Perry's Secret MMOG - A Beast Riding Game

The strange tale of the Massive game built by committee gets a little less odd, as a Q&A session with Jamil Moledina at GDC Austin unveiled some details about the MMOG former Shiny director David Perry has been working on. The 'Top Secret' Acclaim MMOG has been said for months now to be a 'racing' title, and Perry unveiled this week that it will not involve vehicles of any kind. Instead, the game will involve racing beasts of many kinds. The beasts can be bred and traded, used to engage in Player vs. Player battles, and will help the player explore the game world. For the first time since the project was announced, the idea of players using tools provided by IGN to make the game doesn't sounds quite so out there.

Comments

Interesting

[Turn-X Alphonse]

If they get this right it could be extremely interesting, but I get the feeling they will screw it up by making more and more high range beasts so what you took 12 weeks to earn before will become totally worthless in the next patch when they release and upgraded version which requires 3 12 week beasts to make.

Good idea, doubt it will go well though.

Re:Interesting

[Blakey Rat]

Uh, how is that different than any other MMO game on the market?

When the WOW expansion was released, it was easy to find Outlands *green* items in the first hour of questing there that were much better than the blues or purples you'd been repeatedly entering boring-ass dungeons for over the last year.

more ads and micrtransactions

[weirdcrashingnoises]

and i don't really think it's a bad thing. not in this case anyways... when you think about how this game is going to come together and just the way they are doing it sounds totally different from a regular game development plan... it makes sense to ship it free and just let it build revenue in other ways.

also, i really like the idea of a racing mmo, not that it's an original idea or anything, but hopefully something that is based more on skill and not strictly the # of hours spent in game doing grinds.

I feel there will be protests

[Daimanta]

From the virtual brigade of PETA

Re:I feel there will be protests

[tepples]

From the virtual brigade of PETA Has PETA complained about Nintendo's popular cockfighting simulator known as Pokémon?

Re:I feel there will be protests

[Minwee]

And when they aren't fighting they are ethically and humanely forced into tiny windowless cages not much bigger than your hand and left suffocating in the dark until their next fight.

I don't see what they're whining about either.

"Breast riding game"

[Brad1138]

It sounded more interesting when I misread it at first.