World of Mana

[A Black Falcon]

How does "I'd rather have a good SP game than an MMO" mean "the last game sucked"?

I just explained that and am not going to again. Once should be enough!

I wouldn't say impossible. It could be done. And MMO's are moving in that direction. World of Warcraft is far more focused on quests than any previous MMO.

Take WoW's quest system and team it up with monthly story updates. Each year could be like a season on TV. A main story arc and a bunch of smaller stand alone stories thrown in to keep things interesting. So each month you would get a series of new quests that furthered the story for that year.

That's not much story, though. Just a little bit to keep things going... I know, it's the way a MMO has to work and it's slightly more "realistic". But it leaves you most of the time just playing so that you can improve your character, and that seems like it'd get old after a while, for sure... yes, some games are trying to deal with that to varying degrees (like Guild Wars, by not being an MMORPG... :)), but on the whole the genre has a formula. And it's not the best formula around for storytelling.

I was talking about a multiplayer mode like in previous Mana games, excluding Sword of Mana. One person plays one character, another person plays the other, that sort of thing.

And yes, the next one definitely should have this... but should it have online play as well? And how would that work?