Sequels and reboots are in trend. There should be some for MMORPGs as well, we think. Where are WoW 2 or Guild Wars 3? We wish for new parts from these 5 MMORPG franchises!
In cinema, everything comes back. Every good idea from the 90s gets a reboot. Everything that once worked is being serialised.
In MMORPGs, great franchises and their games have become outdated. Graphics and technology are much further along today than they were 5 or even 10 years ago. Players’ tastes have changed. The appetite of MMORPG fans is evolving. Many no longer enjoy the old.
Time and again we read: “This old MMORPG would be so great if it just had a new engine.”
We say “Please, dear developers, give us these 5 games. Use the power of the brand. Let us experience adventures in these universes once again! And get rich while doing so – that’s fine for us, as long as we can have our fun.”
On the next pages, we will introduce you to these 5 wish games – at the end you can express your opinion in a survey about which one you wish for the most.
WoW 2 – Once more with feeling and less baggage, please
For at least 6 years, many fans have hoped for a WoW 2 with a modern engine, new mechanics and less baggage.
The story of WoW has now become so overloaded with time travel, archdemons and the ever-evil and much more powerful archvillain that many long for “to play a normal MMORPG” again, without having the entire world at stake every time.
Despite its timeless comic graphics and updates: WoW has aged. A modern engine and fresh game mechanics would do WoW good.
Furthermore, many of the iconic characters from the Warcraft series have changed or disappeared altogether.
Amazingly: Fans do not wish for a proper continuation, but rather a relaunch, a fresh start. WoW 2 should ignore everything that has happened in World of Warcraft and start again where Warcraft 3 left off, some veterans say.
Often, when players are asked what they want from an MMORPG, they say “WoW – but with modern graphics.” That should be doable!
In this fan project, you can see the Twilight Forest with the Unreal Engine 4:
A polished and mechanically sound game in the world of Azeroth with contemporary graphics and modern gameplay mechanics – with the MMORPG experience and top talent from Blizzard behind it? That could lead MMORPGs to a new golden age.
On the next page, we will take a look at another classic that once led an MMORPG revolution.
