Terrible MMORPG ideas

Seinfeld - the MMO about nothing.

Monty Python's Marmalade Moose Organs (or MMO for short)

XP is completely random, you could log in 1 day at lvl 50 and the next day you'd be lvl 4.
Travel powers: Winged Feet or Death
Quests: Hunt down 10 Holy Grails with nothing but an Oboe and Jam
GMs/Raids: Killer Rabbit, Dead Parrot, Large tin of Spam

Dungeons and Discourse MMORPG, and the follow-up expansion Advanced Dungeons and Discourse

To go on your original premise of being able to be a millionaire to throw money at a fail MMO, what I’d find most lolzy would be:

A realistic medieval MMO.
It would take literally days of in game time to craft anything.
Even playing 60 hours a week wound’t make enough to buy the land that you work for the landed gentry.
There would be many diseases including STDs with no cure.
Full loot PvP, but you could only get to level 80 while the rich and their knights are level 100, so there really wouldn’t be anyone to loot since they were all also poor.
Oh and Perma death.

Lol perma death is an amusing concept. How about an mmo where you only had one character, and upon your first defeat it was deleted.

Having a level 50 would really be worth bragging rights then!

Eco

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

Surgeon: the MMO. For kinect or Move or the Wii.

Eco

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

I've been playing the MST3k MMO for years.

It's awesome! Especially when you have friends to play along with you.

The framerate is awesome, there's never any lag (unless the movie is interrupted by a commercial) and it is available on any system ever made!

Ultra Hardcore Combat Action: A PvP focused MMORPG where you use a wide variety of powers and weapons to defeat your opponents. If your character is killed in-game, not only is your character deleted, but the Devs have you assassinated. "Real PvP, with real consequences! Ultra Hardcoooorrrreee!!!!"

There are no bad MMO concepts, only bad executions. Final Destination Online could work with the right execution.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger Mary Kate and Ashley Online.

There are almost no bad MMO concepts, only bad executions.

Going to chuck the list thing in favor of one idea I had that sort of balances between a really GREAT idea and a really HORRIBLE one... I can't decide which is truer...

You decide...

Zombie Armageddon Live

You log in and have ONE character. When creating the character you have a skill tree that isn't all that impressive. Basically, you select from normal real-world occupations like Military, Electrician, Plumber, etc. Your ability scores are fairly standard as well; Strenghth, Agility, Endurance, Intelligence and Charisma.

Once you have created your character (which can be as balanced or unbalanced as you wish so long as it fits within the parameters of "human being"... no super-powers) you are given a Start Time. You must verify this start time with the game system. Each Start Time comes with it a pre-determined "Event Countdown" value (1 day, 3 days, 1 Week, etc). If the Start Time is not immediate, you can log off, go play something else, or watch Evil Dead and Thriller videos for "training purposes."

At Start Time you log into your character and the Event begins.

You are in a city along with thousands of NPCs and everyone else who had the same start time as you. A gas has been released in a random part of the city (specific areas set aside for zombie generation and NOT where any player character will begin their game). The gas infects ALL NPCs in the area who immediately become zombified. These zombies immediately begin shambling off to search for food... otherwise known as YOU.

NPCs who have not been turned will act randomly, running from percieved threats. Since a zombie bite doesn't immediately transform but takes a while, they may very well shoot other humans in their fear. If you are bitten a Countdown bar appears during which you can continue to fight zombies for double their normal point value. Once the countdown has ended, however, you become a zombie yourself. The character is no longer in your control. You can log in as long as the event goes onwards, but you will only be able to watch 3rd person style as your zombie self runs amuck. You will have no actual control.

Zombies can be taken out by severing the connection between brain and body either by breaking the spine, decapitation or crushing/destroying the brain itself. Partial zombies (lost a leg, etc) still function but at reduced capability. While zombies are complete idiots, they are also immune to the need for sleep and will cast about randomly for prey without end. Every zombie has the ability to detect the living within a 40 foot radius. This ability works even through doors, walls, etc.

Game Objective 1: Survive. Survival is a simple game objective. You just have to live until the game countdown that you agreed to (day, week, etc) ends. Note that this is all in REAL TIME. So if you agreed to a week long event then your character will be in the game zone and vulnerable for that entire week. Your character is vulnerable EVEN WHEN YOU ARE NOT ACTIVELY PLAYING. If you log off to sleep, go to work, etc. your character is assumed to be "sleeping". Therefor care must be taken to find your toon a very secure hiding spot prior to logging off. If a character is discovered whose player is not on line the AI will run the character as an NPC, fighting against the horde as best they can. Note, you don't get points for any zombies destroyed while you are off line. The game will have a great system for building traps and protective walls to keep your toon safe.

At the end of the agreed upon time period the Military will show up and spray the entire area with a special chemical that negates the effects of the zombie toxin, rendering all zombies back to simple corpses once more. At this point any Survivors will get their score for zombies defeated (and any other point-worthy acts) transmuted into experience points. Experience points can be spent to upgrade skills and ability scores. Zombie Survivors gain access to zombie-specific skill trees based on their prior experiences with the creatures. The longer the event countdown timer, the greater the point value of each individual zombie and assorted bonuses.

Game Objective 2: Thrive. Just like GO 1 except now you're not just surviving until the military shows up to save your biscuits, you mop up the mess before they ever get there. If you and the other players manage to defeat ALL the zombies before the countdown timer reaches zero then you get the same reward as in Survival, only times five. Destroying all the zombies is the only way to open the Elite Zombie Slayah skill tree and only points gained from a total victory can be used to buy the powers there.

Failure to survive means that character is dead and deleted. This is "real world" stuff here, no resurrections. If they Survive/Thrive then you can use them again in other events.

Pretty much everything in the game can be used or interacted with. Your skills are important but only if you use them right. Electricians can restore power to buildings and set up electrifying traps. Military have instant proficiency with guns, explosives and radios. The game would be stuffed with as many skills and professions as possible and every single one of them will find some kind of significance in the game.

I don't mind the existing zombie games out there. But I would love to find one that operates within real time and models what a real zombie apocalypse would be like as much as possible.

I am truly surprised at 2 things in this thread, a serious post by steelclaw and a great Idea for a MMO, not sure if I'd spend money on it but it's a good idea.

That is an awesome idea, Steelclaw.

But I think there should be an option for those infected to be able to play their zombiefied character until the other PCs kill them, or they survive until the military shows up.

Maybe surviving could give their next character some sort of bonus.

It wouldn't be a genuine Steelclaw game without one additional caveat:

- Even when you log out, your character remains logged in.


Either you find really really good places to log out, or you make sure you play it at least five minutes out of every half hour until your character dies or you do.