By Alec Meer on November 8th, 2010 at 10:32 pm.
That being the official Battlestar Galactica MMO, rather than the spangly space-shooter we posted about last week. BSG Online is a free to play browser thingy created by Bigpoint, a German firm who’ve made a mountain of cash making a slew of browser MMOs in the past. I suspect standard behaviour from many quarters is to sneer at the very concept of free to play and browser-based, but I get the sense there’s quite a lot of money/effort going into this one. That doesn’t mean it’ll necessarily be the BSG game we’re crying out for, of course, but it also doesn’t mean this’ll be a shoddy cash grab either. One way to find out: sign yourself up to yonder beta. Closed at the moment, but taking on new sign ups all the time, and due to go open in December. Go!
08/11/2010 at 22:43 KillahMate says:
Funny thing is, I might have been slightly interested if not for that glorious Diaspora trailer from last week. I don’t have anything against browser-based games as such, but how can this compete with that?
08/11/2010 at 22:53 Flimgoblin says:
Try this: http://unity3d.com/gallery/live-demos/index.html#bootcamp
09/11/2010 at 02:54 Alistair says:
Although Unity’s great, that’s a craply designed demo. They should skip that bit with the heliocopter and start it from the fast roping IMO.
09/11/2010 at 11:10 KillahMate says:
No, I said I didn’t have anything against browser games. I don’t mind Unity, or think a game made in it can’t be good technically. I just think this game won’t be good.
Here, look at this E3 trailer for BSG Online. It’s not even gameplay, just a cutscene. And it’s just… a myriad of tiny things that seem… off. Not right. As a commenter on YouTube said, it looks like a knockoff, not the real thing.
BSG is one of my favorite shows ever and I feel quite comfortable placing exceptionally high expectations upon anyone making a game of it. I doubt any licensed game will ever grasp what made the show great (because it wasn’t the pew-pew) so I’d be content with them simply making the game technically accurate. And from the trailer (which is supposed to convince me) I’m not convinced.
09/11/2010 at 11:13 KillahMate says:
Ahem.
…With the exception of the BSG board game, or so I’m told. So, good for them. Will have to play that one day.
08/11/2010 at 22:44 Meatloaf says:
Hooray! More BSG shenanigans is always good news.
08/11/2010 at 22:53 Flimgoblin says:
Signed up, could be fun.
09/11/2010 at 01:06 toaster says:
WOOOO Hell yeah me to. CAN YOU TELL I’M EXCITED???
08/11/2010 at 22:54 westyfield says:
*Peers over pince-nez*
Oh, I say. Free to play, how dreadfully common.
*Scoffs*
*Gets on high horse, takes elevator to top floor of ivory tower*
09/11/2010 at 00:13 bob_d says:
Oh, indeed, it is too much to even to think of the riff-raff that would no doubt be swarming all over it!
*shudders delicately*
09/11/2010 at 12:39 Clovis says:
The image of a fancy man on a horse on an elevator makes me happy.
08/11/2010 at 22:57 Starky says:
Someone needs to make an online browser based version of the BSG boardgame.
Make it F2P with micro transactions, or advertising based – whatever, just bloody make it!
Just make sure it has a chat room functionality.
08/11/2010 at 23:41 Ted says:
would need webcam support, because the chatroom just ain’t enough for this kind of game, i want to see the skinjobs sweat a little or the humans, depending on what I am.
09/11/2010 at 00:24 JohnnyMaverik says:
I was lost at MMO.
09/11/2010 at 08:45 P7uen says:
You had me at MMO.