With Great Ideas, Comes Great Expectations…

So writing my last post, the review on the City Of Heroes MMORPG, gave me an idea. What if Marvel attempted to do a similar idea, just capitalizing on the mistakes of City of Heroes/Villians. So you could create a superhero or villian and of course give it it’s proper background story and name. Give it powers and abilities. Choose movements and things, just expanded.

The Story: There are several options that I think they could have.

1. Go with a main story of X-men of the Brotherhood and Magneto vs Xavier and X-men/good mutants and hell even go crazy and add like the sewer mutants that aren’t really on either side. Creating almost 3 opposing factions or 2 opposing factions with a 3rd neutral one. You could create a mutant and either join the Brotherhood, X-men, or just be a lone mutant who could just be there on his own or join the Murlocks in the sewers. The could be quests to join either side and betrayal quests. Main idea of evil would be to take over Human world and main idea of good could be to stop that. **Of Course you wouldn’t be able to be any of the known characters of the X-men or brotherhood**
2. Apocalypse could be in the game, creating a situation where there are three major opposing positions. Players with Apocalypse, Players with the Brotherhood, and Players with X-men. Again players could walk the neutral path in between. To start off the game they could start as an affiliated player or a neutral player that could later join a side or act as a mercenary.
3. ***Note*** Although I refer to the sides as X-men vs Brotherhood, I truly mean good vs bad. This would not be specifically geared towards X-men, but also include stories of Spider-man, Avengers, Iron-man, Hulk, Venom, Dr. Doom, and other villians and heroes from all of marvels stories.***
4. The final idea could be attempting to implement the Civil War. Clearly having two sides divided. Players could choice the side of for the Identificaion Law or against it.

Other aspects of the game could be similar to those of other major MMORPGs. Crafting could be making new suits or weapons, or even vehicles. Political aspects such as law-making or political assassinations (for villians) could play a role.

A game like this would have to be careful in implemetation, but if it is executed properly, it could be a kick ass game. If the first idea was used, the second idea of including Apocalypse could even be used as an expansion. I know if it was executed well, I would totally play this game for hours upon end. Any ideas or comments are more than welcome.

cout<<”T. Evans”