So I just recently started watching the series Westworld, which is very interesting and worth watching if anyone hasn't seen it yet, and the first thing that immediately jumped out at me is how the park is basically an MMORPG made into a theme park, as we have a bunch of 'guests', the players, who can interact with the 'hosts', the NPCs, who all have a backstory, and story lines, which are basically quests, that the player can follow. It's almost like Fallout, Red Dead Redemption, or GTA in some ways, but immensely more complex.

The series does a bit of commentary on gaming, if you think about it. We see guests coming in and engaging in some pretty devious/twisted stuff, but if we think about it, it's been seen before in gaming as well. It's a bit of commentary on people in general imo.

What also interests me is the tech used to make the park itself. From the looks of it, the hosts have pretty pre-scripted storylines, with procedural only filling in the improvisation part of it. In fact, it's interesting in the sense that most RPG and MMORPG games today make very little use of procedural content. I'm curious what others think?

Just wait until the killing begins (referring to the two movies from the 1970s, of which funnily the original never really scored here, only the sequel did), then it'll be less of a theme park experience.

I think a lot of people might struggle and hesitate to harm such a convincing AI NPC that shows emotion and pleads not to die convincingly...

I think a lot of people might struggle and hesitate to harm such a convincing AI NPC that shows emotion and pleads not to die convincingly...

Well, that aspect does show, with William I think. He's not interested in doing perverted shit. I think what it is is that it's particularly rich people who don't give a shit? Or maybe it's exaggerated for literary effect?

Go watch the rest of the series. There's lots to talk about, but we can't really go into it without serious spoilers.

Just wait until the killing begins (referring to the two movies from the 1970s, of which funnily the original never really scored here, only the sequel did), then it'll be less of a theme park experience.

Wait, there were TWO movies? I've only seen the first...

Go watch the rest of the series. There's lots to talk about, but we can't really go into it without serious spoilers.

I'm working on it! I'm like halfway through!

Just wait until the killing begins (referring to the two movies from the 1970s, of which funnily the original never really scored here, only the sequel did), then it'll be less of a theme park experience.

Just wait until the killing begins (referring to the two movies from the 1970s, of which funnily the original never really scored here, only the sequel did), then it'll be less of a theme park experience.

Wait, there were TWO movies? I've only seen the first...

I've seen "Westworld". I assume that's the first one what's the other? End of Westworld film is basically Terminator...

The sequel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futureworld Funnily, I've never seen the original one, only the sequel. Don't think you could ever see it anywhere, either.

I watched the original over Christmas, hadn't seen it since I was a kid. I think it was on Netflix/Amazon Prime.

It shows its age but is still a good film and the aging is more the cinematic style, the FX actually are OK.

We also watched Jurassic Park followed by Jurassic World. Which just showed how good the original still is.