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Endurance Run

Endurance Run: The Matrix Online: Not Like This - Part 01

The Matrix Online is ending soon. Ryan and Vinny will BE THERE, MAN!

Vinny and Jeff sit down and take a crack at the latest game in the Shin Megami Tensei series. Will they make it through the entire game?

Jul. 9 2009

Cast: Ryan, Vinny

Posted by: Drew

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The Matrix Online

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it also seems that you have some audio problems, you didnt hear half the voice in the tutorial

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Holy crap! This game is HORRIBLE!!!

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shite game, but entertainment GOLD! I say you get everyone in the office over for this, it's priceless.

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Giant Bomb can make any shit game entertaining. The fact that we are pissing off the last 10 Matrix Online fanboys makes it even sweeter.

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Does that game look as godawful on your monitor as it does in the video? When does Matrix-y stuff happen? That game could be greatly improved by actually giving you some cool Matrix powers. I distinctly remember that Keaneu never had to grind before he was jumping across buildings. If the devs had just said "F what other MMOs do, this is the damn Matrix," then it could have gone somewhere.

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@TobyD81 said:
" Does that game look as godawful on your monitor as it does in the video? When does Matrix-y stuff happen? That game could be greatly improved by actually giving you some cool Matrix powers. I distinctly remember that Keaneu never had to grind before he was jumping across buildings. If the devs had just said "F what other MMOs do, this is the damn Matrix," then it could have gone somewhere. "
You have to remember, The  Matrix Online was in development over 5 years ago... at the time MMOs were still very new to the mass gaming audience,  World of Warcraft hadn't even been released yet  when MxO was in Beta, so there wasnt much to even compare it to.

It is easy to forget just how common place MMOs have become and how almost non existant they were at the time of MxO's release. The Matrix Online really opened up the MMO genre to a LOT of people that would have otherwise probobly never played an MMO, I am definitly one of these, and I personally know many many others.
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@imaximus: Okay, I will accept where The Matrix' development falls on the MMO timeline, but it's still after Everquest. Just by looking at the early stages of this game, I wonder what it could have been if it were developed further from the MMO mold at that time, and really took advantage of the Matrix world as presented in the movies.
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@TobyD81 said:
" @imaximus: Okay, I will accept where The Matrix' development falls on the MMO timeline, but it's still after Everquest. Just by looking at the early stages of this game, I wonder what it could have been if it were developed further from the MMO mold at that time, and really took advantage of the Matrix world as presented in the movies. "
I don't think you are taking into account the fact that whats possible now, wasn't possible back then. I also don't think your taking into account that what you saw in the video was a tiny tiny tiny portion of the full game. Rest assured there is much more to do then collect chopper keys. There were indeed many things that made MxO stand out and VERY unique while still in it's prime.

What people don't know about are the live events we used to have. That has to be the most standout feature. In the beginning we had direct influence on where the story went, and were literally a part of it as it happned. Every week there was an event the pushed the story along and players participated as if they were making the 4th Matrix Movie.

Now its easy to make direct comparisons of the Classes in MxO to classes in other games like Everquest and WoW, but another over looked feature was the fact that your character was NOT bound by one class, it is possible to own every ability tree in the game and be all classes possible (not at once) and make up what ever kind of hybrid class you wanted. Think of the testing that had to be involved in that, you have to not only test and tune every class to be balanced, but ever possible hybrid combination.

Two last things that make the class system unique, combat wise atleast, are Hyperjump, and Hard Lines. Being able to have open world pvp, and it taking place all over the city do to quick easy travel through hundreds of Hardlines is an expirence not possible in most MMOs, this combined with Hyperjump, being able to leap over buildings and fly through the air quarter miles at a time make for an EXTREMLY unique pvp expirence.
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@imaximus: Okay, now that sounds like rad shit. What I'm saying is that at the beginning of Neo's Matrix experience, he could already do rad shit, but none of that is happening at the beginning of the Matrix Online. I'm not knocking any of the awesomeness of the later levels, but it would be nice if, like the movies, the early levels showed some more promise.
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@TobyD81 said:
" @imaximus: Okay, now that sounds like rad shit. What I'm saying is that at the beginning of Neo's Matrix experience, he could already do rad shit, but none of that is happening at the beginning of the Matrix Online. I'm not knocking any of the awesomeness of the later levels, but it would be nice if, like the movies, the early levels showed some more promise. "
Well, the only thing you can't do at low level that you can do at higher lvl is hyperjump. You could still pvp, you could still participate in live events, and you could still go do missions. However you get hyperjump at lvl 10, and it isnt hard to get to lvl 10 at all.

Other then that, sure there are many combat abilitys that you can only use at higher levels, but if you gave everyone everything in the beginning where is the PVE expirence, where is the motivation to keep playing and better your character. No MMO gives you all the good stuff at the beginning, that would defeat the purpose of playing. Growing and bettering your Characters/Toons/Avatars is most of the fun of an MMO.
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Hard to believe this game was released 6 months after WoW.

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I cant wait for Star War the Old Republic, that will kick WOWs ass once and for all.

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Amanda Mattricks LOL

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I played it, had some cool concepts. Hopefully some things will be taken by other games. 

Enjoy the Grind!
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This game looks like utter shite.

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The HUD is complecated, that is why i dont like MMO. But made by Monolith, it can be good.

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They really cashed out & crapped on this franchise.  The sequels & the crappy video games.  Matrix.die.die.die
already.

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Amanda "TonkaTruck" Mattricks...awesome.  "Kneadough" was badass, too.

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@Ineedaname said:
" Awesome this isn't replacing the main ER is it?! "
This game is only around for a few more weeks.
btw, it would be so awesome if the ending was some sort of pseudo announcement of A Matrix film or video game sequel.
edit: or keyboard cat in matrix code
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Oh for god's sake. 


RIGHT CLICK

Seriously. Every MMO uses right click. 
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awsome :D

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All five MXO fanboys can blow me this video rocks.

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/dance

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I like how you hear Jeff in the background quoting it word for word.

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the naming process was the best part. the rest was kind of boring.

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not like this

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FYI for tonkatruck, SOE has increased all players not at lvl 50 to lvl 50 with 4 billion info (dollars) so you could check out the game again at max lvl if you wanted. However youll still need to aquire all the abilitys to max out your character properly, and that might be kinda tough to do.

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The end had me cracking up. Nice run, guys. =P

-Evan

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This video isn't big enough for the two of us.

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What a good episode.

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So what happened?

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I still find it very offsetting more of the users didn't choose to go for martial arts.  Firing guns at your opponent from two feet away takes all the funk out of it.

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I still can't believe people actually played this game.

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@Arrested_Developer: You have to remember how many people were hyping the two movies before/while they were out.  Plus, the Brothers tapped into the whole S&M fetish by putting those club scenes in there, along with putting Monica Belucci in tight leather/spandex clothing.
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 Lincoln Force is the best video game idea EVER

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@Matthew: Ooo, I forgot Monica Belucci was in that matrix movie.  She was also the only worthwhile aspect in Shoot 'Em Up.
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@devotfeige: 
 
What do you mean?
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This was a good Quick look, but not my kind of game.

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I sadly never got to try it, seemed like it could be fun.

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whaat?

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This looks like it would have been really cool back in the day, alas it has not aged well AT ALL!

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You can say that again, the graphics sure do look dated.

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Ugh, Matrix.

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Staring contest.

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 /dance

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Yay matrix

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Bah, all that time spent watching Matrix and it didn't pay off.  I feel SOE owes me a refund just for watching the quick look.

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No, it was never good

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It had some interesting ideas that weren't realized very well.