Posibility of a Sequil

[SandTrout]

I know I'm geting way, way ahead of myself, but I think we have enough information to theorize and speculate.

Would it be posible to make Planetside 2? I know that the war is supposedly "unending" and pretty much impossible to win due to sanctuarys and Marixing technologys.

However, the Tribes' storyline was along a similar thread. They rationalized the fall of one of the Tribes by an unforseen enemy. While this specific thought might offend some players because of the nature of MMOGs(The NC would be pissed if the new story included them geting an ass-whooping), what if the new storyline included an uneasy peace among the empires after years of unwinable war?

The devs might reopen the wormhole and allow the empires to return to Terra, and the Terran empire attempt to regain control of auraxis. However, both sides have develpoped new and different technologies for war because of the kinds of battle's they are used to fighting.

I'm a real story-line/history buff, so I just like to think about things like this. Would like to contribute my own efforts to the storyline if they take community advice in a new game.

What do you guys think?

[Saint]

Lets get the first one out first then we will talk about a sequal. If you want to make a thread like this do it at Blizzard and get them to make a Diablo 3!!!

[ABRAXAAS]

I love the story but they need to make a single player add on ,that you could follow a story from start to finish :D

[Flameseeker]

An idea of mine-" After 10 years of vicious fighting, the 3 warring factions have realized that they can not get an advantage over each other. They agree to a peace talk, and delegates are sent. Many months are spent planning a form of government, meanwhile, extremists and rebels continue the fight. Finally, an uneasy peace is formed, and the Auraxis Union is formed.
3 years later...
Suddenly, the Union loses contact from a large space-faring ship full of colonists being sent to a nearby planet. Further investigation shows that the wormhole has indeed been re-opened. Soon, large Terran Republic armadas come through. The Emperor of the Union takes off and greets the Republic, his ship and escort are vaporized quickly. The planet dissolves into chaos. Suddenly, alien warships warp into the Auraxis system as well. The former Vanu troops seem to have known of this event, the Vanu have returned, and they are not happy.

In conclusion, you could play as Terran Republic, "New" Vanu (not aliens though) or the Auraxis Union. The Union would be a mix of all 3, because they would have Vanu tech also. Probably will never happen, but oh well. :) Hope ya liked me story.

[thegame109]

Flameseeker i enjoyed ading that to my surprize well done...sounds like a good idea 8)

[ABRAXAAS]

Excelent idea old chap :D

[thegame109]

Nice to see you've made the right choice in which empire you support abra.

[ABRAXAAS]

Well NC is the best ;)

[thegame109]

Your right about that
best
weapons
armour [looks wise]
chicks
and will have the best MAX - MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[ABRAXAAS]

the best part is ,lots of people on this board hate me ,so when we're playing the game they will all look for me ,giving the entire NC force to run past em and cap some bases :D (all in the plan)

[Camping Carl]

What if the wormhole were to reopen and the factions on auraxis discover that the real Vanu who mysteriously left their own planet have attacked the TR. So there's been a war going on back at home also.

[Flameseeker]

And Hamma revives Hitler and they take over Earth and make a giant Undead Nazi army! Or was that the plot for Wolfenstein..... Oh well.

[FuLLxCLiP]

theyll problably make more stuff to add to planetside like a new planet vehicles armors a new goup but i dont think that theyll make a part two UNLESS they made a planetside for PS2

[Sturm]

Planetside on the PS2...as in Playstation 2? I think not....
PS2 probably wouldn't be able to handle something like planetside. Sure the PS2 can run everquest...but that's because things are "qued" and that resolves most/if not all of the lag issues. Real time FPS games generate significantly more lag and with games like PS require decent and up to date computer systems. PS2 isn't exactly up to date anymore...nor was it really a godlike console when it came out.
Perhaps if the network code is superb you might see if on PS2...but with big limitations put in.
The developers have stated that this game is being developed for the PC only. So a port to the console is not only unlikely, it would take a good amount of time(1-2 years) before you saw it on the PS2.
Who here would rather play Planetside on the xbox/ps2 rather than on the computer???
Besides, who says a company that makes computer games HAS to port it to a console before they can make a sequel???
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. I don't want to think of a planetside two. Thinking and pondering about a sequel to a game that isn't even released yet. Might as well be thinking about Planetside 3. Not that I'm saying you shouldn't think about it. I guess it's just me; I don't like to really think to much about games that are years away-I try to focus on something else until they are within a year or less of release.

I sure as hope "planetside for PS2" as FuLLxCLip said meant planetside for playstation two otherwise this whole thing is completely irrelevant. :)

[TGF NightHawk]

Maybe PS3 would handle it.....their just going to keep pumping out the consoles you know!!

[Sturm]

PS3..well yah I'm almost positive it will handle it. It's being developed with the new cell technology;but then probably are the other new consoles. PS2, Xbox, and GC were just "betas" for the upcoming systems as I understand. PS2 and Xbox are coming nicely along in their "beta" stage but GC is sufferring from lack of participants :)

New cell technology isn't exclusive for anything at the moment.
Well will most likely see it in computers.
What does this mean for video games and other high tech electronic devies as we know it?
A: There's going to be some freakisly cool stuff on it's way a few years down the road.

[Format]

Quoted from the last dev chat.

<+Helstrom109> will there be an appearance made by the aliens which created the wormholes and elder technologies of Auraxis?

<@SmokeJumper> Helstrom109...good question...but we reserve the right to answer that much later. :)

Seems like there is something instore for PS. Maybe even a sequil.

[Warborn]

PS is the perfect MMOG for a console. I'm sure they'll make a console version of it.

As for a sequel, MMOGs generally don't have sequels. The only reason you make one is if you want to entirely abandom the core elements of the initial title. For example, EQ is a steaming pile of crap, but EQ2 will be drastically different. So different that there's no way they could turn EQ1 into EQ2 without the original EQ1 players having a heart-attack and dying that their form of digital masturbation has been stolen away from them. Therefore, they need to make EQ2 instead, and leave EQ1 to its fate until it's no longer making a profit and they close down the servers.

[Bighoss]

The aliens should come back that left the Vanu technology and force all three human teams to align to form a new united empire. The worm hole re opens terran try to conquer everyone.

Or the they should do Galaxy Side or something where each team starts to move to different planets and stuff and their are big space battles

[Hamma]

Im quite sure there is a load of things that they can do with PS. But we will not hear anything, that will get our hopes up until SOE knows PS is a hit.

[SandTrout]

Flameseeker is about on the dot with what I was thinking for P.S.-2(not to be confused with PS2).

However little the chance of a P.S.-2 being developed, I am simply looking at it from a story prespective.

The 3 sides call an armastice, and decide to each control 1/3rd of the planet, and 1 neutral continent. After several years, the wormhole reopens, yet noone comes from Earth for several more years. Scout ships sent through have not returned.

The Wormhole is considered a leagend, but is now considered Taboo to atempt to use due to the aparent danger.

Mystirious spacecraft begin apearing in orbit of Araxis. These craft employ steath abilities that evade nearly all forms of scan, and are only visible when directly lined up with the wormhole. Communication atempts have failed, and military preparations are made.

2 months after the population of Araxis were alerted to the presence of alien craft in orbit, the warp-gate system suffers a failer and shuts down. Matrixing chambers begin to malfunction, and only store a pserson's data, but dont reconstitute them. The 3 govornments begin forming navys to connect isolated continents and protect transports. Small skirmishes break out between the navys, but nothing too seriouse.

1 week after the warp-gates shut down the Terrans and Conglomerate begin looseing all contact with bases planted throughout the continents. These outposts are immediately retaken, but there is no sign of the soldiers or scientists that were posted at them. The 2 empires accuse the Vanu of breaking the treaty, but the Vanu denie it, pointing out that their Marixes are not working properly either.

It is unknown what is happening, because the alien ships still apear to be in orbit, until a Vanu spy returned badly injured and nearly comatose from a Conglomerate outpost that was lost. While spys are accepted as common practice between the empires, they are usealy only subjected to neural surgery to remove the data they may have stolen, but not physicly tortured or exicuted. The Vanu make accusations of tortue on the Conglomerate, which are denied.

When the spy regains consiousness, he apears to be compleatly insane. He raves of monsters that crawl through walls and steal people. the empires decide to combine their individual investigations of the events into one consolidated effort.

Vanu scanners reveal minute traces of an unknown, extreamly complex, compound inside of the building's structures. The republic and Conglomerate begin sweeping effected areas for this compound and more is found in each place.

Shortly after seting contunus scans for this alien material a Vanu base was atacked by a group of aliens that had technology that let bullets and other projectiles pass through them, but not Vanu beam weaponry. The alien corpses are studied and the empires begin opening fire on the stealthed ships in orbit whenever they are revealed by the worm-hole. Measures are taken to prevent the aliens from useing this phaseing technology from effecing a large area around the warpgates and bases(ie: sphere of influence. Modifications are made to bullets to allow this new adversary to be atacked with conventional weapons.

A group of Terran Battleships immerges from the wormhole and begings bombarding Araxis and atacking the orbiting alien ships. A message is sent to the Araxians to surrender to the Empire of Earth, whith which the Republic seeks to assist. THe conglomerate and Vanu form an alliance to fight back this new threat. Hatred and predjeduce remains between the 2 formar rivals, but they note the greater threat of the Terrans or aliens subjegateing them individualy.

Records translated from a downed alien ship by Vanu exo-linguists reveal that these aliens who called themselves the (enter name here) atempted to take control of the Sol system and were able to conquer earth, but the Terrans retreated to Mars and the atsteroid belt and eventualy reached a stalemate. The Aliens had control of the space around the wormhole, and destroyed any craft that came through.

The Terrans sought to gain more resorses by recounquering Araxis, and punched through the Alien lines to control the wormhole.

These aliens were also repsonsible for the downfall of the Vanu civilizasion. While the Vanu had managed to barely fight them off, the devistation to the population and matixing chambers never recovered, and they eventualy died out.


This has the potential for either a good MMOG or single-player game.

I have too much free time.

[FuLLxCLiP]

actually i think it would sell twice as much on PS2

[Hellsfire123]

lol...yea...u have waaayyy to much free time. But it was a good story...but i think the last part should have been. Aliens v Empire from Earth v Araxis ....that makes more sense some how..

and i think this game is to complex for that feeble attempt at a game console (PS2 if anyone was wondering)

[FuLLxCLiP]

SORRY i meant PS3

and stop saying that P.S. wouldnt work on playstation because i would work on PS3 and it most likely will this game is made by SONY remember its only natural that they would put it on their console

and please if u think it wont TELL ME WHY!

[Kyonye]

they will probably make an expansion pack. well they def. will.