A Hypothetical Situation

MouseMouse The Lighter Side of Pessimism Join Date: 2002-03-02 Member: 263Members, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
<div class="IPBDescription">regarding a hypothetical game</div> To satisfy my own curiousity I pose this question.

You're about to play this new game you bought. Having sat through the install and configured the grapic settings to your liking, you click 'New Game'. Upon starting the game, you're confonted with the first person view of someone pointing a pistol at your head; right between the eyes. You're sitting down. Thanks to depth of field blurring, you can't really tell who's holding the gun.

Now, what do you as the player, within the realms of this hypothetical situation, want to know?
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  • SkySky Join Date: 2004-04-23 Member: 28131Members
    Why the hell did I buy this game?
  • theclamtheclam Join Date: 2004-08-01 Member: 30290Members
    When does the gameplay start?
  • JAG_CorpsJAG_Corps Join Date: 2005-01-06 Member: 33001Members
    What make and caliber the finely crafted pistol is
  • AegeriAegeri Join Date: 2003-02-13 Member: 13486Members
    Well, it would be one heck of a headjob that is for certain!

    Not really sure what I would think, probably why is my character starting the game with a gun pointed in their face <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    None the less, so long as it doesn't have imps incessantly spawning all over the place when I pick up a shard of armour it has to be better than Doom 3.
  • TransmissionTransmission Join Date: 2003-03-12 Member: 14456Members
    Why the pistol is pointed at the character's head, and when do I the player have a chance to interact with the game.
  • MantridMantrid Lockpick Join Date: 2003-12-07 Member: 24109Members
    My environment. Where I am, what, if any, weapons are nearby, and try to assess my potential enemy's ability.

    Actually, I do that if I'm walking alone and see a stranger in real life...
  • ZephorZephor Join Date: 2002-12-25 Member: 11547Members, Constellation
    did the other team ready yet?
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  • CrispyCrispy Jaded GD Join Date: 2004-08-22 Member: 30793Members, Constellation
    Did he just fire six shots or five?
  • CrispyCrispy Jaded GD Join Date: 2004-08-22 Member: 30793Members, Constellation
    -Serious response-

    I would want to know three things:
    - why is a gun being pointed
    - who he is
    - who the gun is being pointed at

    There could be many explanations to this setup. Someone's being interrogated. Someone's about to be murdered. It's just a joke. It's a bad dream. It's a hallucination (not quite the same as a dream).

    So far, even though the first person view would have you believe it, we don't know that this is you (or your character). If we had this same setup in a film we wouldn't be thinking that someone was pointing it at us, but in a game we are used to that being our view and to our actions in the game determining our survival, so we'd almost definitely make that assumption.

    It's quite a powerful image, if your next question were: <i>What happens next?</i> -I'd have to say that the camara flips round to behind the guy with the gun (so you still can't tell who it is), looking onto the helpless features of the hostage, who has his hands tied behind his back and is struggling relentlessly in his seat, its legs scraping abruptly on the floor. Then I'd change the camara shot to one which is looking through a hole in the wall (black apart from the round centre), which shows the whole scene from a few metres distance.

    Guy gets shot after blurting out some excuse about how he didn't know about/do what you think he did. You step back from the wall and know that somehow what you just saw will have a serious knockback effect on your life as you know it.

    ---

    BTW, why do you ask?
  • MerkabaMerkaba Digital Harmony Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 22Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester
    When did they make a Fight Club videogame? Oh wait, between the eyes, not in your mouth.

    I guess my initial thought would be something along the lines of "how on earth am I going to get out of this?"
  • relsanrelsan Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3720Members, Constellation
    The the title of the game wouldn't happen to be Deliverance would it? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • CxwfCxwf Join Date: 2003-02-05 Member: 13168Members, Constellation
    My first thoughts would be, "What are the keyboard controls for this game? Do any of them work right now, or do I have to wait awhile yet?"
  • theclamtheclam Join Date: 2004-08-01 Member: 30290Members
    I'd be thinking, thank God I'm on easy mode; he doesn't have enough bullets in the clip to kill me.
  • Taz-Taz- Australia Join Date: 2003-11-26 Member: 23597Members, Constellation, Squad Five Blue
  • intrikintrik Join Date: 2003-10-05 Member: 21451Members
    Who the person is, where are you ( police station, FBI interogation cell etc etc ), if they're poiniting that gun at "you" eg. there could be an alien inside your head they're pointing the gun at, you could have previously been possessed by an outside influence and they're pointing the gun at you because you were a threat, being blurred vision you could have just come out of being possessed therefore they're not actually pointing the gun at "you"

    things like that......
  • BelgarionBelgarion Join Date: 2002-07-19 Member: 973Members
    mousie you tricky boy. I'm wise to your schinanaginz <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    Like most people, I'd like to know how likely this person is to pull the trigger, why they were pointing the gun at me in the first place, where I was, etc.
  • TrevelyanTrevelyan Join Date: 2003-03-23 Member: 14834Members
    "damn spawn campers."

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  • SamahSamah Australia Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16286Members, Constellation
    I think people are missing a certain possibility here...
    That the person pointing the gun at your head.... is yourself.
  • CodemanCodeman Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9497Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    if we're talking about a PC game,
    "depth of field blurring! this engine is pwn!"
  • PulsePulse To create, to create and escape. Join Date: 2002-08-29 Member: 1248Members, Constellation
    edited May 2005
    "Who am I and what did I do to get myself into this situation?"

    I'd also want to know the directions to your house, so that I may torture and kill you for making me post in the discussion forum.

    edit: And whether or not the commchair exploit in overflow hive has been fixed oll
  • CrispyCrispy Jaded GD Join Date: 2004-08-22 Member: 30793Members, Constellation
    @Samah:

    I think that even with depth of vision blurring you'd be able to tell straight off if those hands were yours or not by how they were modelled to grip the gun, you'd see an arm or both arms to one side. If the modelling in the game wasn't good enough to show that distinction, I wouldn't have bought it.
  • GrendelGrendel All that is fear... Join Date: 2002-07-19 Member: 970Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, NS2 Playtester
    Thought process in order:

    There is a gun pointed at my head.

    Are they going to shoot me?

    Are my strafe keys working yet?

    ***Then if the keys are disabled...***

    Why are they pointing a gun at my head? (Is it because I haven't read through the design document they sent me yet? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> )

    Who is holding the gun?

    When is my field of view going to return to normal?

    How long will I be in this position for?

    Am I going to have to listen to lots of really bad dialogue until I can play the game?

    Thought process run time: Approx 1-2 seconds. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • CMEastCMEast Join Date: 2002-05-19 Member: 632Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Trevelyan+May 12 2005, 08:45 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Trevelyan @ May 12 2005, 08:45 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> "damn spawn campers."

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    Roffles <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->


    I would check to see if I had control yet first off. If I did then as grendel says, strafe away. Otherwise I'd try to stop thinking and let the story unfold before me.
  • VaaryysVaaryys Join Date: 2005-01-07 Member: 33245Members
    Quite simply, "What's going on?"
  • Code9Code9 Bored and running out of ammunition. Join Date: 2003-11-29 Member: 23740Members
    probably "If this is the training level, the rest of this game might not be that great."
  • TheAdjTheAdj He demanded a cool forum title of some type. Join Date: 2004-05-03 Member: 28436Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Think? lol, I'd be mashing the **** out of mouse1 and hoping that was the shoot key.

    My actual reaction would be similar to Grendel's and would revolve around getting from in front of the gun, mainly using strafe keys of some type. Somehow disabling the person pointing it at my face would be another possibility.
  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
  • BreakthroughBreakthrough Texture Artist (ns_prometheus) Join Date: 2005-03-27 Member: 46620Members, Constellation
    Who is that mad man and why am I where I am?
  • Asal_The_UnforgivingAsal_The_Unforgiving Join Date: 2003-03-26 Member: 14903Members
    In most likely order:

    Why? (Is a gun being pointed at my head)
    Who? (Is holding the gun)
    How? (Can I disarm this person/make my precious brains no longer in danger)
  • pieceofsoappieceofsoap Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9535Members, Constellation
    I would be thinking "What comes next?"

    Is this the end, or beginning?
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