Last summer I read the books in a couple weeks while working at a boring job. It was a bet between a co-worker and I, which I won. I was the year or so before the Harry Potter craze, and never got into.
As a pc gaming nerd though, I couldn't help but consider the incredible opportunity for an MMO.
Here are a few of my reasons broken down.
1) The stories take place at Hogwart's Academy. This would make the perfect fantasy world for a game or any story to take place. It is old, full of treasure, full of secrets, massive, and chock full of characters and rooms for exploring. If you saw the movies or read the books you realize what I mean. They often mention crazy things in passing that would make cool dungeon crawls (just think about the chamber of secrets or the Lake).
2) The school gets "new students" every year. Start out as a first year and level and grow and explore the world. The game could easy start maybe a year or two after the start of the first year of Harry Potter and then progress on. I would think it would be awesome to have it start there and then every few months have it progress to a new year. This would add world events as plot developments that would follow the same timeline as Harry Potter. It would give you the chance to be a side character in everything but also give you access to the events. Eventually when all hell breaks lose you could be there to fight along and help whatever cause you decide. Since the aftermath of the final book (the years in between the final battle and the main characters dropping their kids off at school).
3) The Potential character development is incredible. Start with attributes and design, get placed into one of the four houses, choose school classes that will shape your character, go to upper level classes, eventually decide to side with good (harry/ministry) or evil (death eaters/corrupt ministry).
4) They already have different examples of specialties or classes in the game. Dueler, Aurors (almost like a caster paladin), Herbalists (could be like a plant based druid), Gamekeepers (hunters with pets), Potion Masters/Poison, Lycanthropes, Wizards (like Dumbledore), Rogue wizards, Animagi (shapeshifters), Pranksters/Illusionist (Fred and George), Dark Artists, so on and so forth.
I really think this would be an amazingly popular but at the same time well done MMO. As long as they don't go the easy route and make it a pathetic game trying to sell only on name it could be epic.
Remember Pokemon Blue and Red for Gameboy and Gameboy color. I completely missed the pokemon craze if it wasn't for that game. I still (as do many) consider to be the last great game for the Gameboy/Gameboy Color generation. It was an incredibly well done collection RGP.
As a pc gaming nerd though, I couldn't help but consider the incredible opportunity for an MMO.
Here are a few of my reasons broken down.
1) The stories take place at Hogwart's Academy. This would make the perfect fantasy world for a game or any story to take place. It is old, full of treasure, full of secrets, massive, and chock full of characters and rooms for exploring. If you saw the movies or read the books you realize what I mean. They often mention crazy things in passing that would make cool dungeon crawls (just think about the chamber of secrets or the Lake).
2) The school gets "new students" every year. Start out as a first year and level and grow and explore the world. The game could easy start maybe a year or two after the start of the first year of Harry Potter and then progress on. I would think it would be awesome to have it start there and then every few months have it progress to a new year. This would add world events as plot developments that would follow the same timeline as Harry Potter. It would give you the chance to be a side character in everything but also give you access to the events. Eventually when all hell breaks lose you could be there to fight along and help whatever cause you decide. Since the aftermath of the final book (the years in between the final battle and the main characters dropping their kids off at school).
3) The Potential character development is incredible. Start with attributes and design, get placed into one of the four houses, choose school classes that will shape your character, go to upper level classes, eventually decide to side with good (harry/ministry) or evil (death eaters/corrupt ministry).
4) They already have different examples of specialties or classes in the game. Dueler, Aurors (almost like a caster paladin), Herbalists (could be like a plant based druid), Gamekeepers (hunters with pets), Potion Masters/Poison, Lycanthropes, Wizards (like Dumbledore), Rogue wizards, Animagi (shapeshifters), Pranksters/Illusionist (Fred and George), Dark Artists, so on and so forth.
I really think this would be an amazingly popular but at the same time well done MMO. As long as they don't go the easy route and make it a pathetic game trying to sell only on name it could be epic.
Remember Pokemon Blue and Red for Gameboy and Gameboy color. I completely missed the pokemon craze if it wasn't for that game. I still (as do many) consider to be the last great game for the Gameboy/Gameboy Color generation. It was an incredibly well done collection RGP.
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