Only slightly off topic... Ready Player One

IndianaGeoff

Just sayin... I saw some of you in the movie.

And I want that Gundam power up.

Great movie if you have not seen it. It nails the gamer culture in a fun, respective way.

DieAlteHexe

Interpreter needed in Aisle One!

Tasear

Dors it have ascepts that remind you of elder scrolls? This might interest me? How was gaming protayed?

Checkmath

now i want to watch that movie even more^^

Ostacia

I just finished the book! Can't hardly wait to see it and criticize lol....

magictucktuck

i want to see it but i have to wait for it to come on xbox since i have a 2 year old. people wouldnt be happy if i brought him lol

ArtCommissions

Great movie. Love it absolutely. It was surprisingly good as I didn't expect much.

How I wish we can have similar concepts in ESO haha. Dying once would result in zeroing out. Pretty hardcore there.

Universe

ArtCommissions wrote: »

Great movie. Love it absolutely. It was surprisingly good as I didn't expect much.

How I wish we can have similar concepts in ESO haha. Dying once would result in zeroing out. Pretty hardcore there.

Indeed.
ESO is really... easy mode compared to this game

I enjoyed watching the movie but I expected something similar to the Matrix(virtual reality that looks more similar to real life world) , there was too much animation going on and it was a bit frantic.
Also, the script had some issues(not going into detail to not add spoilers).
Overall score: about 7.5 out of 10

DoctorESO

"Ready Player One is a 2018 American science fiction adventure film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline, based on Cline's 2011 LitRPG novel of the same name. The film stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, Simon Pegg, Hannah John-Kamen and Mark Rylance.

The film is set in the year 2045, when much of humanity, escaping the desolation of the real-world, uses the virtual reality software OASIS to engage in work and play. Wade Watts (Sheridan) discovers clues to a hidden game within the program that promises the winner full ownership of the OASIS, and joins several allies to try to complete the game before indentured players working for a large company, run by Nolan Sorrento (Mendelsohn), can do so.

Ready Player One premiered at South by Southwest on March 11, 2018, was theatrically released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on March 29, 2018, in 2D, Real D 3D, IMAX and IMAX 3D. It has grossed $391.3 million worldwide, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of 2018. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for its visuals and brisk pacing, and noting it an improvement over the book, while criticism was directed at the lack of character development and "achingly regressive" view of pop culture fans.[8][9]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_One_(film)

IndianaGeoff

Tasear wrote: »

Dors it have ascepts that remind you of elder scrolls? This might interest me? How was gaming protayed?

I wouldn't say it is direct to Elder Scrolls. You had questing, puzzle solving, game research, items and power gaming. The game in the movie was really more battle royale.

I just saw the personalities. The nice, high level gamer who is loyal to friends. The geeked out nerd who really wants to role play and every one else too. The lamer gamer who cash buys every powerup. The 11 year old acting like an adult. The crafting maven who loves to make stuff for buds. Even a "Chinese" gold farm to sell game stuff for cash. Lots of others too.

It was fun and even more fun for someone that grew up from pong to now.

MLGProPlayer

The trailer for it was so cringy. I have no interest in seeing it.

DoctorESO

IndianaGeoff wrote: »

Tasear wrote: »

Dors it have ascepts that remind you of elder scrolls? This might interest me? How was gaming protayed?

I wouldn't say it is direct to Elder Scrolls. You had questing, puzzle solving, game research, items and power gaming. The game in the movie was really more battle royale.

I just saw the personalities. The nice, high level game who is loyal to friends. The geeked out nerd who really wants to role play and every one else to. The lamer game who cash buys every powerup. The 11 year old acting like an adult. The crafting marvin who loves to make stuff for buds. Even a "Chinese" gold farm to sell came stuff for cash. Lots of others too.

It was fun and even more fun for someone that grew up from pong to now.

Why is "Chinese" in quotes? Was another country used in the movie?

IndianaGeoff

Why is "Chinese" in quotes? Was another country used in the movie?

Very mild spoiler...

Instead of a room of gamers grinding in the third world, it is western debt slaves.

Thogard

I loved it so much for all the references to the games I played as a kid that I didn’t have any room in my heart left to hate it for the many plot holes.

Was an extremely fun movie that will definitely not win any awards lol.

The book targets people ages 35-45. The references in this movie aim younger.

I never thought I’d live to see the day that someone says “play as oddjob in slappers only in Goldeneye 64” in a blockbuster movie.

Linaleah

honestly, i agree with one of the reviews to it. specifically - the game with perma death would never EVER become that big. especially since when your character dies - you lose ALL the property you got there. for good. and before anyone brings up Eve online. 1. there is no perma death in Eve. and 2, while you CAN spend real life money in it AND lose it, its nowhere near on a level of Oasis. and 3. mot importantly, while Eve is a successful game for what it is, its also an incredible niche game.

Oasis is basically Second life with perma death. at most it it would be a very VERY niche game, not this all encompasing virtual reality with no maintenance times.

as for personalities, well.. its kind of intentional, since original author based the characters on players he met while gaming online.

ForsakenSin

Why do i fell like its been ripped off from this anime...

Anyway i might see it one day however if you are interested in the similar concept this anime hands down is amazing

Sixty5

The plot was a pretty massive letdown for me tbh.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the movie, but it was mostly because it was carried by the visuals and the references. If I didn't have a vested interest in the content, I'd have probably rated it less than the 7/10 I gave it.

And honestly I find that sad, because there was material for a good story there, but so much of it felt forced and sped over.
spoilers ahead, so be warned.

One of the really egregious examples here is the resistance. You have the build up with Artemis alluding to it, along with the increase in drama with the reveal and the attack on the stacks. The resistance is never touched on again. The closest we get is a backstory of why IOI is bad, and a setting for an attack.
You could remove every mention of the resistance in the film, and the story wouldn't suffer in any way.

I'm not sure how many of the issues I had with the film were down to the source material, or to the film adaptation.

But in the end, if you go into the film looking for cool visuals and pop culture references, you'll leave happy. But if you are looking for a well-written and believable story, you won't.

Rohamad_Ali

Pacrooti wrote: »

Love this movie! Movie has no crown crates though, shame!

Waffennacht

ForsakenSin wrote: »

Why do i fell like its been ripped off from this anime...

Anyway i might see it one day however if you are interested in the similar concept this anime hands down is amazing

.hack/sign was even before that, and was really well done

Ydrisselle

ForsakenSin wrote: »

Why do i fell like its been ripped off from this anime...

Anyway i might see it one day however if you are interested in the similar concept this anime hands down is amazing

Well... not really. The setting is similar, that's all.

Lylith

spielberg?

pass.

Cpt_Teemo

Only if battle scenes in movies were as epic as the regular Lotr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDahhSsOXsg

Feric51

Wintergreen wrote: »

I just finished the book! Can't hardly wait to see it and criticize lol....

@Wintergreen - outside of three keys and an Easter egg, the movie resembles nothing of the book.

I loved the book, but based on the trailer alone, I knew the movie strayed considerably. I went and saw it with an open mind, and was entertained by the movie, but if you’re expecting to see the book on the silver screen you will be sorely disappointed.

sylviermoone

I felt the movie kept to the spirit of the book, which isn't surprising since Ernest Cline also wrote the screen play. There were enough '80's references to keep us happy, but enough newer references to keep my 16 year old happy, too.

This is not the book in movie form, and if that is what you expect, you will be disappointed. The movie is quite enjoyable in it's own right, though.

Thogard

Feric51 wrote: »

Wintergreen wrote: »

I just finished the book! Can't hardly wait to see it and criticize lol....

@Wintergreen - outside of three keys and an Easter egg, the movie resembles nothing of the book.

I loved the book, but based on the trailer alone, I knew the movie strayed considerably. I went and saw it with an open mind, and was entertained by the movie, but if you’re expecting to see the book on the silver screen you will be sorely disappointed.

I’m not sure what you mean by this. The plot was exactly the same, just shortened. Only minor details like the challenges and the references were changed. Nobody would want to see the main character playing Atari for 20 minutes or quoting war games line by line.

All of the major plot points - with the exception of that one tragic thing that gets left out of the movie - made it or were “condensed” to make the plot flow faster. For instance, in the book, close to a year passes as the main character does that sneaky thing he does. We can’t do that in the movie, so they change up the character that does that.

Danikat

I thought it was ok, except that it was only the novelty of the setting that compensated for the plot being extremely generic and predictable (and IMO over done, especially at the milder end of dystopian sci-fi).

I didn't think about it being basically a copy of Sword Art Online though. It did remind me of Summer Wars, which is almost exactly the same except the bad guy is another gamer instead of a corporation.

I have to admit though I'm not keen on the game/virtual world from what you got to see of it. It's basically Second Life with VR and had some IMO terrible and out-dated mechanics like kill/loot stealing (at one point the main character specifically says he's going to run behind everyone else in a race so he can loot their corpses when they die - implying he doesn't have to kill them, he just has to be passing as it happens and can steal the loot from whoever actually made the kill).

Also it seemed to be a classic "freemium" free-to-play, pay-to-win game with the bad guys able to get a huge advantage by buying very powerful items (which we were told at one point are very rare RNG drops) and then paying someone else to use them because they weren't high enough level to do it themselves. (And as mentioned it even featured gold farmers using slave labour to make money in the game.)

Also the inventory system seemed like it would be an absolute pain if you have more than a few items, since it only showed about 3-4 things at a time. Maybe there was an option to expand it, or filter by item type, but even so it seemed annoying.

I wish they'd shown more of the crafting though. The fact that players were apparently able to make anything they could imagine made it sound interesting, but you never get to see items being made. A bike is repaired during the movie but it happens off-screen.

But overall I think I prefer ESO (and GW2). I remember hearing how great Second Life would be when it first came out, but it never really appealed to me and I don't understand why so many movies/TV shows/books (there's a new one in the UK called Kiss Me First which is very similar) seem to think it's the ultimate idea of what all MMOs should be like when the reality is the majority of developers aren't even trying to go down that route and the majority of players don't seem to want it.

(I was also bothered by the implication that gamers just want to ignore problems instead of trying to fix them when to me a lot of games, especially RPGs, are all about trying to fix problems, both big and small, by doing whatever you can to help. I think learning that mentality from games is part of why I ended up working in conservation.)

Alexandea

There is one question though, which is a Super major spoiler so if you have not watched the movie yet, please do not click this spoiler!!!

Are you sure you want to click on this spoiler??

Did the creator Halliday transfer his conscious into the Oasis so that he can live in there forever?

xbobx

i think people under 30 may not even understand half the references in the movie.

I really enjoyed it. Now we need an iron giant sequel.

IndianaGeoff

Pacrooti wrote: »

There is one question though, which is a Super major spoiler so if you have not watched the movie yet, please do not click this spoiler!!!

Agree, hinted but unclear and no payoff.

IndianaGeoff

Sixty5 wrote: »

But in the end, if you go into the film looking for cool visuals and pop culture references, you'll leave happy. But if you are looking for a well-written and believable story, you won't.

Kind of like most RPG quests.

I agree with the plot comments. This is a game nostalgia fest with good action. Plot is predictably meh. Just turn off the brain, hold on and enjoy the ride.

IndianaGeoff

Pacrooti wrote: »

Love this movie! Movie has no crown crates though, shame!

Yeah, you just paid for powerups without the gamble.