Is this concept of this game a bit scary

[onewhofound]

I have made jokes in the past about how the Left regards 1984 as an instruction manual rather than a warning, but here we are with Big Brother as a playable character.

Kinda freaking me out.

[Cucumber]

No from what I see its not scary. The game is based around politics and it does have humor meant for a certain audience, but you are given options of what to show, this includes the cameras themselves, the commercials, and the headline images, the scariest stuff, in my opinion, is the realization at the end from a beginning part. You can show people the government stuff or the anti-government stuff and all in between. The game and story progress off your decisions with some of it being the same throughout.

[Lonestar1804]

I think games like Papers, Please or Orwell have concepts, that are way scarier. There is also not really any kind of surveillance in this game - it's more or less just how a tv broadcast works. You edit the live programme on the fly and decide what to show to get more viewers. You can influence people, but you don't decide over life and death like in the other games.

[Cucumber]

Originally posted by one_of_one:

I think games like Papers, Please or Orwell have concepts, that are way scarier. There is also not really any kind of surveillance in this game - it's more or less just how a tv broadcast works. You edit the live programme on the fly and decide what to show to get more viewers. You can influence people, but you don't decide over life and death like in the other games.

I agree with you 100%. orwell is much scarier than Papers, Please as well since you dig into everything in that game.

[onewhofound]

Not really talking about the game itself, just talking about the idea that it is perfectly acceptable to let the government decide what you are allowed to know. I might just think that because I am American and this is a game for a British audience, where speech is already much more tightly controlled

[Lonestar1804]

Originally posted by onewhofound:

Not really talking about the game itself, just talking about the idea that it is perfectly acceptable to let the government decide what you are allowed to know. I might just think that because I am American and this is a game for a British audience, where speech is already much more tightly controlled

Why the government? You don't really get any instructions for what you should broadcast or not. You just decide yourself.

[hawkini]

Originally posted by onewhofound:

Not really talking about the game itself, just talking about the idea that it is perfectly acceptable to let the government decide what you are allowed to know. I might just think that because I am American and this is a game for a British audience, where speech is already much more tightly controlled

I find this mildly interesting - do you think that America is the only place with free speech... or wait because the UK has socialized healthcare that they are all government controlled and are mindless socialist robots that are fed information because they don't have a first amendment?

Just messing a little but still would love to know what you're basing your comment on.

[Autokrator]

Originally posted by onewhofound:

I have made jokes in the past about how the Left regards 1984 as an instruction manual rather than a warning, but here we are with Big Brother as a playable character.

Kinda freaking me out.

You seem very stupid, just my two cents. Cheers!

[ZiffyHead]

Hopefully, when the game is done, it will showcase just how much difference editing and timing can make, in influence the audience's perception of the scene unfolding.

I also really hope that it will teach us a thing or two about how timing and editing can be used for maximum comedic impact as well

[Parane]

The British have a long tradition of mocking politics in various forms. This is just another brilliant way of doing it. Not understanding that is not their problem. It's yours.

[Thogmar]

Originally posted by onewhofound:

Not really talking about the game itself, just talking about the idea that it is perfectly acceptable to let the government decide what you are allowed to know. I might just think that because I am American and this is a game for a British audience, where speech is already much more tightly controlled

I think you need to wait for more of the game, it's a PARODY - mocking government control. Also do some more study and watching of political parody thought the years, including political cartoons and essays.

[OneWingedJehuty]

Originally posted by hawkini:

I find this mildly interesting - do you think that America is the only place with free speech... or wait because the UK has socialized healthcare that they are all government controlled and are mindless socialist robots that are fed information because they don't have a first amendment?

No, he probably thinks the UK are mindless socialist robots because of all the instances when any concept of free speech went out the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ door:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/8549613.stm

https://www.nationalreview.com/2012/01/crime-leafleting-charles-c-w-cooke/

https://www.nationalreview.com/2012/03/british-freedom-speech-endangered-charles-c-w-cooke/

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/silly-english-woman-being-charged-tweeting-rude-things-charles-c-w-cooke/

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42779407/ns/world_news-europe/t/man-arrested-singing-kung-fu-fighting/#.XkCTJyN7lSB

[Typhoid Mary]

I have made jokes in the past about how the Right regards 1984 as an instruction manual rather than a warning, but here we are with Big Brother as a playable character.

Kinda freaking me out.