Ringthane Covenant: The Video Game

[deer of the dawn]

The movie thing being dead in the water, what about a Land-based video game?

Tons of possibilities.

I'm not a big gamer but my son is. His perennial favorites are the Morrowind games and especially with the Oblivion incarnation, I look at the graphics and see the Land. It just makes me think what a great game it would make.

Not that I'd have time to play it anyway...

[amanibhavam]

My gaming days are gone... I would have a peek at it out of curiosity but I seriously doubt I'd have the time and energy for hours and hours of hacking Cavewights in a MMORPG or suchlike.

[Rigel]

Seriously, why bother?

After all, the Land has always been inherently tied up with TC's (and, to a lesser extent, LA's) persona. How could you tailor such an experience to thousands or millions of players?

[Nequam]

The movie thing being dead in the water, what about a Land-based video game?

Tons of possibilities.

I'm not a big gamer but my son is. His perennial favorites are the Morrowind games and especially with the Oblivion incarnation, I look at the graphics and see the Land. It just makes me think what a great game it would make.

Not that I'd have time to play it anyway...

I love Morrowind!
...not so much Oblivion


But anyway a video game wouldn't really work in my mind. Or at least not one following the story lines of the books. Maybe, but just maybe an RPG based in the land could work. BuI don't know how it would be able to compete with games such as Oblivion.

[Fullmetal660]

I suppose it could work, but I think you wouldn't be able to cram all the detail and history of the land. That and the story wouldn't have the dramatics that it does in the book, therefore if there was one, i'd only play out of curiousity.

[balon!]

I dunno. I clould almost see it as an MMORPG. I'd love to play a Giant, or a New Lord, or a Ramen.

Taking out kresh while in Sneak mode, and watching me garrote it to death on my 360 WOULD be pretty badass.

[Fullmetal660]

It would be badass, but it'd definatly be a brilliant game or a terrible one, not an in-between

[balon!]

It would be badass, but it'd definatly be a brilliant game or a terrible one, not an in-between

Yup. They'd either succeed amazingly well, or piss us all off.

[sweetbread]

If there ever were to be an official made for the masses video game (ie MMORPG) made from this series, it would most definitely HAVE to have SRD at the helm, and would have to start from one of the critical struggling points in the history of the Land; either during Berek's War, the Illearth War, or during the Sunbane. The Sunbane would piss off a lot of potential players, so maybe there could be a sort of time-travel element into the system.

Some things to say: No one would be a "White Gold Wielder." No one would be a Lord. No one would be a Haruchai. No one would be a Raver. And no one would be an Elohim. We'd have the players as either Stonedownor, Woodhelven or Giants, and maybe a bad faction as Cavewights, ur-viles (depending on the time frame), and um....what are some of the other bad guys?

Something "faction" based would be cool, good guys vs bad guys with Waynhim/Ur-viles as an independent faction, each opposed to one another independently of the people of the Land.

And it would have to be an original with thought and substance. Anything resembling WoW would totally ruin it.


Oooh, oooooh, idea here:

After the Land is finally destroyed (there's a consensus here that thinks that it WILL happen) there could be a melding of eras and time into one, as if all time just collapsed in on itself after the Arch was broken. There would be the ability to travel to different eras of time, and all characters from such eras could be present at one point or another. This would allow for ALL races to play a role in the game; Stonedownor and Woodhelven from the original, Sunbane tainted people (Illearth influenced, perhaps), Giants, Haruchai, Sandgorgons, Cavewights, Waynhim, Ur-Viles, Elohim, and Insequent. The different eras of time would in essence be no different than different locations. The Arch of Time is broken, not obliterated. Time still exists, but on an altogether different level; Time itself would become Insequent.

[sgt.null]

not just thomas going about bashing bad guys in the head....

[Blackhawk]

I would love to see the game made, someone said how could it be taylor made for everyone, it would have to have multiple path choices with ony one path leading to victory over foul..other paths would lead to starvation, desecration, or death

[White Gold Ark]

Sweetbread wrote:

Some things to say: No one would be a "White Gold Wielder." No one would be a Lord. No one would be a Haruchai. No one would be a Raver. And no one would be an Elohim. We'd have the players as either Stonedownor, Woodhelven or Giants, and maybe a bad faction as Cavewights, ur-viles (depending on the time frame), and um....what are some of the other bad guys?

I agree with everthing here, except one little thing. I don't think Haruchai should be impossible to play as, sure they may be physically really strong, but they have no Lore, so they have a big enough weakness. I don't think I would want to play anything other than a Haruchai, except possible a giant.

Anyone familiar with MMORPG's should know about raids. Just so you know a raid is when you get a really large group in order to fight a rediculously powerful enemy. I think there is some strong potential there, like ravers, forestals, maybe Berek or even Lord Foul himself.

If there is an evil faction, you should be able to take on Covenant himself, that would be an epic raid.

[jacob Raver, sinTempter]

Why lock yourself in creatively? The fan base wouldn't purchase enough games to warrant the issues.