i’m playing on ps2 and typical of a lot of multiplatform games on ps2 it runs like shit and looks worse, it is lovely and enhancing the experience a lot
also all the cutscenes! anyone who saw matrix reloaded and didn’t play this game missed out on tons of shit lol
some games just do not benefit from running well or looking good lol and enter the matrix is one of 'em
the slowdown is diegetic
This is one of the weirdest and most interesting games I’ve ever played I think
How many levels of meta are going on in this game, I don’t think the game even cares to keep track
Play Path of Neo next.
This sounds on-theme.
Path of Neo is incredible because it has a completely different end sequence than the Matrix Revolutions and they make you watch an FMV of the Wachowskis explaining the new final boss fight before you do it
or go deep and dig into Matrix Online
There’s still an M:O poster in our office
that bit in the Matrix where they imply that '90s-style cubicle farms are the only form of existence? It’s literalized in an MMO whose only environments are empty city streets overwhelmed by perfectly-smooth skyscrapers and infinite office rooms
It’s interesting. Like, I get this out of movies a lot. Often when you clean up a certain kind of a movie too much, e.g. a 1970s horror flick, it loses a bunch of its texture and atmosphere. You see the seams, and it becomes just a cheaply-made movie rather than this grungy, desperate thing that’s happening in front of you.
It’s easy to draw the comparison to phosphor bleed and other CRT artifacts that make older games look and feel the way they do, and in many cases were meant to. But once you start to get into more complex territory with 3D geometry and what-have-you, one wonders at what point one leaves the cosy immersive skuzziness of low-res suspension of disbelief and enters this dull representative valley.
They were still doing the halloween event when the Matrix Online shut down and so the game was completely shrouded in this eerie fog up until the very end. Everybody left kind of met up in one spot in the city and they eventually gave us all GM powers to have a clusterfuck final battle that lasted right up until the servers shut down. I think about this a lot.
Kane & Lynch 2 looks awful at 4k and 60fps on the Xbox One. I think the PS3 version is actually the most interesting because of how the technical limitations bolster the visual style of the game.
This FMV is amazing for so many reasons.
It’s really good, I just wish it wasn’t an incredibly awkward thing to show people!
My brother got Enter the Matrix when we were kids who loved the Matrix and shared a PS2, and we thought it was OK but alas his copy was defective and/or scratched and couldn’t go past the 3rd level. and it wasn’t so good that we were gonna beg for another copy
I remember it had a console command option where you could enter “hacks” (cheats basically) and i still think that is dope
the mega cd version of ninja warriors has an option on the main menu labelled “zuntata”
you might think it’s a sound test, but it is actually a weird photostory prologue with english narration
Yeah all the extra stuff is accessed through what’s basically a DOS prompt. There’s a bunch of weird stuff you can find and programs to run. It’s also where you unlock the secret multiplayer fighting mode with POLICECAR MAN. You have to launch a specific program to enter cheats, which are all in hexadecimal. Some of the cheats are traps programmed in by the machines and like, cause glitches and kill you and shit. There’s a big elaborate puzzle to be solved and you have to do some incredibly '90s ass hacking shit to find all the secrets. Ironically this kind of is the most interesting thing about it and I’ve always wanted a Matrix game where you play as the operator and spend all your time in a terminal interface spawning guns and hacking shit for people.
this Hobbesian nightmarescape is a live version of that and generates some real interesting stories
you always recommend me the most interesting games!
a life wasted
No, that’s uncharacteristically self-deprecating.
Let’s go with, I’ve managed to structure my life to be remunerated for archiving this sort of knowledge