General Discussion

"With Starwars Galaxies not living up to everyones expectations and a Startrek MMO currently in the works, its not surprising that the next big space MMO would come from Battlestar Galactica. The announcement comes just a few days before the 4th season of Battlestar Galactica kicks off this Friday. I don't know about you guys, but I love Battlestar Galactica. Without a doubt it's the best Scifi show ever and probably one of the best shows in any genre of all time.
But enough of the show, Auran Games, creaters of Fury and the Battlestar Galactica flight sim game, will be working on this new MMO which will be published by Sierra Online. The game is currently in the very very early stages of development, but I was able find some info about it by speaking to Greg Lane, CEO of Auran Games.
The game will take place during the first Cylon War,which makes sense considering it would be pretty hard to do a MMO where there's only 50,000 people and your stuck on a few dozen ships. Humans will be the only playable race, so if you were hoping to be a Cylon your out of luck. Thats basically all the info I was able to get, but I??ll be keeping in touch to provide updates."

I'm not sure what I think of this. I know this is the last season of the show, and I also know their making a spinoff thats going to be in the same period that said MMO is going to be in. I don't know how good this'll be, especially with the creaters being Auran Games. I guess I'll hope for the best but expect the worse?

Since it's based in the new Shows "universe" I say Who gives a damn?

I OWN the BSG TOS First Movie on Laserdisc, I spent money helping the petition drives to bring back BSG... I HATE the "new" Bsg with a passion.

So I hope it never happens.

This prob doesnt' belong in the WAR forum heh.. but a bsg mmo.. I am not so sure about that.. as far as the game world would be, it would be pretty generic with little tie in to the show, since as it says.. its not about the 40k odd people running away, its about everyday whatever.. sounds like a recipe for a generic scifi based typical mmo..  They would have to make it very very good to hook people who aren't battlestar fans, and even then, since it's not the interesting battlestar story, as a fan, I dont see that much appeal to the backstory to make me play this over your other generic mmos

I think I called that one a few days ago... don't know when it was posted though. 

Interesting. 

Originally posted by Guintu

Humans will be the only playable race, so if you were hoping to be a Cylon your out of luck.

 

Well that sucks !   I want to be a bad guy and kill the Humans !

Originally posted by v2guy

 

Originally posted by Guintu

Humans will be the only playable race, so if you were hoping to be a Cylon your out of luck.

I like the battlestar IP but ugh, this sounds like it might end up as another goody-two-shoes "you are the hope of mankind, now go kill 12 wolves and I shall give you xp." type of game. Wait and see I guess.

It's the same morons who made Fury in all it's non-glory. No thanks, I'll pass.

Hmmmm....though I don't mind the new BSG, I don't think there's enough foundation for a good MMO.  Whilst the society is too much like present day real life, any possible "combat" aspect will probably turn out to be nothing more than very badly done clone of Tabula Rasa.  Possibly with a badly done Tie Fighter / SWG JTL style space battles.

Move along.....nothing to see here....

Originally posted by Zorvan

It's the same morons who made Fury in all it's non-glory. No thanks, I'll pass.

QFT.  Their hyping of Fury with gimmicky sales tactics left a real bad taste in people's mouth, including mine.  Auran is a rogue development house, at best.

another crappy mo to be based on a movie franchise

This would be kinda cool...especially if at some point down the line..random .players discover they are prototype cylon models..and are confronted with some kind of decision/dilemma  because of it....perfect time to introduce limited playability for the "bad" side...but alas...although i love the new BSG...I dont think an mmo is sustainable..besides..if i can't play a Daggit..then screw it.