[General Discussion] The Need For Speed (future video game concept) (long)

Your idea of banning people from a game for playing how it's supposed to be reminded me of one day of this ancient column on GameSpy called Daily Victim (I don't even think it's been updated in five years). That day's was a joke about a guy giving his idea for this fantastic mod for Half Life. He wanted to call it Real Life and it was a game that played just like normal deathmatch Half Life. However, when you died, the game shut down, uninstalled HL, formatted your computer, and then overheated your CPU so it would fry. In this, he wanted to do his best to make the game as realistic as possible.

Also, while it's quite possible to map all the roads in the world into a database, it would be next to impossible to do such with all of the 3d geographical information in every area. Perhaps if they just loaded the roads with topographical info and randomly generated scenery it could be possible, but then the point of driving on real roads when the scenery is random kinda defeats the purpose.

For some reason your explanation of why people will play this game reminds me of an exchange on Seinfeld.

Quote:

SUSAN: What's the premise?

JERRY: ..Well, as I was saying, I would play myself, and, as a comedian, living in New York, I have a friend, a neighbor, and an ex-girlfriend, which is all true.

GEORGE: Yeah, but nothing happens on the show. You see, it's just like life. You know, you eat, you go shopping, you read.. You eat, you read, You go shopping.

RUSSELL: You read? You read on the show?

JERRY: Well, I don't know about the reading.. We didn't discuss the reading.

RUSSELL: All right, tell me, tell me about the stories. What kind of stories?

GEORGE: Oh, no. No stories.

RUSSELL: No stories? So, what is it?

GEORGE: (Showing an example) What'd you do today?

RUSSELL: I got up and came to work.

GEORGE: There's a show. That's a show.

RUSSELL: (Confused) How is that a show?

JERRY: Well, uh, maybe something happens on the way to work.

GEORGE: No, no, no. Nothing happens.

JERRY: Well, something happens.

RUSSELL: Well, why am I watching it?

GEORGE: Because it's on TV.

RUSSELL: (Threatening) Not yet.

How ya doing, buddy?