I knew some people who put together a demo for a MMORPG that would support people playing the monsters or the players depending on what their particular play style was. You could build your character, have social interactions, level up over time, and put all this attention into your skill tree. Or, you could run around and fuck shit up, potentially as a massive OP badass boss who could mow player characters down, and then you would respawn instantly when you (frequently) got killed.
I don’t know of it having been done in exactly the way they wanted to do, although a couple of the games in the Aliens franchise came pretty close. There was also one fascinating mod (I legit can’t remember the name) where one player on the “Marines” team was basically playing an RTS in the ship giving orders and the rest of the team was running around playing an FPS against the (also player-controlled) alien team. It was a ton of fun.
The Alien vs Predator games were a blast. I used to play as the tiny little alien scout: super fast, hard to hit, could sneak around in vents & run up walls & ceilings… Had about half a hit point, lol, but as long as the “alien life cycle” mode was turned off it was great!
There’s an RTS/Space Sim called Allegiance where you either play as the commander of the fleet of starships giving orders to your units and spending resources to upgrade your tech tree, or as a pilot of one of the ships (or even as a gunner on a turret on a larger ship). You could even be one of the asteroid mining drones with basically just a melee range taser, trying to sneak around bringing back resources
I knew some people who put together a demo for a MMORPG that would support people playing the monsters or the players depending on what their particular play style was. You could build your character, have social interactions, level up over time, and put all this attention into your skill tree. Or, you could run around and fuck shit up, potentially as a massive OP badass boss who could mow player characters down, and then you would respawn instantly when you (frequently) got killed.
I don’t know of it having been done in exactly the way they wanted to do, although a couple of the games in the Aliens franchise came pretty close. There was also one fascinating mod (I legit can’t remember the name) where one player on the “Marines” team was basically playing an RTS in the ship giving orders and the rest of the team was running around playing an FPS against the (also player-controlled) alien team. It was a ton of fun.
I miss the pre-AAA-shitfest era of gaming.
The Alien vs Predator games were a blast. I used to play as the tiny little alien scout: super fast, hard to hit, could sneak around in vents & run up walls & ceilings… Had about half a hit point, lol, but as long as the “alien life cycle” mode was turned off it was great!
There’s an RTS/Space Sim called Allegiance where you either play as the commander of the fleet of starships giving orders to your units and spending resources to upgrade your tech tree, or as a pilot of one of the ships (or even as a gunner on a turret on a larger ship). You could even be one of the asteroid mining drones with basically just a melee range taser, trying to sneak around bringing back resources
Sounds like Natural Selection.
I miss that game
That was it! Yeah, it was wonderful.