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Originally Posted by Villain
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I'm always interested in another PPC RPG, and making it an MMORPG would probably be the best thing I have seen since I started playing RPGs. What kind of MMORPG would this be? Is it going to be fantasy based? how about futuristic? side-scrolling?
Knowing that would make the determination on 2D or 3D easier. Look at something like Maple Story (http://www.mapleglobal.com/). It's a pretty fun MMORPG that's also a 2D sidescroller.
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Well in general (with a few exceptions) I find I don't personally like RPGS when they're too futuristic because everything ends up getting textured in metal and looks ugly. Plus you start having to introduce guns, which means you have to calculate where all the bullets end up and stuff.
MapleStory is a great game but the main problem with that kind of game is you have to have a heck of a lot of stuff client-side (all the jumping around and that) which then means you get cheaters and hackers. It also quickly gets boring and uses more bandwidth.
I've done some research on this in the past, and games like MapleStory and Gunz Online where they tried to put too much of it in the client you can easily cheat and get god mode or fly around or avoid 80% of damage etc.