OT: Firefly "Serenity" Fans

[dogscoff]

Penny arcade already picked up on this I see:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/12/11

[StarJack]

The series was enjoyable to watch, in order, on DVD. It was not only poorly advertised on it's release, it was aired out of order, confusing those who did watch it. The pin headed, needle petered executives responsible for the shows demise should be cleaning toilets, not determining schedules.

Serenity also did poorly due to the pathetic name recognition and awareness of Firefly. Fox (network) management is a shining example of incompetent persistence. The game will be a fart in a storm.

[DarkHorse]

The show wasn't a flop so much as completely misunderstood by Fox (go figure) and not even allowed time to build an audience. Even Futurama managed to run for 3+ seasons-- albeit following a spastic, often pre-empted schedule, before Fox stupidly pulled the plug.

[Atrocities]

Look at Family Guy. Ran for two years then was pulled. Then after becoming a ratings boom on Adult Swim, and having fantastic DVD sales, Fox put it back on the air. They made a joke about getting back on the air if a whole list of other Fox shows were pulled. Firefly was on that rather large list.

The DVD sales for Firefly were astouding. That was one of the reasons Fox ok'ed the movie but as rumor has it, because of George Lucas, the show cannot be revived on TV for seven years. That would six more years from now.

Rumor had it that GL took personal offense to Josh Weaton and his concept for Firefly as that it kinda sorta reminded him of a Han Solo and George wanted, but has yet to ever do anything about it, make a TV series based on Han Solo. These are rumors only though. There are facts that support that George does not like Josh. Comments Lucas made about it him a few years back support that.

Goerge wants to be king of the sci-fi hill. He torpedoed Wing Commander the Movie, (And tv series concept based off of that movie by Glen Larson) - He was semi-instrumental in killing the original BSG - albeit the cost of that show made it to expensive to continue. And rumor has it because he whined to FOX about Josh's show, they dicked him and made it impossible for the show to succeed in hopes of getting George to sign his new Star Wars series and trillagy movies with Fox.

I would bet a pretty nickel that had Star Trek come after Star Wars it too would have become a thing of the past thanks to GL. I am surprised that Stargate and SG Atlantis have survived all these years. They are obviously nothing like SW. Well not until they built the X302's, X303, and X304's.

[Hugh Manatee]

did gl "kill" farscape too? I want to know who's nuts to bash in for that one.....

On the subjetct of the game, ever played the Farscape game? Yeah.... that's the bar... they'll just clone that or Eve or something else and stick firefly characters in there.

Here's something we'll never see though, an original idea, some sort of MMOFPS/SIM. If you've ever played guild wars, the setup of the thing could be similar, but instead of Diablo/Starcraft instanced style RPG combat, have an instanced FPS environment or space mission. Take Guild Wars factions, in this game there's a real time battle between the 2 main factions of the continent(Kurzik VS Luxon), with a border fluctuating in real time depending on who's winning in the aliance battles(fights that occur on maps based on where the border is, the further you go the harder it gets). I'd like to see something similar, you get your firefly 'vers ship, fly from port to port going along with the storyline, forming a "fleet" of ships of other players and in each port you'd get to accept various missions, ranging from simple instanced mining grinds and salvage ops like in the "first", not first as aired first as in pilot, episode, to intense PvP Aliance VS Browncoats action that determines who controlls the area(Aliance "unifies" it, Browncoats "liberate" them). Players can move freely between the areas(gaining access to more areas of the port as they push the border, or capture the area, say starting in seedy undreground or back aley areas or alliance forts, and gaining access to the main areas when your faction gains dominance), but can only accept missions for their "side", and can only access limited items and comodities. I'd like the story to pick up after serenity too, I'd imagine there'd be some sort of second revolution after that(if there's already some sort of expaned univers I'm not aware of IE comics or novels disregard that), and I doubt Mal would stay out of it, you could pick a character and play for either side, mal's or the alliance, or remain independent to the highest dollar like Early or maybe those blue sun guys.

a massively cooperative game with nearly semless FPS, space sim action, a real time pvp map with various missions will never hapen though.....

[mac5732]

seems like the networks for some odd reason, always seem to cancel shows that are popular. Dead Like Me.. was another one, that is popular at least around here and they took it off after only 2 seasons... The stores around here can't keep the dvd seasons in stock, sell as fast as they get them in...

by the way, Sci Fi channel had a Firefly marathon on today,, don't know if it'll continue tommorrow again but i'll be watching to see..

[Shadowstar]

I've had an idea for a pseudo-massively multiplayer game that would essentially be a cross between a turn-based PBEM 4x and a tactical FPS, with a completely original premise and a very different approach to gameplay, but the problem with original premises is that they're damn near impossible to get developed because nobody will take the risk to support it. So the only people who can afford to produce original games are the big developers who can support thier own projects.

[capnq]

Hugh Manatee said: can only accept missions for their "side"

You might need a way to let players change sides, for treacheries and mercs who'll fight for whichever side pays best.

[Shadowstar]

Or just have a seperate side for them...

If you're a merc, you join the mercs side and then have special rules that apply to you. If you're a backstabber, you get "exiled" to merc status when you do your dirty little act, and probably get saddled with a nice little bounty just to make your new lifestyle change a little more interesting?

I just hope the Firefly MMO doesn't allow players to be reavers. I say this despite the fact that most 13 year old's tend to play MMO's that way (dirty little griefers) and they'd probably play the role well, it's just that there's something wrong about a reaver calling you a "flaming f***-tard" and then proclaiming itself "teh 1337 mA5tAh"...