Poll: mass effect MMO?

[Duke Nil]

Nah I don't think it'd work, at least not if it followed the same story as ME. So they'd have to follow a different story in the same universe, but the story told in the existing games is going to make whatever other stories they could come up with seem lame

 

[joshthor]

no. just no. it would work. but i would hate to see it. mmos should be new ips as far as im concerned. i dont like people making mmo's sequals then never giving us a real sequal. like kotor. plus i dont like mmos.

note to self: if you put up an option as "PANCAKES!!" people will vote for that.

 

[Broken Orange]

Well you see. Now I can not vote yes since you put "It will be the best game ever!" Anytime someone says something soo stupid I just want to push their face into a meat grinder on general principle. And if I were to say something like that, even indirectly, I would have to kill myself for betraying my over the top awesome nature.
Anyway eh, I do not think MMOs in general work so no. It would not.

Fine, I hope my chance in the poll will be good enough for your "over the top awesome" nature. goddamn.

 

[Captain_Caveman]

The Star Wars universe is HUMONGOUS though. and it has tons and tons of lore. more than enough content for a MMO.

A Mass Effect MMO could be made, but it would be a lot harder to create a good story that is that huge.

 

[Ganthrinor]

I myself was more interested in the possibility of exploring worlds to lay claim to resources and wildlife rather than run-and-gun combat while thinking of a Mass Effect MMO.

Something with the vast exploration possibilities of Star Control 2 combined with a leveling system complete with feats and/or skills of a modern MMO. Maybe EVE, but more personal. You actually have to get out of your ship and the economy isn't as... all encompassing.

I just have a hard time accepting squad-based real-time MMO-style dungeoneering with firearms. Just something about guns and Hit Points makes me queasy.

 

[sln333]

Mass Effect is brilliant because of a lot of factors, and it works so well in the genre it's in. It probably wouldn't work well as an MMO. The story and player choices would go out the window, and without those you lose a lot of the overall quality.

 

[ottenni]

No, it would ruin the game, Don't change what isn't broken. Anyway the combat system wasn't boring enough to be in a MMO, hahaha i think thats funny, sorry.

Spoiler

You asked for it...

 

[Viivrabe]

If they where going to make a another MMO make it Jade Empire or Dragon Age or something, something different.

umm, lets think about the "different" alternatives you suggested...one has humans, elves, undead, dragons, mages, and such set in a midevil (esque) environment.
remind you of any other MMOs.

sry just had to point that out

 

[Valiance]

I think it could work. The universe is vast enough for it to work.

If they where going to make a another MMO make it Jade Empire or Dragon Age or something, something different.

umm, lets think about the "different" alternatives you suggested...one has humans, elves, undead, dragons, mages, and such set in a midevil (esque) environment.
remind you of any other MMOs.

sry just had to point that out

I lol'd. Honestly, there's a lot of swords and sorcery MMOs, but a lot of Sci-Fi MMOs are coming out.

I don't think anyone would disagree that the MMO market is over-saturated, but I would enjoy a Mass Effect MMO.

 

[Broken Orange]

How about a MMO set in the real life. But instead of killing giant rats and looting, you just keep your avatar from craping their pants and killing normal-size mice with a family of others. The Sims sells well, so why can't this?

 

[Marowit]

I think you answered your own question. They're making SW:TOR.

Why would they cannibalize their own player base (Sci-Fi MMOers)?

Plus MMOs need to be games that don't take absurd system reqs in order to allow a broad base, and ME the MMO would definitely need high system reqs in order to look as good as it does in an MMO.

 

[Woodsey]

No.

It will be fucking awful. There is no need to make every RPG an MMORPG which are, quite frankly, the bane of the RPG world.

 

[Captain Pancake]

Well, it would seem to be quite a cool idea. However, you had pancakes in the poll, and you just can't compete with those...

 

[Woodsey]

I may or may not have voted pancakes.

Seriously though, the combat in Mass Effect isn't worthy of an MMO. It was pretty bland.

Is this supposed to be ironic?

 

[AlphaOmega]

Can it be done? Offcourse; plenty potential there.

Would I like that? HELL NO, Mass Effect is a flawed diamond and if ME2 is half as good we have a serious GotY contender.

 

[Abedeus]

The only company that would make Mass Effect MMO good would be Bioware.

Because we know how Obsidian butchered Neverwinter Nights. And Bioware won't ever make Mass Effect MMO (maybe after the 3rd game), because of TOR.

 

[Jandau]

Making regular well-loved games into MMOs is a lot like drowning kittens: You CAN do it but that doesn't mean you SHOULD do it, and just because there might be a target audience for it doesn't imply that it's a good idea. And even if you do it right and make no mistakes, wouldn't it have been better if you didn't do it at all?

 

[Naheal]

Now I loved Mass Effect, and am eagerly looking forward to the sequel, but I just don't see an MMOG working. Not because it wouldn't be a great game in its own right (I suspect it would), but because if Bioware made it they'd essentially be competing with themselves against The Old Republic.

If it weren't for that, I actually think it would be a pretty good idea.

I personally liked the combat, though I'd have liked to see a lot more abilities too.

Why does that make it a bad thing? BioWare wins no matter which game you choose. (perhaps you'll choose both)

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

I'm a little torn. I don't play enough MMOs, but as far as I see it would not be Mass Effect. It would inevitably become WoW in space, and that would defy the point. Besides as the point in Mass Effect is to be the ONLY ONE etc then having more ONLY ONEs would break the story of the game if nothing else.

Then again, it would be cool to be able to gather massive groups of SPECTREs together and glomp villains with the sheer power of your awesome, or gather Salarian intelligence teams in order to hold lines in far off planets (you know it's true.)

 

[Danpascooch]

Besides the obvious fact that developing two large scale MMO's at the same time would be inefficient and too heavy a burden on the company, the simple fact remains that games that rely on FPS mechanics, and/or use time pause queues, are not translated well into MMO's

since Mass Effect has BOTH, I wouldn't recommend they try