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Re: hunger games strategy?
« Reply #30 on: December 01, 2013, 07:00:03 am »

Well, almost everyone in every district has family, and they know where to find them. It's not that hard to put people under pressure when you can kill/torture everyone they know.

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« Reply #31 on: December 01, 2013, 12:48:59 pm »

Differences between Battle Royale and Hunger Games:
1. Battle Royale is a Random backpack each, with food, water and a 'weapon' (which can include chopsticks, rolled up newspaper, garbage lid, etc)
1. Hunger games is 'cornucopia', central area with heaps of weapons and food. Exact center of cornucopia is the best weapons and food, outskirts is less useful stuff. However is a massive open area.

And I can't really remember that many other differences...

Battle Royale had collars that detonated if you were within certain areas when a time period elapsed, and these areas changed every so often to incite combat between the combatants. Hunger Games used environmental hazards to force the combatants closer together. Battle Royale dropped the students in essentially unprepared, Hunger Games had a lot of pre-game coaching.
All the more proof that Battle Royale is better.

They'll just leave an item for your skill, you might not end up getting it.
The point being it doesn't matter whether or not you get it; there is now a tank in the meta-game.
Quite simply, they're not going to put a fucking tank into the game. It wouldn't entertain the bloodthirsty, wouldn't cause enough suffering. They'll just pretend something else is your skill. I don't think they even have tanks that anyone could use before the Games, at least outside the military.

I guess you could make a deal with the other people that at the start of the game you would just not fight them and wait for them to sort their shit out, so who ever survives the initial fray can kill you quickly and painlessly with a beheading rather than leaving you to bleed out and suffer.

Realistically I imagine most people would gladly accept such an offer, and it is a kind of win.
Isn't this what's achieved by not running toward the cornucopia at the start?
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« Reply #32 on: December 01, 2013, 12:52:06 pm »

Funny story, apparently one of the booming job sectors right now is in the field of archery instruction for tweens/teens and equipment manufacturing. So the HG was at least good for a tiny part of the economy  :P
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Re: hunger games strategy?
« Reply #33 on: December 01, 2013, 12:54:25 pm »

Quite simply, they're not going to put a fucking tank into the game. It wouldn't entertain the bloodthirsty, wouldn't cause enough suffering. They'll just pretend something else is your skill. I don't think they even have tanks that anyone could use before the Games, at least outside the military.
It would provide a show; anyone capable of taking on the tank would get massive props and sponsors. Plausible scenario: Someone [too] popular in the military volunteers.

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« Reply #34 on: December 01, 2013, 01:35:59 pm »

The Biggest difference between the Hunger Games and Battleroyal is on the surface.

Hunger Games is about giving all the contestants moderately the same ability to win and the ability to get sponsors is considered part of the contestant's ability and where there are hazards put in place that can kill contestants if they are piddling about too long. This is why there is gambling available for the Hunger games.

Battleroyale is really just a slaughter with no sense of balance and fairplay and rules put in place just to ensure people are slaughtering someone else at all times.

Now this is excluding the fact that both games are different under that surface...
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« Reply #35 on: December 01, 2013, 02:14:29 pm »

You know, there was also the implication of government officials betting on the outcome in Battle Royale. The novel, at least. Either way, the main difference between the two is that BR takes a realistic approach to what happens between the survivor(s) and the authoritarian state after it's over, while HG takes the wish-fulfillment fantasy approach to it.  :-\
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« Reply #36 on: December 01, 2013, 02:29:14 pm »

You know, there was also the implication of government officials betting on the outcome in Battle Royale. The novel, at least. Either way, the main difference between the two is that BR takes a realistic approach to what happens between the survivor(s) and the authoritarian state after it's over, while HG takes the wish-fulfillment fantasy approach to it.  :-\

Honestly gambling in either of them make NO SENSE given what we learn about them.

Besides Hunger Games had official sanctioned gambling. I am sure BattleRoyale was just friendly gambling.
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« Reply #37 on: December 01, 2013, 03:51:23 pm »

You know, there was also the implication of government officials betting on the outcome in Battle Royale. The novel, at least. Either way, the main difference between the two is that BR takes a realistic approach to what happens between the survivor(s) and the authoritarian state after it's over, while HG takes the wish-fulfillment fantasy approach to it.  :-\

Honestly gambling in either of them make NO SENSE given what we learn about them.

Besides Hunger Games had official sanctioned gambling. I am sure BattleRoyale was just friendly gambling.
Both are reasonable; blood sport is blood sport.
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« Reply #38 on: December 01, 2013, 04:06:46 pm »

1: Dodge any ranged attacks

2: Lure the enemy in close

3: CQC

4: ???

5: Profit!
That's called mugging.
1: Mugging
2: Profit!

And don't forget the stealth. Camouflage yourself by hiding, like Peetah did in the first book.

I played HG with some people on Minecraft once. I hid behind a rock next to a cliff and shoved people whenever they came by.
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« Reply #39 on: December 01, 2013, 04:41:19 pm »

Not in the movie though. How the fuck did he camouflage himself like that while injured?!
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« Reply #40 on: December 01, 2013, 05:52:35 pm »

Yeah, I was expecting that to submerge that cut under mud would mean Massive infections.

I mean, -Spoilers- but still...
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« Reply #41 on: December 01, 2013, 06:54:33 pm »

Not in the movie though. How the fuck did he camouflage himself like that while injured?!
"Don't examine this too closely".
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Re: hunger games strategy?
« Reply #42 on: December 01, 2013, 06:56:32 pm »

Yeah, I was expecting that to submerge that cut under mud would mean Massive infections.

I mean, -Spoilers- but still...
Didn't it actually get infected though? I swear that's the reason why the sponsor had to ship in that gel stuff.

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« Reply #43 on: December 01, 2013, 07:06:09 pm »

... Hence -spoilers-...
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« Reply #44 on: December 01, 2013, 07:07:28 pm »

Not in the movie though. How the fuck did he camouflage himself like that while injured?!
"Don't examine this too closely".
Clearly the sponsors shipped him extensive supplies of cake frosting.
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