If it were possible...Would you live inside a game?

[DaedraEater]

I was reading life in wow, which is a comic about a guy stuck in world of warcraft and I wondered about something. Would you ever live in a game??

So...here's my questions

#1 would you ever live in a video game?
#2 Which one and why?

I'd be a hardend veteran soldier in some fantasy rpg (no idea what though, champions of norrath perhaps or Morrowind?)

 

[skrab]

yeah dude if I could live in the TES IV Oblivion just imagine
And I play that game every day on PC

 

[Cheeder]

Are we not already living in a game? Art reflects life.

 

[Gilles]

I don't consider life a game at all.

I would want to be in some sort of perfect utopia game.

Otherwise Sims2 with billions of dollars.

 

[Cheeder]

In YOUR utopia people are suffering. Unless you wish everyone was a robot..

 

[Gilles]

Why are people suffering?

 

[Cheeder]

because not everyone is the same. That's why even THINKING about a utopia is a waste of energy. It's the equivilant to spending time wishing.

 

[Gilles]

What are you going on about? Utopia is a perfect society. You can say it's different for everyone, but IMO there is one perfect society, and I have no idea what it is, no one does.

 

[Redeemer59]

Nothing ever was nor ever will be perfect.

The only one I would ever consider would be Starcraft, as some form of Zerg. Before anybody complains about no free will under a hive mind, well, if you were in that position, you'd not see that factor, would you?

 

[Eleandor]

You wouldn't have any time, seeing as how zerglings live for... about 10 seconds?

 

[Cheeder]

What are you going on about? Utopia is a perfect society. You can say it's different for everyone, but IMO there is one perfect society, and I have no idea what it is, no one does.

proving my point.. It's not only impossible but also theoretically impossible. Here is how you break it down. Today everyone hates each other, they find they dislike about people and every subject inbetween. Now, create a functioning society where everyone is happy. Well, for example, 50% of the world population will only be happy in a city-like society. The other 50% like being alone. Each person in either situation does not like at least one thing about every other person. Well, if they are not satisfied, they are not happy and you don't have your Utopia. A Utopia ASSUMES that everyone is the same as the one who is concieving of it.. And that's where it, and the thinker fail. If everyone is alone where they cannot find another person to judge and thus dislike and thus be unhappy, well then you are left with people who are unhappy without others.
So, that was just an example - being alone as opposed to being sociable. Then you get into specifics..

So if the world were your way, from a non-God standpoint, many people would suffer from it, because from that standpoint you can't change other people or their will. Plus, from a God-like standpoint, you'd be bored.

 

[Eleandor]

It's theoretically possible. Simply impossible for the reasons you mentioned.

Just an example: If every being would be genetically designed for doing certain things, and liking what he does to the extreme (Like you're designed to construct cars, as you're designed to do this, you love it like nothing else), that would be a form of a utopia. Oh, perhaps you wouldn't like it in your current "form" (as in a free being with a free mind), but does that make the idea bad, considering the fact that everyone is perfectly happy with how he is?

 

[TheDivineBoss]

If I could have a life in a game I would pick Resistance Fall of Man and I'm not the one who dies/gets infected.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

I would live in the Mushroom Kingdom, and have the same skills as the Mario brothers.

And you'll get money by smashing on blocks, so I could be rich if I smash a lot of these.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

Can I show a Mario ft. 300 comic then?

...

Kay

 

[DaedraEater]

Awesome comic , nothing to say on topic though... hehe

 

[Teh_Ephy]

I would most definitely live in a videogame world, but I have no idea which one. Something where both magic and technology are fairly common would be ideal.

 

[HINDYhat]

Don't know if it's just me... but...

I prefer trying to succeed in my life instead of dreaming of living in a virtual world where everything (and me) is perfect... Sounds lame to me.

 

[SimonKurciski]

I would live in the Forgotten Realms universe, and be a mage or something.

 

[Dr00d]

I'd live in either Black or any of the Ace Combat games.

 

[Killface]

I'd probably live in Jade Empire as a Jade Golem.

 

[Pyritie]

I would live in the Mushroom Kingdom, and have the same skills as the Mario brothers.

And you'll get money by smashing on blocks, so I could be rich if I smash a lot of these.

Reminds me of this I saw a while ago.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

I want to live in Rise of Legends on that Da-Vinci-Technology-style side.
Humans ftw.

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

I'd live in Pyritie's campaign!

It ownz!

 

[TheDivineBoss]

You mean big bad yellow talking dragons flying around with dragon dolls?


I would also live in Killzone 2, without getting killed in the field.

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

Pretty much, yeah!

 

[TheDivineBoss]

And do RPs count too? xD If yes, I pick the text-RP in the Roleplaying section.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

Seriously that mario face!!! i rly rofled XD

Oh yeah and put me in half life 2 ^^

 

[TheDivineBoss]

Me too!

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[The_wand_mirror]

Me too!

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Yaa! Lets bash innocent people to death with our crowbars xD

 

[TheDivineBoss]

Dude, you weird.... I like it...

 

[Hakeem]

Nothing ever was nor ever will be perfect.

The only one I would ever consider would be Starcraft, as some form of Zerg. Before anybody complains about no free will under a hive mind, well, if you were in that position, you'd not see that factor, would you?

Would you even think or feel? Would you even have a mind?

I'd program a game where I can enter other games.
I'd live in that.

 

[Redeemer59]

Would you even think or feel? Would you even have a mind?

Technically, but they'd not be your own thoughts and feelings.

And I just realized I make myself look like some kind of Starcraft-obsessed fanboy... I don't have a drop of Korean blood in me, and all of the games I have are warlike anyway, may as well pick the side that eliminates your sense of fear and doom.

 

[MySpaceBarBroke]

I would most definitely live in a videogame world, but I have no idea which one. Something where both magic and technology are fairly common would be ideal.

Magic IS technology, in a sense.

I wouldn't want utopia, even if it WAS possible. Why? Because it would be pretty fucking boring.

I'd want to be in my favorite game of all time, Deus Ex. Cyberpunk is fucking sweet.

My second choice would be this game.

From VGCats.

 

[DarkIron Dwarf]

Screw the utopia if we invented a painless never ending war i would love that never die slaughting people who needs peace it well get boring someday and i would want to be in wow as a Old God

I love my sense of fear and doom how do you think im still alive to day

 

[Mecheon]

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You just WANT me to hate you, don't you? Well congratulations, you've already got it done! You've revived about 7 bloody topics and you've bloody double posted as well! Seriously man, what the hell?

Yaknow what, I'm in that very annoyed mood I get in, you're getting an infraction

 

[Oziris]

We all are all ready in a game sims 2 ^^ i would like to be in a wow game and play all day

 

[Teh_Ephy]

Mecheon, you could at least teach him about the edit button and how painfully hard people need to be trying to neither notice nor care about it before you bring the hammer down.

If I did live in a videogame, I would want to be in a position where I was respected and theoretically held some amount of authority. I'd also be one of those rigged mages that heals and does 1337 (as in leet, not the exact number 1337) damage.

 

[alfredx_sotn]

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You just WANT me to hate you, don't you? Well congratulations, you've already got it done! You've revived about 7 bloody topics and you've bloody double posted as well! Seriously man, what the hell?

Yaknow what, I'm in that very annoyed mood I get in, you're getting an infraction

HE HAD JUST COMMITTED CRIME IN THE FORUM WORLD WE LIVE IN OMG!!!!11one

But yeah if I would to live in a game, it can be any. That way I can live forever and never age. LULS

 

[annoying]

I would like to live in a game where I am some kind of lord. With awesome power.

 

[Japut3h]

I would like to live in a game where I am some kind of lord. With awesome power.

Black & White perhaps?

I'd live in WoW.No matter how many times you die,you conveniently get brought back to life any time.

Or GTA.They shoot you from a bazooka 10 times,and you wake up in a hospital 3 hours later,magically remaining in one piece.

 

[alfredx_sotn]

If you live in WoW, then your world will collapse every tuesday for 8 hours.

 

[Japut3h]

I wouldn't really have to sleep,and an 8 hour break would only do good for me.

 

[frostwhisper]

No, no and no... living in a game isn't good.
Sure, you won't age. Sure you'll be able to shoot gnomes out of your hands and shit.
But think about it: spending an eternity in an unchanging, repeating, monotone, cyclic world.... that will lead to nothing but insanity.

Oh and yeah... don't revive threads, kids. Play in traffic instead.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

Not all game worlds are static and unchanging. Take Fable, for example. You grow old and die.

 

[MySpaceBarBroke]

But think about it: spending an eternity in an unchanging, repeating, monotone, cyclic world.... that will lead to nothing but insanity.

So it would be just like the real world, no?

But in all seriousness, we're talking about the hypothetical environment set in the game, not just whatever is revealed.

 

[alfredx_sotn]

You can always be the creator in the game, but that is just like being a god of the world, creating whatever pleases you.

 

[Draknyte1]

Id be in warcraft3 cause like im awsome and id kill people like u! *if u wer in it*

 

[MySpaceBarBroke]

Id be in warcraft3 cause like im awsome and id kill people like u! *if u wer in it*

Brain Age, because people like you exist.

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

Come to think of it, I'd be in Dungeon Keeper 2, as an imp... I don't want immortality, I just wanna be able to do this cool little jig and take over land =3