Future Endeavors
We all know that there are a number of zombie-based games, some maybe even including player input (character creation, picking their own path and almost nothing preset) and such. And I know it may not happen right away, but when the technology is advanced enough, I'm wanting to see an all-out Walking Dead MMO! 
Players make their own character, create their own path and interact just the characters in TWD series do, and such! So, fellow lurkers, I'm interested to hear what you all have to say! In a nutshell: pretty much TWD meets Second Life!
Players make their own character, create their own path and interact just the characters in TWD series do, and such! So, fellow lurkers, I'm interested to hear what you all have to say! In a nutshell: pretty much TWD meets Second Life! This discussion has been closed.
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Well, they don't to me, but to each their own. Thanks for your input.
My vision for it is that, say, up to 4 or 6 players per..squad, I guess it could be called, traveling around, gain weapons whereever they can, distribute..and perhaps enjoy "life" with them, just like in Second Life. And multiplayer and MMO's, in my opinion, only ruin it if the story is set in stone and what have you..I'm referring to everyone creating their own story via interactions with each other, where they go, what they want or need to do, etc. Just wanted to elaborate on how I feel. ^^
I can't see TWD becoming any kind of multiplayer game. It's not about the zombies, it's about the survival and interrelations of the group. How they interact and deal with the circumstances. It's an interactive story.
An MMO is right out. Not enough people stay alive to have thousands of players in game at the same time surviving. Not to mention my previous statement regarding the relationships.
Though the games systems wouldnt work with a mmo,the first dev team to bring a decent zombie survival mmo to market is gonna clean up.And the current mmo dev teams are not even capable of making a decent normal mmo,so the field is wide open.
Further,the mmo could drop the first "m" and make itself home server runnable ,like NWN,and only allow 1 hundred or so players each server.Which with large rural towns mapped out,would allow more than enough room to make the players feel isolated when out and about.
Make it moddable and expandable,with company run servers AND community run servers,with a price for the box and for a server license....Whoever managed to turn out a decent product first would rake in a fortune.
But all in all, you'd have to heavily monitor the game, people might get alittle out of control...since they're bad enough in games like nerdcraft and ToR etc. You take away the rules of society and say go get 'em. You'll have such an open ended experiance that you couldn't ever be bored. Just when you think your safe, the douche bags that have been hiding in the forests around you for a few weeks attack and destroy all your stuff....so ya. It would be a huge game though, probably bigger than 100gig to make it large enough for people to spread out and do what ever...would love to see it though.
Let's face it, games like this do not port to MMOs very well. I really can't see a great deal of desire for such a thing in any event. I seriously doubt any company would 'clean up' if they did such a thing.
However, a Walking Dead MMO? NO, a hundred times no. More often than not, when a single player game or a comic or movie gets translated into an MMO it gets ruined. Completely. There are only a few, very few that live up to the task and to be honest, I wouldn't want to risk it.
Sure it drags in a lot of money if done right but the franchise often gets ruined heavily for the fans.
What I mean by MMO, as it's described, is a online game where anyone in the world would be able to join in and play, not just a localized server (though if it were to come to pass, it may start localized then work out to regional, then national.), and by a survival horror version of Fallout of sorts (characterization and all that) but not by classic RPG standards..sure there could be realistic stuff like exercise (running, anyone?) or even running while carrying a load to grow to be more efficient. Man, this would be my dream game, to log in and explore, either in 1st-person or over-the-shoulder 3rd-person, a land ridden in the undead or meet up with survivors..and pretty much play with other players.
In a nutshell: gummed down zombie-genre survival horror Fallout + multiplayer + dialogue is as the player types, not pre-determined..namely this game would be where the ONLY characters are those of other players, no NPCs.
That. Looks. PROMISING! Now if they they would add in full characterization, such as what the characters say (text-to-dialogue, anyone?
loads of games have promised 'the real deal' none have delivered...
Yeah, but I mean besides that. Like basic movement or perhaps zombie animation. Maybe even combat.