Chapter 10 This Game is So Cool
"Guys, even though I'm dead, I still have to shout out with my last breath: This f*****g game is so f*****g awesome!!!"
At noon, the "Gamer Club" group chat, which should be filled with the contents of what to eat for lunch, was interrupted by the impatient speech of "Alfred Loves Chicken".
Balance X: "The administrator is crazy?"
Try Hard to Lose Weight: "Games? Don't tell me it’s the game that I am thinking of? / Surprised"
Boo890123: "What game? I wasn’t here yesterday, what happened?"
Alfred Loves Chicken (Administrator): "@ Try Hard to Lose Weight, yes, that's the game @Big Daddy said, it’s so great bro, it's a pity that you didn't qualify for the testing."
Try Hard to Lose Weight: “/Crying/Crying/Crying”
Try Hard to Lose weight: "Really? Are you lying to me? It's actually not fun, you were all cheated by Big Daddy, right?"
Alfred Loves Chicken (Administrator): “It's absolutely true, I swear on my grandma’s life”
Boo890123: "??? So cruel? What the hell are you talking about!"
Petting The Alpaca Fiercely: "/Smiling face, Alfred pretends to look alike. If I remember correctly, didn’t you guys in the group say you wanted to take part in the game testing before? Didn’t you say that virtual reality was completely infiltrated in the game? It’s been less than 3 hours, and if it’s that fun, would you have time to come back to the group chat?"
Alfred Loves Chicken (Administrator): "@boo890123, read yesterday’s chat history for yourself."
"@ Petting The Alpaca Fiercely, believe it or not, I didn't carry on playing because I’m dead. The device reminded me that it would take 12 hours to resurrect, f**k!"
Richard 123: "/smiley face, interesting!"
Seeing the ironic words from Richard 123, Alfred felt very uncomfortable. He knew what he had experienced. The world in the game that he saw with his own eyes was so magical.
Maybe it's still within the closed beta. He tried it before, and the gaming helmet seemed to be a simple access device. Otherwise, if there was a camera function, he should take a few photos and rub it in “Richard 123”’s face.
Alfred Loves Chicken (Administrator): "Whether you believe it or not, let me just say it straight up, if this game isn’t popular in the future, I will do a live stream and eat my s**t!"
"Shocked.jpg"
“lol”
"Funny.jpg"
With Alfred swearing, a bunch of emojis in the group chat appeared, all of them were from those who didn't speak much and only loved watching the screen.
Obviously, no one believed much of what he said.
In the chaos, "Carsick Car" appeared, "I can prove what Alfred says is true, the game is incredible, and I can also make the same promise as him."
After seeing him online, Alfred quickly responded: "Thank you bro, but why have you come out? Are you dead too?"
Carsick Car: "I’m dead... fleeing into the forest with the NPC, I don't know why, all the trees came alive and killed a few of us, f**k! But the helmet gave us a prompt that the task was complete, it should be part of the plot."
Boo890123: "Game helmet? I just watched your chat history yesterday, virtual reality, and completely infiltrated into the game... Umm, I don't quite understand the concept of that. Do you mean the game helmet refers to a kind of VR equipment?"
Carsick Car: "Haha, VR? Dude, can that kind of display screen worn on the head be compared with a game helmet? It's almost the same as wiping its a*s!"
“…………”
Canada, Carsick Car uttered those words, and saw the emoji that was refreshing again in the group chat, he smiled and didn't care too much.
He could understand their disbelief.
Because he did the same a few hours ago.
In today's informational society, all kinds of activities are unprecedentedly transparent. Everyone has formed a logic of thinking for a long time. No technology would emerge out of a void.
No matter what kind of technology, there is always a process from the concept to a product in the laboratory, from a dream, to immature, and finally to maturity.
However, his personal experience showed that the company where Big Daddy worked was so unreasonable!
Carsick Car: "You don’t believe me and I understand that. What Alfred didn’t say before is that the current Closed Beta helmet does not support photography. I guess the game company wants to keep it confidential, so there’s no way to prove it to you, but I can probably tell everyone what the game is like."
Carsick Car: "Everyone who has played games with me knows that I take gaming very seriously. I have done a lot of strategies before and even organized a MOD group by myself. This sharing is entire with the hope that if there are friends who will be chosen to test in the future, you can at least have a basic understanding, so Alfred, mute them while I am speaking."
Alfred Loves Chicken (Administrator): "OK!”
Try Hard to Lose weight: "Hurry up!”
Carsick Car was indeed a relatively well-known member of the "Gamers Club". Of course, he was not the same as Big Daddy, who was famous for poor performances. He always appeared as a gaming master.
Many people in the "Gamers Club" suspected that his actual job may be a commentator on a gaming website. No matter whether it was a phenomenal 3A masterpiece or an unpopular one, as long as someone in the club asked him, he would point out the passing skills, hidden plots, easter eggs and etc.
Now that he said this, no one minded seeing how he spun this yarn.
On the other side, Carsick Car thought for a moment, and then began to slowly type out the words:
"First talk about the context of the game."
"In fact, so far, the scope of exploration for the 6 players is very limited. The closed beta only tested one mission, and I don’t know much about the background. From the analysis of the clothing materials of the NPCs that we came into contact with, and the social environment in the game, we found that they were similar to ancient Europe, maybe closer to more modern periods. No religious elements have been found yet."
"It is certain that there is an existence of extraordinary power."
"The level of science and technology is not well evaluated. After all, the scene we have experienced is just a small town. The whole town is a prison. Judging from the equipment of the prison guards, the level of smelting varies. However, it does not rule out that there are higher technological achievements, such as technology similar to musket and steam engine. After all, there is extraordinary power, I think I can look forward to it!"
"The next thing that I want to talk about is the most questioned point, sensory interaction and authenticity!"
"I will use a comparison to describe the experience this game brought to me ------ if it is a game called 'Crimson World', then my real life is a game called 'Earth'! It is not an exaggeration at all. Everyone, it’s not the so-called VR, it’s not the so-called immersive experience that you can only see with your eyes while wearing a screen that can see the pixels, but it’s like my whole thinking entered another world!"
"Everything there can interact with sensory organs, yes, regardless of sight, smell, taste, touch, etc., you can feel the temperature of the light on your face, you can see the dust flying in the light, and you can smell the oily fumes of an extinguishing torch, you can touch the rough particles of the rock wall with your palm... Friends, everything I have experienced in the game has told me very clearly ------ my dear players, we are creating a real-world for you!"
“Don’t think that I’m bragging. At least so far, I haven’t noticed any violations in sensory interaction. Of course, Dragon’s Toenail may have more right of speech than me in this regard. He licked every wall in a cell!"
"Then the degrees of freedom."
"Everyone in this group chat must have played the sandbox games, and they should all know that the technical manifestation of the sandbox game depends on how freely the player interacts with the environment, objects, etc. in the game. Here I can tell you all, the freedom of this game is far beyond your imagination. You can pick up anything you want within your sight and change its position."
"During the mission, we grabbed weapons from enemy NPC's, picked up torches, pulled the weeds and picked flowers, Dragon’s Toenail even grabbed a few bugs from the cracks in the wall."
"Limited by the lack of time, there are many things that I haven't tested, such as whether the shape of objects can be changed in the game. After I can log in, I will try and let you know."
"Then the important part comes, NPC!"
"I don't know if you have any regrets when playing various RPG games in the past ------ no matter how you contact, there will always be only those kinds of NPC dialogues in the game. Even the main character will become like a wooden stake once it leaves the plot too far."
"But this game is completely different. Although we have not participated in the test for long, because of the battle, we came into contact with many NPCs. At present, important characters include a prisoner named 'Duke' and the prison guards in hostile a state."
But whether ‘Duke’ or the prison guards, these NPCs showed their amazing intelligence. They could communicate and interact with us normally, and they could even break away from language and judge the player’s intentions through actions."
"I did an experiment in the game. We deliberately left a prisoner and did not kill him. Even if we didn’t say anything, the prisoner could understand the threats we expressed with the knife at him very accurately. We have to mention again here, in this test, we needed to help an NPC called 'Duke'."
"He behaved like a real person. We discussed the game in front of him. In the beginning, maybe due to the company's filtering mechanism, he could not understand our conversations, but even if he didn’t understand, he could still recognize what test we were doing. Then in the next task, he arranged for me to be a scout, which is relatively lame and weak. There are no random elements because he directly told us that he thought that my attitude towards him was problematic!!!"
"I doubt that he could detect my intention to test his intelligence... Isn't it incredible, that an NPC is fighting against me!"
"But don't be afraid, since it's a game, the players still have advantages/laughing, I have to praise the development company for its dedication."
"I don't know how they did it. In ordinary scenes, our sensory interaction was normal. I personally touched a stone wall with sharp edges and felt a slight pain. But in battle, the pain was blocked."
"When I was a scout (cannon fodder), my shoulder was slashed by a knife. There was no pain throughout the whole process, but the foreign body sensation on the shoulder still existed. It was amazing... But seriously, this design actually dilutes the sense of reality. "
"So, if possible, I hope that the development company can provide players with the ability to regulate pain. What if someone likes the pain more? / laugh"
"If you really want to hear there are any shortcomings, you probably just can't create the character by yourself. I don't know if this is still a testing problem. I always felt that the figure of the character in the game was very similar to my body in reality?"