For anyone that's passionate about a hobby or activity, speculating about its future is just a natural part of being a fan. There has been a lot of discussion this year about which intellectual properties would have the makings of a top contender for the belt in today’s online game market. In this week’s Forever Fantasy column, Dalmarus steps up to argue why his choice is the granddaddy of them all.
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Players and industry insiders alike are always talking about how an MMOG has to have a fully realized setting to be a success. It has to have a sense of history, solid lore, and unless you want to count on hitting a miraculous fluke by creating an original world, you'd also better be sure the IP you’re using has an impressive following. If you take all these things into consideration you'd be hard pressed to find a more popular setting for a game than the Forgotten Realms.
Hot damn! That world was bloody fantastic! I loved getting stuck in the dark elf city in BG2 and having to insinuate your way though the politics to get out again..... I need my copy of BG2 from Yorkshire now....
The FR setting is the holy grail of MMORPG's with the potential to compete head to head and or / replace World of Warcraft if they could actually do it right.
I have been speculating on when the FR setting would become a MMORPG for years but I am glad they have not done it yet as i don't think they could quite do it justice yet with the current technology.
Given the great lore of that IP a game created around it almost begs for expansions. If they ever do it and do it right I anticipate that game and its successors it becoming my home for the next 50 years.
I wish someone had a extra 400-500 million dollars to flesh out Toril into a living breathing place.
As much as I love the suggestion, I think its too late for that. If it's D&D 4th Ed realms... forget it... much of the lore and characters are gone now with the advent of the spellplague and the 100 year time skip.
My guess is it's unlikely that WotC would allow support for the old realms even if it does succeed because in doing so their planned 4E FR lore and D&D 4E player demographics will be split.
Ill be very happy and will look forward to be proven wrong though...
I have to agree with you. I have been playing D&D computer games since Pools of Radiance (C-64) and also a collector of Salvatore. I always wanted to visit the Battle of Bones and see what’s under the rose garden. I was really shocked that D&D Online went to Eberon. I own all of the Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2 games, play them every week. I am like you waiting on a MMO that can bring this content to fruition.
I would love to see this happen, but I have little hope. As mentioned above, Wizards of The Coast pretty much ruined things with their 4th edition. I cannot imagine what they were thinking, but they lost my support.
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I've thought about this a lot actually. I'm not sure anyone could due it justice or could they put the manpower into making it as big as it should be. I wouldn't be happy in one city in the forgotten realms. I'd love to go explore all of it. Even if they slowly expanded the world with expansion packs. From my limited knowledge of DDO they didn't really let you out so to speak. "I might be wrong."
Forever Fantasy: The Forgotten Realms MMOG Dream
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