# What fictional world would you like to see made into an MMO? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 9, 2010, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824 "2010-03-09T06:36:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/1 "2010-03-09T06:36:35Z")
I’m a fairly persistent-but-casual MMO goof. I’ll play until I’m tired of exploring, and then go on to the next one. I’ve wandered through Everquest, DAoC, Star Wars, WoW, Warhammer, and currently poking around Aion. The mentality is pervasive enough that I’ll be reading a fictional series and think ‘Damn, this would be a great MMO’. Right now I’m re-reading Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series \ I think it’d be a great playground. The various Fury powers, the varous lands and peoples…plenty of room for at least 3 playable sides, and if some developer would FINALLY come up with a way to balance temporary alliances between alternating sides, that would be even better. Anyway…what fictional world would you like to virtually explore? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Crap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.crap/32/3131_2.png) [@Dr.Crap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Crap)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/2 "2010-03-09T07:00:01Z")
I want to play a rhythm game where I end a foreign war with my [Donkey Kong Bongos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DK_Bongos). Also, Pokemon. But not shitty or weird. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/3 "2010-03-09T07:04:36Z")
The _Firefly_ Universe. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/4 "2010-03-09T07:16:28Z")
The _Fallout_ universe (For an existing but non-MMO computer game) and something like a Generic Victorian-1930s Adventure setting (Like _Indiana Jones_, for example) would be pretty cool too, I think ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/5 "2010-03-09T07:18:00Z")
The Mass Effect universe. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/6 "2010-03-09T08:42:51Z")
Note that my experience with MMOs is very limited, but I’ve thought about games set in the following settings: Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere Mythical Greece with low magic, something like the world for Robert Graves’ Hercules, My Shipmate Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/7 "2010-03-09T13:24:17Z")
Discworld ---
**Author:** ![BunnyTVS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BunnyTVS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyTVS)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/8 "2010-03-09T14:56:19Z")
I’ve always thought the PnP game [Sla Industries](http://www.cubicle-7.com/worldofprogress.htm) would make a good MMO. It’s a dark future game on the planetwide city of Mort. You’ve alien races, various character classes and a race of spell casters that undergo a hideous metamorphosis at high levels. The original game itself has a codified level structure for missions. Low levels start with tasks such as slaughtering carnivorous pigs in the sewer. Higher levels involve rival corporations, off-world missions and investigations into the history of Sla Industries itself ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/9 "2010-03-09T14:57:32Z")
Blizzard has their hands full with WoW but I think a Diablo prequel would make a good MMO. ---
**Author:** ![Estilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Estilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Estilicon)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/10 "2010-03-09T17:36:23Z")
1. A song of Ice and fire: Imagine taking the black and becoming a sworn brother and guarding the Wall. Or becoming a High Septon, or a pirate, etc. 2. Amber. 3. Night’s dawn trilogy for a game similar to eve. I want to fly a voidhawke ---
**Author:** ![HorseloverFat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8e8cbc/32.png) [@HorseloverFat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HorseloverFat)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/11 "2010-03-09T18:28:27Z")
Dune. John Varley’s Eight Worlds trilogy universe. Marvel comics universe. One of the Japanese techno-dystopian universes like Ghost in the Shell. The Neuromancer universe. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/12 "2010-03-09T19:13:44Z")
Can I choose one that got cancelled? I know it was a futile hope, but I was still hoping to play the Bastard!! MMORPG in English. Think of Heavy Metal magazine. ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/13 "2010-03-09T19:18:59Z")
Phobos, with the leather godesses. ---
**Author:** ![FlightlessBird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cdc98d/32.png) [@FlightlessBird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlightlessBird)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/14 "2010-03-09T19:23:14Z")
Shadowrun. It was an FPS recently, but I thought a MMO would’ve made a better game. I also liked **Knorf** ’s idea of _Firefly_ ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/15 "2010-03-09T19:59:01Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > The _Fallout_ universe (For an existing but non-MMO computer game) They’re making one. > **[Fallout (video game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_13#Project_V13)** > > Fallout (also known as Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game) is a 1997 role-playing video game developed and published by Interplay Productions, set in a mid-22nd century post-apocalyptic and retro-futuristic world, decades after a global nuclear war led by the United States and China. Fallout's protagonist, the Vault Dweller, inhabits an underground nuclear shelter. The player must scour the surrounding wasteland for a computer chip that can fix the Vault's failed water supply system. T... ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/16 "2010-03-09T20:05:54Z")
Maybe Oz – that would be different. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/17 "2010-03-09T20:45:16Z")
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/18 "2010-03-09T21:25:49Z")
[_Steve Jackson’s Illuminati!_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_%28game%29) I kid only slightly (or do I?) ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/19 "2010-03-09T21:33:57Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy I can’t decide if this would be awesome or horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824/20 "2010-03-09T21:37:30Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > [_Steve Jackson’s Illuminati!_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_%28game%29) I kid only slightly (or do I?) There is an upcoming MMO featuring the Illuminati, alongside the Triads and the Templars – [The Secret World](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_World) from Funcom. However, I doubt this is the Illuminati atmosphere you were interested in. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-world-would-you-like-to-see-made-into-an-mmo/531824.md?page=2)