Sometimes that movie or TV show you love so well is NOT the best candidate for an MMO. In today's Coyote's Howling we show you exactly what we mean when we say that. Check it out and then let us know what you're thinking in the comments.

I've seen it a million times:

A new movie, game, or sci-fi series comes out and instantly the forums are flooded with threads stating that the focus of our current mania should be made into an MMORPG. Avatar, Halo, Firefly; all of these titles have at one time or another been in development, and all of them have either been canceled or fizzled before they could gain momentum.

Read more Coyote's Howling: Be Careful What You Wish For.

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True enough

Well done~ Thanks for the laughs today!

Agreed.  Huge titles won't automatically mean huge success.  Those that try to benefit off something that has already proven itself need to realize that their particular venture doesn't always go hand-in-hand with past successes of the title in a whole nother form.

Quantum Leap!  They're making a movie...with no Scott Bakula! Noooo.

I think Avatar could work really well if done right of course. And we all know we all have our opinions on what "right" is, and could argue that if anything is done right it would work.

So for me Avatar would be a PvE Sandbox game. And humans would not be a playable race. Humans would be the enemies. You could have raids against human establishments. Have big boss fights where your fighting a tank or something. 

Just one major problem I hate guns in MMO's. It kills any immersion for me. Normally 1 shot from a gun, its over, so the perception has to be nerfed to make guns work. I just dont do that well. I had that problem in TOR's beta with light sabre's. My preception of light sabres is it cuts anything like butter, except another sabre. I couldnt get over that. 

Then again you could always remove the human element and make a new story, with the primative weapons only. for me that would probably be the best option.

Unfortunately, not every concept that's geek-positive will make a good MMO.

Consider what a Half-Life MMO would be like as a player, just for a moment, before calling for Skyrim to be converted.

Originally posted by toddze

Just one major problem I hate guns in MMO's. It kills any immersion for me. Normally 1 shot from a gun, its over, so the perception has to be nerfed to make guns work.

This is obviously true and I understand what you're saying, but getting hit with an arrow or a battle axe will put you down in one blow, too. And swimming in plate armor? Casting fireballs?  Well, you know what I'm saying.

But yeah, it's hilarious to be tanking through automatic weapons fire.

Another great one.  Pointless yet enlightening all at once... haha.  Do you seriously have 6 unopened copies of Matrix online?  Lol... and is that really how you got them?

Damn man, every article you do has some kind of sick and twisted high school story about how you were abused and picked on. Not every gamer was a nerd in high school. Shit, I was the one giving wedgies and dunking heads in toilets. Not because the people were geeks though, because they were preppy a-hole's who deserved it. Whats better than giving your high school teams quarterback a sore asscrack for sundays game? Lets be honest the little whiney "I'm gonna cry to my mommy everytime we lose a game" turd in the punch bowl definitly deserved it. Its his offensive line you have to watch out for....

Although when your the one supplying the alcohol at the weekend parties you get a free pass. I miss high school. I wish i were a nerd back in the day, maybe I would be rich and extremely succesful now had I been.

Originally posted by Actus

Another great one.  Pointless yet enlightening all at once... haha.  Do you seriously have 6 unopened copies of Matrix online?  Lol... and is that really how you got them?

 

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Mmorpg market is WAY oversaturated so making another flood of games based on movies IP would be fail. 

you had me at "...oh boy"

hey think on the bright side he have some gifts to send to anyone who annoys him :p well 5 people he should save on box to as reminder :)

Prepare to add Swtor to that list

My God, man! Your articles get better every week!

And Amazon has a pretty sweet price on those communicator pins now. Should you, you know, need another one.

I feel your Star Trek pain.. I bought Star Trek online (Collectors edition)  and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.. ;)  I still wear the T-shirt.  I did not however buy the lifetime sub.. ;)  

I Beta tested Matrix and was so scared at what they had out near release I uninstalled it and put all the emails in the spam folder ;)   hehe

I think it was unfair to include Star Trek Online dispite how you feel about it because unlike all the others, it hasn't actually failed. Oh, sure we've all made the threat that STO is headed down the tubes, but until it does, it's idle speculation on our part.

Games and movies based off of IP is a sure fire way to know that the thing you were once fond of is about to have a giant deuce dropped on it in a very public and humilating manner.

Originally posted by Mr.Coyote

Originally posted by Actus

Another great one.  Pointless yet enlightening all at once... haha.  Do you seriously have 6 unopened copies of Matrix online?  Lol... and is that really how you got them?

 

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>.< Ouch!  They could've just kicked your dog or something... but this...