Interesting idea for of genre for a MMORPG

[tecnowraith]

Im like to ask all the MMORPG players a few questions. Would any of you play a mmorpg set in the 50's to 60's with the typical theme seen in scifi/horror movies? What would you like to see different in this game from others that would fit in this genre of a game?

 

[Dark Jezter]

Personally, I'd like to see a good western-themed MMORPG. We've already got a deluge of fantasy-themed MMORPGs and a few Sci-Fi ones as well, but no western MMOs.

 

[tecnowraith]

Personally, I'd like to see a good western-themed MMORPG. We've already got a deluge of fantasy-themed MMORPGs and a few Sci-Fi ones as well, but no western MMOs.

Ok but still my question stands as to what will draw players to a Western or Retro Scifi/horror mmorpg?

 

[Templetroll]

Ok but still my question stands as to what will draw players to a Western or Retro Scifi/horror mmorpg?

I like that you are thinking about other genres.

For the Western, how close to a FPS would it be? What would be done about jerks who create characters to run around and shoot randomly instead of trying to play a character. What would be the game view of the Indians?

In the retro scifi movies it was suspense, not action. Suspense is built by what doesn't happen right now but might any second. That will be tough to emulate. In Call of Cthulhu, the p&p version, the players may be able to foil a plot by minions and kill some of them but not actually be able to survive against the BBETFBS&T (Big Bad Evil Things From Beyond Space & Time). How much fun is that?

 

[Dark Jezter]

For the Western, how close to a FPS would it be?

Why would a western MMORPG be like a first person shooter? Because it would have guns?

So does World of Warcraft, Star Wars Galaxies, and other MMORPGs, but they aren't FPSs in any sense of the term.

What would be done about jerks who create characters to run around and shoot randomly instead of trying to play a character.

Most current MMORPGs has found ways to reduce griefing, so I imagine a Western MMORPG could do that as well.

What would be the game view of the Indians?

Ideally, the game would have indians that are good and indians that are bad. We wouldn't want a game where the indians are all portrayed as bloodthirsty scalpers and wagon-burners, just as we wouldn't want a politically correct revisionist view of indians as noble savages who lived peacefully with nature until the evil white man came along.