FIREFLY MMORPG
POSTED BY: SnakeCharmer
UPDATED: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 17:18
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This is exciting news because Firefly is still getting some attention. It's not exciting because this game won't be able to reproduce what we loved about Firefly.
At least not what I loved. I don't care so much about a giant verse filled with gamers trying to kill each other. I care about our small little crew and who they were. I don't care about fighting the alliance or for the alliance or smuggling. I cared about the funny.
I just don't see myself getting sucked into this game. Even though I consider myself a huge Firefly fan.
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Originally posted by RageX3:
why are you moaning about it being windows only, if you noobs were using anything other than windows you'd know damn well you can emulate anything to make it work... so just quit crying and looking for reasons to b***h and moan, your ruining the excitement for the rest of us.
1) How does using an OS other than windows make people "noobs"?
2) Emulation comes at a cost. Enough to make running games in emulation problematic for most, if even just to get it running.
But, let's say I'm wrong. Let's say that there is a wonderful way to emulate windows on my Mac mini PPC. What is it?
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First and foremost welcome to all of the new people to this forum, its a shiny place, and I hope you will stick around and post!! And just a note, anyone who considers themselves a browncaot would not flame anyone else (nor use the term noob, we dont think we are better than new people and we want new people to join our fandom). There is no such thing as a stupid question(well for the most part hehe). The fans on this site and other firefly fan sites like serenitymovie.org or serenitymovie.net or whedonesque.com or the prospero board, are a friendly and happy bunch.
Anyways onto the game, the not so good sign about firefly fans crashing their server, in a sense since it means that there are a lot of people still interested in firefly even 1+ years after the movie, and no sequel in sight(Joss is interested just waitng for that phone call from Universal, which hopefully will happen in the next few years).
Im not a gamer, but I will take this as good news. Not only does this give more exposure to firefly/serenity(every little bit helps), but it can hopefully if done well maybe get more mainstream attraction, and if it is sucessful with a good amount of people playing, the studios may be interested in making another tv series or another movie. Yes I know, I am quixotic and unrealistic , but that comes with the territory of being a browncoat!
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Originally posted by mattcoz:
Not very reassuring that their website can't handle the flood of Firefly fans.
Actually, it's more than just FFFs. They're getting /.'ed. So, I wouldn't blame them for not being able to handle that traffic. Getting /.'ed basically shuts down most sites.
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Originally posted by Tiger:
Maybe some of you experts could explain to us video game newbies about MMORPG. I know it stands for massive-multiplayer-something-something, but that doesn't really tell me what these games are like. I gather they aren't traditional games with levels and missions and so forth (keep in mind the only game I've played with any regularity in the last 7-8 years is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six).
I get the feeling that MMORPGs are very involved, take a big time investment, and can be difficult to learn. I'm not going to waste my time with some game filled with elves and dwarves and what not, but since it's Firefly I REALLY want to get the scoop.
Rather than explaining a lot myself, I suggest you check this page on wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mmorpg
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Originally posted by mrben:
Personally, I think that the best idea would be to produce something where the user community can actually create their own stuff, which the FF community excels at; rather like Second Life.
This was actually what we were doing, though in a single player game. But, I have decided that getting sued because of licensing issues isn't worth it (remember the t-shirt fiasco). I/we'll be moving onto other projects, hopefully FF related... I have a couple ideas... we'll see.
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Another FYI, a fan has made the following forums in support of the game:
www.firefly-mmo.com
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Originally posted by Tiger:
Maybe some of you experts could explain to us video game newbies about MMORPG. I know it stands for massive-multiplayer-something-something, but that doesn't really tell me what these games are like. I gather they aren't traditional games with levels and missions and so forth (keep in mind the only game I've played with any regularity in the last 7-8 years is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six).
I get the feeling that MMORPGs are very involved, take a big time investment, and can be difficult to learn. I'm not going to waste my time with some game filled with elves and dwarves and what not, but since it's Firefly I REALLY want to get the scoop.
Rather than explaining a lot myself, I suggest you check this page on wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mmorpg
Thanks for the link. Wikipedia was actually one of the first places I checked, but it didn't really tell me what the games are like.
I get that they are a bunch of people all looking like characters from the show in a virtual world. But what do you do once you're in there? The wiki article mentions quests and missions, but how do those work if everybody is a player and there's no "bad guys"? Is there a beginning and an end, or does it go on forever?
You can see how little I know about this stuff.
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Originally posted by Tiger:
I get that they are a bunch of people all looking like characters from the show in a virtual world. But what do you do once you're in there? The wiki article mentions quests and missions, but how do those work if everybody is a player and there's no "bad guys"? Is there a beginning and an end, or does it go on forever?
You can see how little I know about this stuff.
I've never actually gotten into MMORPGs myself but my understanding is there are still computer controlled "bad guys". They spawn and respawn for people to kill them over and over if they choose. Though I don't think they're all about fighting bad guys. You can just decide to be a smuggler and deal in trade for your game. There is no beginning and end. There is just a world for you to run around and explore basically.
Usually they add new quests or areas over time so there are new things to do. The only quests I can really tell you about are the ones I briefly played in a WoW beta. They had me go kill 6 of a certain type of creature and collect the pelts. Then after that they upgraded it to killing 6 of 2 types of creatures that were slightly stronger. I didn't find this too exciting. I found it more time consuming. Which is sorta the goal of a pay to play game.
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