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En tres dimensiones, por supuesto, esa última parte es imposible. Pero agrega otra
dimensión, y podría suceder. Esta es la razón por la que tantas fotos de tesseracts
muestran un cubo más pequeño dentro de uno más grande. Esa es la mejor
aproximación visual que tenemos de un cubo que se saca hacia afuera. Pero no es un
tesseract real. Al igual que cada una de las caras de un cubo es un cuadrado, cada
una de las caras de un tesseract es un cubo.
Jugando con cuatro dimensiones
Cuando las personas entran en cuatro dimensiones, surgen problemas prácticos. Uno
de ellos es lo mismo que hace viajar a los viajeros en el tiempo; semántica. De
repente, estamos lidiando con problemas que no existen, excepto en el borde desigual
de lo hipotético. Los viajeros del tiempo necesitan un tiempo verbal para explicar que
algo sucederá en su futuro personal, pero en todo el pasado del mundo. Los
Dimensionólogos (y sinceramente espero que se llamen así) necesitan palabras para
explicar el movimiento como un punto, una línea o un volumen, a través del espacio de
cuatro dimensiones.
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The other, currently-still-active Lord of the Rings MMO, Lord of the Rings Online.Image: Standing Stone Games
The Lord of the Rings series has a long and strange history with gaming—a history that’s lead to some really weird
interpretations of Middle-earth. But now a new venture wants to take a crack at a Tolkien-esque take on a familiar
format: another massively multiplayer online game.
Despite the fact there’s actually a currently-still-active MMO set in Middle-earth in and around the events of the novels
(the unsurprisingly named Lord of the Rings Online, which launched in 2007), the Hollywood Reporter has word that
another, set before the events of either The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, is now in the works.
Saul Zaentz Co.’s Middle-earth Enterprises (who was previously embroiled in a big lawsuit alongside Warner Bros. with
the Tolkien estate about using its ownership of certain Middle-earth-ian elements in digital games) has struck a deal
with the Hong Kong-based Leyou Technologies—or more specifically, a new studio subsidy of Leyou called Athlon
Games—to create a free to play, massively multiplayer online experience “set in the world of Middle-earth long before
the events of The Lord of the Rings take place.”
We don’t know much beyond that, or even how far before it will wind up going. Like most things involving the Lord of
the Rings brand lately, it’s hard to tell just who has the rights to use which versions of it and where—but this will likely
be its own interpretation of the vast lore of Middle-earth, rather than borrowing from versions we’re already familiar
with. Still, given that Lord of the Rings Online is still active and supported, an entirely new “prequel” in the same genre
seems like a weird idea. No release window was mentioned for the new title, so expect to not hear much from this
latest LOTR-foray into gaming for a while.
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ThisGuyJames Whitbrook
9/04/18 5:32pm
Sort of off topic, but what MMOs does everyone here like?
I’ve been playing Neverwinter on Xbox for a few years off and on. I decided to pick it up again over the holiday weekend and they
added/changed so many things that I couldn’t get my head around it.
Anyone have a suggestion for relatively intuitive MMOs that run on Xbox or a cheap pc?
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o ExploboomThisGuy
9/04/18 5:55pm
GW2 is consistently excellent and a complete and total upheaval of the normal gear treadmill format that most MMOs
have.
Most MMOs I’ve played, once you hit max level, you find yourself in a never-ending rat race for better gear as new content
is released, but in GW2, new content doesn’t generally mean stronger gear, only new skills, new abilities, more things to
explore, and crazy skins, titles, and cosmetic prestige to chase. GW2 hasn’t had a level cap increase since its launch despite
having had two expansions and a crapton of in-between content, but it’s also had very little in the way of stronger gear
released.
It’s a very open-ended and highly liberating experience, after years of games like WoW.
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o Slowdrift_ThisGuy
9/04/18 6:13pm
Theres a lot I love like the combat and leveling every class with the same character but I hate the weird people the game
attracts and some of the massive/ pointless grinds.
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o ThisGuySlowdrift_
9/04/18 6:17pm
Nice, I’ll have to check it out. The last FF game I played was turned based and I never looked at the series after that.
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vinylrakeJames Whitbrook
9/04/18 6:17pm
“...an entirely new “prequel” in the same genre seems like a weird idea.”
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PapaFritaJames Whitbrook
9/04/18 5:31pm
I would think you’d have much more creative license with a different IP in a way that would benefit a MMO much more. The
reason LOTRO worked is that it was recognisable, and it took you through the book’s story from a layman’s perspective as you
leveled up. Otherwise, the world is so grounded in reality that it doesn’t have the variety that games like WoW have. There are
orcs, goblins, and giant spiders practically everywhere; it’s not like you’re fighting genies and dragons and other fancy monsters
from the DnD monster manual. The connection to the books was the primary appeal, and a prequel won’t be as appealing to as
many people because most people are only familiar with the Hobbit and the Rings trilogy. Or maybe I’m overthinking this and
it’s an easy cash grab, who knows.
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jbhelfrichJames Whitbrook
9/04/18 5:22pm
I smell an effort to establish who has rights, and probably get a payoff to go away.
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