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If you're looking for First Person Shooter Action in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Themed MMORPG post your opinions here.

Originally posted by techlord

If you're looking for First Person Shooter Action in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Themed MMORPG post your opinions here.

First Person Shooters are very good right now. I don't see any reason to make them "massive" and if you ad Role Playing aspects to much, then there's no point in it being a First Person Shooter.

In Role Playing Computer Games, the Character growth, through levels, skill levels, or gear, is what is important, not the player skill.

In First Person Shooter games, the player skill is important, not the character levels or gear.

You can put a little bit of advancement and gear in an FPS< like in Battlefield 2142, but any more than that and you defeat the whole purpose of the genre.

If you want to play an FPS, play one. There are lots of good ones out there. If you want to play an MMORPG, play one of those.

Originally posted by gillvane1

Originally posted by techlord

If you're looking for First Person Shooter Action in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Themed MMORPG post your opinions here.

 

First Person Shooters are very good right now. I don't see any reason to make them "massive" and if you ad Role Playing aspects to much, then there's no point in it being a First Person Shooter.

In Role Playing Computer Games, the Character growth, through levels, skill levels, or gear, is what is important, not the player skill.

In First Person Shooter games, the player skill is important, not the character levels or gear.

You can put a little bit of advancement and gear in an FPS< like in Battlefield 2142, but any more than that and you defeat the whole purpose of the genre.

If you want to play an FPS, play one. There are lots of good ones out there. If you want to play an MMORPG, play one of those.

Quoted for truth.

I am immediately turned off of an MMORPG if I find out that it has first person shooter combat. It doesn't fit the genre very well, and frankly if I want to play a first person shooter, I load up Counter Strike or COD4. First person shooters are for quick, adrenaline filled games, where your reaction speed and twitch skills reign supreme. MMORPGs are supposed to be a bit slower paced, where building your character reigns supreme. They just don't mesh imo.

Originally posted by gillvane1

Originally posted by techlord

If you're looking for First Person Shooter Action in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Themed MMORPG post your opinions here.

 

First Person Shooters are very good right now. I don't see any reason to make them "massive" and if you ad Role Playing aspects to much, then there's no point in it being a First Person Shooter.

In Role Playing Computer Games, the Character growth, through levels, skill levels, or gear, is what is important, not the player skill.

In First Person Shooter games, the player skill is important, not the character levels or gear.

You can put a little bit of advancement and gear in an FPS< like in Battlefield 2142, but any more than that and you defeat the whole purpose of the genre.

If you want to play an FPS, play one. There are lots of good ones out there. If you want to play an MMORPG, play one of those.

I disagree here.  While I do love my pure FPS as well, I don't think that that means that people shouldn't try branching off and making a new game.  A Fantasy MMOFPSRPG could be a lot of fun if done right.  Something along the lines of a game based on magic and you could pick different spells as you level up would be fun.  It could still be very twitchy like a shooter but each player's individual player would have a very different "spell book" and you could even put in different passive abilities that people could pick from as well (think juggernaut or some of the abilities from CoD 4.)  I think a game like this would be fun as hell.

Adding more to my own post.  It probably woudn't be a true mmorpg but more of a FPS with RPG elements and the key factor would be a HUGE list of abilities/spells to choose from.  I think that would be the main fun factor for me.

Originally posted by Cotillion99

Originally posted by gillvane1

Originally posted by techlord

If you're looking for First Person Shooter Action in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Themed MMORPG post your opinions here.

 

First Person Shooters are very good right now. I don't see any reason to make them "massive" and if you ad Role Playing aspects to much, then there's no point in it being a First Person Shooter.

In Role Playing Computer Games, the Character growth, through levels, skill levels, or gear, is what is important, not the player skill.

In First Person Shooter games, the player skill is important, not the character levels or gear.

You can put a little bit of advancement and gear in an FPS< like in Battlefield 2142, but any more than that and you defeat the whole purpose of the genre.

If you want to play an FPS, play one. There are lots of good ones out there. If you want to play an MMORPG, play one of those.

I disagree here.  While I do love my pure FPS as well, I don't think that that means that people shouldn't try branching off and making a new game.  A Fantasy MMOFPSRPG could be a lot of fun if done right.  Something along the lines of a game based on magic and you could pick different spells as you level up would be fun.  It could still be very twitchy like a shooter but each player's individual player would have a very different "spell book" and you could even put in different passive abilities that people could pick from as well (think juggernaut or some of the abilities from CoD 4.)  I think a game like this would be fun as hell.

Then it would just be a First Person Shooter. Again, FPS games are fun, and there are plenty of good ones out there, and sure, another one would be fine.

But this doesn't have much to do with an MMORPG, it's just a shooter even if you add your "spell books".

You're just making CoD4 with different graphics, or a different genre. I got no problem with it, and sure, it might be fun, but it's not an MMORPG anymore.

Originally posted by gillvane1

Originally posted by Cotillion99

Originally posted by gillvane1

Originally posted by techlord

If you're looking for First Person Shooter Action in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Themed MMORPG post your opinions here.

 

First Person Shooters are very good right now. I don't see any reason to make them "massive" and if you ad Role Playing aspects to much, then there's no point in it being a First Person Shooter.

In Role Playing Computer Games, the Character growth, through levels, skill levels, or gear, is what is important, not the player skill.

In First Person Shooter games, the player skill is important, not the character levels or gear.

You can put a little bit of advancement and gear in an FPS< like in Battlefield 2142, but any more than that and you defeat the whole purpose of the genre.

If you want to play an FPS, play one. There are lots of good ones out there. If you want to play an MMORPG, play one of those.

I disagree here.  While I do love my pure FPS as well, I don't think that that means that people shouldn't try branching off and making a new game.  A Fantasy MMOFPSRPG could be a lot of fun if done right.  Something along the lines of a game based on magic and you could pick different spells as you level up would be fun.  It could still be very twitchy like a shooter but each player's individual player would have a very different "spell book" and you could even put in different passive abilities that people could pick from as well (think juggernaut or some of the abilities from CoD 4.)  I think a game like this would be fun as hell.

 

Then it would just be a First Person Shooter. Again, FPS games are fun, and there are plenty of good ones out there, and sure, another one would be fine.

But this doesn't have much to do with an MMORPG, it's just a shooter even if you add your "spell books".

You're just making CoD4 with different graphics, or a different genre. I got no problem with it, and sure, it might be fun, but it's not an MMORPG anymore.

Heh beat you to the point myself, as i realized what i had described.  Yep, wouldn't be a mmorpg.  Still think it would be fun, as long as the only difference between levels was the # of abilities/skills the player had.

Originally posted by techlord

If you're looking for First Person Shooter Action in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Themed MMORPG post your opinions here.

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't that like TCoS?

Actually, Dungeons & Dragons Online had all the ingredients to make this happen.  Combat was a combination of applying