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MMORPGs Matrix and Star Wars
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.
... damn. Too late. :( Guess I'll have to wait until December to play now. You people are EVIL! :)
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.
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?
.. new sign-ups get to play as "batteries"..
..... it does a great job of imitating the move from the game
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
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...
Attention all planets of the Solar Federation! We have assumed control! - Neil Peart
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.
"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.
"..."
I can just picture the chat now...
from the can-i-play-as-trinity? dept.
;)
I think the better question would be: Can I play *with* Trinity?
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
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...
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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!"
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.....
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." -- Albert Einstein
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...
-- Mal: "Well they tell you: never hit a man with a closed fist. But it is, on occasion, hilarious."
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!