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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.
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?
Besides the next generation of the current crop of MMORPG's like Asheron's Call 2 and EverQuest 2, Cyan has finally announced their intentions of doing a MMORPG with the MYST universe.
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.' - Douglas Adams
.. new sign-ups get to play as "batteries"..
Weird.
Your reality is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever. - Baron Munchausen
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.
"..."
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 poster was being funny, but the idea is interesting. Distribute some of your processing load to unused cycles on user's systems. Not all MMORPGs require all the horsepower a system can provide. It might be a neat feat and it would mean that in some cases, adding users might be a significantly lower drain. This might help with a few of the problems of scalability for MMORPGs. Imagine that you could also earn account hours or credits in game for leaving your PC hooked up when you aren't there if you have a good BW connection so the server can offload some processing onto your machine. Probably a lot of issues involved, but it might offer some interesting lines of investigation.
-- Mal: "Well they tell you: never hit a man with a closed fist. But it is, on occasion, hilarious."
Well.. personally I have played my share of EQ in my day. In case you haven't it's pretty clearly a ripoff of D&D straight across (which is all Tolken anyway.. but eh.. ). So maybe all the races have been seen before, maybe no new concepts. But it IS a new world.. it is their world (you're in our world now is their slogan).. this allows them to write history, future, plot lines..
It allows you to be the main character in your own little world.. silly perhaps.. but
If you put it all in a preexisting storyline, with a preexisting world with already established heros, already planned and acted major events...well what the hell is the point anymore?
Why bother with a Matrix mmorpg? Afterall you aren't the one... the one will fix everything... you are just a spudly.. you don't matter. No matter what you do, live or die, quest or destory evil bad guys... you have no effect.
At least with EQ (which is quite a ripoff at times) they could make their own races... if they ripped off a race they could give it a new history.. they could make their own evil badguys.. name their own dragons.
Can they REALLY do that in SWG and Matrix? The world is already defined.. races and classes already exist, already have a history.
In other words.. EQ while being a ripoff allowed room for creativity, for discovery. SWG and Matrix are just yet another marketing device.. 'ooh ooh lets make a cool racing game.. then put it on Tatooine and call it SW Epi1 Pod Racer!!'
It is one thing being yet another adventurer in a world with no pre defined heros or plotlines... but why pay the money just to play a cameo in a movie?
'..that kernel panicked like a nun in a crack house!'