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MMORPGs Matrix and Star Wars

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-i-play-as-trinity? dept.

Jedi2099 writes "Warner Bros., Monolith Productions and EON Entertainment are combining forces to create a new massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) based on The Matrix using Monolith's new LithTech Discovery System. " Personally I'm much more interested in the fact that the Star Wars Galaxy Beta that has started taking beta apps.

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  1. One question by iforgotmyfirstlogon · · Score: 1, Funny


    What is the matrix?

    - Freed

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  2. ARG! Don't /. the SW:G beta!! by StupidKatz · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... damn. Too late. :( Guess I'll have to wait until December to play now. You people are EVIL! :)

  3. I hope no Max Payne style bullet time... by bafu · · Score: 2, Funny

    I loved it, but can you imagine automatically going into it every time someone on a massively multiplayer service turned it on? ;-)

  4. Simple by Wrexs0ul · · Score: 2, Funny

    For 12.99/mo you will know the matrix.

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  5. I have an idea for a mmorpg by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 4, Funny

    howbout RealLife? You go outside and interact with other people. Great graphics, although it is rather difficult to advance in levels. Oh, and no starting over.

    1. Re:I have an idea for a mmorpg by Soko · · Score: 5, Funny

      howbout RealLife?

      Guess you took the Blue Pill.

      Soko

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    2. Re:I have an idea for a mmorpg by big_cat79 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh, and no starting over.

      You can if you are Hindu.

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  6. Aren't we already playing? by VertigoAce · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wasn't the matrix a MMORPG in the movie? The AI developed a system in which the humans would lead ordinary lives simulated inside a computer. So couldn't one skip the $50 and just go lead a normal life and get the same effect?

  7. And, when server loads get too great.. by kafka93 · · Score: 5, Funny

    .. new sign-ups get to play as "batteries"..

    1. Re:And, when server loads get too great.. by nherc · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes, that is one EULA you'll want to read _thoroughly_ before clicking "Accept". Could this be how the Matrix began?

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  8. Nah, its already there, we call it lag. by Shivetya · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..... it does a great job of imitating the move from the game

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  9. I can see it now... by TheNecromancer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Call me fickle, but this MMORPG is just tooo similar to the first Matrix in the movie.

    Next, you'll be telling me that Skynet has automated all our stealth bombers, and they have had perfect flight records...

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  10. Oh the possibilities... by Deosyne · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can finally follow Trinity around staring at her ass without getting the crap kicked out of me by her bodyguards every couple of days. Or play an agent and tap the hell out of the woman in red, since, you know, it wouldn't be weird having sex with a program or anything, since I'd be playing as a computer program myself. Of course I'd be a human playing a program having sex with a progr... god, I need to get laid.

    1. Re:Oh the possibilities... by Conspiracy_Of_Doves · · Score: 3, Funny

      god, I need to get laid.

      Now, THERE's a line we never thought we'd hear from a slashdotter.

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    2. Re:Oh the possibilities... by Anonymous+Cow+herd · · Score: 2, Funny

      New moderation category? (-1, god, you need to get laid) Or maybe it should be (+1, god, you need to get laid). :)

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  11. MMORPG evolution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    (MMORPG) massively multiplayer online role-playing game
    gets bigger
    (BMORPG) Beowulf multiplayer online role-playing game
    players are now called drones. remove player/playing from acronym
    (BORG) Beowulf online role game
    people forget where the acronym got from, add a descriptor
    (BORG-collective)

  12. Try explaining it to your friends by mblase · · Score: 5, Funny

    "What are you playing there?"

    A virtual computer-generated world with thousands of other people. All your enemies are programs created by the simulation.

    "What's the game about?"

    A virtual computer-generated world with thousands of other people. All your enemies are programs created by the simulation.

    "..."

  13. Re:Nah, its already there, we call it lag. by bafu · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can just picture the chat now...

    N3oRul3z: Server sux, dude. Really bullet-timey.
    (*+==Tac-Tiks==+*): No shite..was bullit-timin all ocver the place like abiotch!!!
  14. What th--? by daeley · · Score: 5, Funny

    from the can-i-play-as-trinity? dept.

    I think the better question would be: Can I play *with* Trinity? ;)

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  15. Doesn't sound like much fun to me.... by dbretton · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's so fun about online matrices?

    ubergeek1: "Ooh boy, I wanna be 1,3!!"
    uberggek2: "Oh yeah, well I'm 5,5"

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    >miscellaneous fighting noises...
    >

    ubergeek1: "Ha! I got normalized on yo' ass! Whatchya gonna do now, that I thrashed your second row??"

    ubergeek2: "Little did you know that I have the cloak of Cholesky! Prepare to die!"

  16. Re:Why the Matrix? by Rary · · Score: 3, Funny

    The "Matrix Universe" is the real universe. So I'm guessing they'll render the entire world in a 3D model. And maybe at the start of the game, it'll ask you were you live in real life, and then it'll place your character in whatever your hometown is, standing right in front of the virtual version of your house. Then you'll wander inside and head towards the room where your computer is, and there you'll see yourself sitting on front of a computer, and if you get real close to it, you'll see that on the computer monitor is a 3D model of the room you're in, with you looking over your own shoulder at a monitor, on which there's a 3D model of the room you're in, with you looking over.....

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  17. What? Matrix Math no fun? by kaladorn · · Score: 3, Funny

    You must have been in my Engineering Algebra course... ;)

    We all know the correct response to the cloak of Cholesky is the sword of Eigen following by the spell of n-spacial translation.
    In n-space, no one can hear you fail the course...

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  18. Looking forward to crushing agents.. by bsdparasite · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would much rather play Morpheus than Neo. It would be quite something to unplug people and tell them this is not a joke and watch them throw up!

  19. I can't believe no one's said this yet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    When I'm done playing, will I know kung fu?