[Saturn2004]

hey guys i got  a new  idea for a game
it goes like this : ....

I got a  few storylines and  a totallly new   way of  game design/ plot thought of  but please tell me what you think of it after you read them

A intelligence  agent  has  not  reported back  for some time
and it  is your  job  to  go  out there  covertly  ot find  out if  he is still alive and well and to see  what  went  wrong (captured ,etc)

along the way you  find clues  and  talk  to contacts  along the way
basically what im trying to  do  might seem  on the impossible  side
im  tying to  come up with the  first  FPS \ MMORPG game

a game where you shoot and blow up  stuff [FPS]  and do some  roleplaying at the same  time (talking  to your contacts , moving  along the map and  finding clues) [RPG]

i was  thinking  about  setting the  enviroment in IRAN and the spy  that has  gone missing  was supposedly lookin  for  weapons of mass destruction
or how about this:...
your a   intel.  agent  in 2290 and your mission is to infiltrate  a  hostile  alien  stronghold and gather  info about their  fleet deployments and such


or how about this one : ...
you are  a british agent sent to  decode the  coded "enigma" traffic  that the nazi's  use to  commmunicate  with  eachother and \ or you have to rescue a few  ppl from the  front line

And this might  be a little hard but  i plan the  storyline  , regardless of which one  gets chosen at the coding stage   i plan the  game to be a little  like  Deus Ex... you know a evolving  storyline that is  based on your  actions... for instance   you start  a at  point "A" but there are several  different ways(branches) to get to point "b"
So , the game will have  some  massive replay  value   because in most  cases you  wont be  playing the same  setting in the  game  twice....cool eh?

well...
what do you  guys think?
i havent  totally  decided which  story line to  pick  yet  but it  is just a  idea me and  kazan  thought  up in a brain-storming session
anyways this is  still in the  early  development   stage

And i  could  use  your input guys
like tell me what you think of the  different storylines and tell me  what you think and your opinion on the  "replay  value "  of the game...
and  also   if you  can think of a  better  story line than of  what i mentioned  please feel free to add along
well that is basically  it
ALL of your  comments are  welcome here  guys .... feel   free to  comment  about  anything

[achtung]

I think the WWII one or the alien one would do well

[Nuclear1]

Sort of like Splinter Cell, eh?

Sounds good. I like the alien one pretty nicely.

[Anaz]

None of these are storylines. They are story "ideas", and from what I can undersand of your writing, nothing too interesting either. They all have possiblity, but right now there's nothing to distinguish them from the million other game ideas out there.

If you're serious about this, pick one idea, the one you like the best, and build everything in that little "world". What has happened up till now, what is about to happen, and how the player can have an effect on it. Since you don't describe anything about the actual gameplay, I'm going to assume that you're trying to have original storylines in existing technology.

Also, I'd work on communicating your ideas a little more clearly. Complete sentences, words, all those sorts of fun things that makes your ideas understandable.

[Gai Daigoji]

If your going to go ahead and produce something like this the worst thing you can do is have your first product as an MMORPG. It takes twice as long to construct an MMORPG world/storyline/characters etc compaired to a normal game (For example a FPS)

You need to start small, the best being a RTS. That way you can create a nice backstory, characters and factions and there is plenty of game engines out their your can purchase the rights to use.

As one developer to another thats the best advice I can give you.

In a forum member and game player view, those story lines are good but not good enough to attract people to a MMORPG.

[achtung]

Sounds like it would be a great FPS if you ask me.   The major problem i would see is it bing too short because most games use this as only a section of the storyline.  IMO you should use this in part of a much larger storyline.

[Ransom]

I agree with Anaz, these are really just templates for storylines.