Many materialistic gamers limit themselves to what they perceive as reality-gaming. Everyone who isn't superficial knows, those games are only realistic on the surface. Once we break free from the chains of reality, great things can be achieved. Let's go over some game ideas that would blow the minds of even the dumbest sports-bar jock...
Charlton Heston vs. Clint Eastwood, who wouldn't want to see this fight? How about Mr. T vs Hitler? Or Ghandi vs the Dalai Lama? In video games, we can make these fights happen, and we can even give Mr. T super gold-chain powers. I think if it was Charles Bronson vs. Spider-man, Charles Bronson would win.
We've all seen games like FIFA soccer and Madden football. Apparently, people enjoy pretending to be their favorite sports-stars. My brother is a football fanatic. He named his cat Reggie, after Reggie Bush. He has a Reggie Bush Saints-jersey (i'm a little out-of-date, with my Ricky Williams Saints jersey). Instead of getting rid of these sports icons completely, why not turn them into children? You could have like a 5 year-old Brett Favre. Even better, take some of those Mutant League Football things, and you could have a 3 year-old suicide-bomber blitzing the QB. With how realistic video games are starting to look, if people at a sports-bar glanced at the screen and saw kid sports-stars exploding into little, bloody bits, it would freak the fuck out of them. And kids would love it too. I'm sure those wild animals fantasize about becoming suicide-bombers. Or, at the very least, blowing up their most hated players.
What else could be done to flip out sports-bar jocks, you know the kind, who are terrified of being associated with anything considered 'childish' or 'nerdy'? I suppose you could always go with more sports-games. Maybe a baseball game where you can hit the ball so hard, it decapitates people? The pitcher could switch out the ball for a hand-grenade... take spit-balls to the next level. But maybe we shouldn't simply add violence? Adding sex is cheap, but violence can be funny and can add to the strategy. Let's say you manage to kill the entire first-string of your opponents team. At that stage, you have an enormous tactical advantage. Even a simple case of eviscerating their best player would prove invaluable. Humor by itself can be valuable in video games. Some games, like Lego Star Wars, achieve great success with humor.
Course, real esports leaves the ability not in the hands of the character, as a materialistic game does, but in the hands of he or she who controls the character (otherwise known as the 'player'). Most people do not understand the differences between esports and other types of video games. There are video adventures (like Drake's Fortune), video escapes (World of Warcraft), and video simulations (FIFA soccer). Only esports should be used for pro-gaming. Nothing against the other types of 'games', but they do not belong in a professional sports environment. Every potential pro-gaming game should go through the sports-bar test. How many people must hide their love of esports, simply because the games are not sports-bar adequate?
Charlton Heston vs. Clint Eastwood, who wouldn't want to see this fight? How about Mr. T vs Hitler? Or Ghandi vs the Dalai Lama? In video games, we can make these fights happen, and we can even give Mr. T super gold-chain powers. I think if it was Charles Bronson vs. Spider-man, Charles Bronson would win.
We've all seen games like FIFA soccer and Madden football. Apparently, people enjoy pretending to be their favorite sports-stars. My brother is a football fanatic. He named his cat Reggie, after Reggie Bush. He has a Reggie Bush Saints-jersey (i'm a little out-of-date, with my Ricky Williams Saints jersey). Instead of getting rid of these sports icons completely, why not turn them into children? You could have like a 5 year-old Brett Favre. Even better, take some of those Mutant League Football things, and you could have a 3 year-old suicide-bomber blitzing the QB. With how realistic video games are starting to look, if people at a sports-bar glanced at the screen and saw kid sports-stars exploding into little, bloody bits, it would freak the fuck out of them. And kids would love it too. I'm sure those wild animals fantasize about becoming suicide-bombers. Or, at the very least, blowing up their most hated players.
What else could be done to flip out sports-bar jocks, you know the kind, who are terrified of being associated with anything considered 'childish' or 'nerdy'? I suppose you could always go with more sports-games. Maybe a baseball game where you can hit the ball so hard, it decapitates people? The pitcher could switch out the ball for a hand-grenade... take spit-balls to the next level. But maybe we shouldn't simply add violence? Adding sex is cheap, but violence can be funny and can add to the strategy. Let's say you manage to kill the entire first-string of your opponents team. At that stage, you have an enormous tactical advantage. Even a simple case of eviscerating their best player would prove invaluable. Humor by itself can be valuable in video games. Some games, like Lego Star Wars, achieve great success with humor.
Course, real esports leaves the ability not in the hands of the character, as a materialistic game does, but in the hands of he or she who controls the character (otherwise known as the 'player'). Most people do not understand the differences between esports and other types of video games. There are video adventures (like Drake's Fortune), video escapes (World of Warcraft), and video simulations (FIFA soccer). Only esports should be used for pro-gaming. Nothing against the other types of 'games', but they do not belong in a professional sports environment. Every potential pro-gaming game should go through the sports-bar test. How many people must hide their love of esports, simply because the games are not sports-bar adequate?
Edited by iNkind at 05:14 CST, 14 December 2009 - 8979 Hits