I know, "didn't this guy just post another blog a little while ago?" But when the ideas come I just have to type them out. So Terminator, one of the best sci-fi titles of all time. It defined post apocalyptic robot controlled future. And has the potential to become the sci-fi MMO to rule them all. So why hasn't anyone made it? I know SOE back in 2002 had expressed interest in getting right to make the game but I have not heard anything since. And to be honest I pray they didn't get them since most likely SOE would f*** it up.
So where is it? I searched the web and only found vague references to people hearing about SOE looking to do it. Am I the only one that has been waiting for A sci-fi MMO done right. Tabula Rasa was supposed to fill that void but it is kind of its own class of MMO. But could you not imagine a terminator MMO, based on post apocalyptic robot controlled planet with humans fighting the machines.
The two factions are machines vs humans, with open world pvp and pve action. People could play as the robots or the humans. With humans trying to infiltrate sky net and destroy it. While robots try to infiltrate human underground and kill its leaders. I just think if your going to do this you have to have robots faction fighting. The challenge is machine end game what would they fight? Raids against human outposts to kill leaders maybe. While it's obvious who humans are going to raid.
game play could be similar to tabula rasa in third person shooter, or go straight for FPS. I would expect the game is skill based and not class based. But it could go either way. Class based system would also work well. The franchise has elements of a class based system anyways. Including pet classes using dogs to fight or control remote machines.
I read the comic books growing up and they were ripe with ideas on how to make this work. I hope someone out there. (not SOE) decides to pick this up and produce it. I would imagine if done right with PVP action and ripe PVE game this could be the WOW of sci-fi MMO's.
You could also possibly have terminator units that have been "reprogrammed" by the Resistance as units you could choose. would be lots of fun I imagine. however I would hate to be the dev's trying to balance this and still keep it real. I mean the robots in the movies and comic books were super over powered. But hey that's half the fun playing as a human.
Now I would say that the franchise lends itself to a more human PVE game but I know that unless there is some kind of PVP half the MMO populations Will condemn it much like they did Tabula Rasa, when it was announced. Since we should learn from their lessons it would make sense to offer machine play. Or risk losing appeal to the much wider audience. Plus I just want to play as some bad ass robot. Bent on wiping out all humanity.
So what do you think? Doesn't this franchise just scream MMO?
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Yes it does
The only problem is most people who know the terminator only know of the movies. The movies deal only with one time. Time and time travel is a great deal in this franchise. This is the big kicker to me, and there are a lot of other "iffy" stuff that you would have to decide
Terminator has been done as an FPS and other games. The problem is that NONE of these games ever had the quality to ever follow the movies, the books or etc. The license must also be very hard to get and I doubt it will ever be easy to get for a gaming company. The concept is there, the factions and you could even add a third faction in there but would it stay true to the movies and such?
Once Terminator 4 is out, then I think an MMO will follow up but until the future is clearly created by a movie or a book then forget about it for now.
Now think about this....
You're playing as the skynet faction and you get a mission. The mission instances you back in time to a city where you have to kill X target.
Now that would rock...
You wish to push it, If you play as a resistance fighter, you can also get a mission that will put you in direct confrontation with a skynet player. This could eventually generate an incredible RVR type of gameplay...
Those are all ideas that Terminator could create... :)
yeah ummmmmmmmm good idea but it would be hard to really work into mmo but if u can do it by all means go for it
if they do make Terminator an MMO....By GOD I want ROBOCOP
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