monkey of doom
Joined: 15 Jun 2004 |
 Posted: Sunday, 16 April 2006 01:31PM |
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Baulder's Gate is probably the best RPG game I have ever played, and ever will play, in my life. There are so many items, features, monsters, quests, and vast areas to explore. So wouldn't it be great if Bioware combined all these traits into an MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) which would be basically like BG2 but where you interact with thousands of actual people, not just the five others you get while playing multiplayer? I dunno, but I think a game with content like Baldur's Gate has the potential to become an amazing MMORPG, especially with better graphics, more quests, more skills to level, and a wider world to explore. I've always been partial to MMORPGs and if Bioware ever does decide to make an online game based on the Forgotten Realms I would buy it in a heartbeat. The question I'm trying to ask is, is Bioware planning on making an MMORPG in the Forgotten Realms sometime in the future? |
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Kevin Lynch
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Joined: 17 Oct 2001
From: NS, Canada |
Posted: Sunday, 16 April 2006 01:41PM |
BioWare is developing an MMO, but it won't be based on a licensed product like the Forgotten Realms. Read the Press Release about it.
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ceeshond
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Joined: 14 Jul 2005 |
Posted: Sunday, 16 April 2006 03:02PM |
i like baldurs gate, but atm there wouldnt be near enough places to go to call it a mmo  you would have to trow 5000 people in a single room to fit them all on the map but ye i think it would hold some potential, specially since it would be maybe even the ONLY one of its kind |
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monkey of doom
Joined: 15 Jun 2004 |
Posted: Sunday, 16 April 2006 03:14PM |
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Yeah Baldur's Gate 2 probably doesn't have enough space, but if you add all of the Forgotten Realms games+ all of their expansions that's a pretty large playing field! Plus, I'm sure they could make new lands and dungeons if they wanted. |
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Thrundaar
Joined: 15 Jan 2006 |
Posted: Sunday, 16 April 2006 03:50PM |
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A Baldur's Gate MMO would be somewhat amusing, especially when you see about 300 different characters get wiped out by Demogorgon. |
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Starlytt
Joined: 14 Apr 2004 |
Posted: Thursday, 20 April 2006 07:23PM |
I just don't see BG lending itself to an MMORPG experience.
The only way I could really see it working is if you 'occasionaly' meet another (real) char/party (they would be permanently present, just not in the same part of the world), possibly battling an epic fight. The reason is that if everybody is a 'superchar' (cause thats what us protagonists are compared to the NPCs), then it feels so much less special than being one of the few around. That or the large majority of the players would have to play NPC lives (which would obviously be more boring, unless you could start your own slaver companies secretly and use the coronet as a coverup  , possibly battling with other rival slavers and using shadow thieves as mercenaries ).
If you were to turn BG into a MMORPG in the way you suggested, then it wouldn't be BG anymore, it wouldn't feel the same. It would be WoW . |
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donotresuscitate
Joined: 11 Oct 2005 |
Posted: Sunday, 30 April 2006 06:03PM |
IMO I think a Forgoten Realms type MMO should be release in the order the actual books were made.
Or they could go by popularity to get more sales.
But the first one sems more logical to old schoolers... yet they have to appeal to the mass so they'll be tempted to hit the second option.
And aside from that, do you guys feel a BGII (top-down) view would sem more appropriate or a NWN (3d style) view?
Personaly, I find that the BGII has dated graphics but a much mroe "comfy" feeling... but that may be because I played it when I was in my early teens.
The 3D MMO's just seem to take away the feeling of the game... I mean look at UO for frickadoo's (just made that up woot) sake, it's 2006 and still rockin' with a mega outdated graphics engine.
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