Battlestar Galactica: Online announced
NBC today announced the development of a new MMO based on the Battlestar Galactica reboot.
The Unity Engine tech-base means the new game will be client-free and browser based, though NBC Universal is still promising "state of the art graphics" - which we'll believe when we see them.
"Players will be able to choose to play as cylons or humans in a constant struggle to control the universe or just survive its perils," reads an official announcement. "A blend of tactical space combat, exploration, and mission-based gameplay will provide a diverse experience.
"The dramatic missions will define the game's overall storyline, enabling the player to delve into mysteries of the Battlestar universe. Battlestar Galactica Online will create a new standard for web games, with beautiful 3d graphics and innovative game mechanics bringing a new level of game play to browser based MMOG. Assets from the television production will be integrated into the game to deliver an even more authentic experience."
For those of you who are even more behind that times than we are, Battlestar Galactica follows the adventures of a human fleet as it searches for a new homeworld after being attacked by a cyborg race called the Cylons.
Battlestar Galactica: Online is being developed by Artplant, an independent studio whose previous work includes Riding Club Championships - a fact which further implies a casual focus for the game.
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Discuss in the forums Replystill the "farming" may be different lol
It is bad but I'm already thinking "it could have been so much better".
;P
The next major one to come out I can think will probably be the Star Wars one, which, again, I am not overly optimistic about, even if Bioware are doing it.
I'm playing Darkfall at the moment, and actually enjoying an old school MMO feeling for once as well. Latest one to get ditched is STO, but I am keeping my sub going until the 45 day patch and see what happens...but I really think I will cancel the sub after that and (probably) never look back. Not that STO might not desrve a look back in a few months time, it's just I know in myself that once I leave an MMO, it takes something pretty huge for me to try it again.
So, yeah add me to the "old & jaded group" as well.
There is also a new feature length episode called BSG : The plan
This shows the initial cylon attack on the 12 colonies from the perspective of the cylons rather than the humans. Its on Sky Box Office / DVD? currently.. Havent seen it yet.
It has potential, but will most likely be ruined like Stargate was (now that had so much potential).
As for EVE... I just dont rate that as an MMO at all. The grind is excruciating !
Casual-focussed, browser-based just screams "crap" to me :(
Even within EVE there are people who are not Players in EVE, the sad still lives of the Empire dwellers. To understand and appreciate EVE you need to LIVE the Life in 0.0, what EVE does best and is unique is the territorial conflicts that are player run.
Eve is about defining your own victory conditions and then having 500 others agree with you and compete against others who might have conflicting goal. In EVE the best win, by definition. This is rare in gaming and even moreso in RL.
Yours in Fleet Command Plasma,
Star*Dagger
If you're "grinding" anything in EVE, you're doing something wrong.
^^^this
Back on topic: I just started on watch BSG the series and it looks awesome. The online version: less awesome.
A small part of me dies each time a game studio announces an MMO based on a tv show.
They usually fail, and with this browser based creation, I cant see it being a huge success.
Would be interesting to see if the MMOG of BSG is as patchy as the TV show. I'm not saying it's bad TV, far from it, but the later series have too many episodes that feel like filler, contrasting against the spectacular thrill-ride that is season 2, the beginning of season 3 and all the season premieres and finales (my god! such curve-ball endings!). Saw the pilot of Caprica. Thoughts: Incoherent mish-mash of ideas and themes with some fairly bad character writing, liberally sprinkled with cliches and huge gobs of money. Moral: Production value != Quality.
Props on the use of the '!' as 'NOT' operator. Was gonna give you rep but apparently I'm not allowed to give it to the same person too often. I suppose it's some sort of anti-ego measure.