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I suspect you have started with Abnett’s best stuff, but your withdrawal is easily cured – there’s a load of his ‘Gaunt’s Ghosts’ to go at, based on a ‘normal’ infantry unit in the 40k universe, for the Inquisition there’s the Ravenor series (very different in style from Eisenhorn, to be honest I thought they lacked the same pace and style, but still intriguing), and quite a few more!
Not much more about giant robots though, so far.. but he’s quite a prolific chap, so it’s likely just a matter of time! Have a read of his website http://www.danabnett.com/
And regarding mecha – it’s a game genre that could certainly be revised and profitably revisited, but tricky to get right. You either end up with a FPS piloting a big robot, which isn’t distinct enough from a standard FPS, or a C&C-style mass-action ‘real time’ scrap that really isn’t distinguishable enough from C&C etc. The plotlines from the Mechwarrior series were good, tied in to a better ‘run your mech unit’ system and with multiple missions, objectives and storylines, I still think it could be a winner.
He’s also been a good comic book co-writer, usually with Andy Lanning. Right now they’re writing Nova for Marvel Comics, but they’ve done lots of for-hire work over the years for most of the publishers you’ve heard of.
You’re struck a cord with me with this update, so I had to reply!
I think there is a big opportunity for the studio that makes a “giant robot” mmog. I’d go with the more battlemech style over mecha, for pretty much the same reasons Iain outlined. Mecha games tend to play too similar to shooters, so you’d be competing with and being compared to a ton of other games. The slower, more tactical nature of battlemech type mechs creates a different look and feel to the game.
While the market for giant robot games is certainly smaller than fantasy or generic sci-fi, I think a well done giant robot mmog could be a sustained hit in the same way that EVE Online has been. One of the big benefits to a game like this is that since it would play so differently from traditional mmogs, once the game found its market, it would be very difficult for another mmog to steal players away. I think that (along with a bunch of other reasons) is one of the reasons EVE Online has been able to sustain growth for so long despite numerous big title launches. If you really like EVE, games like WoW, WAR, LOTRO, etc. aren’t going to pull you away from EVE because they don’t offer anything like the gameplay that you enjoy in EVE. A well done tactical mech mmog could have the same benefits.
Can you tell I’ve been thinking about this too?
I actually linked his website on my original post! I’m most likely going to go through the Gaunt’s Ghosts series next. I just need to hit the book store some time soon
. Thanks for the update on Ravenor, I was a little iffy on it, as it was a character I wasn’t particularly drawn to.
Jonathan, nice to see you on the blog! I certainly can tell you’ve been thinking about it. You’re EVE comment seems like good thinking. Address the core fanbase and build converts from there.
“I actually linked his website on my original post!”
Argh! A classic example of me being dim – quickly reading your message and not spotting Dan’s name was hyperlinked to his site. After twenty years practice, I still mess up this ‘internet’ stuff when I skim read…