5/30/2023 0 Comments Ready player two![]() ![]() ![]() So now, after 2015’s Armada (a loose reimagining of Ender’s Game), Cline is back with a sequel that has all the same flaws as the original, but few of its plus sides.Īfter winning Halliday’s contest, Watts finds himself and his clan at the helm of Gregarious Simulation Systems – the vast corporation that runs the OASIS. It was, of course, a huge success – we absolutely love nostalgia – and was followed by a Steven Spielberg movie adaptation which wove in its own tapestry of pop culture references, albeit ones which were more accessible to a wider audience than the text-based games and 8-bit dungeon crawlers of the book. The OASIS had the potential to be anything, but author Ernest Cline turned it into a geek’s playground – as if humans simply stopped making popular culture after about 2010 and just wallowed in nostalgia. ![]() ![]() The result was that Ready Player One was like reading an IMDB trivia page for a film you hadn’t seen, or being stuck next to the most boring guy at a party, desperately trying to make eye contact with someone to come and rescue you while he bangs on about KITT from Knight Rider. The central conceit is that Halliday loved the video games and movies he grew up with, and so those hoping to win the prize and become his heir needed to have an encyclopedic knowledge of 1980s arcade games and trivia to decipher his clues. ![]()
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