Is the dream of a Firefly MMO still flying? The folks at DarkCryo Entertainment think so. The unlikely project seemed doomed due to an unauthorized use of the IP, but that may have changed.
Firefly Online boasts a large number of the original cast of Firefly as voice actors for their game. These include Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk. Create a captain, a ship, and a crew then explore the verse and try youe best to keep your ship in the sky. Browncoats unite as the game comes to PC, Mac, iOS, and Android with cross-platform play.
Podcasting is a beautiful thing. Every once in a while, when a group of friends gets together on a weekly basis to talk about videogames, a phrase gets uttered that is so silly – so ridiculous – that it just has to be the title of the show.
On this week’s Pixelitis Podcast, the phrase that stuck out had to do with male genitalia. Which in hindsight, is pretty much par for the course. We won’t say who says it, but it was bad enough that it kinda derailed the show for a hot minute.
When Andrew Martins, Karen Rivera and Tom Farndon aren’t dicking around on this show this week, they managed to talk about more Xbox rumors, a Firefly MMO hoax and same-sex lovin’ in Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Firefly fans may soon get a video game to call their own. The Facebook page for the MMO Firefly Universe Online has been relaunched with a promise for a Kickstarter campaign. Are fans' hopes about to be crushed again, or is the game actually coming out?
As much as I love Firefly, I doubt it'll be a long term success as an MMO.
I want it to succeed, but the MMO market is in transition right now. WoW is the only 'big winner', with the rest fighting over scraps. When a high quality Star Wars MMO from one of the worlds most renowned devs is struggling, then realistically what chance does another Sci-Fi MMO have?
Good luck to them.
I think it really depends on execution. It doesn't matter how popular the license or the premise is if the game sucks.
I still want my epic, sprawling Firefly RPG thank you very much. I'm not an MMO person, but for Firefly I might just have to make an exception :)