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Re: What do you think?
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Erin Windross <dwindross@pacificcoast.net> wrote in message
news:Fnn1F5.JsM@lugnet.com...
Ok. I had a dream last night about a computer game called CITY ZEN (It is not
a real game) . You would choose what you wanted to look like, your job (You
would have to pick a job that the game thought it didn't have enough of, e.g.
you couldn't pick accountant if all of the accountant jobs were taken), age
(couldn't go below 9 yrs), height, weight etc. and you would get your own
character and have a job in this virtual city (CITY ZEN), house, family
(Optional), and car (Optional).....the city would have various commercial,
industrial, and residential establishments. You would play the chracter in
third person view (Something like in Tomb Raider with Lara Croft). The city
would look simple at first (Like Midtown Madness). You could do whatever you
want, but, if you do something bad (Go on a deadly rampage with your car)  you
would be kicked out from the game (Except in single player mode). You could go
online and play with other people all over the world (It would be the ultimate
Role-Playing game). If you died and a computer A.I. person touched you, you
would become that person. The game would come in 4 Cd's ( Character design,
Life editing, City 1 Cd, City 2 Cd). You could buy things and interact with
other characters, make friends, enemys, lovers.....It would be almost real
life except on your computer........

Real life sucks. Why would you want a real life computer game? Just go outside,
buy things and interact with real people. Good grief. The only thing that sounds
remotely fun in that design spec is going on a deadly rampage with your car, and
for some reason you've outlawed that...
The whole point of games is escapism. I don't want to escape into an exact
facsimile of my life where I have a job and and whatever else... now if I could
fly, travel between planets, race cars/boats/planes/X-Wings, fight, blow stuff
up, command armies, conquer worlds and suchlike in a realistic environment
shared with real people from around the world, forming alliances or making
enemies, THAT would be something.

--
Mark Rendle

Est nunc salvus cessare vester computare



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Ok. I had a dream last night about a computer game called CITY ZEN (It is not a real game) . You would choose what you wanted to look like, your job (You would have to pick a job that the game thought it didn't have enough of, e.g. you couldn't pick (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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