Id continue playing, taking out my real life fantasies of rling the world in the game... Amas a giant army of citizens and attack the leading powers, because in games like GTA, the people respawn, so it would be a never ending army!
If NPCs Were Sentient
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If that were to happen, the first thing they'll say would be this:
"You-- you just had your head shot off a minute ago but now you say 'I'm fine'?! Wha-- checkpoints? Lives? QUICK SAVES?!!"
"You-- you just had your head shot off a minute ago but now you say 'I'm fine'?! Wha-- checkpoints? Lives? QUICK SAVES?!!"
I just put sentience for ease. Sapience is my usual go-to word but i thought most people would get what it means.Mafoobula said:
Just realized this could sound like a bitchy retort. It's not, i promise you, i have this compunction to explain myself it seems.
Haha I think it would be different than most people are saying. I imagine it to be more like Toy Story. The NPCs would know I'm loading up the game and one would yell, "Ok, places everyone! Another rough day ahead, check your stats; this guy's a royal dick. Maybe we're lucky and his little sister's playing today but I doubt it. Oh, and remember to stay in character!!!"
Oh dear lord if it's like that I would be the Sid of whatever game I would be playing. In Vice City I pretty would wipe out whole blocks worth of NCP's on bad days... or when I was stressed out after work... or pretty much when ever I damned well pleased. I was a pretty awful "owner" to those NCP's, so many dead, so many cars stolen and people beaten up for money that wouldn't cover anything I would buy, I just did it because I could. So many news stations would have to broadcast my daily rampages throughout the city with me destroying and stealing lots of police cars to abuse later on.Vuavu said:
Id probably try and do what flynn tried to do in tron legacy, build a perfect society.
If it was oblivion it would be awesome. Id be the invincible vampire mage who rules all of cyrodiil and executes any evildoers very very quickly.
If it was oblivion it would be awesome. Id be the invincible vampire mage who rules all of cyrodiil and executes any evildoers very very quickly.
Play Civilization a whole lot less and the sims a whole lot more.. Its easy to manage a family and make sure nobody dies, at least compared to managing a civilization that you will 'have' to use for war at some point. Unless you could make the people understand this and they would be willing to put down their lives for my great empire . . . But I would trash my old -send soldiers at them till they surrender- tactic. And replace it with -send different combinations of units and retreat wounded units to minimize casualties- tactic.
Imagine different scenario (a little Star-Trekish).
You play your favorite game, then suddenly people all around stop, look around, point at you, wave and scream "Hey, we're alive ! Please, stop killing us, stop looting our abodes, and most importantly, DON'T SWITCH YOUR MACHINE OFF ! We're gonna die when you stop running this 'game' we call reality!"
So, more or less you've become God.
You play your favorite game, then suddenly people all around stop, look around, point at you, wave and scream "Hey, we're alive ! Please, stop killing us, stop looting our abodes, and most importantly, DON'T SWITCH YOUR MACHINE OFF ! We're gonna die when you stop running this 'game' we call reality!"
So, more or less you've become God.
Me: Weird bug. *Switches off machine*JesterRaiin said:Imagine different scenario (a little Star-Trekish).
You play your favorite game, then suddenly people all around stop, look around, point at you, wave and scream "Hey, we're alive ! Please, stop killing us, stop looting our abodes, and most importantly, DON'T SWITCH YOUR MACHINE OFF ! We're gonna die when you stop running this 'game' we call reality!"
So, more or less you've become God.
Meanwhile...
Game's AI Programmer: La dee da... *Keels over in agony*
Programmer's Wife: Oh my God, honey, what's wrong?
Programmer: I felt a disturbance in the Coding... as though millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I feel something terrible has happened.
They'd probably either revolt against me (not my character, but ME) since they developed brains.
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Nahahaha yes exactly x3Slowpool said:Me: Weird bug. *Switches off machine*JesterRaiin said:Imagine different scenario (a little Star-Trekish).
You play your favorite game, then suddenly people all around stop, look around, point at you, wave and scream "Hey, we're alive ! Please, stop killing us, stop looting our abodes, and most importantly, DON'T SWITCH YOUR MACHINE OFF ! We're gonna die when you stop running this 'game' we call reality!"
So, more or less you've become God.
Meanwhile...
Game's AI Programmer: La dee da... *Keels over in agony*
Programmer's Wife: Oh my God, honey, what's wrong?
Programmer: I felt a disturbance in the Coding... as though millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I feel something terrible has happened.
AntiGAMEChrist !Slowpool said:Me: Weird bug. *Switches off machine*JesterRaiin said:Imagine different scenario (a little Star-Trekish).
You play your favorite game, then suddenly people all around stop, look around, point at you, wave and scream "Hey, we're alive ! Please, stop killing us, stop looting our abodes, and most importantly, DON'T SWITCH YOUR MACHINE OFF ! We're gonna die when you stop running this 'game' we call reality!"
So, more or less you've become God.
Meanwhile...
Game's AI Programmer: La dee da... *Keels over in agony*
Programmer's Wife: Oh my God, honey, what's wrong?
Programmer: I felt a disturbance in the Coding... as though millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I feel something terrible has happened.
No no no! More like reboot . WARNING INCOMING GAME! and try to beat the user ... Us . Seriously , if anyone watched reboot , how many times did the user win? Like 2? I could totally see myself beating the shit out of enzo in the mortal kombat game ... Does no one remember reboot?Vuavu said:
As soon as I saw the title, I thought that, too.Your once and future Fanboy said:
OT: It would make random spree killings a bit harder for the most part, BUT (!) in some games the people you wind up killing are massive bastards, and you kill them as part of the game because they were programmed that way, and you're probably supposed to feel like killing them. If they were sentient and were consciously continuing this way and causing real stress to the now sentient other NPCs, I'd feel more sort of obliged to kill them, as it would be saving the others.
