Lose/Lose - The Game That Deletes Your Files

[GyroCaptain]

The sense I get from this is that the creator thinks it's never wrong to destroy anything or anyone for any reason, and that the enemies in ANY game are proxies for real people. Also, they seem to have the idea that all games involve killing something.

On both counts, I advise them to get stuffed.

 

[Ancientgamer]

Sounds pretty pretentious and dickish of them, it's great that they want to make people question their role in things, however deleting stuff off a person's hard drive is only going to piss em off. Even still, great for trolling those naive enough to play.

You do not know what pretentious means do you?


Newsflash, you have to think, really hard, about what's being said before you can presume to label a creation "pretentious" and it's creator a "jack-ass"

 

[WhiteTiger225]

Somewhere, Jack Thompson is giving this game a nod of approval.

 

[Hazy]

Holy shit that is an incredibly fucking awful idea.

However.
I wonder if I could trick someone into playing it...at school?

It's not just about getting them to play it.
It's about getting them to play it and never having them find out that the PC's files are screwed afterwards.

That is, if you have assigned computers or something.

OT: That... has got to be the stupidest idea ever.
I mean, sure, it's a convention of the human's very will to kill or be killed, or that we are willing to do whatever it takes to prevent the unknown from getting to us.

But my word.. You don't involve it deleting your files! That would be like having to sacrifice one of your controller buttons everytime you killed a Helghast while playing Killzone!
It's simply impractical and a waste of time.

 

[AceDiamond]

Good concept, terrible execution

 

[SharedProphet]

Hilarious. Someone is going to make a separate partition for it and generate thousands of empty files just to top the high score list.

 

[WhiteTiger225]

Guys, gals, things. You're all missing the point.
The game is not really suppose to be played. ...Although you can. It's to think about the point the creator is trying to make:

"How important is your virtual data ?"

Using "The Escapist" forums as an example, do you feel proud for your high post count? The badges you have means anything to you?

...

But like the article said - when does it switch? When does data matter more than real life experiences? Maybe if its your first time into Sunwell and your guild is disbanding in 2 days and the expansion is coming out in a week, and it would probably be the only time you would ever get to see the place? I don't know, I don't have a tangible line for people to blur, but I do find it odd when people in school with me talk about how they're proud of their gamerscore, achievements, their 30k gold on Laughing Skull, but I guess some people feel odd when they find out I have close-to-world-record scores in Crazy Taxi and SSX Tricky...

But I don't go out of my way and think that those mean much, but maybe they do? Maybe in the future being a virtual snowboarder will be just as great as being a real one?

That is a great question. For the snowboard example, both have the skill to do amazing stunt jumps. But does that mean the real snowboarder is more skilled than the pro-player? Is living the risk more worthy than simulating it? I do not know.
I'm starting to see things from a new point of view and I'm not sure if I will like the conclusion I might achieve.

Calling ANYONES choice of passtime or escapism "Pointless" or "Worthless" is a hypocritical statement (Look it up, the creator of Gundam's picture is right next to the word). Really, what does being the best at snowboarding accomplish? Fame among fellow snowboarders, maybe if you do something really out there you might get put on the news and become known by a few people who paid attention to what they deemed a pointless bit of news. Compare that to being the #1 Halo player. What do you accomplish by being the best? Fame among fellow Halo players, get put on an online news sight, and maybe get some recognition from the few people who didn't label the article as "Pointless" to read..

See where I am getting at here?

 

[Slayer_2]

They should make one of these for anti-virus programs. While the game is "loading" it is actually scanning your PC for viruses. Then you get to blast anything found into a million pieces

 

[Malkavian]

The sense I get from this is that the creator thinks it's never wrong to destroy anything or anyone for any reason, and that the enemies in ANY game are proxies for real people. Also, they seem to have the idea that all games involve killing something.

On both counts, I advise them to get stuffed.

Well said. That was what I got from it.

The game is fundamentally flawed in that it tells us that it has consequences to fight back in an alien invasion.

Wait... maybe it's not flawed... Maybe... the Skrulls are here...

 

[WhiteTiger225]

why would anyone play this?

Probably out of a twisted, morbid and dreaded sense of curiosity.

Masochist's anyone?

 

[SharedProphet]

Hilarious. Someone is going to make a separate partition for it and generate thousands of empty files just to top the high score list.

Edit - didn't see that my post went through before. Anyway I think aside from being funny it's a really interesting statement they're making.

 

[ideitbawx]

That's stupid, like seriously stupid.
How would it delete your files too? What if they're password protected?

your firewall might have a shit-fit if it tried.

 

[zBeeble]

If you play this game in a virtual machine (vmware, Xen, VirtualBox, etc), is it really relating your in-game actions to reality any more? Heck, even if you don't have it in a VM, you could have checkpoints or backups or whatever. How can anything that happens entirely within the computer be said to have _real_ consequences? It's not like we have electroshock feedback...

 

[Georgeman]

why would anyone play this?

Probably out of a twisted, morbid and dreaded sense of curiosity.

Masochist's anyone?

Not me at any rate . Besides, I formatted my pc not too long ago any way.

 

[saregos]

Alternatively, a fun way to reformat your hard drive. One file at a time.

This. I think I'll play a few rounds of the game right before the next time I re-install Windows... since I do that every couple months anyways.

Alternately, I have an old laptop floating around that was fodder for a sledgehammer anyways...

 

[TMAN10112]

I am soooooooo going to trick one of my friends into playing this.

 

[Sethzard]

Dumbest idea ever

 

[BehattedWanderer]

...Um...No.

I have lots of files on my computer. Important files, like presentations, metal analyses, budgetary spreadsheets, loan information, recipes, addresses, contacts, data specs, design specs, and much, much more.

Bugger that, I like my virtual killings to stay virtual.