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Mmog(not rpg) a few ideas.

by nickd · in Torque Game Engine · 03/20/2004 (9:17 am) · 3 replies

I was just thinking about some ideas that would be cool for online game play. 1. An online grand theft auto. you start of with a charicter, it would have one of those create your person like in tony hawk pro skater or something. and you have a reputation which you try to get high and keep it there. so like you would have to join a gang or start a buisness, all types of stuff that happens in real life (sort of, like in GTA real life) and you just do jobs for you boss and you can rob banks, there will be cops,(which you can get a job for if you aply and pass a test) i dont know how that will work right now but there will be lots of possiblities in this game. it will all be online. like everquest or other mmorpg except with out the rpg. so just massive mulitplayer online game.
second idea. 2. another massive multiplayer online game. (this idea might have already been made but im not sure). its bassed on WWII. when you log into the game you are just one soldier in WWII, either in pearl harbor, dday, or other rememberable sites. and you just reinact WWII basically. there will have to be a good system of logging in and out. so i guess you can log in and then when you log out you guy will still be there and people can kill him, so you want to take him to a save place befor you log out (he will still be able to shoot but it will be like a really bad npc). and the game will last a week or longer. untill you can start a new WWII. there will be 14 servers so WWII will last 2 weeks, 14 days. you cant join another WWII unless you die or arent currently in another one. and each server will be a different day. so if its tuesday u can join a tuesday game. and then you play that one for 2 weeks or untill you die or win.

what do you think, this is open to suggestions, is this possible to create the terrain, and game play on torque but maybe not the online capablity? i need suggestions on both of them or either of them.

#1
03/20/2004 (9:41 am)
For the second idea, check out World War 2 Online, been around a couple years now; sorta did poorly, in large part because the game was horribly flawed (almost unplayable) at release. Much better now, but it never really recovered.
#2
03/20/2004 (10:21 am)
You seem to be missing the meaning of RPG possibly. An rpg games literally means u play a "role" so your first idea for exmaple is an rpg in its basic sense in my opinion. Reason I'm saying this is that instead of playing a wizard for exmaple you are playing a criminal, its still an rpg, just not the "norm" rpg.
#3
03/20/2004 (11:01 am)
For kevin, yea i figured there was something out there, but i just think something could be made better than whats out there.
for craig, ok so its an rpg, but i wouldnt like to call it an rpg, but u might be right,
im looking for idea here, like are they good ideas, or what could be different to make it more fun.