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Author Topic: Slavery - The (Not) Game  (Read 12725 times)

nenjin

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Slavery - The (Not) Game
« on: September 02, 2011, 02:59:18 pm »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCgsXRyYXW0&feature=player_embedded

I shit you not.

People 'round here would be the last to throw stones at a game based on something as mundane as enslaving a sentient being. Still, in the realm of questionable game themes this one seems to be right up there with CoD's "No Russian."
« Last Edit: September 07, 2011, 07:10:14 pm by nenjin »
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Re: Slavery - The Game
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2011, 03:06:03 pm »
Day one buy for me. Who's publishing?
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Re: Slavery - The Game
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2011, 03:08:31 pm »
... This is really bad.

I just don't see the joy in enslaving africans. However, if I choose to look at this as more of a "historical economic game!" I might enjoy it. Much as I enjoyed the no-russian level as one of those times to unload a full magazine of a SAW and have a bullet hit at least one person. Not as... you know. What it was. A merciless slaughter of innocents.
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Re: Slavery - The Game
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2011, 03:10:30 pm »
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Re: Slavery - The Game
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2011, 03:13:21 pm »
I'm going to assume this is trolling for the moment, until something more concrete than a trailer pops up.  The website doesn't have a lot to it, and there's no way in hell I'm linking that to my Facebook account.
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Re: Slavery - The Game
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2011, 03:23:52 pm »
It's rated AO apparently.  Can't remember the last time I saw a game get that rating.
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Re: Slavery - The Game
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2011, 03:24:28 pm »
I don't really see the problem, as long as the game is marginally historically correct.
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nenjin

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Re: Slavery - The Game
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2011, 03:26:19 pm »
I think it was the explicit detail given to abusing and exploiting them. Someone took the time to think about how a spiked bat is better at motivating your slaves than a scourge. Seems a little sadistic to me.

I should follow that up by saying everyone has the right make the game they want, even if its Left Behind, I Have Candy Get In The Van, or this.
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Re: Slavery - The Game
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2011, 03:26:47 pm »
Quote from: Cthulhu on September 02, 2011, 03:23:52 pm
It's rated AO apparently.  Can't remember the last time I saw a game get that rating.
I'm pretty sure that AO is the ESRB's "Just in case someone does something that goes completely over the line and under the counter pornography" rating. Which means that they actually managed to cross the ESRB's last line, which I don't recall any game in the last ten years managing.
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Re: Slavery - The Game
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2011, 03:28:37 pm »
Quote from: inteuniso on September 02, 2011, 03:08:31 pm
However, if I choose to look at this as more of a "historical economic game!"
It seems to me that it is a historical economic sim, and one with a great original concept at that. Surprised that there haven't been more slave-trading games, personally.
I have some doubts about it being authentic namely because
Quote from: Cthulhu on September 02, 2011, 03:23:52 pm
It's rated AO apparently.  Can't remember the last time I saw a game get that rating.
http://www.esrb.org/ratings/search.jsp doesn't list the game.
I hope it's legitimate, in any case.
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Re: Slavery - The Game
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2011, 03:34:11 pm »
Pretty much what Rakonas said.  I'm a big fan of videogames as art and surely art shouldn't be constrained?
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Re: Slavery - The Game
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2011, 03:35:32 pm »
Well as long as I can play a Moorish slave trader for the sweet irony of it I'm game.
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Re: Slavery - The Game
« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2011, 03:36:17 pm »
Art shouldn't be constrained, but there is a matter of tact to consider. I would not, for example, play a game where you are the director of a death camp on principle, just as I will refuse to play this game on principal because of its subject matter.
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Re: Slavery - The Game
« Reply #13 on: September 02, 2011, 03:39:55 pm »
LOL GOAL! I like the concept...its history and its long past. There is no real need to get offended by it...

I can think of a large plethora of games that include slavery in them....no one gives a shit....
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« Reply #14 on: September 02, 2011, 03:42:41 pm »
It has the potential to be an interesting game, but it seems... off.
It could at least show some respect to the people who went through that.
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