The Italian Renaissance: an MMO I'd Like to Play
Categories: Good Ideas
Sunday, August 9. 2009
Picture it with me: an MMO based in the Italian Renaissance. Races could correspond to the various city-states of Italy, or to foreign nations, perhaps. Play as:
- Merchants (sea voyages out of Venice, perhaps?)
- Unscrupulous churchmen
- Stiletto-armed assassins
- Scheming Medicis
- Your typical painter-sculptor-scientist-architect renaissance genius (should be a epic roll, this!)
Imagine riding into battle atop some Leonardo-designed war machine! Fencing with rapiers! Imagine going on quests:
- Steal the head of John the Baptist for the glory of Florence
- Dissect executed prisoners to level up in Anatomy
- Bring back exotic goods from around the Mediterranean
- Earn yourself an equestrian statue in your city-state's palazzo with military exploits
There's something very appealing about this, at least to me. It would be just the thing to finally get me to play an MMO.
