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Marvel Goes MMPORG
traskjd writes "C|net reports that Vivendi Universal has announced that they are working with Marvel Enterprises to create a Massively Multiplayer online game. The game has your favorite Marvel characters such as the Hulk. However don't hold your breath as the game is touted as coming out in 2005." Ha. Maybe DC will get their act together, and then CowboyNeal can fufil his wildest dreams as the Green Lantern.
How long before all the cool characters are used, and you're relegated to Mr. Furious and The Shoveler?
And does Marvel really want the typical MMORPG attracted to this game playing Spider-Man et al? Nothing like having your flagship characters spouting things like "fag" or "u r gay" to other characters.
I would bet that only GMs would get to play any named characters to avoid such problems. Of course, that would pretty much make the game worthless. Who wants to play Color-Excreter Lad when you really want to play Black Panther?
Vincent J. Murphy
Spandex Justice
well the girls have always told me i'm like "The Flash" in bed...oh, wait...
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true." - Homer Simpson
Rather than playing a super hero, the game could be based around inhabiting the land of the superheroes - and trying to get yourself into positions where you require their attention.
I'm not into Marvel, having been a DC kiddie, so forgive the character references. But if you kick some ass outside a cinema you get a pounding from Batman, if you don't wash for like, a year, you get a fungus on your toes that Swamp Thing has to come and eradicate. Say 'Im gonna shag that Lois Lane good' enough and eventually Superman will kick your ass.
You build up 'exposure' points until you earn the right to BE a supe for a while!!! Then you can go around listening out for people saying "Where's little jimmy!"
If you join NOW, you can practice throwing fireballs in 2018...
For those non-mutant wanna-be heros, there will be radioactive spiders, and gamma-ray explosions randomly througout the game... If you're lucky, you can take 99% damage, and have your gamma-irradiated friend heal you, greatly increasing your strength and agility (and breast size) permanantly (rather than just when you get pissed).
"I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
I can see it now. Spidey, Wolverine, and three different Invisible Girls from the Fantastic Four all standing on the same street, waiting for the bad guy to spawn so they can take turns capturing him. What fun.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Yes. You see, it's all in a day's work for Bicycle Repair Man...
Cheers,
Ian
----------------------------------- My Other Sig Is Hilarious -----------------------------------
what's really funny is that he thinks that making a computer game out of something dispels the notion that the thing is just for children.
Will there be a nuclear power plant near by? Radioactive fallout from a nuclear accident should be good enough to generate a few hundred thousand Silver Age heroes.
Or, maybe a hole in the ozone layer allows the city to be bathed by those mysterious Cosmic Rays(tm).
I always wondered how superpowers would work in bed.
I don't think sex with Superman (DC I know) would be nice. Can imagine it would be rather lethal for the average girl. Picture this:
girl: how about this?
supe: nope, nothing..
girl: and this?
supe: still don't feel a thing
girl: but I'm biting in it!
supe: well... urm..let's try some Viagronite then
hulk: here it comes!
girl: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarch!! aaaaaa..*
On the other hand:
Girl: WOW! is that your hand??
Mr.Fantastic: guess again baby!
Girl: WOOOOOOW!
Vision: Yea I know. I've upgraded it with the new Vibro Pro Powerpac. Btw, I'm using the lowest setting...
Girl: AAAAAH!
Girl: Impressive!
Collusus: Yep. Wood is overrated.
Girls (in-sync): AAAAAH, so soft!
Beast: He, he, he well, in this case soft is a good thing!
Flash: Quit the crappy remarks!
Flash2:..I'm..
Flash3:..so fast..
Flash4:..I can be..
Flash5:..6 guys..
Flash6:..at once!..
Girl: I only got 3 slots!
Flash1-6: Thats what you think!
The glass is half-full. With poison. And there are cracks in the glass. The dirty, dirty glass.
Imagine living (as an amazonian) in the land of the amazonians?
WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO TO ME!!!!!!
It would be like "The Tick" in Capital City. There are no villians, because there too many superhero's. Everyone will just hangout at disco clubs, arguing over who is the real "Spider Man" or who the real "Hulk" is. Every once in a while two super hero's with the same name will break out in a fight with the winner being the true *superhero name here*.
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
The very first thing I thought of when I read this was: Mystery Men. Since it just wouldn't do to have everyone be Spider-Man, most of the players will, at least at first, have to throw forks or swing shovels. Then I realized that if people create their own characters and make their own names, it will be more like The Tick because if people can't be Batman, then there will be a Der Fliedermouse (spelling?) I think I would choose something like The Mutterer or The Umpire if I were to play.
Don't moderate flamebait as Troll. Know the difference or you will be Meta-moderated.
This game will end up just like "The Tick", with thousands of superheroes, all with useless abilities. Me, I'm SlugMan, oh no ! Salt ! AARRGGHH....
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