General Discussion

What does the MMORPG future hold in store? 

What games are you most looking forward to?

With one of the most promising games still an ambigious mess (Darkfall!).. I'm sort of on the fense for new games in the futre.  Maybe I'm not seeing the ball? Or maybe nothing just seems promising enough to follow..

But, my question is, What games on the horizon look like they might be fun.. new.. and bring a little bit of something new to the genre? 

Where do you think the genre is going for the future?

Earth Rise and Fallen Earth look pretty cool.

Hopefully the Darkfall devs can pull of the impossible by bucking the trend and actually deliver what they promise for once. If they do, there will be a lot of happy people out there.

If a KOTOR MMO is announced at the end of the month as many people believe, that will be a major light at the end of the tunnel.

Aside from that, the future is looking pretty bleak.

Personally, I'm most looking forward to cross-platform Everquest that SOE has been hinting at.

Let the anti-SOE flames begin.....

But seriously, I've played a lot of MMOs, and none really grabbed me or gave me that true sense of immersion as EQOA on the PS2, EQ1 and EQ2.  Say what you want about SOE and their lackluster support for games.  But I think with the new management heirarchy at Sony, with the combintion of SOE and SCEA, and their focus on MMOs as a true profit point in the future for them, I think we'll all see a change to their dev teams and CS teams.

The Everquest franchise was always able to suck me in fully because of their focus on group play, as opposed to leveling 1-70 by myself as I did in WoW.  PvP is fun, but the real reason I play MMORPG is not to kick the crap out of other players (that's what SOCOM's for), but rather to join a community with them, and via cooperative play, take down some really cool mobs, whether it's in the countryside or in a dungeon.

I hope that with SOE and Smedley's new proclaimed focus on PC/PS3 MMO's, we'll see a reincarnation of their flagship MMO with a new EQ that has the support, polish and flow of WoW, but the community and the immersion of EQ.  Also, I miss being able to play on a console every now and again, and now have to screw around with video settings, etc. Although having the option to play one account on both a PC and a PS3 would be cool, especially if the girlfriend is boaggarting the PC with MySpace or whatever for the night ;-)  Let's go, EQ:X !!  (That's what I'm calling it for now )

As far as adding something we haven't seen before to the genre, I'd keep an eye out for Curt Schilling and 38 Studios mystery project, Copernicus - looks like they're up to something groundbreaking.  Whatever it is, let's hope they get it right the first time, so Blizzard doesn't come along, steal it, and perfect it, and make a billion dollars a year on it.  Although THAT game would probably be really sweet, too.

 i am currently awaiting mortal online. there's an update tomorrow. praying for gameplay footage but not getting my hopes up.

Darkfall

Darkfall and possibly Earthrise look good to me, currently waiting for Star Trek Online as well, aside form those 3 MMO's no longer interest me. Biowares new game is also catching my eye with being a KOTOR fan but until features and content notes are released i'm staying quiet on it.

Spellborn and Fallen Earth for me. :)

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Originally posted by ladyattis
Spellborn and Fallen Earth for me. :)

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/agree

I'm really looking forward to seeing Fallen Earth... I've been following them for quite a while and they definitely have some cool idea's.

Tatsumaki: Land at War seems really intresting.