Lose/Lose - The Game That Deletes Your Files
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Why's everybody getting so worked up over this? Some of the posts in this thread have reactions that make it seem like playing this game is mandatory and that we all have to play russian roulette with our data or else. The creators of the game stated its purpose. It's not as if they're deceiving anyone. Sure, the idea comes across as pretentious, but I still think the whole thing is hilarious. Programming skill could be put into far more jackassy projects than this.
I might try this, I want original ideas and a sense of danger in my entertainment.
Even if I wreck my PC I have backups and most of what I need to do at short notice (ie before I can repair / replace) I can accomplish with a Puppy Linux CD.
(Wow, the thought of file deletion is like castration to some of you lot... really.)
Even if I wreck my PC I have backups and most of what I need to do at short notice (ie before I can repair / replace) I can accomplish with a Puppy Linux CD.
(Wow, the thought of file deletion is like castration to some of you lot... really.)
I suppose if your computer is stuffed full of viruses it could be worthwhile to play this.
Or you could, you know, just get a virus scanner. But hey, whatever floats your boat.
Or you could, you know, just get a virus scanner. But hey, whatever floats your boat.
So basically, the artist is a jackass who missed the entire point of playing a violent video game in the first place wants to teach us a lesson that he should be learning himself and called it art...
We play video games to escape consequences and otherwise seek entertainment, fucknut. It is why the sane gamers of the world aren't on a killing spree or raping your couch, because we already know about consequences.
There are few things I hate more than people who think we need a game like this...
We play video games to escape consequences and otherwise seek entertainment, fucknut. It is why the sane gamers of the world aren't on a killing spree or raping your couch, because we already know about consequences.
There are few things I hate more than people who think we need a game like this...
The real question here is, "If it is such a work of art, why did you have to explain the point to me? Shouldn't I have been able to ascertain this from the work itself?"ThePyr said:
I don't get it. I love games like the path and all, but this just doesn't strike me as that kind of "Artsy" game and generally comes off as pretentious(as you said).
Unfortunately his message doesn't work because the ship in his game is clearly acting in self-defence. Defending yourself from something that is actively trying to kill you [and despite his nonsense about aliens not firing, some of the aliens home in horizontally as they move down the screen and therefore are trying to kill the player] is not a crime, nor unjustifiable. The whole thing falls flat because the creator was too lazy to make his game match his message.Ranzel said:
To imagine a game that actually did this, let's see; instead of lots of aliens, you have a single massive ship that occupies most of the play area. You have the choice of either destroying its gun turrets and then the segments of its body, or waiting for a timer to run down. Each time you destroy something, your score goes up; by hundreds for the turrets, millions for the outer segments, and then tens of millions for the core segments.
When you're done, the game has two ways of interpreting your score; subtracting it from the total you could have achieved, or just displaying it as-is. There's a fifty-fifty chance that you were a mercenary sent to destroy a lightly defended Earth colony [the score is casualties], or Earth's last hope sent to disable the alien empire's mobile fortress [the score is in megatons of warheads remaining on board]. Any run might make you a hero who saved Earth, a coward who let his planet be annihilated, a butcher who killed without conscience or an honourable soldier who showed mercy. But then this accepts that there are downsides to not killing as well, which is a little too morally complicated for the average artiste.
It's not a discussion. It's Malware. Unless this gentleman has some severe warnings as to the result and an indemnity warning on the product, someones going to sue him. He's -destroying property-.
Wow someone has a highscore of over 4000. That's pretty hardcore, even without the whole "ruining your whole computer thing".