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The Matrix Going Massively Multiplayer
Chembro writes "Looks as though Ubi Soft is making a Matrix MMORPG. Everything is still pretty sketchy now that Revolutions has "ended" the series, but so far it seems pretty interesting. I wonder when the game will be placed (i.e. before Revolutions or after) but this could be the way the Wachowski brothers keep the universe going and how it will end. Pretty cool if you ask me."
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/23/153422 3&mode=thread&tid=127
Maybe you should ask the oricle that question. o magic 8ball can i be the can? all signs point to NO!
Must be a slow news day, but they wouldn't take my new free-for-all geolocation project announcement, so I have no pity!
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
Your project has a purpose and is tech related. That is why /. won't post it. They would rather post dups and articles about cartoons.
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Yeah, it annoys the heck out of me, too. My Mac can beat the crap out of just about anybody's window's PC, but all I can get are year old games. Bah. I wish Apple could increase their market share so more game companies would take us seriously. Or, maybe if somebody could develop a DirectX implementation for OS X, the porting process would be a snap. Oh well...here's to dreaming. In the meantime, I have an Xbox.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
As far as I'm concerned, matrix 3 was the biggest movie let down since Star Trek: The Movie.
75% of the movie was watching special effects making up a pointless war of man steered machines fighting machine steered machines.
Um...yeah, we _think_ we saw Trinity die.
But there was no evidence, that I saw, that Neo died. He was unconscious and being taken into machine central, but he's been unconscious before.
Little girl even asked if Neo would come back and oracle said yes. Can you tell me why he didn't just go off to machine hospital to have wounds tended?
Can you tell me why he doesn't just realize that the entire scene with Trinity dying was just another construct of the real-world Matrix which is no more real than the machine-world matrix and doesn't just realize that 'time', like the subjective reality of "bullet-time" is just another bendable rule?
Trinity "died" with tons of cable-like devices plugged into her...do you know she wasn't downloaded and her entire consciousness exists in the machine world just like smith's consciousness was able to exist in the 'real' world?
Maybe they all "wake" up and realize the 'real' world is just another simulation within another machine world and death transitory as inserting another quarter?
AFAI am concerned, M3 was not an "ending" of M2 -- it was just a single episode in a series...
For that matter...if it was so trivial for Neo & Trinity to fly up to where the sun was really shining, how difficult would it have been for the machines to build a tower up through the lightening storms to the sunlight area ala the proposed orbital elevator?
The 3rd movie was so full of ****....I was pissed. Second movie setup many questions -- and 3rd movie answered virtually none. Was I the only one who saw this? There's room for an entire run of sequals or even a "X-files" style TV series....which is sorta what the 3rd movie reminded me of...a bunch of unexplained questions that you think they are going to answer...but "that's what life's about: unanswered and unexplained questions". The "W" bros. chimped out and didn't even propose answers.
Gave it a big 5 thumbs down.
Now we need a real writer who could write an ending -- maybe Lucas, though
I think he's going to have trouble finishing his StarW 7-8-9. Do we wanna take bets on him dying before they are finished because he keeps stretching them out because he can't think of an ending of as good as quality as the original 3 (4-5-6).
Hopefully LOTR-III will provide at least 1 movie with some closure this year.
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You make a good point. In the Star Wars universe, the three "coolest" professions have traditionally been Smuggler, Jedi, and Bounty Hunter -- as represented by Han Solo, Luke Skywalker (or Darth Vader for the evil crowd), and Boba Fett respectively. Of these professions in SWG, one seems silly without space ships (which aren't implemented yet), one is artificially rare because the movies say only 4 were around at the time, and one is possible but requires that you dedicate virtually all of your skills to the task and ignore a lot of the extra flavor.
The Matrix, on the other hand, seems like it'll be more conducive to a MMORPG. The important thing is that the world is set up so that anyone who takes the red pill has the potential to be a badass. In essence, it'd be like SWG if the Jedi class were unrestricted. Sure, players wouldn't be able to become comparable to Neo, but they would be able to match the skills of Trinity and Morpheus.