Originally posted by lostscout5

Traveller. One of the first scifi paper and dice RPG's ever. The best setting ever. Set in the 54th{ or was it 53rd?} century in the 3rd Imperium of man.  Most of the published adventueres took place in a frontier area called the spinward marches. Tons of history. The bigest problem with a Traveller MMO would be the size of the thing.

I think one of the reasons I loved SWG so much was because it reminded me of traveller.

There was a short lived Traveller iOS based MMO, Traveller AR, but it never got out of beta, I played it for a few months, there were thousands and thousands of systems, GM events, exploration, piracy, Vargr's, Zhodani, etc. I was sad to see it fail.

Originally posted by FARGIN_WAR

 I would love to see a virtual game world based around Terry Pratchett's Disc World series. 

Me too, that would be immense.

Originally posted by RefMinor

Originally posted by FARGIN_WAR

 I would love to see a virtual game world based around Terry Pratchett's Disc World series. 

Me too, that would be immense.

Disc Word MUD is about as close as you can get. 

Part of me would love this and part of me knows that it would be a cluster fuck.  I would however like to see more MMO's that do not take themselves as seriously. 

Philip Jose Farmer's "Riverworld" series. There was also a series of books in late 80's or early 90's called  "Heroes in Hell". In it hell was timeless so anyone who ever died or ever will die was there. So it, like Riverworld ,had all sorts of historical figures. Unlike Riverworld, it was limited to non-fictional characters...whereas I believe in Riverworld you could run into , not only Robert E. Howard , but his creations Conan..or Solomon Kane. As a matter of fact in the Heroes In Hell series Robert E Howard runs into Gilgamesh and thinks he's met Conan.lol. There were cool things to be had in both series.

edit: apparently they're still making "in Hell" books..cool.

Originally posted by Reklaw

Bladerunner.

But I will keep saying if the MMORPG is based on a popular book, singleplayer game or perhaps even a toy or what ever known IP then they really need to make sure they make a virtual sandbox type of game of it as I already know it's story and want to create my own story within that already know world.

If developers just want to make a themepark out of a very well known IP then they might aswell focus more on making a singleplayer co-op game so that they can go far beyond that of what they could do in a MMORPG due to the amount of players they have running around in their game. And I still feel MMORPG still are far away in how story actually influences the full ingame world apart from just your personal story which still doesn't really make sense to have that in a MMORPG unless it's actually created by the player, but unfortunaly your story is already set in stone with some minor adjustments here and there but without any reall impact on the ingame world around everyone.

Bladerunner the movie (which was actually based on Phillip K Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) or Bladerunner the book by Alan E Nourse?  The tilte being the only thing that the film took from the book.

Originally posted by craftseeker
A game set in Larry Niven's Ring World would be kind of nice.

Absolutely.

For those who havent read Nivens books, Ringworld inspired the Halo ring construction but the stories tell of a much larger and more varied universe, with definite MMORPG friendly elements.

The Discworld and Blade Runner ideas are great also.

How about Julian May's Galactic Milieu series for another self contained universe with plenty to offer the MMORPG gaming world.

I'm a tabletop gamer from waay back, and I'd love to see some of those old RPGs done as MMOs, stuff like Runequest, the Morrow Project, Gamma World, Space 1889.

The GURPS Fantasy world, or better yet a cross dimensional campaign containing all of the worlds that SJG actually developed for GURPS would be amazing.

I agree that traveller could make a really good MMO as well, the tabletop game had issues, but the world building they did was amazing.

MajorMud

Enough Said

 for a long time PnP D+D player.. DDO was a great disappiontment(my second MMO)..and I loved the Eberron setting.

   D+D settings .. perhaps the Darksun setting.. with conflict between the city states being a big part of the end game.

  A rehash of Star Wars, Galactic civil war, (SWG was my first MMO) but not SWG II, great concept poorly executed

  Warhammer 40k , if  it came out big and had a well thought out end/meta game it could be great.

The sads thing about a thread like this is it shows how bad the industry is catering to their core audience.

MajorMud

Enough Said

 Watership Down RPG?  Played it!

It even had a GURPSification.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnies_%26_Burrows

Shannara? hmm... Dean Koontz' universe for ODd Thomas?

um... the world of Ender's game post-alien war?

Julian May's pliocene exile novels.

two factions, multiple races, great setting.

very very adaptable.

Swan Song by Robert  McCammon, one of my favorite reads of all time. It would make an incredible movie, and, I never really thought about it but would be a great post apocalyptic story based mmo. Here is just a small excerpt of the story from wiki (if you are looking for an engaging read you can not put down, pick this book up)....

In New York City, Sister Creep begins to walk around the remains of a New York ravaged by radioactive thunderstorms and tornadoes. While walking around, she finds a glass ring with jewels encased in the glass. Seeing it, she picks it up, believing it is important. She is surprised to see an undamaged building. Entering, she meets "The Man With The Scarlet Eye". She runs away and the building collapses. Sister is soon met by other survivors. They make their way through the hazardous Holland tunnel, eventually scrabbling their way to New Jersey.

In Blue Dome Mountain, Roland awakens in the cafeteria and is unable to find his mother and father. He is then picked up by one of Macklin's men who leads Roland to Macklin. Macklin is at the bottom of a deep hole. Roland, with a butcher knife and lighter, begins to climb down to Macklin and finds that his arm is stuck in a wall. He is forced to amputate the arm and cauterize it with a smoldering portion of desk found in the room. After Macklin's rescue, the pair must figure out how to break through the area where the food is stored. They find that the entrance to the food stores is blocked by rubble. Macklin oversees as the survivors remove the rubble, which soon collapses on top of the laborers. Simultaneously, Roland is searching through the cafeteria for scraps of food. He is then challenged by one of Colonel Macklin's former men, Schorr. Schorr has gone insane and taken up arms against Macklin, who he believes knew that this would happen and should have prevented it by ensuring the quality of the fallout shelter. Roland slices Schorr's left cheek and murders his two followers.

In Kansas, Swan's mother dies, as does PawPaw. Josh discovers a gopher hole and starts to dig their way out. He notices that there was grass growing where Swan slept. He starts to realize that she has special powers.