What if the real world was an MMO game? Here’s the review:
7/18/2008
We play this game all the time. You’ve played it too. It’s called, “Outside” (AKA the real world). From Metafilter.com, user Aeschenkarnos gave a funny and quite accurate review of life in the outside world as a massive multiplayer game:
“Outside is remarkably high in sex, violence and challenges to traditional values, despite the strong child-focussed marketing it receives. Many would go so far as to say that for a child to develop the ability to cope with Outside is essential, as long as the harm incurred is not too debilitating.”
“…how does Outside actually rate? The physics system is note-perfect (often at the expense of playability), the graphics are beyond comparison, the rendering of objects is absolutely beautiful at any distance, and the player's ability to interact with objects is really limited only by other players' tolerance. The real fundamental problem with the game is that there is nothing to do.”
“In terms of game play the game sets few, if any, goals: the major one is merely "survive". What goals a player sets, are often astonishingly tedious to actually achieve, and power-ups and gear upgrades, let alone extra weapons, are few and far between. Some players choose accumulation of money, one of the many point systems in the game, as a goal, but distribution of this is often randomized and it can be hard to tell what activities will lead to gaining points in advance, and what the risks will be.”
To read the whole review of “Outside”, just click here.
Should this game “Outside” be banned? Is there any cheat code? I want a walkthrough! LOL