After Dark Ep20: When Will We See A True Action MMORPG?

Funniest Josh episode in ages, the reactions and faces were funnier than usual.  Anyhoot, as for the last question, there are a few genres that haven’t been tapped into very much, or at least not in the past few years.  RTS games with base building have been all but abandoned with the exception of Starcraft.  The only other RTS games that have come out recently have been by EA and they’ve been horrid.  C&C4 technically an offshoot of the actual series as you didn’t have any base building.  Red Alert 3 was a huge step back from the original series, they made it more cartoony and turned it into a special weapons fest where units really didn’t have the importance they should.  Starcraft is the only RTS that’s stayed true to its roots and for that, I honestly have to thank Blizzard as it’s the last bastion for true base building RTS games.  It isn’t perfect but it’s the only one that’s stayed true.  

As for an action MMO, DCUO is pretty similar to Devil May Cry.  As a matter of fact, those combat systems are identical.  Action combat can be VERY fun, the problem will always come down to the structure of an MMO.  SWG is my favorite MMO to date and if that had Devil May Cry/DCUO combat, I think it would have done even better than it originally did.  Community tools will always be more important.  Current MMOs make everything easier and add an express lane to everything, what that does is diminish interaction among players which ends up hurting the community and as a result, hurts MMOs.

the key i think for an action combat game is they do not base it around a controller, and add more skills than what is needed. The closest game to an action mmo that I have seen is C9, but it is free 2 play and instance.

On the action combat PvE and PvP stuff.  In my head I just see a third person mortal combat, thats a button mashing PvP games.  Then PvE the Marvel Alliance games were multi-player and you just mash buttons to clear levels.

I think it is doable.

I cannot fathom why the title of this episode has nothing to do with food.

halo has a very good map editer and has used player made maps in the matchmaking