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[kv]

Of course, that would be a kind of terrifying run- you get the diamonds, get out, and this huge troll packed with cyberwear chases you down, killing your team one at a time.

  -kv

[Gabriel]

Sounds like just another night in the Sprawl, chummer.

Gabriel

[ROOTless]

That it does.

[BornKrazi]

[Curris]

I'm suprised that no one has mentioned Tron. Granted, it's old, dated, and has different mechanics, but it's among the prime inspirations (Or inspired by) many different cyberpunk books, movies, etc. It's shows you how some of the Matrix could look, and how everything needs permissions, and the world is abstracted. Plus the MCP could act like a punk of an AI (Cough, Deus, Cough). . . .

[kv]

Hmmm... which came first? Tron or Gibson's "Matrix?"

  -kv

[Zone]

Tron 1982
Gibson's Neuromancer 1984

[kv]

So, if Tron was shown in 82, it was arguably filmed in 80-81, and probably written in 79/80.

How can Gibson complain that Shadowrun is derivitave (a rip-off, I've heard it called) of his original idea? Because they used the phrases "Matrix," or "Cyberspace"?

  -kv

 

[ROOTless]

Go read Burning Chrome. I'm pretty sure he used to concept back then even.
In Burning Chrome if not the earlier short stories.

[kv]

Hmmm... but all of that stuff was published in 81, when production of the Tron movie would've already been under production (movies typically take about two years to make, from start of production to release- Lucas reorganized the way movies were shot with Star Wars, when he had the novel idea of shooting scenes, not in the order they were in the script, but in the order that was best arranged to use the same sets, and then tearing them down for new sets).

So I wonder which actually came first.
(Burning Chrome was written in 1985? With the guy who wrote Babylon 5?)

  -kv

[BornKrazi]

Yeah you guys fried my brain again!!!  LOL

[Gabriel]

Has anyone mentioned Final Fantasy? That movie looks EXACTLY how I've always pictured the Matrix looking: hyper-real CG, but obviously so. You can't mistake full immersion for reality, but it's real enough to provide a fantastic substitute.

Gabriel

[kv]

Does this mean every time I come into the Matrix, I have to look at someone and think to myself "That looks like Ben Affleck... but it's not... Who IS that?"

  -kv

[Gabriel]

Gabriel

[Curris]

Has anyone mentioned Final Fantasy? That movie looks EXACTLY how I've always pictured the Matrix looking: hyper-real CG, but obviously so. You can't mistake full immersion for reality, but it's real enough to provide a fantastic substitute.

Gabriel

You raise a good point, Sir. The only way to mistake full immersion for reality is through overuse/abuse of BTL ASIST and perhaps extended-stay immersion (As in 4+ real time days in the Matrix)

But that's more psychological than a technical issue.