Im calling it now.....Planetside has a very good chance to be the next Halo/Star Wars

Dreamcast · 2012-07-26, 03:55 AM

I have thought about this for a while but after seeing the trailer, Im pretty sure that the Planetside Universe is gonna become bigger than just Planetside 2.

The Devs have already mentioned that they want Planetside 2 to become more like Eve/Star Wars galaxies....What I understood by this, is that they want players to have more freedom.

So they are already thinking big for the Planetside Universe.

If Planetside 2 becomes a hit....I think they will build up more on the lore of Planetside by creating other Planetside video games,books,etc...similar to what happened to the Halo Universe.

I mean the Planetside Universe has huge potential with the factions and potential lore they could come up with.....

As Planetside 1 has proven....People get tied up with factions so if they come up with some good lore for books/Games....The fans will pick them right up.

Maybe even one day, a Planetside Movie......if it looked as good as the trailer, it would be amazing.

I hope I am right.....but no matter what they are going to revolutionize gaming by making developers more incline to do MMOFPS which I feel is the future of gaming.

Bittermen · 2012-07-26, 03:57 AM

I hope so

Gonefshn · 2012-07-26, 04:07 AM

That's a tall order but for sure I'd love to see it happen!

Dubious · 2012-07-26, 04:17 AM

Whats halo and star wars?

maddoggg · 2012-07-26, 04:18 AM

I really hope that planetside universe would expand and maybe the next game can be spaceside(or something like that)where you get those massive scale battles in space,with thousands of ships,big capital ships,space stations,frigates all of which you should be able to board(imagine a capital ship with a hanger as big or even bigger than the hanger of the CIS capital ships from star wars battlefront 2.Now imagine a galaxy drop in that hanger and a hundred players fighting all over the ship on different decks and levels of it.Now imagine that's just one out of 3-4 ships each faction should have).
It can have different maps like asteroid fields,giant clouds of star dust,a planet with a rediculosly high amout of really small mouns around it and so on.

And if they make a planetside TV series with animation and dinamic combat like the one from the trailer,ohhh boy....

JoeDragon · 2012-07-26, 04:19 AM

I can absolutely see Planetside becoming as Popular as Halo at it's peak. Halo didn't really take off until Halo 2, sure it had a big following but not bigger than the original Planetside I'd bet. It's really all about advertising.

We need some Planetside 2 Mt Dew Gamer Fuel promotions, get those faction logos onto some Slurpee cups etc. SOE has a history of not promoting their games well enough, I really hope they've learned enough by now to get the brand out there in the real world instead of just attempting viral internet marketing. (Which is cheaper but isn't enough)

It will never be Star wars big though lol.

Bittermen · 2012-07-26, 04:23 AM

I'm pretty sure the first halo was way bigger than PS1.

Solidblock · 2012-07-26, 04:28 AM

When I first heard about Planetside at the start of June (Just after E3) I had a look at the lore and the streams, immediately bought a PC Gamer and searched the web for novels, but I was sadly disappointed.

JoeDragon · 2012-07-26, 04:30 AM

Originally Posted by Bittermen

I'm pretty sure the first halo was way bigger than PS1.

Probably, I just remember it being a niche game. Few people I knew in Highschool were all about it but that was before I could afford any kind of gaming PC.

Duckforceone · 2012-07-26, 04:31 AM

i would love to see planetside do what star wars galaxies did with space, plus star wars battlefront 2 space..

you can fly your own planes, you can be a gunner on a battleship, and you can board the enemy battleship and try to take down it's shields, reactor, weapons and other stuff...

would be awesome to have some really tight corridor fighting that doesn't seem to be in ps2.... also the fights would be more soldier vs soldier...

pengalor · 2012-07-26, 04:31 AM

Eh, would be cool to see but let's be honest here: the lore is good but not that good. Plus, I would shiver to see what looks like a good thing like Planetside 2 and the Planetside universe and have it go through what Star Wars has gone through : /.

Dreamcast · 2012-07-26, 04:35 AM

Originally Posted by maddoggg

I really hope that planetside universe would expand and maybe the next game can be spaceside(or something like that)where you get those massive scale battles in space,with thousands of ships,big capital ships,space stations,frigates all of which you should be able to board(imagine a capital ship with a hanger as big or even bigger than the hanger of the CIS capital ships from star wars battlefront 2.Now imagine a galaxy drop in that hanger and a hundred players fighting all over the ship on different decks and levels of it.Now imagine that's just one out of 3-4 ships each faction should have).
It can have different maps like asteroid fields,giant clouds of star dust,a planet with a rediculosly high amout of really small mouns around it and so on.

And if they make a planetside TV series with animation and dinamic combat like the one from the trailer,ohhh boy....

Yeah when Planetside 2 was announced the Devs said they wanted to go the EVE route...So im guessing more Sandbox freedom and space fights perhaps.

Originally Posted by JoeDragon

I can absolutely see Planetside becoming as Popular as Halo at it's peak. Halo didn't really take off until Halo 2, sure it had a big following but not bigger than the original Planetside I'd bet. It's really all about advertising.

We need some Planetside 2 Mt Dew Gamer Fuel promotions, get those faction logos onto some Slurpee cups etc. SOE has a history of not promoting their games well enough, I really hope they've learned enough by now to get the brand out there in the real world instead of just attempting viral internet marketing. (Which is cheaper but isn't enough)

It will never be Star wars big though lol.

Halo was bigger than Planetside.

Halo quickly became the FlagShip of the XBOX...I believed is the game that made the Xbox brand succesfull.

So Halo had a huge following almost every xbox owner had it and when Halo 2 was announced the hype was huge.

Still tho Planetside 2 can become as big as Halo if it is a very good game since nobody offers what Planetside is offering at the moment.

As for star wars...Maybe your right on that but who knows

Raymac · 2012-07-26, 04:36 AM

Slow your roll. Star Wars may be the largest IP in the world, and Halo is synonymous with the XBox since it was THE fps when microsoft decided to break into the console market. I think Planetside is going to get bigger, but let's not set the expectations too high. Both Star Wars and Halo captured lightning in a bottle, and that requires timing and luck.

Dreamcast · 2012-07-26, 04:43 AM

Originally Posted by Raymac

Slow your roll. Star Wars may be the largest IP in the world, and Halo is synonymous with the XBox since it was THE fps when microsoft decided to break into the console market. I think Planetside is going to get bigger, but let's not set the expectations too high. Both Star Wars and Halo captured lightning in a bottle, and that requires timing and luck.

If Planetside becomes big.....It could potentially launch in Sony's next console which could make it even bigger.

Planetside can capture lightning in a bottle too

We are talking about 2000 players in 1 map MMOFPS........in a time where average FPS games range from 16-64 players.

Halo brought uniqueness to the console FPS world which is a reason why it become so popular to me and other people.....So is Planetside 2(maybe not for Planetside 1 vets but most people never played Planetside)

Klockan · 2012-07-26, 06:15 AM

Originally Posted by JoeDragon

Probably, I just remember it being a niche game.

That game was very hyped years before it even got released! Then everyone got sad when Microsoft bought Bungie and said that the game would be exclusive on their new console called Xbox. Microsoft were smart with that one, without a flagship game like Halo the Xbox would never sell. They even got away with making people pay a subscription fee for multiplayer!!

Halo was a really big game, the fact that it survived both being ported and made exclusive on a new console everyone thought would flop (The maker of windows making their own console? Yeah right that will go well

) and on top of that having a subscription fee on its multiplayer says everything.