Poll: Gamer, would you play?

[Tiny116]

Ok So I just watched the film Gamer last night. (This isn't a review)
It's some pretty freaky shit and with all the "Games are from the devil" crap floating around the world at the moment. I think it gives we gamers some pretty bad press.
There is gunna be spoilers here (you've been warned)

Spoiler

So basically it's about a really rich dude who finds a way to make real life games. The player "Plays" the person (we'll call the person a puppet). Now the first game he made was "society" Think adult sims. The player could make a puppet do whatever they wanted them to do from talking to having sex (pretty messed up I know)
However the film is based onthe second game "Slayers" and the puppet is a prisoner on death row. You got it this is "win X number of games go free" deal.
Anyway "Slayers" is basically a real life FPS, thats right players take there "Puppets" and kill each other (The puppets). There are also puppets forced to do repetitive motions, if they survive one game they go free (Pretty poor chances). Anyway players make there puppets teabag dead puppets, which happen to be real dead human beings.

So my question to you Escapists is if a Game like "Slayers" or even "Society" came to be would you play? Or would you protest?

 

[Lullabye]

Play. I'm all for improved immersion. Fuck human rights XD[sub]/sarcasm[/sub]

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

It all depends on who i'm controlling...if i control an average person and i get to shoot stupid idiots then sure i'll play but then again i risk the n00b being cheap and using codes.

 

[Tiny116]

It all depends on who i'm controlling...if i control an average person and i get to shoot stupid idiots then sure i'll play but then again i risk the n00b being cheap and using codes.

You'd be playing and killing prisoners on death row? does that help? XD

 

[Brad Shepard]

if you can help the person out and your good at gaming, then yea, play the game i guess

 

[comadorcrack]

Probably Protest. As I like to protest things. Now Off I go to call Soldiers fags and tell America God hates it! West Borough Baptist man! AWAY!

 

[Batfred]

It all sounds good until you are wrongfully imprisoned and become a puppet. Knowing my luck that will happen, so I will protest so that it never happens in the first place.

 

[Daveman]

Protest. it's just wrong.

Wrong that a film so similar to Death Race should be released.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

It all depends on who i'm controlling...if i control an average person and i get to shoot stupid idiots then sure i'll play but then again i risk the n00b being cheap and using codes.

You'd be playing and killing prisoners on death row? does that help? XD

Does the anti-n00b factor still apply?

 

[Tiny116]

It all depends on who i'm controlling...if i control an average person and i get to shoot stupid idiots then sure i'll play but then again i risk the n00b being cheap and using codes.

You'd be playing and killing prisoners on death row? does that help? XD

Does the anti-n00b factor still apply?

Not a clue, Sorry but N00bs weren't addressed in the film.

 

[El Poncho]

Why do I need to protest? Can I just not want to play since I am not good at games compared to some people and would rather have the guy live a bit longer?

 

[Tiny116]

Protest. it's just wrong.

Wrong that a film so similar to Death Race should be released.

Seconded, But this one is more directed at gamers themselves.
death race was much better though

 

[Nex-Falx]

What I want to know is how / why are there some many people on death row in the movie universe?

From the trailers I saw this looks like actual warfare, not just 6 or 7 guys going at it at once.

Anywho: Idk, depends on a WHOOOOLE lot of variables... can I get rich playing this game, or is the world VASTLY over populated, maybe the prison system is so over flowing they can't even keep the prisoners under control?

 

[WestMountain]

If it would go mainstream I would probably play it just to go with the flow :]

 

[Communist partisan]

Bwahaha sounds like a game for me!

 

[Kollega]

Protest. it's just wrong.

Wrong that a film so similar to Death Race should be released.

Basically this - such idea is just wrong on so many levels that if you took said levels of wrongness and stacked them atop one another, they would reach all the way to the other side of our galaxy. And having even "standard" deadly TV shows - not to mention that particular flavor - is a sure sign of completely dystopian society. I don't want to live even in slightly dystopian society.

 

[Tiny116]

What I want to know is how / why are there some many people on death row in the movie universe?

From the trailers I saw this looks like actual warfare, not just 6 or 7 guys going at it at once.

Anywho: Idk, depends on a WHOOOOLE lot of variables... can I get rich playing this game, or is the world VASTLY over populated, maybe the prison system is so over flowing they can't even keep the prisoners under control?

6-7 guys per team i think, and a very small map.

 

[Nex-Falx]

What I want to know is how / why are there some many people on death row in the movie universe?

From the trailers I saw this looks like actual warfare, not just 6 or 7 guys going at it at once.

Anywho: Idk, depends on a WHOOOOLE lot of variables... can I get rich playing this game, or is the world VASTLY over populated, maybe the prison system is so over flowing they can't even keep the prisoners under control?

6-7 guys per team i think, and a very small map.

haha, alright, I thought it was much more than that... I was thinking that J-Walking had become a crime worthy of capital punishment or something, that's the only way they'd keep up with the demand for "puppets"...

 

[Jubbsy]

Better to have a good player playing with a chance of freedom for them, than a bad person who just wants to see them die.

 

[Jubbsy]

Protest. it's just wrong.

Wrong that a film so similar to Death Race should be released.

Death Race is goooood!