Discussion which manga should get an mmo based on it?

[monkey D luffy]

seeing how in only a few monthes a dragon ball mmo will be released it made me think which more mangas can get that honor and have an mmo based on their world (not story, note that dragon ball online is something like 1000 years after the manga and there are no saiyans in it)

the first manga came to mind was one piece.
explenation on how it might work:
a person creates his character neutral at first, and lives in a random village training and learning about the world. at a certain level he can choose if he goes out to see as a crew member of an existing pirate crew as a trainee until he can form his own crew, drafting to the marines starting at the lowest rank possible doing some missions for the marines ang gaining fame in order to go through the ranks or go bveing a bounty hunter that hunts pirates but is not a part of the marines.

pirates can raid and pk (player kill) every one and will get bounty for each succesful raid (the more difficult it is the more bounty) or after killing a number of people, also people can post bounties themselves which will not effect the official bounty so that puny crews that just formed wont be chased by the higher ups of the marines. also the higher the bounty the better equipment the crew can buy at the black market (rarer equips, only for pirates, very high price), and will get better stats.

marines on the other hand will get stronger and will get better equips from the marines when their rank is higher, the more pirates they capture the more points they get towereds they next rank, the top 3 ranking officers will be the admirals while GMs will be the gourusai or fleet admiral.

bounty hunters will get money quickly but they get limited access to the black market or the navy market and they wont get stat bonuses.

a captured pirate will go into the nearest jail where he will spend a few days or his crew breaks him free (one of the raids), every prison will have marines guarding it as well as npc monsters that will only attack pirates.

as for devil fruits, as we still dont know the origin of those ill have to say that they will be random drops from any monster or if a crew have it on deck and gets defeated the one who defeates them can loot it. if someone consumes it he will get their powers and the more he uses it the more attacks he gets. logias wont get hurt until their mp (energy) gets decreased all the way down or if someone who possess a power to counter it attacks him, zoan will get transformations and paramecias will fight like how fruit users fight, if a fruit user gets thrown over board he will sink unless someone helps him, if someone dies (pretty hard to die in the game) he will lose his DF and all of his inventory unless he has brook's DF where he can get a second chance.

now after i gave you my ideas id love to hear more ideas.

 

[blai]

That's a pretty good idea. The concept will be like in Pirates of the Caribeean, but you change everything to what you said - and give it a One Piece theme. The actual One Piece characters should exist as either heroes, good or evil depends on what they are in the manga.

But I guess that Naruto is a game that should get an mmorpg game. It already has a fighter-kind of game. But to be able to create your own character, form teams of 3 with a "sensei" that could be an npc. Do missions to rise in the ranks, participate in chuunin exams vs other players, learn new techniques (how to do that I don't know, maybe as rewards for missions etc) and then as they grow older and get more experience they learn an element, then a 2nd one and maybe a 3rd (max.) You get assigned (or choose) a country, and from time to time there's war etc.

I'll elaborate better tomorrow :d

 

[Peculator]

Naruto!!!
But I can hardly wait for the Dragon Ball Online.

 

[monkey D luffy]

That's a pretty good idea. The concept will be like in Pirates of the Caribeean, but you change everything to what you said - and give it a One Piece theme. The actual One Piece characters should exist as either heroes, good or evil depends on what they are in the manga.

it still depens on how one piece ends. maybe the entire crew gets captured at the end and die so they cant possibly be in the game, and the fact that they are there means that their DFs wont exist in the game. i actually thought i was taking the concept of one piece but from a broad look cause just like luffy said the marines are actually supposed to be the good guys, its just a matter of prospective.

ps: ill edit my comment later and add a few more features to my dream game.

edit (didnt want to double post): i just found out that there is another game based on an anime (i dont know if there has been a manga for this): digimon! and i dont mean a crappy fan made game but a real mmo. so seeing how 2 games based on shows that are over coming out i think we can assume that when 1 of the 3 major shounen mangas comes to an end an mmo based on it will go into development stage. it wont be one piece cuz we still have around 10 years for that but thats some great news for me.

pics:
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[Doragon]

Naruto!!!

Lolno. That's impossible. I'd virtually shit brix if that happened.

 

[Eshvoide]

MAPS.

I gotta think how you actually would play it.

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The One Piece concept isn't so bad, but I dunno if I'd play it since I'm not into One Piece anymore. I'm guessing there will other subclasses for each side like swordsman, gunner, etc. That would make it terrible if it's a rock-paper-scissors type battle with those three classes. -.-

 

[monkey D luffy]

what do you mean rock-paper-scissors type?
and pirates and marines are factions not classes, you can choose what ever you want from fighting bare handedly to fighting with 4 swords like kaku (only if you mastered their techniques in the first place)

 

[DelGrecco]

It wouldn't surprise me to see Gundam get a chance at some point. Lots of possibilities for different mecha customizations and systems. You could also customize your pilot. Depending on which universe they would use there always seems to be at least two factions.

Naruto could be cool, but I wonder how they would play balance after the first million or so players get the sharingan

 

[monkey D luffy]

i thought of naruto too, but it would be unfair to alot of people, randomizing kekkei genkai, some get sharingan, some get byakugan, some get haku's ice and so on, tailed beasts will be the harder part imo.

also delgrecco there is gundom online coming up too but i dont think youll like it:
http://feature.mmosite.com/content/2008-07-17/20080717041415573,1.shtml

 

[DelGrecco]

i thought of naruto too, but it would be unfair to alot of people, randomizing kekkei genkai, some get sharingan, some get byakugan, some get haku's ice and so on, tailed beasts will be the harder part imo.

also delgrecco there is gundom online coming up too but i dont think youll like it:
http://feature.mmosite.com/content/2008-07-17/20080717041415573,1.shtml

As soon as I saw what you had written I thought to myself, "oh no I bet it's based on the SD franchise." Sure enough, I chuckled a bit when I saw that it was. Though it looks like you can use gundams and Zeon/Zaft mechas from different timelines, so that's kind of interesting. It seems like kind of a waste though based on the possibilities of the franchise. Either way, thank you for the link though, it was very interesting!

Another mecha game that comes to mind is RF Online, though I don't know if that would be closer to what I was hoping for or too much in another direction I'll have to break down and try it out some time, though I always fear the timesink of an mmo.

 

[monkey D luffy]

ok people dbo's beta is live although its only for korea, the game looks sick and from what i saw you CAN go ssj but you have to wish it from shenron.

link (korean site): http://dbo.netmarble.net/main.asp
screenshots can be found here: http://news.mmosite.com/content/2009-09-23/20090923190623003,1.shtml

 

[DelGrecco]

I saw a trailer for this by accident a few days ago and meant to post something, it definitely looks interesting. I wonder if it will ever make the jump elsewhere?

 

[monkey D luffy]

you mean dbo? its supposed to come to NA during 2010 from what ive heard.
i hope it will be f2p with cash shop but i highly doubt it. maybe it will be like battle forge or guildwars (just buying the disc with no monthly fee)

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ok this thread needs a boost so here are some things i managed to gather on recent mmo's
dbo: here are the transformations in the game:
humans (go ssj): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uErOlD0fGyw
nameks (go super nameks):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spm1IVAWi1A
majins (go kid buu):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3RHenTqok

now as for ideas for other games lets say naruto:

first of all you need to create a character and choose to which of the 5 major hidden villages you want to join. after you create your character you will start at the ninja academy, you will team up with other people in missions and classes that other people will pass (preferably mods or chuunins that volunteered to do so. after a short while you will have to pass an exem in order to become a full fledged genin. thats where you can take on missions! you can either take missions with real people or with npcs, if you take a mission with real people the reward will be bigger and better.
after a while (after enough missions and power achieved) you will get an invite for a test to see if you can be qualified to the chuunin exems (that takes place twice a week for each village. from time to time the exem will be cross villaged (meaning 2 or more villages participate in the exem). the exem will require pvp and puzzle solving as well as a practical exem where you show off your jutsus to other people including a few jounins who will judge. not everyone will get into the test, during the exem the people who got in will form squads of 3 in order to go through the survivel test, a test that will put the team against a horde of monsters and they will have to work together in order to pass it, even if they all die if they cooperated well they will pass.
after people got the rank of a chuunin they can choose to either go teach at the academy or keep doing missions, both have rewards but different ones.
since we still dont know how people become jounin i wont try it right now.
as for being kage: every 4 months there will be an election for the new kage, only people who have proven themselves (people who get medals for achieving tramendous things like doiung 1000 missions succesfully and such) will be allowed to participate and the villagers will choose between them who is worthy of being hokage.
hokage can start events for the village such as better exp for some time or getting better missions from the GMs for their villages and such, being hokage means a huge income boost and getting access to several ninjutsus you cant learn otherwise.

as for learning ninjutsus there will be several ways: another ninja can teach you (jounin and higher only) you can read scrolls that you buy in the market (very expensive), by mastering you element (to learn element ninjutsu) or by discovering your gekkei genkai (mispelled it right?), anyone will have some kind of gekkei genkai which will be revealed with time and it will completely random, even though the sharingan and byakugan are supposed to be unique to konohagakure it wont be since it will be far after the naruto manga time and peace will rule the planet (that is until some eveil dude shows up).

the villages from time to time will have competitions to see which one is stronger by pitting in people from the same rank against one another (genin vs genin, kage vs kage etc.) it will be for fun but the winning village will get great prizes to all of its participents.

of course people can go and be missing nins making them enemies and wanted by all villages.

i someone takes my idea and making it into a decent mmo

 

[CBlitz]

One Piece would definitely make a great MMO, it practically screams for one!!!!!

 

[Mushashi]

world of warcraft that should be made into an online game.

 

[monkey D luffy]

fairy tail can also become a nice mmo but for a mmo to be created the manga first have to end and since non of what we said has ended thus far its gonna take a while.

 

[Poneglyph420]

I can see how both One Piece and Naruto would both make awesome MMO games.
I'd kick a puppy to play the OP version.

 

[Mushashi]

gantz would be pretty cool but all online games are repundent, brain cell eating and addictive.

 

[shaheer]

yea mmo should be based on manga s like gantz

 

[monkey D luffy]

have you read my first post? please take your time carefully planning a few aspects of your dream game. it would be a much better thread if you did. we will end up making the best game concept ever. then we just need someone to actually program it....