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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."
You can find more info about the game at http://tmo.warcry.com
it says explicitly in the FAQ on the website linked that it will take place after revolutions. this was regarded as a spoiler in several communities...
In fact, this was a major spoiler when the news first came out because it revealed that the VR in the matrix was not dettroyed.
I can't see this being any good. I'm sure it'll all be very nice for a couple days, seeing stuff you recognise from the film etc, but I doubt this will be much fun after the excitement of the novelty has worn off.
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as long as my avatar doesn't take as long as trinity to die in the game I'll be happy. Imagine having to wait 20 minutes to respawn...
Note to self: No more arguing with the faithful.
Many, many moons ago this was announced, and it explained that it would take place after Revolutions, which ruled out many possible endings of the series...
First the review of nVidia cards that came out weeks ago and now this? What next, an article about leaked rumours that there might be a sequel to Kill Bill : Volume One?
I wonder if they will try to implement "Bullet Time"... It was a major part of the movie and the games, but in a multiplayer world it could be confusing/disorienting/annoying. No multiplayer in either of the Max Payne games because of this difficulty.
* Call to Tech Support.
...
Caller: Yeah, um, are you guys going to fix the lag issues? I'm having some major problems. The screen refreshes at 10fps, my player barely moves, characters pop in and out of the frame.
Support: What kind of processor are you running?
Caller: Well above the specs you need, and I'm sitting on a DS3 connection.
Support: I see...
Caller:
Support: (consulting PR manual) It's not server lag... it's... bullet time!
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
C'mon! There are other perspectives the Matrix games can take place from. This time coinciding with the third movie, not the second. Shell manufacturer, oracle, food goop maker, raver, environmental systems specialist... And if you think no one will play these classes, you've never played a MMORPG. Personally, I've always wanted to play as a Smith.
...will there be a linux version of this? or are only the win32 hackers allowed to enter the matrix?
Well, sort of yes.
A MMORPG is what the original Matrix film was all about. It would be hugely self-fulfilling to make into YAMMORPG. The sequels were ultimate examples of nihilism and kitsch and YAMMORPG is an ultimate example of the kitsch and nihilism The Matrix portrayed.
At last! Now I can get out to realty world. good bye matrix world! ...wait a minute, this is just a game. bleh!
I wonder when the game will be placed (i.e. before Revolutions or after)
From the FAQ: The Matrix Online timeline takes place after The Matrix Revolutions, the third Matrix movie, currently scheduled to release in November 2003.
You know it's getting really bad when the story submitters don't even bother to RTFA... *sigh*.
The site specifically says after the 3rd in the trilogy. It also says that the Wachowskis are doing the story line.
I don't agree the the third movie 'ended' the series either. without getting into it, there's much that was left unsaid other than that which was implied.
this could be the way the Wachowski brothers keep the universe going and how it will end.
In a massive disk crash on the main game server.
(don't the machines that own Matrix suffer from natural hardware failures anyway?)
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As long as it's better than the atrocity Enter the Matrix I am happy.
Anyway, Revolutions was better than Reloaded in almost all respects.
Wow...I am overcome by a desire to buy...can't stop looking at it...please someone...unplug my computer...
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Bet you wont see this until 1stQ 2005 at the earliest.
no MMPORPG ever gets finished on time.
An infinite number of monkeys will eventually come up with the complete works of
for everyone that wants this. If it's in the hands of UbiSoft it might never get done. Look at the promised Harpoon 4, 3 years of vaporware later and no game.
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
So now I suppose we're going to see news like that there are 300K players in the Matrix game and still no Neo?
It'll be interesting to see what happens when people get there.
just when I was thinking it was already trivialized as much as it could possibly be...
Nobody ever made a fortune overestimating the taste of the american public.
Intolerance for ambiguity is the mark of the authoritarian personality.
Wait....a Matrix MMORPG...aren't we already in that?
Or are we still in the real world...and this is how it really all begins?
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." -- Dark Helmet
o magic 8ball can i be the can?
No, you can't, spoon.
So what happens when people crack the game server and start modifying it?
The last big online multiplayer experience they planned was Silent Hunter II and Destroyer Command. The game (really one game, written as two to soak you for two purchases) was, quite simply, the most disastrous bugfest I've ever seen out of any game software company in existence.
I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but if Ubi has anything to do with it, look carefully before buying.
who are those slashdot people? they swept over like Mongol-Tartars.
If irony where made of blueberries, we'd all be eating pie.
would be that if you could code your own minions and objects(the way merv had done, and how the trainman had done his place). and being free to hack the system as well(to perform insane stunts, without getting you banned).
of course if you chose to go that way there would be some kickassing done by the agents(you would have to be pretty powerful before starting to attract too much attention).
oh well.. too bad it'll probably just end up like everything else and you'll be kicking some rats in the sewers.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Since games make more money than movies, movies have just become teasers for the videogames that follow it.
It's just a BloJJ
You won't play a rebel fighting the matrix, ro anything like that. The game will be the matrix! You'll go to work, come home, and manage your life. Just think The Sims, only first person! ^_^
But we're already in it!
-R
... this was announced before Reloaded was released in theatres.
seeing as how they alienated lots (not all, but lots) of their hardcore fans, and i'm guessing lots of them are game players. and MMORPGs are not the kind of a thing that massively attracts non-gamers.
does anyone know how many non-star wars fans are playing galaxies?
after the last movie i have no desire to spend a single buck on matrix merchandise (except for maybe a monica belluci poster) and i predict this MMORPG will be a failure from the start.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
I saw a leaked version of the user manual PDF. Apparently you're supposed to put in the CD, lay naked in a bathtub of strawberry Jello, and have a friend shove a metal spike in the back of your neck. I'm sure real Matrix fans won't have a problem with this, but personally I prefer orange Jello.
1) Release the Matrix series.
2) Announce a MMORPG, with monthly changes.
3) Take subscriptions.
4) Charge monthly. "You are already playing it!"
5) Sue everyone alive who didn't subscribe for copyright violation.
Caveat: They may demand process in the Real World.
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> Now I can get out to realty world
If you're looking to get into real estate, there are courses available. I'd be surprised if they didn't offer such courses in the Matrix.
It explicity says yes in the FAQ, how are you being bloody insightful *takes caffine shot* ah, thats better.
puts ("Python r0cks\n");
that its new online multiplayer Matrix game
has been infected by a malicious computer virus.
The virus changes all player characters
to look and sound like the evil Agent Smith.
Warner executives say they are baffled:
"we certainly didn't see this coming,
and we're not sure yet how to fix it."
Go out of the matrix in the real world? Is that some kind of plan to drive mmorpg addicts away from their computer?
Just load up your newsreader and goto alt.philosophy. It's just like that last two Matrix movies!
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Hi, I'm Troy McClure...you may remember me from such MMORPG's as "Pokemon Online" and "Michael Jackson's World of Weasles"
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It's not as if this is something new... Ubi was demoing it at E3 this year.
Imagine a MMORPG where they /encouraged/ you to hack the system. That would be awesome. Or like others have mentioned, you could create agents (like the Merv did the trainman) or get engulfed by agent Smith.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
It is not completely true that Neo 'dies' on the last movie (the Oracle at the end mentions something about Neo returning).
The idea seems to be really cool. If the effects and the technology are half of decent like "Enter the Matrix", then this game will give a lot of people (including me) a compeling reason to play a Online game. Hopefully they will take care of the story line and the quests too.
Just my two cents.
Jose Vicente Nunez Zuleta RHCE, SJCD, SJCP
The "connection to the source" explanation for the sentinel knockout, however crappy it is, is canon. There's no evidence for any of your other suggestions beyond "what if?".
:)
Also, I believe Lucas has said that he will not even try to do 7, 8, and 9.
And you might want to change your sig, it's a bit late
I can see it now... your level 30, finally getting some good xp hunting agents in China Town, and your group's programmer screwed up the weapons upload before you went in and now your machine gun shoots rubber chickens. > > > > >
I call The One for my player name.
"This is the way the [Matrix] world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."
It is already listing the number of weapon and enemy you might encounter showing comba focus even before speaking of what the rest might be. So I would say, this is everquest but in the Matrix. Nothing is said in the FAQ for a game which should be far advanced (release 2004!) about roleplay, quest, impact of online player, etc... etc...
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You'r welcome. In addition, both Shane and Old Yeller die.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
A MAC GAMER???
:)
We must really be in the Matrix...
Dude, go watch this "Mac Gamer" clip on Red vs Blue. It should pretty much explain everything. Seriously.
http://www.redvsblue.com/appleswitch.shtml
Aside from that, can you explain to me what's up with the "1-button only" thing?
It is a big pain gaming-wise, you know.
Cheers. Peace out.
"The Wachowski Brothers' vision for The Matrix is one that extends far beyond the theatrical trilogy, and the world they have created is so rich that we've chosen to tell inter-connected Matrix-related stories in multiple mediums," said Joel Silver, producer of the Matrix films. "Our goal in collaborating with Ubi Soft is to create a multiplayer online game that reflects the trilogy's highly stylized storytelling and innovative action, taking fans beyond the boundaries of the movie screen and into a 'persistent world' where they can fully explore the vast realm of the Matrix."
So it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that Revolutions didn't bring closure. It wasn't meant to.
Whether tying video/on-line games to a movie series is really going to work, only time will tell.
Only the people actively fighting you[n/t]
They don't want your body to be jacked into the Matrix, just your credit card.
The image replicators work for the Matrix, so anyone playing the game will only see the raw code streaming down their screen.
Do you even read the links you submit?
The TMO website states quite clearly when the RPG takes place (right after Revolutions) and that it will be based on plotlines guided by the Wachowskis.
There are two sides in the game--those who want people to remain in the Matrix (sort of a Cipher mindset), and those who feel everyone should be free because the Matrix is not real (like a Morpheus mindset).
There will be bullet-time and even possibly agents. It'll be everything Enter The Matrix wasn't. Nightclubs, actual traffic, and so forth will all exist in the game. It will be one big urban city, because according to the Wachowskis, the Matrix is one massive urban landscape.
All of that info, I got just from reading the official website the submitter linked to. Clearly, the submitter didn't even bother, instead asking when it takes place and saying how cool it seems if you ask him. Uh, yeah.
"Sufferin' succotash."
If you die in the Matrix MMORPG... do you die in real life as well?
After all... the mind cannot live without the game.
--- I w00t, therefore I'm l33t.
Will it suck as hard as Enter the Matrix?
Seriously, this is an important question to be asked. Enter the Matrix had some of the most pre-release excitement for a game in recent memory, but once it was actually released it became probably the most universally loathed game of the year. I have not played this game, but the reports from everyone who has have been remarkably consistent.
What they say is that the game was little more than an excuse. That the cinematic portions and plot were rather cool, but that the game.. well, just wasn't there. Apparently the developers realized they didn't have to put any effort into the game for people to still buy it, and so they did the absolute minimum required in order for this to still be called "a game". The result was a lackluster, uncreative, boring, unplayable Max Payne lookalike.
Is the same developer from Enter the Matrix releasing this? Is this actualy going to be worthwhile as a game, or are we going to get another phoned-in, unplayable mess with no positive qualities except for those which stem wholly from the franchise the game is based in? Enter the Matrix was still a relative success-- probably because the developer banned reviews of the game before it was released, and so many people bought it blind-- but an MMORPG requires customer retention to succeed..
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What's the big deal? I imagine bullet-time will just have sort of a radius of effect. If you're not in the same room, you won't slow down, and if you're watching it from a distance, you will see people moving in slow-motion but the rest of the game is moving normally.
If you try to fire into that radius of effect, your bullets will just slow down, so you can't pick off the bullet-time people. Everything slows down in that bubble. Makes sense to me. Can't wait for the game.
"Sufferin' succotash."
"It even took over my avatar!" Said one of the DMs, who calls herself as The Oracle. One game tester, that played in all the 6 beta versions says he is going to get back into the game to use his high level character Da' 0|\|3 to solve the situation.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
So, I'll be able to enter a virtual world, where I'll be able to enter a virtual world?
...
Sign me up!
In any multi-player game you'll find cheaters. They have different excuses for it - lacking time to put in to the game like other "losers", boredom with the existing rules, etc. But whatever the excuse may be, its the same sociopathic behavior. The rules shouldn't apply to this individual so they take great pains to run exploits, proxies, and other cheating tools to remove the restrictions of the game's rules.
This should sound familiar to fans of the Matrix movies. After all, the heroes esentially "cheat" the rules of the Matrix. A large part of this is simply realizing that the rules of the artificial environment only apply if one wishes them to. But there are also other bits such as having a friend directly anylizing Matrix signals and customized, user-controlled load programs. It can all be easily summerized by the fact that The Matrix is really about how Neo cheats.
And everyone wants to be Neo. Woa.
Alright, maybe not everyone. But this Neo complex fits right in with our cheating friends who are incapable of playing multi-player games without going to great lengths to provide themselves with an unfair advantage. They want to be Neo too.
Now they can be. Enter the Matrix MMORPG. Be Neo. Or a Neo-a-like. And cheat. After all, that's what The Matrix is all about. How could anybody object?
You have entered The Lobby.
neo13594: d00d, this looks jus lkie the movie
butlikr: hey theres a guy coming
A security commando shoots YOU for 13 points of damage!
YOU shoot a security commando for 60 points of damage.
YOU begin to evade.
butlikr shoots a security commando for 85 points of damage.
A security commando has been slain by butlikr!
butlikr: what a puss
neo13594: d00d, my kill. ass.
butlikr: stfu, there no ones kills, its a team game.
An agent has appeared!
Agent Smith shoots YOU for 245 points of damage.
neo13594: sh*t! help me!
butlikr: dam an agent, cya man
YOU try to shoot Agent Smith but miss!
Agent Smith begins to evade.
Agent Smith shoots YOU for 2004 points of damage.
You have been slain by Agent Smith!
LOADING....Please wait.
You tell butlikr "thanks a lot jerk. u suk"
butlikr tells you "stfu n00b. u cant kill agents stupid"
Yeah, this game's gonna be a blast. I can't wait.
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Thouands of people will be playing like thouands of people, who wake up, brush their teat, eat breakfast, travel to work, put in 8 hours behind a desk, travel home again. Flatten out on the sofa watching big brother. Occasionally do some shopping and go to the toilet(not at the same time). Try to make points with the boss, earn some bucks. And once a year they'll reboot everything and you start all over.
Cool game.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
ooh, ooh... do you get those funky user input devices from the movies?
I am very sucseptible to "let's have another drink"
So what happens when people crack the game server and start modifying it?
Neo: Are you saying I can get a subscription to this MMORPG?
Morpheus: When you're ready, you won't have to...
This is VERY old news.
It comes with a special controller that goes from the PC or gaming console straight to "any part of your skin"
While you and your opponent are playing in "bullet time", your opponent's friends have time to run over and group gank you.
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Shane and Old Yeller...I think we will be seeing them again someday...
How addictive will this game be?:
scene 1
he is sitting at the PC, she is packing her things in order to leave.
"matrix online game" playing boyfriend: Oh God, my God, Girlfriend how could you do this, you are leaving me! There is no cause for this!
leaving Girlfriend: What cause? How about the game you're still playing?
boyfriend: Ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai, woman, this is nothing, c'est rien, c'est rien du tout. It's a game, it is only a game.
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...who just wants to be the little bald kid that does nothing but bend spoons all day in this hare kirshna outfit and eat cookies baked by The Oracle?
What the hell ever happened to HIM, anyway?
s'wut i sed.
Yes, I can just imagine... people running around accusing each other of hacking... just like a normal MMORPG. If someone develops trainers, or other similar hacks, will Ubi Soft do anything about it? After all, they are "hacking the matrix". I just can't see myself playing a game that encourages cheating and hacking. ;)
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Well, if you believe Gore Vidal, the better spoiler would be "It's Marion Davies' clit, and I just saved you two hours of mindfucking that was only designed for one specific person in such a way that he couldn't sue them without embarassing himself."
Matrizens playing Matrizens playing Matrizens. Ooh. it boggles the mind.
Does this mean there will be (potentially) thousands of super-human players running around defying gravity and time?
The only way I can see this work is to contrast the "norm" with the "above norm" and have thousands of mindless bots walking around.
Sort of like at a RIAA convention, only smarter.
I've heard it already supports over six billion.
I have that game and its a lot of fun. The nicest thing about the game, in my opinion, is that the game uses authentic kung fu moves. They actually had the actors of Niobe and Ghost (the main characters in the game) with sensors so they could program in the martial arts moves accurately. Additionally, you can focus to do some nifty Matrix effects like walking along walls and dodging bullets. And the game has the same feel as the movies. In fact, the plot to Enter the Matrix runs parallel to Matrix: Reloaded. If you like the movies, then Enter the Matrix gives more background on the other characters and what happens to them before, during, and after the Matrix Reloaded.
Honestly, I don't know what you are expecting from the game--could it be you are suffering from high expectations?
Everquest, AC, and AO all use original backgroups set in familiar genres (Fantasy for EQ and AC, SF for AO). Players have some general expectations based on the genre, but no specific characters/story requirements. (Although any fantasy game that has a Ranger class seems to run into some problems for every way that their Rangers differ from Aragorn).
DAoC used Arthurian, Celtic, and Norse mythology for its background, loosely. This was a brilliant move on Mythics part--it gave them background that people would know something of, but because there are few specific characters and stories that most people are overly familiar with in those settings, it doesn't overly focus people's expectation.
Now consider SWG. Although it is doing well, it has had a problem with disappointment for not living up to what many people want from a Star Wars game. The Star Wars universe is too strongly focused on a few characters and stories, and people playing a Star Wars game often want to be those characters. Far more people want to play Han Solo than play the guy Han Solo buys his guns or beer or hairstyling from.
The Matrix, I think, might suffer from this. (As will the upcoming LotR MMORPG, BTW). The focus of the movies is too strongly on a small set of characters, and people will want to play those characters, or at least play with them, doing the the things that were done in the movie.
Also, both The Matrix and the good SW movies were basically about world (galaxy, universe) changing events. If the games don't have that, many people will find them disappointing, compared to their expectation, which will basically be playing the movies.
In light of the above, here are some movies/TV shows I thing would make good MMORPG conversaion.
First, I'm surprised there has not been a Star Trek MMORPG. Sure, in some ways ST suffers from the same problems that SW and LotR have...but because there were several series, focusing on different crews (original, next gen, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise), I think the focus has been diluted enough that it would work. Set it in TNG time, and I think people could accept being on ships other than Enterprise, or space stations other than DS9.
Second movie that comes to mind is either Antz or A Bug's Life. Those would work because there was only one movie for each, and though they focused on basically one character/story each, I don't think one movie is enough to form the strong association between the character and the world.
The hackers will have a freakin free for all when this game goes live. They'll try to hack into the matrix and get Neo-like powers. Then the 'rebels' will be the hackers and the 'machines' will be the architects (people who designed the matrix).
Agent Smith can't be in the game because all of them were destroyed when the machines had a link to a Smith when Neo was turned into a smith. It wasn't clear that Neo died. Also, I thought they were going to freee the humans in the Matrix. I don't see what there is left to do but enjoy the peace with the machines.
i'll hunt you down and kick your ass!!!
"Thanks to the remote control I have the attention span of a gerbil."
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Okay, you know how the kid announces to all of zion that the war is over? I think a better ending would have been for him to go there but have everyone dead...except for 23 people; 16 women and 7 men. That way it would be clear that humanity will be enslaved forever, because this Neo made a different choice than his predecessors and they still ended up with the same result. It also would bring more power to the statement by the Merovingian that choice is an illusion between people with power and people without it. It would have been extremely dark and definitive but still would have left people scratching their heads. Fwiw I enjoyed the movie
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if we get the holes in the skull and the plug-in gear for free...
how long until
Actually there's already been quite a bit of info about when the game takes place. It happens after Revolutions and its about a war between those who want to remain in the Matrix and those that think everyone should be freed.
I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.
Matrix discussion groups have been pondering the implications of this game since soon after Enter the Matrix came out in May. This is six-months-old news. I'm almost tired of discussing it... Almost.
There's a couple with flags that can be caputured but not be used as a respawn point.
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
IMHO it would be better to set it BEFORE the events of the first movie, messiahs really stuff up game balance.
"Hey, thanks for hinting to possible endings to the movie right on the damn front page."
Nothing was given away. Go see the damn movie.
"Derp de derp."
.. how many sleepless nights to I have to play before I can meet Monica Bellucci?
One interesting thing I did read about this is that the agents would be the equivalent of Dragons in the AD&D world. If you see one, do like they told Neo and RUN!
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I dunno about you, but I'm interested in this... I just hope they don't ruin it like they did with Enter The Matrix.
There was sooo much hype, yet it failed to deliver. Just a bunch of crawling around in the same repetitive scenes, and then some random tasks
-- quick shoot the tires out and if you fail you'll start all over again.
"Revolutionary" my @$$...
"PC Load Letter? What the $@#% does that mean?!"
I do not. You can whack the dog if you want to, though.
-- El Sacarino tiene gusto de la chocha
Doesn't anyone find it ironic that the trilogy is about a massively multi-user network(online) fantasy life that everyone is living simultaneously. This game is just the first step toward the downfall of society. Everyone will buy the game, get so hooked on the game that they would rather live their life in the game than in reality, biotechnology will advance so far that we can physically/mentally connect to our computers just to play the game, and the game will become "The Matrix."
mlylecarlin
They can't possibly be making a game of the movie... there is no movie.
It's called counterstrike. I can't figure out why it's popular.
Introducing the new Occam Fusion! Now with sqrt(-1) fewer blades!
Are we running sparse matrix algorithms on it?
I know Origin more or less doesn't exist, but if there was ever a story/universe that is crying for a MMPORPG It's wing commander. Seriously, space battles and promotions and cap ships and trading. I'm getting misty eyed just thinking about it. In the universe of computer gaming there is no huger a pool of wasted profit than that of a WC franchise game.
Then again, I'm not sure you'll be able to convince people to fly circles around you while you dogfight, making it easier for them to pick you off-- but they can work that out in the beta.
Wait ... after 3 movies about fighting off this aweful Virtual Reality slavery system, the producers are inventing the very product they've been warning us about and expect us to join it ?
Hey, maybe in this MMORPG, we can discard old outdated hardware, like monitors and keyboards, and instead plug directly into the server. I think the best way to do this would be to install a plug in the back of our heads, and......
This sig is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
Isn't it ironic that fans of a movie that is all about freeing one's self from a computer controlled, alternate reality are paying for a chance to loose themselves in a computer controlled, alternate reality.
no, i would prefer to leave the series dead because the dialogue will just get worse. allah be praised.
No system would ever need more than 640 KiloSmiths.
My other car is a 1984 Nark Avenger.
Regardless of how many rounds per second you gun can fire, the delay between each shot is also magnified in the sphere of effect.
So - if bullet-time runs at 1/100th of real-time that 0.01/second delay between rounds turns into one full second when the second round enters the SOE.
That being said, if the bullet-time SOE just slows things down then I will be extremely disappointed. The entire concept of bullet-time and the (IMO) related slow-motion fighting effects was to convey the speed of the characters involved. Max Payne almost got this right with it's Bullet Time implementation (you could aim at normal speed but you couldn't actually move faster)
A perfect implementation would allow for different time ratios for everyone in the system. Higher-level players would move insanely fast to low-level players because their time ratios were different. You wouldn't need SOE at all really, but while time-compression can be easily implemented in a computer it's the inverse that is impossible. In a MMORPG anyway.
So that they can be answered in the MMPORG! Seriously though, I doubt this Matrix MMPORG will ever see the light of day.
I can't afford a sig!
Slashdot says:I wonder when the game will be placed (i.e. before Revolutions or after)
The actual site says: Plot lines by the creators of the Matrix, that continues the Matrix story where the movie triology leaves off.
No wonder people don't read the articles if the moderators don't...
Hey, guess what, before the first movie is almost the same as after the 3rd...
LOTR is *not* a trilogy.
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
I don't wanna be some pussy good guy. I wanna be an opresor of the people. I want to be an unstoppable agent who all flee in front of. I want to be able to smite random characters. That would kick arse.
-- Karma Karma Karma Karma, Karma Chameleon - Boy George
What then?
There's nothing wrong with MRev... except for the fact the Wach Bros didn't want to include a proper ending. They wanted to keep their options open for some kind of economicly profitable sequel. Movie, TV series, anime, online game, whatever.
MRev is fine to a point. Once Neo & Trinity split up from the others, something goes wrong in the story. The 'Save Zion' fork works just fine, although it's kind of like the climax to Star Wars episode IV with the roles reversed. It's the Neo fork that falls flat. Little about it struck me as authentic: Smith blinding Neo (surely the Wach Bros would have foreshadowed that if they'd planned it from the beginning?), Trinity's death (puh-leese!), the Machines taking pity on Neo... How much better would the movie have been if the "Revolutions" would have been simultaneous human and machine revolutions? Humans & machine fighting together against the Architect! But then, you'd have closed off the possibility of a sequal, and there are Porsches still to buy...
You could call it the "Return of the Jedi" effect. The trilogy is ending, and everyone is starting to think of ways to generate revenue after the movie drops from the public's radar. In "Jedi", it was the Ewoks, which ruined the seriousness of the story (although there were other problems as well). It's no surprise that an Ewoks animated series followed "Jedi", plus toys, posters, and all the usual crap. It was planned from the get-go as a revenue stream, not as something entertaining.
I think the same thing applies to MRev. They could have had a mind-bending, 'the story is OVER now' ending, one that would have kept the legacy of the first film's powerful, uncompromising plotting alive. But they didn't. They killed off the Bad Guy, killed off the one actor who won't look as pretty in five years when they might film a sequel (their thinking, not mine), and put Neo in a sequal-friendly limbo. He can become anything they need now: human ambassador to the machines, a cyborg, interplanetary crusader, of just the gentleman in charge of saying: "Whoa!"
Why end the story decently when you can set everything up to make more money later? All you need to do is find a replacement for the Bad Guy, and you're set. Probably the Morvingian; why else keep him alive when we all wanted to see Trinity waste him?
It's clear "Return of the King" is going to be *the* SF/Fantasy movie of the season, in part because Tolkien didn't write his novels in order to make sure a money-making sequel would follow.
One big novel.
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
> this could be the way the Wachowski brothers keep the universe going and how it will end
How could a continuous game be "How it ends?" Unless the game stops, there is no ending. Sheesh.
Jackson's movie version of LOTR is a trilogy, because it is a single story divided into three volumes. I imagine if The Matrix was ever published as a novel, it would be a single novel. It's just too damn long for a single movie of about two hours.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Please, why can't you just let me forget about the LOTR movies? :-)
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
Beatles...with an "a" in their name.
And it was the last song that all 4 recorded as a group...it was part of the 3 song "Golden Slumbers/Carry that weight/The End"
You can find this on their last recorded Album "Abbey Road". It was the last recorded, even though "Let it Be" was released afterwards.
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
Are there any of these sorts of games for Linux users? Anyone running something like this at
a pretty low cost - most of the ones for the PC seem to want to charge $10 or more a month, which is more than I can swing for an occasional online
gaming experience.
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