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Who here thinks it would be cool... *Mature-ish warning*
2004-01-22, 11:45 AM #1
To play an MMORPG-type of GTA? C'mon, imagine hundreds of people, stealing murdering and having fun! You could make gangs, set up drug deals, have gang wars. Think about the endless possibilities. The perfect MMORPG already made as a game!

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2004-01-22, 11:50 AM #2
FFXI: Vice City?

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2004-01-22, 11:50 AM #3
Umm.. no.

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2004-01-22, 11:52 AM #4
That would indeed be awsome.

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2004-01-22, 11:54 AM #5
Well my idea was sorta geared more towards the gang-clan aspect where you could own a building in the all-expansive city for a price per month (in the game). Then you would spawn/live there, and well...it's complex, but the basics are that you spend money on building an empire, but try not to die. If you die, your empire goes down, you start over from scratch, yatta etc. Smaller gangs could band together to bring you down, and you could climb the ladder of your gang till you were leader. Sounds cool to me at least. :/


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2004-01-22, 12:00 PM #6
Sounds interesting. That new Bloodlines game (the vampire one) is going to be sort of like that

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2004-01-22, 12:02 PM #7
God that game sounds awesome (Bloodlines)

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2004-01-22, 12:06 PM #8
Well, I've always wanted to see a game where it was so open-ended that a police force might end up being formed to keep crimes down to a minimum and that kind of thing..i dunno, it'd be interesting.

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2004-01-22, 12:28 PM #9
Hmm...but do you think online people are capable of forming groups?

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2004-01-22, 12:31 PM #10
*looks around*

No

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2004-01-22, 12:34 PM #11
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Echoman:
Hmm...but do you think online people are capable of forming groups?

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Actually, you'd be suprised. Look at SWG for example, the guild I'm in right now, has ~110 people in it, and over 85 people in our city, its pretty amazing how people get together to form guilds/cities in MMORPGs, based on a small common interest

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2004-01-22, 12:35 PM #12
Actually, there is a multiplayer patch for bot GTA and GTA:VC. PC Version only of course, but it's cool.

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2004-01-22, 1:04 PM #13
Sound pretty cool to me, i would play it, (as long as i didn't have do that pay-to-play crap)

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2004-01-22, 1:30 PM #14
I wouldn't mind a pay-to-play that would support the servers, seeing as how it's mostly made for the game, but 20 bucks a month is ridiculous. That's like 5:1 profit:needs ratio there. 2-5 bucks would be fine for it, as long as you could pay per 1, 3, 6, and 12 month period.

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2004-01-22, 1:36 PM #15
i had an idea that is kinda like that...

only instead of one city it was multiple cities in other words... small to medium sized towns/cities with maybe one or 2 larger cities separated by alot of road and desert and stuff... try to think of mad max and you could get a slight idea of the setting

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2004-01-22, 1:50 PM #16
Bloodlines looks like it could be pretty decent-- assuming they'[d make some mind-boggling break from gaming trends and recognise that not /all/ females have ridiculously enormous mostly exposed breasts.

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2004-01-22, 2:07 PM #17
There's already a GTA Online being planned I believed with the premises of gang groups like you guys said.
2004-01-22, 2:18 PM #18
Wot wot wooooooooot?! GOOGLE TIME!

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2004-01-22, 2:20 PM #19
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Dormouse:
Bloodlines looks like it could be pretty decent-- assuming they'[d make some mind-boggling break from gaming trends and recognise that not /all/ females have ridiculously enormous mostly exposed breasts.

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Yeah? And not all men are muscular and heroic, but nobody is going to waste their time playing a "Sit around eating potato chips" simulator, are they?
2004-01-22, 2:32 PM #20
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Echoman:
Hmm...but do you think online people are capable of forming groups?</font>


Guess you've never played a MMORPG, but in everyone I've ever even seen there are many 'groups' of up to 1000 players on each server. My old Asheron's Call monarchy had 120 members, and we were considered small.

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2004-01-22, 2:32 PM #21
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Dormouse:
Bloodlines looks like it could be pretty decent-- assuming they'[d make some mind-boggling break from gaming trends and recognise that not /all/ females have ridiculously enormous mostly exposed breasts.

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Actually, dor, the whole premise of V:TM is erotic vampires.. I mean, have you ever seen a picture of an ugly vampire? No, you see them in latex or leather outfits with huge swords/guns in erotic positions

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2004-01-22, 2:34 PM #22
Yeah i'm not denying that Jon`C. Male models in games tend to annoy me as well, because their biceps take up half the screen and i usually can't see over their codpiece.. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/redface.gif]

And fishy, if i ever play Bloodlines, i would try very hard to make an ugly vampire just because of that [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif] Preferrably with a mullet, and plaid and paisley clothing..

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2004-01-22, 2:35 PM #23
Very small. For a time I was in Meginjarder, and that has something in the area of 10,000.
2004-01-22, 2:38 PM #24
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jon`C:
Very small. For a time I was in Meginjarder, and that has something in the area of 10,000.</font>


Yeah but that's 95% rank mules [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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2004-01-22, 2:51 PM #25
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jon`C:
Yeah? And not all men are muscular and heroic, but nobody is going to waste their time playing a "Sit around eating potato chips" simulator, are they?</font>


that'd be quite hard you know, timing your standing and cheering at your winning team, and then going back to sitting again

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2004-01-22, 4:37 PM #26
How about an Elder Scrolls: Morrowind MMORPG?
2004-01-22, 5:48 PM #27
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by finity5:
How about an Elder Scrolls: Morrowind MMORPG?</font>


YES


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2004-01-22, 6:35 PM #28
or maybe something like Sea Dogs in MMORPG form.... somehow a MMORPG with a pirate setting sounds awsome

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2004-01-22, 7:04 PM #29
That would be cool

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2004-01-22, 7:29 PM #30
Gordon Freeman was the geekiest hero ever.

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2004-01-22, 7:30 PM #31
Wha? [http://forums.massassi.net/html/confused.gif]

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2004-01-22, 8:07 PM #32
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Gordon Freeman was the geekiest hero ever.

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i saw this post and somehow this popped into my head

"this awkward moment when your post is off topic will last forever"

probably because i was listening to the Misfits cover of This Magic Moment at the time

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2004-01-22, 8:21 PM #33
Antestarr has talked about a similar idea to me that I think would not only be very cool, but be commercially viable too -- a game set in a modern real-world era. Perhaps something akin to GTA, or Counter-Strike... who knows? Point is, there aren't many modern-world games, much less MMORPGs out there, to my knowledge at least. I personally think that's why I liked FPSs like Goldeneye and Half-Life (though FarCry isn't attracting my attention for some reason. I think it's the tropical island look...).

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2004-01-22, 10:15 PM #34
This isn't a bad idea so much as a redundant one.

People already kill, steal, plunder, and make complete asses of themselves in these online games as-is, but it's only fun for them if they're set in a world that doesn't want them to do it.

If you give them a place to plunder it'll get old fast simply because people don't care.

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2004-01-23, 12:45 AM #35
Well, unless you can be hired as a policeman.

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2004-01-23, 1:37 AM #36
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by fishstickz:
Actually, dor, the whole premise of V:TM is erotic vampires.. I mean, have you ever seen a picture of an ugly vampire? No, you see them in latex or leather outfits with huge swords/guns in erotic positions

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Thats because one of a vampires primary weapons is the art of seduction. I mean honestly if a drop dead (ignore the pun) beautiful woman came up to you and started kissing your neck you'ed be so doped up on sexual feelings you'ed have no idea she was about suck you dry.

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2004-01-23, 2:03 AM #37
The GTA2 gang-system was brilliant, one which I muchly preferred to the GTA3 story-line system.
Whether it'd work as a MMORPG? I dunno..
The whole 'dieing' aspect is a problem in MMORPGs. If dieing gives a huge punishment, everyone will be too scared to try anything remotely risky, and if there's no punishment everyone will go on suicide missions. To me, the latter doesn't sound so bad, for a GTA-style MMORPG. Of course there'd be advantages of staying alive, but I think it'd be cool if players could act as suicide bombers to attack other gangs. I'd like that.
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2004-01-23, 8:20 AM #38
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by MechWarrior:
you'ed be so doped up on sexual feelings you'ed have no idea she was about suck you dry.

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ermmm......yeah I would. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2004-01-23, 8:31 AM #39
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Mort-Hog:
The GTA2 gang-system was brilliant, one which I muchly preferred to the GTA3 story-line system.
Whether it'd work as a MMORPG? I dunno..
The whole 'dieing' aspect is a problem in MMORPGs. If dieing gives a huge punishment, everyone will be too scared to try anything remotely risky, and if there's no punishment everyone will go on suicide missions. To me, the latter doesn't sound so bad, for a GTA-style MMORPG. Of course there'd be advantages of staying alive, but I think it'd be cool if players could act as suicide bombers to attack other gangs. I'd like that. </font>



Lol...this isn't the middle east. Real gangs don't really use suicide bombers...If they want to attack another gang they use guns.
2004-01-23, 8:37 AM #40
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by MechWarrior:
Thats because one of a vampires primary weapons is the art of seduction. I mean honestly if a drop dead (ignore the pun) beautiful woman came up to you and started kissing your neck you'ed be so doped up on sexual feelings you'ed have no idea she was about suck you dry.</font>


Nosferatu are horribly disfigured, rumored to have been cursed by Caine for defacing a statue or painting of him.

Now, the only vampires that would truly care about something as discreet as seduction would be the Camarilla, who wish to maintain the Masquerade. The Sabbat, however, couldn't give two ****s about the Masquerade. They'll drink you dry and leave you dead in an alley if they think they won't suffer the consequences. Brujah and Gangrel, though the Gangrel are no longer Camarilla, would probably be the only ones in the Camarilla to rarely, if ever, use seduction.

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