Lose/Lose - The Game That Deletes Your Files

[SharPhoe]

Holy shit that is an incredibly fucking awful idea.

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

Of course you would think of that.

My files are too precious for something like that. My God, what an insane idea...

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Rename the application, burn it to a disc and give the game to somebody you hate. Tell him you need to kill aliens to beat the game.

 

[Bobkat1252]

You know how this will end. Some guy will download this game without reading a description, destroys the entire contents of his computer, and then sues the game developers over it. These guys really didn't think this through before releasing their game.

 

[FROGGEman2]

Whoa. I feel sick just watching it.

 

[BonsaiK]

Sounds awesome, I'm downloading it right now.

 

[squid5580]

Why do I get a funny feeling that Jack Thompson is behind this. Probably has alot of spare time on his hands and picked up some programming skills.

It would be funny to install this game onto a friend's computer for April 1st.

This game seems right up Mr. Thompson's alley. In fact, with the important questions being asked by the creators of this game, I have no doubt that this will be Mr. Thompson's favourite title. In fact I want to send it to his computer so he can find out first hand what a great game this one is.

The problem is he wouldn't shoot any of the aliens

 

[BonsaiK]

Hey I can't get the thing to run, it seems to not have an executable. Does it need an emulator or something?

 

[Fearzone]

Reminds me of the Unreal 3 demo, which wiped my hard drive the first time I tried to run it after install. Stranger still is I actually bought the game anyway.

Interesting... key files I have are backed up, but this just sounds inconvenient. The game otherwise looks pretty uninspired.

 

[Asehujiko]

Wait, not viruses are "art"?

 

[GamingAwesome1]

Wait, you lose a real file if you shoot down an alien? What the fuck.

I really don't even understand how that's even legal.

 

[SmugFrog]

This game is so awesome if I could even begin to describe it my head would explode.

Serously though, I think it is an awesome idea. As someone said above - virtual russian roulette.

 

[CuddlyCombine]

I love the people in this thread. "Idiotic idea! Jackasses! They mean nothing! I'm going to go make the people I dislike play this."

I think that they've made an excellent point. They know full-well that nobody is going to play this game. It's just commentary expressed through another medium.

Though that seems a bit too much to grasp for the average person, so let's go with "they right, you wrong".

 

[megapenguinx]

Maybe play it while emulating Windows? Partitioning a drive to play a single game seems a bit extreme

That's what i was thinking. I wonder what running bootcamp while playing would do....

 

[VickyBit]

Wait, so if you shoot at ENEMY spacecraft that damages YOUR OWN data and files?

How the F**K does that make sense? If it was an online multiplayer, and it deleted files on your opponent's computer and also by extension your opponent successfully attacking you dmaged/removed your own files... that would make sense... but only slightly.

Cool concept, but terrible execution. While it fits with the name "lose/lose", having a game punish you for succeeding is incredibly retarded.

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.

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

I think you guys are missing the point. :V Where did it say that you HAD to shoot the aliens? And that they were ENEMIES? It's just people being used to the old school game mechanics that makes you ASSUME that you HAVE to shoot the aliens. But they never shoot back. How is that INVADING? All we can see is that the game takes place in what looks like space. Who's to say that the PLAYER isn't the one invading the ALIENS? How can you even call shooting aliens that aren't even shooting back for 'fighting back the alien INVASION?'
That doesn't sound like success to me, more like senseless killing of defenceless creatures. (unless you ram into them, which your ship can't handle) :V For which the creator felt should be 'rewarded' by slapping that back in your face and senselessly kill YOUR files U:

The thing is, this isn't as much as a game that has to be played but the creator's trying to bring out a message. It's the CONCEPT of the game that matters, not so much the game itself I would think :V

Herp-a-derp, ARTISTICness and DEEPness

 

[theultimateend]

This is one of the most nonsensical things I've seen in a while.

I guess I don't get Art anymore. I remember the day when the message actually made me think. This just seems so trivial.

I see where they are coming from, but much like another man's penis, doesn't make it any less unsettling to have it wagged in my face.

 

[Pigeon_Grenade]

that seems like it can be... Troublesome

 

[wildpeaks]

Reading the title, I thought "wtf, who would want to play that ?", however after reading the rest of the article, I can see the reasoning, the game never explicitely tells you to kill NPCs.