DarkCryo is working on a Firefly MMO

The Internet loves its Nathan Fillion and Joss Whedon outer space western Firefly. Some would say they are obsessed, but at least a video game is coming out of it right? The folks at DarkCryo seem to think so, because they’re devoting their time to that very thing.

[B-Real206]

Brown coats unite!!!

[Christopher]

Wait a minute. According to their site, one of the racial options is Reaver... that doesn't make any sense from an RPG perspective, IMHO.

[ares21al]

It really doesn't. Good Point

[SynGamer]

Well, Reavers could easily be the 'Tank'. Their strength and abilities could grow, increasing strength but at a sacrifice to intelligence...?

[Christopher]

Yeah, if you ignore what Reavers are in the story, they could be.

But, roleplaying a Reaver is like roleplaying a Zombie. The Zombie wants to eat your flesh, the Reaver wants to strip your skin from your body and possibly feed on bits of you.

So, playing one in a game with a large focus on storytelling and your involvement in it doesn't make much sense. You wouldn't go to a quest giver and talk to them, you would attack them. You wouldn't have any goals other than attacking the ship that became a blip on your screen or the town that happens to be in your randomly chosen path to carnage and destruction.

In the concept of an MMO where you accept quests, have directives, work strategically with others, look for treasure and money, concern themselves with growing as an individual... it just doesn't work. That's not who they are, what they were meant to be.

Reavers work as NPCs, people who attack everyone equally and only works with their kind.

[SynGamer]

This would be most excellent. Now the question remains; character look-alikes?

[lil Titan]

fox is evil for canceling the show

[fluffydelusions]

FOX screws over all kinds of interesting shows and you know the end is near when they move it to the Friday prime time spot.

[vickers500]

Agreed. Here's just a few of the more notable great shows they have cancelled:

Futurama
Arrested Development (greatest comedy ever)
Wonderfalls
Family Guy
Undeclared (Judd Apatow comedy, wasn't great, but was pretty good imo)
Firefly (had to list it)

There are a list of a lot more, but I've never seen or heard of the rest of them so I cannot put them in the list.

But seriously, f*ck fox. Arrested Development was pretty much the greatest/smartest sitcom/comedy on television, Firefly was pretty much the best scifi/drama tv show, Futurama and Family Guy were some of the best animated comedies out at the time (though Family Guy sucks now, it was brilliant back then).

They have cancelled some of the greatest shows to ever grace television. I hate them.

[lil Titan]

@vickers500 dont forget Fringe even though there are some talks about it being renewed and 24 but i understand why 24 was canceled, Jack had to take out Osama

[Hellsvacancy]

It sucked they cancelled it, the movie wasnt bad either

[Wizziokid]

awesome, it's a great universe which would make a great mmo if done by the right people.

bring back the show next?

[Biggunz]

I finally got to watch this on netflix....AWESOME SHOW!

[ares21al]

This could be Awesome. I miss Firefly.

[WhiteLightning]

I saw Firefly got excited then saw MMO....oh well

[BeastlyRig]

mmo's are great!

[Silly Mammo]

Who am I kidding, I'd probably just become a cattle farmer on some distant moon.

[Robotronfiend]

It'll be great as long as there's some challenge. If its the standard "tab, 1, 2, 3, 4" style of combat that gets old really fast. Oh, and skip the kill 10 rats and fetch quests - make the quests meaningful.

Could they just re-skin EVE a bit and make it Firefly?

[ClimateKaren]

Count me in. Hope this thing sees the light of day.

[RichterBelmont]

Would rather have an offline RPG, or adventure title, but we'll take what we can get.