Sorter wrote:

Sabus wrote:

Sorter wrote:

In order to be effective I think it would be better if Rare or Virrago moved the official story summary as a main entry on DN1, under the title, "Cumulative Storyline Summary Chapters 1-10" or something.  It would give it the official patina.  Plus, what a perfect time, after the 10th chapter!  How perfectly...symmetrical.

I agree. Im my option, if I was a normal person who really doesn't know that much about Wiki (even though I don't know if there is anyone that doesn't know about Wiki nowadays) and wanted to know the history of the matrix, what a better site to go to than the game's offical one. And what better luck would there be, clearly on the main page, a link to a complete outline of everything that's happened so far.

Thank you.  In fact, I am a bit of a nub when it comes to the mechanics of Wiki.  I'm always looking up random esoteric information to get quick thumbnail ideas of different things and its worked fine thus far.  The MxO entry has the most flagging and dissention I've seen thus far, but maybe I've just had good luck thus far.

Also I thought of another good reason for an official summary to go up.  Heaven forbid, one day this game will end, and I or others may want to go back and reference the storyline.  Especially if the W bros revisit the series in ten years or something.

Lol The Matrix 4.... Hmmm... It's probably suck but i'd be the first person in the usa to buy a ticket. It would be kinda cool to see the assassin, the general, and that code dude that i don't know his name in a movie. But without neo, trinity, and morpheus- or at least after the first 15 minutes lol- it would be a weird matrix.

Hehe nah I don't think it'll go down like that at all.  I swear, at the end of Revolutions, at the theater way back when, I said to myself, I know what they're gonna do.  They're gonna put the series to rest for a long time, maybe 10-15 years.  Then, they'll revisit it when little Sati is all growed up and she'll be the protagonist.  I don't think it will have the original cast.  Maybe, maybe not.  But the gap between 3 and 4 will take place in real time.  And as far as MxO goes, I hope there will be an Animatrix type short to cover this gap, hopefully including highlights from MxO (minus pew-pew lazer eyes).

I really did think this out at the end of Rev, the 2nd time I saw it in the theater.  It seemed pretty logical at the time and it still does after all this time.  Look at the other big gaps between modern classics, like Indy 4, the gap between the 1st Star Wars and the prequels, etc.

But the movies after the big gaps are mostly stinkers! =p

Ahhhh.... True. Perfect example. Starship Troopers 3. Way to long of a gap- not to mention the 2nd sucked. Oh, and The X-Files 2. I haven't seen it yet even though I'm dieing too- but everyone said it blew.

Big gaps are stinkers

I just thought I'd inform anyone still reading this thread that I have been given administrator rights to matrixonline.wikia.com since its previous administrators have abandoned it. I intend to fully refurbish the site (which was pretty poorly created and maintained to begin with, honestly) and keep a detailed storyline summary there amid definitions of other concepts, characters, and events in MxO. As with all wikis as much help as possible is appreciated, and I'm sure there are many of you out there who are capable of and willing to help edit this project so that it can be the best resource possible, and any help provided will be appreciated.

So soon there will be a good, complete MxO storyline resource on the intarwebz.

And this was a little longer before the notdamn forum ate my post...

Heaven forbid, one day this game will end, and I or others may want to go back and reference the storyline.

But the movies after the big gaps are mostly stinkers! =p

O Ye of Little Faith!

We're not talking about Police Academy 6 here.

It depends upon the director.  W Bros only have made 3 really, Bound, Matrix Trilogy (counting them as 1), and Speed Racer.  They produced V.  I'd like them to try other styles of movies, maybe a lower-key movie next, like Bound was.  Let them hone their craft, do other things for the next several years, then revisit it.  They're still relatively young.  Look at the great directors, 40 years of movies isn't uncommon.  The post studio system wave of new directors that came up in the 60's and 70's are right about there now (Scorcese, Speilberg, Lucas, off the top of my head).

Rarebit wrote:

8.2
Zion turns to ex-Zionite specialist Danielle Wright when the Machines compromise their red pill program. Wright develops a new, secure pill for Zion, but is killed by the Machines, who use her hidden, direct access to Zion to insert a virus into Zion's mainframe, while a Cypherite spy destroys Zion's command center with a bomb. The Merovingian finds that the Machines do rely on humans for power, with regular pod centers across the otherwise barren surface of the planet, and have barely enough energy to run the Matrix and their own city.

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monkeymanx8 wrote:

Rarebit wrote:

8.2
Zion turns to ex-Zionite specialist Danielle Wright when the Machines compromise their red pill program. Wright develops a new, secure pill for Zion, but is killed by the Machines, who use her hidden, direct access to Zion to insert a virus into Zion's mainframe, while a Cypherite spy destroys Zion's command center with a bomb. The Merovingian finds that the Machines do rely on humans for power, with regular pod centers across the otherwise barren surface of the planet, and have barely enough energy to run the Matrix and their own city.

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Mervs had a series of crits where the Merv stated it'd be horribly inefficient to use humans for energy, sent General to do recon in the Real. Cue storm seeding and such, visits with the Coroner to discuss input/output, Raini for stuff about fission... I can't describe it very well, but I did a bunch of those missions while grinding for... War Sword I think it was, and those really stood out in my memory as much more interesting than usual crits. They were fun, and this is coming from someone who hates missions with a passion after ~dozen 50s. That revelation (and the precursor thread leading to it) should be in the extended story summary. Or just run the Archives :O

Bayamos wrote:

monkeymanx8 wrote:

Rarebit wrote:

8.2
Zion turns to ex-Zionite specialist Danielle Wright when the Machines compromise their red pill program. Wright develops a new, secure pill for Zion, but is killed by the Machines, who use her hidden, direct access to Zion to insert a virus into Zion's mainframe, while a Cypherite spy destroys Zion's command center with a bomb. The Merovingian finds that the Machines do rely on humans for power, with regular pod centers across the otherwise barren surface of the planet, and have barely enough energy to run the Matrix and their own city.

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Mervs had a series of crits where the Merv stated it'd be horribly inefficient to use humans for energy, sent General to do recon in the Real. Cue storm seeding and such, visits with the Coroner to discuss input/output, Raini for stuff about fission... I can't describe it very well, but I did a bunch of those missions while grinding for... War Sword I think it was, and those really stood out in my memory as much more interesting than usual crits. They were fun, and this is coming from someone who hates missions with a passion after ~dozen 50s. That revelation (and the precursor thread leading to it) should be in the extended story summary. Or just run the Archives :O

Ok, so the Merv finds it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for humans to be used as energy. But he doesn't confirm that they aren't the power source, does he?

monkeymanx8 wrote:

Bayamos wrote:

monkeymanx8 wrote:

Rarebit wrote:

8.2
Zion turns to ex-Zionite specialist Danielle Wright when the Machines compromise their red pill program. Wright develops a new, secure pill for Zion, but is killed by the Machines, who use her hidden, direct access to Zion to insert a virus into Zion's mainframe, while a Cypherite spy destroys Zion's command center with a bomb. The Merovingian finds that the Machines do rely on humans for power, with regular pod centers across the otherwise barren surface of the planet, and have barely enough energy to run the Matrix and their own city.

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Mervs had a series of crits where the Merv stated it'd be horribly inefficient to use humans for energy, sent General to do recon in the Real. Cue storm seeding and such, visits with the Coroner to discuss input/output, Raini for stuff about fission... I can't describe it very well, but I did a bunch of those missions while grinding for... War Sword I think it was, and those really stood out in my memory as much more interesting than usual crits. They were fun, and this is coming from someone who hates missions with a passion after ~dozen 50s. That revelation (and the precursor thread leading to it) should be in the extended story summary. Or just run the Archives :O

Ok, so the Merv finds it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for humans to be used as energy. But he doesn't confirm that they aren't the power source, does he?

No, he just notes the discrepancy and finds it very curious.  This was the one storyline possibility vetoed by the W Bros, that we find out the Machines are podding humans for some other reason entirely.   That angle had a lot of promise in my opinion.  I agree with Bay on the Merv Ch 8 crits, they were one of my favorites.  And also because it shows somewhat of an evolution of character, that he is beginning to become curious about the world outside the Matrix.

Villemar_MxO wrote:

This was the one storyline possibility vetoed by the W Bros, that we find out the Machines are podding humans for some other reason entirely.

Well, they are. They still get energy out of it, but they *could* be getting energy much more efficiently by other means.

Rarebit wrote:

Villemar_MxO wrote:

This was the one storyline possibility vetoed by the W Bros, that we find out the Machines are podding humans for some other reason entirely.

Well, they are. They still get energy out of it, but they *could* be getting energy much more efficiently by other means.

 

I didn't mean to imply both were mutually exclusive