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[The_Cube]

Will Season 2 Be Lacking Something?

[rose]

I don't think so, but then I knew about the game since the Syzygy days. I think they will still have cool ways for new players to find the website. I am happy that the website and forums will be up to speed from the beginning of this Season. It should go much more smoothly with the experience from Season one to draw upon.

[The_Cube]

About that I have no clue what the hell SYZYGY is would you mind explaining?

[rose]

Project syzygy was a pre-game (sortof ) for PerplexCity. It was where we first heard about PerplexCity and the creation of a game. It is why this forum is called Perplex City (aka Project Syzygy) and why the unfiction chat room for the game has been #syzygy. It was started at the time of Project Syzygy, a few years ago.

There is a whole sub-subforum? about it here. Also, I think it is on the wiki.

[bit1313]

And if you are REALLY geeky, you can read this:

Syzygy is a kind of unity, especially through coordination or alignment, most commonly used in the astronomical and/or astrological sense [1].


Origin:
Syzygy is derived from the Late Latin syzygia, "conjunction," from the Greek σύζῠγος (syzygos), "yoked together."


Trivia
Syzygy is the shortest English word containing three y's, and
a second-longest English word without a vowel, tied with rhythm (the longest being rhythms), notwithstanding that y is usually considered a vowel (or semi-vowel) in the English language.

Wikipedia.org is our friend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygy

[Atys]

The one thing I hope Season 2 won't be lacking?

A 256-slot card album.

What, I like being anal about my cards

Otherwise I'll have to go through and painstakingly remove all my Season 1 cards from their album.

[Sophiecat]

[The_Cube]

Ditto but it says "LOST.The Cube.PERPLEXCITY" and we don't even know if it is a cube....Oh well.

[bit1313]

One of the neat lures to Season 1 was all the META stuff (small writing, number strings, big letter pieces, etc). They were left by CT as clues so 3P wouldn't pick it up.

So, here is my point. How can (or will) they be put into Season 2 without looking like a rehash? Short of saying "Oh, you like META puzzles, eh? Well, we have some of those with the cards too.", it might be a little far fetched to have them in the story line "Look someone is trying to get us a message with small letters and symbols and color coding".

I'm not saying that MC won't pull out all the stops and that S2 will be lacking. I'm just making a point that weaving a story around why the cards are "tampered with" this time would be hard.

[lotusflower]

Ah, but the point of good fiction writing is that you can make anything implausible seem plausible, if done well. I'm sure that if that's the way they're going to do things, then there'll be a way of doing it well - of course, there's no guarantee that if they do try and explain it they'll do it convincingly, but it's always *possible* that it could be done

[hyphz]

Less Funding..

[UKver2.0]

I think sales of cards will be UP UP UP. The game is growing - not shrinking. All the PR that the $200,000 cube reward created has brought in a lot of new interest. Everything will be bigger, grander, more "awesomer".

But as far as the thread topic goes, I definitely think this Season will be lacking something. I mean, you can still call it an ARG because the term is new and probably isn't fully defined. Also, PXC probably doesn't fit any other definition any better. Still, is it really an ARG? I've never played an ARG except for PXC, but the few times I've ventured over to some of the others that are out there, I've seen something completely different. The blurring of the lines between reality and fiction is very real. There's just as much game bits as suspected game bits. People have no clue what is part of the ARG and what isn't. They're eerie and mysterious. PXC probably had this in the beginning, but by the time I started it was gone. There were still remnants that made me feel at least slightly immersed, but I don't think it will carry over to Season 2.

Will there ever be any events, news articles, TV spots, public signs, etc. that won't have Mind Candy and Perplex City written all over it? Probably not. Will the story ever drive the game the way the hunt for the cube did? Maybe, but I don't see how (I can't wait to see what they have planned). Season 2 has been announced and we know what day the cards are going to be released, but we don't even know why we need cards, let alone a new Season. From here on out it looks like PXC will be a fun internet and sometimes live event card collecting game with a plot.

Of course none of that matters cause I like what it is. I might like it better if it were more ARGish, but who cares. It's fun and I like it.

[Rand0m]

[hyphz]

[The_Cube]

Well