Doctor Who MMO Coming This Year
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You do realise that the reason those overseas have to pay for it is because the BBC can't fund overseas operations with the license fee? They couldn't provide it without charging you.KeyMaster45 said:
Three rings doesnt exactly have a great track record when it comes to games other then its flagship, will have to wait and see if they pull this off.
Puzzle Pirates was a great game, but its slowly dieing from lack of players and a lack of anything to combat it.
Puzzle Pirates was a great game, but its slowly dieing from lack of players and a lack of anything to combat it.
ah ha....who watches Doctor Who and thinks "this should be an MMO". The article suggests that everyone who plays would get to travel around through time and space in the Tardis but I don't see that happening because one; as the name implies MMO means that there will be loads of people playing at any one time and two; there is only ONE Tardis. And for the most part, unless you're a Time Agent or a Dalek how the hell are you supposed to travel around in the world of time and space then?? Just a weird idea.
It's definitely a franchise that could work as an MMO... But it's also easy to mess up.
Absolutely I'd like to pilot my own TARDIS through a variety of diverse environments and solve problems and defeat enemies using only my wits. I wouldn't like to walk through a police-box shaped door and find a game that merely cashes in on what it perceives to be the best parts of the series though.
I'd also like to point out that we've yet to see a proper Doctor Who game.
Absolutely I'd like to pilot my own TARDIS through a variety of diverse environments and solve problems and defeat enemies using only my wits. I wouldn't like to walk through a police-box shaped door and find a game that merely cashes in on what it perceives to be the best parts of the series though.
I'd also like to point out that we've yet to see a proper Doctor Who game.
I am interested to see how this would work... I'm assuming that we all can't be a Time Lord and/or the Doctor so does that mean we'd take a roll as a civi who joins the Doctor and his companions on various quests?
Will locales include Cardiff and so Torchwood, what about Sarah Jane and the almost pocket dimention her show contains?
Nice idea, awaiting the exicution.
Hay, does this mean a second series of the adventure games go out the window?
Oh, and by the by, the 'which Doctor is the best' is a pointless one. They're all playing the same person in different bodies QED someone can't be better than themselves. (Sorry, I felt like being pedantic there, do forgive me).
Will locales include Cardiff and so Torchwood, what about Sarah Jane and the almost pocket dimention her show contains?
Nice idea, awaiting the exicution.
Hay, does this mean a second series of the adventure games go out the window?
Oh, and by the by, the 'which Doctor is the best' is a pointless one. They're all playing the same person in different bodies QED someone can't be better than themselves. (Sorry, I felt like being pedantic there, do forgive me).
It can work, but what will make it fantastic is if it focus on more than one Doctor, hopefully somehow all of them in some way.
I agree that the new logo is awful, though not exactly for the reason you gave. While you said his name is not Doctor D.W. Who, the thing is, it isn't Doctor Who either. His name is just the Doctor.
The show title of Doctor Who of course came from the pilot episode on November, 23, 1963. It is the question people ask him when they ask him his name. In the pilot episode, the two people that the Doctor's granddaughter brings into the TARDIS, ask who he is. He says the Doctor. They say, Doctor who?
Rose was okay as well. Though I particularly didn't like Adric, it wasn't enough for hate.
Now it would be a problem for the people that have totally ignored watching the old series, but that is their lose. In my opinion, one can not truly appreciate the show until they watch what they can of the old series.
I agree on the Peter Davison, thought he is my second favorite Doctor just under Tennant.Sabrestar said:
I agree that the new logo is awful, though not exactly for the reason you gave. While you said his name is not Doctor D.W. Who, the thing is, it isn't Doctor Who either. His name is just the Doctor.
The show title of Doctor Who of course came from the pilot episode on November, 23, 1963. It is the question people ask him when they ask him his name. In the pilot episode, the two people that the Doctor's granddaughter brings into the TARDIS, ask who he is. He says the Doctor. They say, Doctor who?
I don't know what point you were trying to make, but I really liked Sarah Jane, old series and new series(played by the same woman).Hitchmeister said:
Rose was okay as well. Though I particularly didn't like Adric, it wasn't enough for hate.
If they do it right and give a span of the old series to the new, then they definitely won't have problems getting NPCs._Janny_ said:
Now it would be a problem for the people that have totally ignored watching the old series, but that is their lose. In my opinion, one can not truly appreciate the show until they watch what they can of the old series.
Indeed, I know the story behind it.Sonic Doctor said:
Down to the point where I can point to the only time "Doctor Who" was ever used as such in dialogue (by WOTAN) and in a title ("Doctor Who and the Silurians"). Yeah, I'm a fount of useless Whovian trivia. I'm just being (poorly) sardonic about the logo (I'm still rather partial to McCoy's logo, oddly).Rose killed any chance of my liking the new series pretty much from the get-go. The dislike of Rose is one of the only things about Who my wife and I can agree on (she being new-series, while I stick to old-series). Adric was a well-meaning trainwreck. I'd personally have to add Tegan to the awful list (sticking with her for so long ruined a lot of storyline and characterisation potential, especially for Nyssa, whom even Davison said he liked better).Sonic Doctor said:
*toasts* Hear hear. Even if they only watch it for the low-budget cheese potential, which is especially obvious nowadays. Weirdly, it seems to me that sometimes the lack of budget almost made it more authentic, in that it was easier to suspend disbelief when you knew they were working on shoestrings. Nowadays I think the show takes itself too seriously. But I'm just an old(ish) curmudgeon anyway who remembers what it was like when no one in the USA even knew what Who was.Sonic Doctor said:
The point is that it is an opinion and not a fact. The way the article sounded, it sounded like it was fact. Article writing 101, a good article writer doesn't state opinion as being fact. There should have been an "In my opinion" or an "I believe".Ensiferum said:He's not baiting them, it's just a fact that Tom Baker is the bestcraddoke said:
Example for me: In my opinion, Tennant was the best Doctor, because he brought together qualities of most if not all the Doctors that came before him.
He could be silly, serious, sad, angry, and scared, all in one episode and made it believable, that I was watching the same Time Lord that ran away so long ago in the beginning, 1.)that became a grumpy old man, 2.)then a man that didn't care about the consequences as long as he helped people, 3.)then became a man in exile on Earth for most of that life, 4.)then a slightly crazy but mainly serious man, 5.)then a younger looking man that showed a zest for life but cautious in how he handled things, 6.)then a practically nuts man with a little bit of a dark side, 7.)then a lighthearted man that still had a serious edge to him when it was warranted, 8.)then a man that was looking to be noticed to possibly fall in love again but then ends up falling into darkness when he has to deal with what the Time War did to his people, 9.)then a man that is still shrouded in darkness but is then reminded of who he truly is by a girl named Rose, 10.)then a man that embodies the traits of all his past incarnations at some point and practically realizing his full potential as a Time Lord.
After that:
11.) then a man that is crazy again and has magnified some of his much older traits(cloths and some personality) and lost some of his potential.
That is how I see it, it is my opinion, but it isn't fact.
Just like how people say Tom Baker is the best, but it isn't fact, it is an opinion.
Haha, dude don't worry I know, I was just kidding, and I understand your reasoning for liking 10 the best.Sonic Doctor said:The point is that it is an opinion and not a fact. The way the article sounded, it sounded like it was fact. Article writing 101, a good article writer doesn't state opinion as being fact. There should have been an "In my opinion" or an "I believe".Ensiferum said:He's not baiting them, it's just a fact that Tom Baker is the bestcraddoke said:
Example for me: In my opinion, Tennant was the best Doctor, because he brought together qualities of most if not all the Doctors that came before him.
He could be silly, serious, sad, angry, and scared, all in one episode and made it believable, that I was watching the same Time Lord that ran away so long ago in the beginning, 1.)that became a grumpy old man, 2.)then a man that didn't care about the consequences as long as he helped people, 3.)then became a man in exile on Earth for most of that life, 4.)then a slightly crazy but mainly serious man, 5.)then a younger looking man that showed a zest for life but cautious in how he handled things, 6.)then a practically nuts man with a little bit of a dark side, 7.)then a lighthearted man that still had a serious edge to him when it was warranted, 8.)then a man that was looking to be noticed to possibly fall in love again but then ends up falling into darkness when he has to deal with what the Time War did to his people, 9.)then a man that is still shrouded in darkness but is then reminded of who he truly is by a girl named Rose, 10.)then a man that embodies the traits of all his past incarnations at some point and practically realizing his full potential as a Time Lord.
After that:
11.) then a man that is crazy again and has magnified some of his much older traits(cloths and some personality) and lost some of his potential.
That is how I see it, it is my opinion, but it isn't fact.
Just like how people say Tom Baker is the best, but it isn't fact, it is an opinion.
Also, nice avatar.
Thanks. That's fine, I usually type more than I intend. I had a normal bottom line point, but then I thought of something I thought would be awesome to type out and I did.Ensiferum said:
Problem is that everybody will want to be the Doctor. Huge wad of entitlement from the beginning.cynicalandbored said:
I wouldn't want to be The Doctor, being entirely sincere. I'd want to be my own Time Lord.DeathWyrmNexus said: