Multiverse Final Fantasy MMORPG (What could have been)

[Mushy]

DNO please explain why you think if they made a TES MMO visiting old locations is fan service? those locations are there, theyve always been there - you were just not able to access them in different iterations of the game. if the mmo is of the world and you have full access to the continent do you expect them to throw out all their lore, world map everything? NO that is the world. If im in midgar and I want to chocobo across the map to get to San'Doria it would make no sense

[Vaymathias]

DNO please explain why you think if they made a TES MMO visiting old locations is fan service? those locations are there, theyve always been there - you were just not able to access them in different iterations of the game. if the mmo is of the world and you have full access to the continent do you expect them to throw out all their lore, world map everything? NO that is the world. If im in midgar and I want to chocobo across the map to get to San'Doria it would make no sense

The only way that would work is if there is an enemy pulling all the dimensions together, in order to IT DOESN"T MATTER WHY HE'S JUST DOING IT!

[Mushy]

yeah the wackos in the thread can have that game and be the only 4 people buying it

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

I think if such a thing happened... I would prefer a mad reboot of the stor(y/ies). And probably not necessarily an MMORPG. Still thinking Final Fantasy Musou-style (one man army) with multiplayer and RPG elements.

Hidden box to spare your eyes...

Merge and reboot the worlds into one (as if dimensional boundaries and time travel might not exist.) Redraw and adapt character relationships, landscapes, power structures, power levels, and motives as necessary.

Whether you have megacorporation vs. empire vs. resistance vs. chaos.

AVALANCE, Returners and NORA plus others might form a resistance group against the megacorp and the empire. They might operate between poorly monitored corporation/imperial cities and neutral trade cities. Operations funded by noblemen like Banon or a mysterious benefactor a.k.a. Rufus.

Empire might consist of several nations with emphasis on militaristic conquest, with Archadia, Baron, Figaro, and Dalmasca... employing the use of ancient resources as weapons (aethryte), superior chocobo forces, airships and cannons powered by crystals, coercing summoners to fight for them.

Megacorporation might consist of with several corporation leaders such as Rufus, Dysley, and Gestahl ~ utilizing magitek weaponry, enslaving espers in magicite, airships powered by magicite, kidnapping summoners to create magicite out of eidolon powers, etc.

And chaos might be a group of ancients, insane bastards, or warmongers planning to do the eradicate the world. Manipulating the strings of others to make this come to fruition. Be that a crazed engineer, a Kefka, a hidden agenda Dysley, a Yuna-plz-marry-me Seymour, making Sephiroth go nuts... again, liches, dark knights, rallying beastmen, or eidolons convinced that man-and-mooglekind is just unsalvageable (because they do wicked crap like enslaving espers in magicite and use aethryte (life stream?) as a weapon).

Maybe some engineering organization that tries to remain neutral, let's call 'em C.I.D. (crazy indigenous dastards that they are) that have split their allegiances.

Perhaps story lines are more event driven, with multiple characters that can be selected per mission.

i.e. a train mission led by the liberation... with Snow and Tifa as brawler types, Lightning and Cloud as sword types, each with their own play mechanic. Snow might have a taunt ability. Cloud's mechanic may be interchanging his swords. They hijack a train maybe as an attack on the megacorporation akin to the FF7 opening mission, end up fighting against Turks, a Judge and Archadian troops leading their own assault, and a mentally warped Terra piloting a new magitek warmech for a boss (free the esper girl). Maybe on Hard mode she would transform into esper mode while piloting.

Or a concert / opera house mission set as a trap to lure Setzer (unpredictable sexy coin-flipping bastad in an airship causing trouble for megacorporation and empire alike OR the resistance want to utilize him for their cause). Celes might represent the megacorporations as an opera singer (mayhaps using a magicite of a Siren), Yuna goes along on behalf of the resistance, and throw in some third character to represent the Empire (does Garnet sing?). Throw in a Bayohne (or if he's taken, Ultros) + a Judge to monitor the ground situation, Resistance sneaking around up top, and some Megacorp elites who have a second motive of kidnapping summoners. If the players choose a songstress, they control the lines that are sung to pull a convincing performance that may buy additional time to capture Setzer. If not a songstress, the player will be responsible for preparing the assault against Setzer, sabotaging other factions and avoid interrupting the performance to corner the gambling man.

And yes... these might have been plots ripped from older table-top gaming sessions under a Final Fantasy ruleset... minus the celebrity characters. Eheheh.

Short version: The more I think about this, the more the following picture seems relevant:



...I'll stop... for now. You win this day Santa Claus. *shakes fist*

[SafeOnBlock]

crossovers are the stupidest ideas in the world

Yeah because MVC isnt the most famous and acclaimed fighting game of all time.
And no one likes it when DC and Marvel work together.
And no one likes mugen.
Yeah no of that is popular at all.

[SafeOnBlock]

You missed the point entirely.
Its about mantaining proportions and a canon.

Kuja has a different canon, for example.

And even then you can't justify the arm disproportion.

I have tagged you as an internet bully officially. All you do is talk negative and put people down. I havnt seen one positive thought come out of your brain in all of these pages. Just saying. Actually FF9 is probably one of the most original and old school referencing ff of any game.

Opera - 6
Biggs, wedge.
Garland
Weapons
Vivi
etc.etc.

Summons (before 10 decided to rename them for some reson?!)
Great storyline (Funny/dramatic plot twists, hell queen brahn dying, towns getting blown up! Give me a break FFXII had a garbage storyline, the voice acting was crap, its combat system was equally garbage. At least let me control my freaking team. Gambits were balls) The idea of the world was amazing based off of Tactics though.

Yall gotta stop thinking on a track why does a multiverse have to be like Kingdom hearts or Dissidea. HEll look at the two they are both multiverse and both completely different so why cant this concept?
Also just so everyone knows I hate every ff game that wasnt on a ps1 or lower. I think FFX was garbage and the only reason i mentioned it and gave it any sort of credit is because it was the beggining of the end not the end.

FACT: LOST ODYSSEY WAS THE ORIGINAL STORYLINE FOR FFX AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN FFX! Would have been a better game.

[SailorJerry]

Okay, so here's what I think:


The game could work if you the player were a real person in our world, dreaming about all the different FF games. Each zone would be one of the different FF games. Different areas of the zones reflect different points in the timeline of the game(zone) you're currently in. One zone would be for like levels 1-10, another game would be 11-20, etc. Each zone would have an instance/raid that would allow you to party up and fight the bosses from the respective game. A "hard mode" would exist for all raids that would allow max level characters to party and kill again, but the fight would be different. You'd start out as one class, but every time you change zones you have to change to one of whatever classes exist in the game you're currently playing in. The thing that would keep people playing the game after all the zones/games and killing the hard mode bosses would be PVP and extra open world "events" that would happen, which could be explained as "Some other dream is trying to invade your current dream" or something like that.


Lots of extra thought would have to be put into it to make it a viable option, but the only question that matters is, how many people would play it? I doubt very many people would do that, tbh, and since not many people would play it, it won't be made. Making a game is a huge money sink if you already foresee it failing.

[MariyaShidou]

"The in-game world will feature the entire environments from Skyrim to Morrowind", however the map will not be entirely open for exploration, as certain areas are planned to be used for future expansions. Cyrodiil will make for the main capital of the raging war, where players can engage in endgame PvP"

http://xbigygames.com/the-elder-scro...s-and-details/

And what? It's Tamriel, it's like Eorzea, Skyrim is like Ala Mhigo, Morrowind is Ul'dah. Akaviri is like Garlean. Do you even play TES?

Tamriel is a continent FYI, Akaviri come from a different continent and the bulk of that continent civilisation are still barely mentioned in TES lore. Also, there are actually landmass of Cyrodiil and Morrowind in Skyrim.

[Keres]

Yeah because MVC isnt the most famous and acclaimed fighting game of all time.
And no one likes it when DC and Marvel work together.
And no one likes mugen.
Yeah no of that is popular at all.

Once again, crossover fighting games and comics are entirely different than a "crossover" MMO. Unless you mean to imply that this MMO would have no emphasis on telling a cohesive story, in which case, I think a lot of Final Fantasy players would be pretty disappointed.

Aside from that, calling something "the MUGEN of MMOs" is probably more likely to scare people away than anything lmao

[SafeOnBlock]

................................................ sorry