"Anonymous Poster What is wrong with a game that only the rich can play? Better than a game that only the dirt poor would want to play.

that is if you are in the industry professionally, and you like to eat.
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I agree... Id like it just to watch the rich lose their money! =o) (assuming its a reality show)

Sincerely,
Brent "DD"

All thoughts of cost aside...

lets make a game where the "player" is immeresed in a fully interactive enviroment... but he wouldnt remember entering this enviroment so everything would be real... itd be like a dream!

Hell maybe we could all it the Lucid Dream!

Why not just live in the real world? Seriously, all this about getting phone calls and faxes and what-have-you, why would you need to simulate such a world when we have one already? Do you not get shot at often enough? Join the State Police. You want to go on vacations and have crazy things happen to you? Get a plane ticket to the Middle East, or Japan, where crazy crap happens all the time. You want people to plot against you, so you can match wits with self-serving bastards? Get a job in government, business, education, sales, or any other field that''s run by people. The only people that don''t have lives fraught with danger and enemies are either really, really nice or else paid to masturbate.

However, employing things like e-mails and references to real, obscure books could add an interesting element to a video game. When you get some creepy, poetic clue, you have to go to the library and figure it out, rather than referencing the "journal" in the stupid pause screen. Of course, it would all be on GameFaqs within three days, so what''s the damn point?

Because the real world is what you want to escape from. If the real world was good enough, people wouldn''t play videogames.

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Original post by AnonymousPosterChild
Use the failed game "Majestic" as a reference.

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Only if you''ll use Daikatana as a reference for your next action-game project

The word ''failed'' means a lot in that sentence.

-This is where the world drops off
-ryan@lecherousjester.com

I did use it (daikatana) as a reference once. If I remember, I said "Like Daikatana, only good."

It was a program that allowed you to cut cubes into smaller cubes. Looks like I was right.

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"If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." - Albert Einstein

To APChilds post about escaping from the real world, how is sending faxes and emails in REAL LIFE letting you escape from the real world? And bombing people after they win a contest really isn''t letting them escape from the real world either...

So...how does this "reproductive system" of yours work? -Anonymous

Let me gang up with Ostrich to harass you for a second, PosterChild.

I use video games as an escape from the real world, and I think that anyone who pretends to have another motive is telling you stories. However, the beauty of the video game escape, compared to vacations, drugs, or cutting yourself, is that you can exercise complete control over when and how much you get. If I want to kill a half-hour, I play a little Goldeneye. If I have an afternoon to blow, I get out Starcraft. When I'm super angry and need to feel good about myself, I play a game that I'm really good at, or one that lets me kill lots of people for no damn reason.

No matter why I play video games, I always turn them off when i'm done, and go do something else. If my games poked into my real life with phone calls, e-mails and letter bombs, then that all-important fourth wall will have been broken, and the relationship between myself and video games will have changed. Actually, discussing video games online while a paper proposal about ballistic fingerprinting is open in Word elsewhere on this very machine may represent a little too much video game involvement, but since I'm currently escaping from my research assignment, I'll say I'm still in-paradigm.

So, in conclusion, I want video games with neat new AI features, and fancy new guns, and pretty graphics. I don't want them to harrass me by phone, use my fax paper, or cook my breakfast. Lousy Moblins always screw up the eggs anyhow.

And hey, by the way, AnonymousPosterChild,

"If the real world was good enough, people wouldn't play videogames."

The real world is plenty cool enough. Get off the damn couch and do something bitchin'. If you think the real world is outmatched by video games, you aren't actualizing all of your potential.

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I hate FOX

They''d only cancel it.
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To cancel it, they will have to start it first, no?

Jeez why don''t you guys lighten up a bit?! Give him a break, its only bit of fun-discussion.
You guys take things SO seriously.

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...you aren''t actualizing all of your potential.
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Sounds like my old college lecturer