Nameless Voice on 10/8/2010 at 14:33
Another problem I have is that MMOs certainly haven't helped with the fact that there are almost no proper multiplayer RPGs where a few friends can get together to play the singleplayer campaign.
Anyone thinking of making a multiplayer RPG probably just ends up making an MMO these days.
It's a shame, because I'd really love a first-person, single-character RPG with multiplayer, but they just don't exist. The closest I can think of is System Shock 2. Any kind of small-scale multiplayer RPG is rare, I can only think of a few more example such as Neverwinter Nights.
Vernon on 10/8/2010 at 17:39
I think it's Tolkien or Beowulf or something. Or do you mean the mechanics in which case I have no fuckin idea
Pyrian on 10/8/2010 at 20:40
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
It's a shame, because I'd really love a first-person, single-character RPG with multiplayer, but they just don't exist. The closest I can think of is System Shock 2.
The closest I can think of is... Left 4 Dead. Seriously. All they'd need to add is some RPG elements. I'm being a bit tongue in cheek, but... I don't see any reason why, as a model for a possible development of such a thing (and reason why it could be successful), it wouldn't hold up?
catbarf on 10/8/2010 at 20:59
Borderlands? First-person coop RPG.
Nameless Voice on 10/8/2010 at 21:13
Yeah, Left 4 Dead is cool, but it's not an RPG. And it also has no real sense of continuity.
june gloom on 10/8/2010 at 21:50
Play Left 4 Dead 2 and come back and say that.
Pyrian on 10/8/2010 at 22:03
...I own Borderlands, but haven't tried it yet. :erg:
Nameless Voice on 10/8/2010 at 22:22
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Play Left 4 Dead 2 and come back and say that.
I have. What I meant was that in an RPG, you have a persistent world where things you do change things in the world, to one extent or another.
Both Left 4 Deads are just the same levels over and over again. They're a more "skirmish" type of gameplay, rather than an RPG's continuous gameplay.
Pyrian on 10/8/2010 at 22:27
That's, um, not what I think of when I think of an RPG - and a co-op RPG even less so. Heck, I'm pretty sure you've excluded WoW itself...
Nameless Voice on 10/8/2010 at 22:35
I thought the entire point was my excluding WoW? WoW is an MMO, not a small-scale coop RPG.
The idea of a multiplayer RPG to me would be something more similar to a tabletop RPG, though - you create your own character and go on adventures with your friends, following a singleplayer-like storyline, while improving your characters. If there are multiple adventures, you'd keep your characters between adventures.
Evil Islands would quality as a multiplayer RPG, I suppose, but since you just repeat the same three quests over and over and over and over and over again, I wouldn't really count it as being the sort of thing I'm talking about. Plus, they aren't really adventures so much as tactical battles.
I'm talking more about something like a multiplayer Oblivion.
