[General Discussion] An Ideal RPG?

The ideal RPG for me would be a sci-fi MMORPG in space.

*Turn based or real time battle systems

Real-time.

*Male or Female lead

Player's decision.

*A single main character or party array.

Both I guess. You decide if you want to join a crew on a large spacestation/starship or travel around alone in a one-manned vessel.

*General Theme? (e.g. Futuristic or medievil)

An enormous beautiful galaxy full with planets, nebulas, dangers and mysterious lost civilizations that you can excavate and explore.

*Should it feature a world map, or should areas be interlinked/ linear.

You should be able to travel anywhere in the galaxy from the start. Faster than light travel is availble.

*Should there be more focus in RPGs - in other words, intergrating more gameplay genres - such as sport, racing, etc. Okay you see this in mini games, but should there be a grander focus?

There would be a customization part in the game where you can build your own ship, NPC androids and planetary defence systems etc. In spacestations and starships you should be able to walk around just like in a FPS. In this mode you should be able to shoot, hack and build stuff etc. Everything in real-time. You would also be able to start your own factions and claim/conquer planets and spacestations etc.

*Should it be more about gameplay than storyline?

The players create the story since it's supposed to be a MMORPG. So I guess it's the gameplay that's more important here. There would however be lots of different background stories from ancient civilizations, factions and planets etc.

*Weaponry - What would you have, what would you cut out...like the main character almost always has a sword, and the heroine is a weakling with a staff.

Larger starships would have slow but powerful missiles and small starfighters that the crew controls. My dream would be to have something like they have in Battlestar Galactica. If your position is a fighter in the crew you'll have to shoot yourself out in space and fight large starships or other smaller starfighters. If you have your own one-manned ship you can buy and find all kind of different weapons.

*What would be an ideal battle engine - combos, limit breaks, magic system stc - how would you like it
Just normal simple real-time FPS and space fights.

I've yet to see this mix. Add some cool FPS gameplay like System Shock II (without the scary part unless you're exploring an abandoned ship) mixed with a little bit of Freelancer and Battlestar Galactica-fighting etc. The graphics would be beautiful, and the music would be very ambient.

To add some realism to it all you wouldn't be able to hear any sound in space, the only sounds you would be able to hear would be the sounds coming from the inside of your ship. So when you for example exit slipstream travel you would hear your engines cool down.

There would also be no levelup system. Items, materials and friends would be your strenght in this game.

Well it's my dream I guess. As a sci-fi geek I would love to explore a galaxy just like that.

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