in a world created by Hayao Miyazaki? Nevermind that the art style used by Miyazaki never gets old.

Can add 2 more for fun .........

Tremors - Survival MMO :P 

And the whole Percy Jackson, Heros of Olympus and Red Pyramid books though only Lightning thief was a movie. You have the Romans, Greeks and the Egyptians for the 3 factions then mini factions within those factions. Seems like a good setup to me and plenty of lore to pull from. Modern day setting with medival style combat would be unique as well. 

1. Dune mix up the movies with the old sci fi series and you would have a hit

2. Farscape- yes this is not  a movie but why does it not exist?

3. GI Joe- This did have a movie

4. Starship Troopers - Where the hell is this?

5. The Golden Compass

6 Harry Friggin Potter!!!!

Red Dawn would make a very good Fallout style MMO, very sandbox'y.

The Dark Crystal would be very interesting.

Firefly/Serenity would be amazing if they did it right, sandbox'y with a go anywhere do anything kind of game. This could be the new SWG, people could even be Companions and Government officials as well as Smugglers.

Farscape would be good as well.

Fifth Element has an interesting premise.

Dragonlance has a movie (animated) so it could go here as well as books)

I would much rather see some older books made into MMO's. Like the Chronicles of Amber or Shannara series.

Battlefield Earth would be great as well (I include this in the books because the movie blows, the book was amazing).

If they would do a Forgotten Realms MMO, not just Neverwinter, include the entire Dark Walker on Moonshae as well as the Bloodstone series to all of the sword coast sets.

1. LOTR

2. LOTR

3. LOTR

4. LOTR

5. The Hobbit

And ya don't say but we have LOTR....Turbine's version is utter fail imo. Since quiting years ago I've been hoping for a new company to try it again but unfortionately thats not likely to happen. Thanks Turbine asshats :-/

Oop, someone else got it.

Digging back to the classics--  Burroughs (any of several series, but the Hollow Earth stuff has the most potential and isn't (to my knowledge) being used by anyone.

1 Farscape - Yes here is a movie to end the series.

2. Firefly

3. Starship Troopers

4 Assult Girls - Movie is a MMO game.

5 Underworld - Vamp v Warewolves v Humans.

Dune!!! You can have 3 faction PvP!

1. Warriors - Come out and play... user created gangs for control of NYC? sounds fun

2. The Evil Dead - think it was done in a facebook style but done right could b entertaining as hell

3. MadMax - just get Bethla to take Fallout into MMO with some tweaking

4. Six String Samurai - nevermind, noone has ever heard of it :/

5. Harry Potter - not cause I want to play it, but so it will suck all Harry Potter fanbois out of self-respecting MMO's ;)

Originally posted by Xuljester

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Seriously, it doesn't get any better than that. Of course, the movie only scratched the surface of the Manga. Besides, who wouldn't want to be immersed in a game whose soundtrack is written by Joe Hisaishi, or play in a world created by Hayao Miyazaki? Nevermind that the art style used by Miyazaki never gets old.

 

Ye, I was going to suggest Princess Monoke ^^