Wednesday, May 26, 2010

We need more Sports MMOs


Come to think of it, with all the fantasy MMORPGs,
MMOFPS
and Strategy
MMORPGs
on the market, there really aren’t that many sports MMOs.
I mean, there are some with the popular ones being FreeStyle
Street Basketball
and MLB Dugout Heroes.
Plus there are a bunch of random fighting MMOs which can be classified
as sports – games like Lost Saga and Rumble
Fighter
for example. My problem with the genre is that there
aren’t enough unique sports MMOs. I mean, as of this writing there
aren’t any swimming MMOs, American Football MMOs or Hockey MMOs (though
Hockey
Dash
is in development from OG Planet). In fact there are
countless sports out there that have no MMOs!


It sucks that there are TWO golf MMOs, Shot Online and Pangya (Which
is from Ntreev),
but not a single client based American Football MMO. American Football is MUCH bigger than
Golf – so why on earth are there two golfing MMOs and no football
ones? No idea. Heck these golfing games have been around for years now.
MLB Dugout Heroes, the baseball themed MMO by GamesCampus released
late 2009. I can’t believe it took so long for a baseball themed game
to release. Baseball is only one of the most popular sports in the
world. I’m not sure which is more popular though – Baseball of Football.
I just know they’re both big industries.


Know what sport would make an awesome MMO? Wrestling! Even boxing
would be interesting. The current fighting games aren’t at all
realistic, so I’m discounting them. None of them even focus on boxing /
wrestling anyway. I think a boxing MMO could do really well though.
Provided it was well developed. Another interesting sports MMO would be
a track and field game. I know gPotato has Tales
Runner
, but that’s more of a racing MMO than anything else. A track
and field game would have multiple ‘events’ in it aside from just
track racing.


Anyone else interested in new sports MMOs or is it just me?



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