Yeah, there's nothing in this scenario where pro gaming skills actually mean much, maybe said pro athletes/soldiers/drivers would benefit from pro gamers giving them a rundown of how the original games mechanics worked, or even working as an adviser over a radio to the people in the field, but video games in the 80's weren't exactly subtly complex, they were designed to be quickly picked up and played in short bursts without much instruction.tippy2k2 said:
Especially since these senarios don't even follow the original games all that closely, knowing how the different ghosts AI worked in Pacman doesn't help at all since the humans are playing the ghosts so they have no idea how pacman is going to act, knowing that power pellets make pacman able to eat ghosts isn't exactly a complex concept that would outweigh putting a professional driver behind the wheel of the ghost cars.
Even then, the movie seems to abandon following game rules as they can just blow up monsters with those strange four-barreled energy weapons. So the whole premise of needing professional gamers is abandoned in favor of Call of Duty style shoot-em-up mechanics. That might be where MovieBob's criticism of the main character eschewing his old school gaming skills for a modern attitude of, do whatever to survive, comes from. Not a terrible idea for a character arc, learning to sacrifice linear thinking and habit to save those around you and overcome unconventional problems, but it just kind of reinforces the pointlessness of needing professional gamers to do any of this.
