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Post by Deinonychus on Mar 3, 2018 13:02:25 GMT -5
As the movie Ready Player One moves closer to release, the trailers and commercials are becoming more prevalent. One of the big attractions of the movie is the large mix of licensed properties and characters that are in it as part of the game's world. Also, there seems to be a focus on how the world allows whatever you can imagine to become a sort of reality (song choice from Willy Wonka an obvious sign).
So, as someone who over the past 5 or so years has really lost their appetite for video games and the direction they are heading I need to ask questions to anyone who has read the book or knows about the workings of the movie.
Does the Oasis of the story have any sort of in-game economy? Can someone jumping in from purchase immediately race around in a Back to the Future Delorean or KITT or a Warthog or do you have to spend a bunch of money to buy those perks? Do you start out as some rando character or can you be Deadpool or Lara Croft or Bob Ross without grinding out experience points for hours and hours of gameplay? Are there aerial combat levels that are locked until you fulfill a set of predetermined milestones? Is there a matchmaking system so that, as a newbie or someone of a lower skill level, you don't always get into competition with people who live in the game and do nothing else?
Essentially what I want to know is, is this Oasis an online realm of fun and fantasy, or is it a more realistic modern video game hellscape of monetization and unfulfilling mis-matched competition?
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Post by Paladin on Mar 3, 2018 15:56:36 GMT -5
The book is utter garbage. Terribly written "dudebro" fantasy about on par with that video game movie Adam Sandler shat out a couple years ago. nobody give this drek any more money.
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Post by Optimal Megatron on Mar 3, 2018 17:11:03 GMT -5
From what I understand, the original book was considered a bit of a self-aggrandizing fantasy based entirely on 80s nostalgia that the writer held.
Obviously from the trailers alone, the 80s nostalgia is getting broadened out to pop culture as a whole (in some cases thanks to legal issues, as the Iron Giant was a replacement for Ultraman in the final battle in the book).
I don't think that it's likely to be an edgy satire commentary on the state of modern gaming because it's an adaptation of a book written before that BECAME the state of modern gaming. So far all the trailers seem to just indicate it was meant to tell a story.
Whether that feels like something you want to take time and money to go see in a theater rather than a movie rental is, of course, up to you. But I'm planning to see it because it looks fun, and good adaptations of terrible source material has happened before.
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Post by machsabre on Mar 8, 2018 21:07:11 GMT -5
Yeah... The trailers did nothing for me. It seemed like... It seemed...
It seemed like the male version of Twilight. (Back when that was a bad thing.) Nothing in this seemed appealing to me at all. All it made me want to do is watch the Iron Giant and Gundam all over again.
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Post by triumshockwave on Mar 10, 2018 19:52:52 GMT -5
Even if you could simply drop into the world and be and have anything, the community would quickly whittle it down to a single optimal build, rendering all other choices unviable. Shortly after, the devs overreact and smack the optimal build with a 50-foot nerf bat to prevent mass player exodus, but it fucks everything up and some players get pissy and leave anyway. As new players come in, the community whittles things down to a NEW optimal build, and the shit starts all over.
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Post by Greatshot on Mar 10, 2018 23:54:54 GMT -5
The snipped from the book there turned me off completely (pun intended).
BUT, going from the trailers alone to me it very much feels like "Nostalgic Reference: The Movie." I see lots of shit in there i recognized and love but i don't get any *feeling* from any of it. Like the nostaliga in Wreck-It Ralph I GOT, because it paid either service to the story or was a loving nod to gaming as a thing. This just seems like "oh lookit, there's a Delorean and some Spartans!"
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