What mmorpg genres have been overlooked or underdeveloped?

Amathe

I have seen games based on:

Fantasy
Sci-fi
Comic books
Historic wars (world of tanks, world of ships, etc)
Pirates
Puzzle pirates
Wizards
Medieval times
Survival in the outdoors
Very rarely, sports
Very rarely, horror
Disney characters
and last, and least, a Little Pony


There have to be some new things that could be tried.

Maybe more mystery/suspense?
Maybe ancient Egypt

What do you think?

Akulas

Non rhythmic dancing game told from the 2nd perspective. 

ceratop001

Good question. Egypt would be awesome.

Gutlard

Wasn't there one that was going to start pre-historic and continue all the way through Space/Time travel? If not, they should get on that.

Gut Out!

Utinni

Need more good sci-fi ones imo. Anarchy is a great game with poor management and no population, eve is eve, SWG is emu only.

ultimateduck

Scifi fantasy... aliens with magic, technology and natural abilities.

ChildoftheShadows

ultimateduck said:

Scifi fantasy... aliens with magic, technology and natural abilities.

Star Wars really.

Nothing wrong with that, just pointing it out. I'm not sure if OP wanted stuff that has 100% not been done or not.

Mendel

I always wanted a game based on Greek or Roman -- low tech, minimal-to-no magic, natural healing, etc.  A focus on fighting in formation and grappling, with mechanics to help position -- dress (align) left, dress front, etc.  Grappling would be a watered down crowd control mechanism, and people would pull wounded out of the lines and back for first aid.  Think of the fighting in The Videssos Cycle by Harry Turtledove.  It would take a lot of players and support large military operations.  Egypt could work very nicely, though.

Lately, I've wanted a more Traveler-type game, but focused on individual scientist/soldier/adventurer rather than ship captains.  A game based on the old Chaosium Ringworld pnp rpg would be great, but would require a rather hefty IP license, plus lots of content.

ChildoftheShadows

A good western MMO could be good.

I would like to see another GOOD pirate MMORPG. I couldn't get into POTBS.

TEKK3N

Easy, Sandbox PVE MMOs.

Survival games like Ark Is the closest we got.

Still not a MMO though.

ultimateduck

ChildoftheShadows said:

Star Wars really.

Nothing wrong with that, just pointing it out. I'm not sure if OP wanted stuff that has 100% not been done or not.

If we generalize enough, then everything has already been done.

ChildoftheShadows

ultimateduck said:

ChildoftheShadows said:

Star Wars really.

Nothing wrong with that, just pointing it out. I'm not sure if OP wanted stuff that has 100% not been done or not.

If we generalize enough, then everything has already been done.

I'm just saying that Star Wars is in fact SciFi Fantasy, not Scifi like other have mentioned. It fits your bill completely.

Now on that note I would LOVE for someone to create an MMO in the same vein, but without the IP.

Hariken

ultimateduck said:

Scifi fantasy... aliens with magic, technology and natural abilities.

Coming soon PSO2. It's the only MMO I'm looking forward too.

ultimateduck

ChildoftheShadows said:

I'm just saying that Star Wars is in fact SciFi Fantasy, not Scifi like other have mentioned. It fits your bill completely.

Now on that note I would LOVE for someone to create an MMO in the same vein, but without the IP.

It fits in a generic sense. Races in Star Wars don't really make a difference. Classes are shallow. Skill lines are bland. It's a known IP with expectations.

I was thinking more along the lines of 3 separate solar systems neighboring each other, with completely different races, classes and sets of abilities... at war.

Utinni

ultimateduck said:

Scifi fantasy... aliens with magic, technology and natural abilities.

Anarchy Online is literally this.

iixviiiix

robot

skeaser

Need more mythology MMOs. Gods & Heroes had potential but ended up being meh.

Tiller

Robotech

Iselin

Cyberpunk and Steampunk

H0urg1ass

So there's an old RPG system from the late 90's - early 2000's called Deadlands.

Deadlands was an alternate earth Horror/Wild West game that takes place out in the wild west just after the Civil War.

However, history is altered from our own at this point in the fictional world because the Native Americans have been helping "The Old Ones" (Ancient good spirits) protect these sites in the wild west where hordes of Demons were banished to another realm.

Well, when the Native Americans start losing the war against expansionism, they start performing rituals that open these portals back up in a last desperate effort to get the white man off of their territory.

Which doesn't really work, but now there's magic and monsters and demons in the wild west to fight.

Honestly the RPG mechanics themselves were kinda shit, but my RPG group bought the books, borrowed the great lore and played it using the best RPG system ever designed:  GURPS.

If there was a game set in the Deadlands lore, then I would play the absolute shit out of it.  Well, assuming it was good and not just a micro-transaction store front with a minimum effort game/facade as window dressing.

GeezerGamer

it's not the themes, it's the genre itself that has been overlooked. It's gotten turned into something else. And would ya lookit that? It's not doing so well.

centkin

Underwater where you play mermen of various types against monsters -- all in the 3d world of the sea.

ultimateduck

Utinni said:

ultimateduck said:

Scifi fantasy... aliens with magic, technology and natural abilities.

Anarchy Online is literally this.

I never played Anarchy Online. I know a lot of people liked it. Maybe it's time to modernize it.

I also liked the tabletop game Gamma World. They have some post apocalyptic games out, but nothing with mutations and abilities.

Amathe

Mendel said:

Lately, I've wanted a more Traveler-type game, 

I love you man. Traveler FTW!

Po_gg

ultimateduck said:

I never played Anarchy Online. I know a lot of people liked it. Maybe it's time to modernize it.

Probably never gonna happen. It's a Funcom game, with all of what that brings: a really good game and world, ideas and mechanics on one side, sloppy and sometimes even buggy implementation and after the cash-in an almost full ignore and maintenance mode on the other...

They've made a gfx overhaul a few years ago, but that was the last thing in plans, AO is in an "as-is" state now.

Give it a try, the client is fairly small, the f2p is decent enough until the late endgame, and the world is a good one. Just as the systems, there's no other game where you can play as a bureaucrat   (that's a class)

centkin said:

Underwater where you play mermen of various types against monsters -- all in the 3d world of the sea.

You can do that in Lemuria (CO) but it's only one zone, not the entire game like in Subnautica for example - I guess that was your inspiration?

kitarad

Definitely science fiction. Something based on the Cherryh 's works or Farscape.