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Morpheus is Dead
MTV Games is reporting that the latest live event in the Matrix Online has permenantly changed the topology of The Matrix: Morpheus is dead. From the article: "Morpheus' demise was not without controversy. In the days leading up to it, the developers' live team, who orchestrate the game's big monthly story-advancing moments, carried out a Wachowski-Chadwick plot that had Morpheus, in the words of some users, 'turning terrorist.' According to storyline, Morpheus wanted to reclaim the body of the fallen Neo, which was being held by the Matrix's machine overlords. Morpheus tried to pressure cooperation by planting bombs throughout the Matrix infrastructure."
Having just woken from a nap, that was all very confusing. I kept thinking, "They're making another movie?!". I should just go back to sleep.
Pretty Pictures!
WHat now? Neo dead? Morpheus dead? Surely this isn't just to reduce possible royalties, etc., ? Ghost and Niobe are good but not *lead character* good.
Acting stupid isn't much fun when there's someone around who knows better
I thought humans and machines have settled after Neo gave his life to help the machines counter Agent Smith threat to the system in that lousy last movie.
what's going on that Morpheus is ( was ) still making war with the machines?
ah, i see. without war, it isn't very compelling a product, is it?
I don't feel like it...
just be sure to listen for your mother when she calls you down for dinner.
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When I read the headline, I went "Duh. Morpheus died because Lyta Hall swore vengeance upon him after the Maiden-Mother-Crone Triple Goddess led her to believe that he took her son Daniel away from her. And after Morpheus's death, the dream-child Daniel transformed into the new manifestation of the Dream King."
And then I realized it was about the Matrix.
Is the crappy P2P service dead too?
Contractual difficulties? Wouldn't be the first time a character got killed off because of it.
All the spinoff games, anifootrix, toys and breakfast cereals (Kids! Eat a simple amino acid just like Neo!!) did was line Joel's (and Viacomm's) pockets with cash
Morpheus is dead? Boo-friggin-hoo. Maybe if the Bros had bothered to write a credible set of sequels, we could've cared.
Yeah, right.
Ding dong Morpheus is dead...
nah, doesn't really flow right.
Now, take the death of Aeris in FF7. That's a way to kill a char that gets everyones blood boiling.
The Matrix rocked. All subsequent efforts to whore out the name have sucked.
Trolling is a art,
Say what?
Am I alone in completely missing the launch of The Matrix Online? (not that it's much of a loss, but hey...)
I remember alot of gumph a while back about concepts, but seem to have missed launch-fanfare entirely.
I remember reading in the 'Star Trek:TNG' Compendium that each time the writers wanted to do a major shakeup of the status quo, they were rebuffed by the corporate types who were afraid that to shake things up too much would result in having to send their children to in-state colleges versus Harvard or Yale or ASU.
It is refreshing to see that the Washchsocoicococki Brothers were willing to do something dramatic for story's sake instead of just keeping things like they were in the movie.
As someone who is still a Matrix fan even through all three movies, I'd love to take part in this story - but my experience with the Matrix Online late in the beta was a very poor one. The leveling process was long and grueling, the randomly generated quests were repetitive and usually broken, character classes were severely unbalanced, and the interface was perversely obtuse. Has anyone still playing found that they've improved any?
For great justice.
Just please tell me that Monica Bellucci's character is still alive and well and buoyant as ever in the virtual world. Holy Christ, she's hot!
This isn't exciting to anyone. Maybe the people that play Matrix Online care, but probably not enough to care if it's on "Slashdot - News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
I mean, wow! A character in a MMORPG died! This happens all the time in online games (in their attempts to add plot to the game), what's the deal?
I haven't noticed any Morpheus nodes connecting to mine lately, so it might be gone. Good riddance, too. I frequently got lots of false results from Morpheus (and Gnucleus) nodes. It seems that the morons who wrote it figured that matching a single word of a multiple word query was good enough. I actually modified my program to drop all results with a Morpheus (or Gnucleus) vendor string.
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After the first movie, I wrote a fan letter.
After the second movie, I wanted to nominate the W brothers for a Nobel Prize.
After the (insert high-volume profanity here) ending of the third movie and series, I was glad I didn't know how to make the nomination happen - arguably the greatest story-telling/cinematic failure of our modern age.
After all of the above, does anyone really care what else they do?
(more meaningless grumbling of profanities follows)
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I quite like the sound of the regular live events the MO team have got planned and are happening already as we've just read. I'm a WoW player myself, still loving it to bits but I'd like to see this sort of thing in "my" game as well. I wonder if these live events will help MO capture some players who want to feel they are taking part in a real story, and whether other MMOG will follow their lead.
How could you play with fire like that? We loved you and now you're gone. Zion needed your guidance. Why couldn't you accept the truth about Neo? Neo wasn't a holy being, he and you were just pawns of the machines. Now you've martered yourself for a cause that wasn't worth fighting. The peace brought new hope for the matrix. Instead of being a place of oppression it could have been a place of beauty and eternal life. Bluepills could be taught the truth and continue their lives without ever having to jack out. But now Zion is divided. Those who seek revenge for your death will destroy the peace, the matrix will fall, and every bluepill will die.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Can't we just dig up the old "They killed Chewbacca in a book" debate, replace the word "Chewbacca" with "Morpheus" and pretend we've already discussed this in all of its glorious nerdy detail?
see, it's a game, so who cares :)
Fry: "Married?! Jenny can't get married."
Leela: "Why not? It's clever, it's unexpected..."
Fry: "But that's not why people watch TV. Clever things make people feel stupid, and unexpected things make them feel scared."
Did you see how hard I punched that frigging guy? Seriously, I whonked his head on the toilet, swung him around by the leg into the wall, and shot him all full of mercury or something, and I got nowhere. Finally! --Agent Smith.
blarg.
It's coming from MTV, therefore it *must* be true.
Just wondering if there is a site that tracks the story as it occurs in this universe. I'm still interested in the story, but MMOs really aren't my thing. I know back in the day there used to be at least one site that tracked the story as it evolved in Ultima Online. Just wondering if there is anything like that for this game?
Neo dies? Maybe the third movie is worth seeing afterall.
Lawrence Fishburne decided not to renew his voice acting contract, and the W brothers didn't want to continue with a fake.
Everyone knows Morpheus is dead. Kazaa is the place to be, baby!
How did the 4 people online at the time kill him? I thought he would be more ubah than that.
Game already down to 9.99 at stores heh...
you can hear IRC?
Some people with limited vision run an IRC client through a screen reader.
wow, what version is that?
I don't know what version the free/Free screen readers are up to, but Jaw$ is up to 6.0.
You people have got to stop calling them the Wachowski Brothers. They're the Wachowski Brother and Sister now.
Bruce
As a Slackware user who doesn't think a single video game is worth plonking down a grand on a PC, then having to run Windows XP on it, I am absolutely brokenhearted that they didn't make this for consoles. But, really... What the fuck were they thinking?
The console market is HUGE. There's going to be a console in every home sooner or later. Both major consoles available right now have ethernet ports, so networking is no problem.
If they had released this game for XBox and Playstation II (or even just one of them) their market would have been GIGANTIC. Absolutely enormous. With an automatic, almost guaranteed purchase of a follow-on title when the new consoles come out (doubling the revenue).
But they put it out for PCs. WINDOWS PC's. ONLY!
Way to go, guys. Sigh...
Farewell! It's been a fine buncha years!
Actually, due to a power surge, Morpheus was simply split into his two component parts. Zion will now be led by Cowboy Curtis and Ike Turner.
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You are suffering from a common misconception here: There was neither a second nor a third movie. "The Matrix" is the only film ever made and ends with Neo realizing he is The One. Any further additions to this story line would have been pure crap, suffering from lack of vision, no imagination, bad execusion, bad dialog, logic holes large enough to hide Zion in, and therefore were never made. You might be under the impression that you were in a movie theatre and saw two further firms, but this is a figment of your imagination. Hell is populated by lots of half-naked women in rubber and leather fetish clothing? Sure. In your dreams (well, possibly in mine, too, but that's a different story).
Neo is the savior, Trinity is alive, and Mr. Smith is dead. This is the truth and the whole truth. Believing anything else would just support sensless greed on the part of Holywood film managers and ruin something that was beautiful.
I didn't have any more of a joke thought up than "New Netcraft Survey Confirms *Morpheus is dead."
Sorry.
And Superman died in the comic books. Again and again and again.
"When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
You knew this was coming. The ending of the Beta had Morpheus dying with a cinematic to boot. They wouldn't have gone through all that hassle of creating a cinematic with voice over and not use it. Personally I think they are pushing the story forward too quickly as the game hasn't been out all that long and now when people buy the game, they find out that Morpheus is dead.
Jeez. After reading all the griping about Matrix 2 and 3, and then all the kvetching about Ep.1 and 2 and even 3, which was really pretty decent though far from flawless...I gotta say, you geeks are the whiniest MFers on the face of the earth when it comes to your beloved franchises, just total nattering nabobs of negativity when it comes to flicks following the footsteps of truly monumental movies.
Every one of these films were worth my ten bucks if for the great special effects alone. Sure, none of them quite lived up to hopes for where the story could go, and some had non-trivial plot or goofiness or pacing issues, but DAMN you guys bitch bitch bitch! Compared to typical summer shlockbusters, every one of these sequels is frickin' ART.
SO YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: The Comic for Dealing with Death
We're talking about Science Fiction here. Nothing is permanent, and normal physical constraints do not apply. In soap operas, they have characters die off if there's a contract dispute or something, then bring them back when it's convenient. Star Trek made 3 movies around Spock's death and the quest to resurrect him. While Morpheus's death may certainly be permanent if the writers choose to leave it that way, they can also bring him back at any time if they want. This really isn't a big deal, it's the nature of fiction, especially sci-fi.
I remember I stopped watching Melrose Place when that redhead (who I think is now on Desperate Housewives) who had died in a car accident came back.
rooooar
Lets see... machines won't let them have Neo's body. Morpheus looking for Neo... Masked assasin with crazy skills Morpheus hasn't seen before.... Gee, is it a changed Neo? hmm....
here is was thinking thep2p app was dead. Actually, i am surprised anyone even uses it anymore
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
Personally I don't get why they are making such a big deal that she's black (a talented writer is a talented writer) but she won her suit and the story goes a long way to explain why their story started off so good and ended so badly. Maybe if they'd collaborated with the actual author they'd have pulled off something truly remarkable. But we'll never know.
Here's another article that has more of the same. I like the quote at the end of the article. Anyhow, she won her suit and is now proceeding with racketeering charges. I enjoyed the Matrix but if Warner Brothers wants to target individuals for (comparatively) small-scale copyright infringement why shouldn't they be held to the same standards?
Quack, quack.
Morpheus tried to pressure cooperation by planting bombs throughout the Matrix infrastructure.
Huh? To do what, spread terror? I can hear the cries of "10010101! 10010101!" now.
They can't mean IN the Matrix, because they would just changey changey and its like nothing ever happened.
The Matrix Online == Bob's Backyard Teh-Matrix!!!1 Show on the IntarWeb. Who writes this stuff, second graders? I can't wait til the next exciting installment when Morpheus is resurrected by Optimus Prime and Pikachu and gets cooties when Trinity kisses him.
Also, Daniel worked for a guy named King Nebuchadnezzar, so it's pretty solid evidence that there's no Sandman connection.
Well, it says here, here and here that she did.
Quack, quack.