General / Off-Topic Ready Player one.

The real problem Spielberg doesn't understand the interactive aspect of gaming.

The entire movie was made by people who don't play computer games. It's a bit like a slightly better version of "Pixels". Adam Sandler, too, never played any games aside from what he had to for that movie.
Compare that with Matthew Broderick who got the producers of Wargames to set him up with an arcade cabinet at home so he could "train" ;)

I haven't read the book so I don't know if the stupid "easter egg" thing is in there too. I mean, the literal egg that they show in the movie. Because that's when I said to myself, yup, nobody who ever played a computer game was involved in this.

It's weird though. It's 2018. You ought to believe that we're at a time where movies about gaming should have someone at the helm who has at least a little bit of experience.
 
I guess the real issue is that we still have to wait for the Millennial era producers to actually own holly weird as currently there are too many baby boomers in charge who have no clue, and just keep with the old values, good always triumphs over evil, men are in charge and the hero has to be a complete putz.

Once they shuffle off then things may change.
 
The entire movie was made by people who don't play computer games. It's a bit like a slightly better version of "Pixels". Adam Sandler, too, never played any games aside from what he had to for that movie.
Compare that with Matthew Broderick who got the producers of Wargames to set him up with an arcade cabinet at home so he could "train" ;)

I haven't read the book so I don't know if the stupid "easter egg" thing is in there too. I mean, the literal egg that they show in the movie. Because that's when I said to myself, yup, nobody who ever played a computer game was involved in this.

It's weird though. It's 2018. You ought to believe that we're at a time where movies about gaming should have someone at the helm who has at least a little bit of experience.

Sorry Toumal, I really love ya and think you are an amazing person, but allow me to heavily disagree with you on this particular point of the movie.

The golden egg that was displayed at the end of the movie was NOT the real Easter egg. It was a fake, the last challenge that Halliday reserved for the player that managed to go that far.

The real easter egg was shown later, and I'm not talking about the egg that Halliday gave to Percival/Wade. I'm Talking about that scene where we see the old and young Halliday.

Just like in the Atari game Adventure, Halliday put an Easter egg in his game, but instead of only his name, he put himself, or rather a virtual copy of himself, his memories as well as his last will.

And that scene where Percival/Wade was playing adventure and was broadcasted live everywhere ? A direct reference to any old player like me. I recognised myself on those people that where watching with excitement as someone was solving the last puzzle, opening the last room, defeating the last boss. And cheering and congratulating him when successfully ! I did that a long time ago, when arcades still where the place to be for any gamer, and suddenly I realised someone had reached the last level of a game I play. I cheered him and watched.

So yeah, I don't know if Spielberg was a gamer but he definitively did his homework !
 
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