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Westworld
Is anyone else watching Westworld? I'm seriously obsessed with this series, and it keeps getting better and better every episode. The last one, #4, is my favourite by far.
It's set around an immersive, virtual-reality MMORPG some time in the distant future. Imagine if they made a show about your experience as a player/God of Aetolia? Yeah, it's like that. The character archetypes consist of "PCs" (Guests), "NPCs" (Hosts) and the staff/programmers who run the game externally. The players play an exorbitant fee to enter the game, where they have absolute power and can do whatever the fuck they want to/with the hosts for ultimate fantasy-fulfilment. Some of them choose to pursue the quests/storylines, others just have lots of sex with the NPCs in the brothel, and others get their kicks out of going on mindless rampages to shoot everything in sight. So basically, just like any MU*, the game is full of bad roleplayers and immersion-breaking PK-whores, as well as people who take the game way too seriously and really want to delve into the story. However, the NPCs start to become self-aware, which is the main drive of the overarching plot of the show.
The game-world is set in a Western, hence the name of the show. But since the world isn't real, and the "Western" characters are actually NPCs, the show's genre is science-fiction (particularly centred around AI) in equal measure.
I LOVE IT. And I feel like other MU*ers and RPers really ought to be fan-freaking with me!
No spoilers in this thread, but I'd love to hear thoughts about it from other people in this community.
Here are a couple of trailers:
It's set around an immersive, virtual-reality MMORPG some time in the distant future. Imagine if they made a show about your experience as a player/God of Aetolia? Yeah, it's like that. The character archetypes consist of "PCs" (Guests), "NPCs" (Hosts) and the staff/programmers who run the game externally. The players play an exorbitant fee to enter the game, where they have absolute power and can do whatever the fuck they want to/with the hosts for ultimate fantasy-fulfilment. Some of them choose to pursue the quests/storylines, others just have lots of sex with the NPCs in the brothel, and others get their kicks out of going on mindless rampages to shoot everything in sight. So basically, just like any MU*, the game is full of bad roleplayers and immersion-breaking PK-whores, as well as people who take the game way too seriously and really want to delve into the story. However, the NPCs start to become self-aware, which is the main drive of the overarching plot of the show.
The game-world is set in a Western, hence the name of the show. But since the world isn't real, and the "Western" characters are actually NPCs, the show's genre is science-fiction (particularly centred around AI) in equal measure.
I LOVE IT. And I feel like other MU*ers and RPers really ought to be fan-freaking with me!
No spoilers in this thread, but I'd love to hear thoughts about it from other people in this community.
Here are a couple of trailers:
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I, quite by accident as it is too easy to buy ebooks on a whim during the daily/monthly sale thingies when there $1, read a book in this genre. It was surprisingly good, but when I tried other books in the genre they were really, really awful. Like they were written by 13 year old Achaeans.
But still, I like AI sci-fi and it's always funny seeing the MMO stereotypes, plus westerns, hello! I haven't watched one since Deadwood.
But I CAN tell you Westworld is a pretty awesome piece of television, no matter which way you carve it, and anyone not already checking it out totally should.
I'm ending my comment here so I don't gush about how much I love the show.
(p.s. it's a looooot.)
Cute-Kelli by @Sessizlik.
Its an amazing show. I was wary of it, when all I saw was the trailers months and months ago, but I definitely agree with @NIa. It's worth watching, and I plan on catching up this week!
Though if someone has read/seen the source material and can recommend it against my reservations, I might change my mind!
I wonder how others would categorize themselves. Discuss!
Basically, I'm in it for the story, the mystery, the exploration. I enjoy playing the game as if I am a God without actually being a God.
While I've been playing Aetolia as a non-combatant and with a fairly light-hearted character, I also tend on other games to have more of an appreciation for hard-mode, consequential play-styles.
I've staffed games before, and when I do, I tend to design them more with people like William in mind than anything else. So I guess in that respect, I'm more of a Ford than an Arnold/Theresa/Catherine/Elsie (and whatever that guy with the really punchable face was called. I forget his name).