Otherland MMO Announced

Eurogamer breaks news that German games publisher DTP Entertainment will be making an MMORPG based on Tad Williams' Otherland series of books. As anyone who has read the books will know, this could be an interesting new spin on virtual worlds. Quoting: "For want of a better soundbite, let's call it the first cyberpunk MMO: a virtual world about virtual worlds, in which your avatar is an avatar, the NPCs play NPCs, and you explore a multiverse in which you might be in realistic historical surroundings one minute, and cartoon fantasy ones the next. Everything changes, even your own appearance, and nothing is even pretending to be real. ... You start the game as one of those consciousnesses in a place called the Land of the Lost, a nightmare scenario which you're trying to escape. You'll run, be killed, and reborn in a 'baby' state as a simple, low-rent sim (though we suspect the game won't be using that term, for obvious reasons) - a blank, featureless avatar that can be male, female or even neither."

Comments

Re:Sounds interesting...

[Entiex]

I may as well, any chance at playing a cyberpunk themed MMO thats actually good (As opposed to say, Neocron) is one that I don't want to miss. And if I play it, I want to know the lore. That and the whole concept of this world itself is making me want to pick up the books anyway.

Re:Brainstorming session gone wrong

[Hatta]

So, you want a realistic, down-to-earth game... that's completely off-the-wall and swarming with magic robots?

Re:Sounds interesting...

[SatanicPuppy]

Actually Anarchy Online had all that stuff a loooong long time ago (up to and including a scary overabundance of gender non-specific sexy clothes for your virtual crossdressing needs).

A pretty good MMO actually, for it's era...It's still around, and they've actually been pretty busy with expansions lately, but the core product is pretty dated. The major flaw of the game was twinking, imho, because everything was based on character stats, and there were ways to increase your stats dramatically out of proportion to your level...And since the pvp was level based, you could come across a guy who was the "same" level as you, who could squish you like a bug.

I think the most amusing one I ever saw was a guildie of mine who had a level 60 twink who could manifest a level 150 pet. That was his only skill, and yet it was more than enough...The 150 pet was more than tough enough to stand up to a few level 150 characters...At least for a while. What it did to people he could pvp with had to be seen to be imagined.