Wednesday, 24 March 2010
I have a great idea for a game. It's called Gladiator Tycoon. It's based on classical ideas about entertainment. You build your own Colosseum in Rome and buy kidnapped victims and animals from all over europe and africa and force them into bloody mortal combat to entertain crowds. You can set up exciting deathmatch scenarios, pick your victims (extra points for christians) and breed beasts to fight them. The more horrific your scenarios, the bigger crowds you pull and the more cash you get- and the more stuff you get to buy for your Coloseum and make it into a truly gory theatre of torture and death.
And if anyone accuses the game of being violent, i will respond with: "it is an educational look at how human entertainment has changed from 2,000 years ago."
BTW: If you're interested to know the incredible true story about Titchmarsh and how he came to the stupid views he has, it is all 'explained' right here.
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I would buy that. Also the video game guy complete owns them!
ReplyDeleteIngham played it smart - he didn't get defensive or confrontational, which would have just added fuel to the river of shit eminating from Peasgood's mouth... A mixed metaphor perhaps, but you get the idea.
ReplyDeleteThe interesting thing about a Gladiator Tycoon is, given the layer of focus over traditional sim/management games, how well it would lend itself to an online/social component. For example, animals could be bred from the stock of other players to increase the genetic pool through a bartering system. Grudge matches between different players best champions and a betting system to bet on the outcomes of matches in other collosseums.
In other words it would retain an element of the social occasion that these places traditionally encompassed with any of the real-world violence.
Yes, yes! Lots of immoral gambling and vengeful grudge matches for people to get angry about! and lots of hot women slaves in togas offering alcoholic drinks.. this game will totally condone getting pissed and over-eating and hurling imaginative insults at other players! we need to keep it as historically accurate as possible. Maybe even in spring it can have a lupercalia event thats ultra pornographic and everything!
ReplyDeleteIs it just me or is modern life relatively docile and violence-free in comparison to, i dunno, the past? I heard there is still a law in england stating all men must gather to practice archery every sunday, because in the past men were expected to be ready for battle at short notice. The fact that young men now just sit at TVs practicing combat situations in virtual reality actually seems like a departure from more wary and violent times
Yes and no.
ReplyDeleteWars are less... visceral, but the way we fight them is designed to accentuate that.
Look at the methods we use to fight wars now. Unmanned aerial drones piloted with bloody 360 controllers. These days if you've played the AC-130 level from Modern Warfare you're basically cobat ready.
An interesting thing to note is that with all this 'less-lethal' weaponry being developed the aim in warfare seems to have been shifted from killing the bad guys to maiming and wounding them in some of the worse ways possible, just because it doesn't kill you outright it doesn't mean it's going to be less painful.
ReplyDeleteWhether this is a good thing or not I'll let you decide.
Ok this is true, perhaps life now is as dangerous and violent for the average male as it always was, i admit i wouldn't know. My point is throughout the ages, and even our primate cousins, violence has been an integral part of human nature.. and to say that video games, a fairly recent invention on the scale of things, are the reasons some men choose to shoot at each other (or whatever the violence they refer to is) is a bit of a mistake
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