I can't think of anything, but there's no reason you couldn't say new technology or new kinds of systems or new kinds of games make it possible, even if every character in the original series at one point turned to the camera and stated straight up "there are no games in the Web and can never be".
During the episode, 'when games collide', which you're lucky I just saw, Bob mentions to Enzo that games in the Supercomputer are bigger, faster, harder, and can bring multiple users together at once.
You know, this may be off topic and akin to beating a dead horse since you've decided to drop the whole alien bit, but did you ever think about using the concept of the quantum computer for the basis of the Gnosis entity?
Nah, clearly, Gnosis should be a Beowulf cluster connected via the "Web" - multiple systems using parallel computing on the same task, coordinated from his "lair". I mean, what's that made-up-of-tinier-men thing but a great visual metaphor for a multiprocessor environment?
Although it's never been mentioned as impossble, the definition of 'the web' in Reboot as always seemed to be the passage ways that connect networks and systems, so a game could travel through these passage ways for multi-user fun, but not actually be intalled there. A server would have to be a system connected to the web in my understanding. Fantastic to hear your considering multi-user games though, I think it'll be great.
Albedo makes a good point, now that I see this here. Still, I stand by what I said on JH. It hasn't been DISproven. It would be cool to see what you guys come up with to explain a game in the Web, and I'd imagine a Web game to appear very different from one in the 'net. Maybe it's not engineered by Users at all but a quick mock-up by Gnosis? A virus that writes games and uses them as tools. This sound like great fun the more I think about it.
Thanks. I've been letting a lot of this roll in my head lately. Sadly, I probably won't be able to get my ideas down before I go off to the wilderness for the next week, so I can't help.
But the idea of Gnosis being a sort of zombie worm, and the bodies that compose him being representative of infected systems running his code in parallel... I think there's merit there. You can imagine him manifesting on some alien system across the web where the infection began, each body simultaneously connected to him, and in, say, the Core of an infected system, following his commands, bringing everything in line. Or each body simply being a physical manifestation of the System-gestalt... perhaps Our Heroes combat him, not directly, but by multi-pronged assaults that reconvert some systems, causing his "body" to start fighting amongst itself...
I dunno. A *lot* of ideas are floating in my head, and I sadly haven't time to refine them.
Gosh, I was thinking... didn't Enzo get lost in the games? Didn't that involve the Net/Web/whatever? I mean, I don't really remember that well, but when Enzo got trapped in the game for however many years and came back as Matrix, didn't he get lost in the Web? Or did he simply get lost in "the Games" ?
rek commented 4 years ago
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I can't think of anything, but there's no reason you couldn't say new technology or new kinds of systems or new kinds of games make it possible, even if every character in the original series at one point turned to the camera and stated straight up "there are no games in the Web and can never be".
Wren commented 4 years ago
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Personally, I'd love to see Matrix and Little Enzo in a Flash-based Whack-a-Penguin distance game.
Shadowbolt commented 4 years ago
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During the episode, 'when games collide', which you're lucky I just saw, Bob mentions to Enzo that games in the Supercomputer are bigger, faster, harder, and can bring multiple users together at once.
Wren commented 4 years ago
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You know, this may be off topic and akin to beating a dead horse since you've decided to drop the whole alien bit, but did you ever think about using the concept of the quantum computer for the basis of the Gnosis entity?
Chronos commented 4 years ago
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Nah, clearly, Gnosis should be a Beowulf cluster connected via the "Web" - multiple systems using parallel computing on the same task, coordinated from his "lair". I mean, what's that made-up-of-tinier-men thing but a great visual metaphor for a multiprocessor environment?
Albedo commented 4 years ago
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Although it's never been mentioned as impossble, the definition of 'the web' in Reboot as always seemed to be the passage ways that connect networks and systems, so a game could travel through these passage ways for multi-user fun, but not actually be intalled there. A server would have to be a system connected to the web in my understanding. Fantastic to hear your considering multi-user games though, I think it'll be great.
WeBViRuS commented 4 years ago
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Albedo makes a good point, now that I see this here. Still, I stand by what I said on JH. It hasn't been DISproven. It would be cool to see what you guys come up with to explain a game in the Web, and I'd imagine a Web game to appear very different from one in the 'net. Maybe it's not engineered by Users at all but a quick mock-up by Gnosis? A virus that writes games and uses them as tools. This sound like great fun the more I think about it.
Wren commented 4 years ago
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That actually is a really good angle, Chronos.
Chronos commented 4 years ago
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Thanks. I've been letting a lot of this roll in my head lately. Sadly, I probably won't be able to get my ideas down before I go off to the wilderness for the next week, so I can't help.
But the idea of Gnosis being a sort of zombie worm, and the bodies that compose him being representative of infected systems running his code in parallel... I think there's merit there. You can imagine him manifesting on some alien system across the web where the infection began, each body simultaneously connected to him, and in, say, the Core of an infected system, following his commands, bringing everything in line. Or each body simply being a physical manifestation of the System-gestalt... perhaps Our Heroes combat him, not directly, but by multi-pronged assaults that reconvert some systems, causing his "body" to start fighting amongst itself...
I dunno. A *lot* of ideas are floating in my head, and I sadly haven't time to refine them.
Astragem14 commented 4 years ago
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Gosh, I was thinking... didn't Enzo get lost in the games? Didn't that involve the Net/Web/whatever? I mean, I don't really remember that well, but when Enzo got trapped in the game for however many years and came back as Matrix, didn't he get lost in the Web? Or did he simply get lost in "the Games" ?