They don’t need to be coherent or good.
Still, sometimes these glimpses and ideas are interesting enough that I quite enjoy trying to figure them out.
Take Gods Of Combat, a fake first-person shooter featured in police procedural show Criminal Minds.
Criminal Minds is an American cop ‘em up about FBI profilers solving unlikely crimes.
A rescued passenger explains that the unsubs (see?)
“This is a video game.”
Abductees wear shock collars, which are “used to keep your player from straying from their mission.”
Ultimately, “the object of the game is to destroy as many of your opponents as possible.
The one with the highest bodycount wins.”
Honestly, I understand less about what it is after studying these.
Hell, does one leader oversee and direct five players as a team, or individually?
And how are the roles different?
What does the pawn do, because the implications are fascinating?
I must know about the pawn.
Some potential answers to these questions feel like a game I’d really be interested in.
Perhaps we can learn more from the murdergame the unsubs (I know) recreate with their captives.
The meatspace murdergame is a 1v1 built of 1v1s.
In the first round, they guide their characters through the mazelike industrial facility.
Here, rival Trent has already opened his own box and is fumbling to assemble an empieced pistol.
picks a new character.
Right, so, is Gods Of Combat a game about navigating a murdermaze and low-grade Saw situations?
Find guns, do murder?
Facing different trials with different horrors to get keys with different rewards, and other such puzzles and decisions?
And how much should we take the meatspace murdergame as recreating Gods Of Combat?
Gods Of Combat could functionally be a generic 5v5 FPS, right?
This is all assuming we take the show’s portrayal of Gods Of Combat as accurate, too.
The problem: it’s not a real game and it doesn’t need to make sense.
And yet, I’ve enjoyed turning over the pieces in my head.
Oh, here’s the kicker: the unsubs (you almost forgot, didn’t you?)
Oh, and apparently ‘Hell mods’ exist in many games?
A colleague explains that “the Hell mod in this game was like a battle royale.
I mean literally, anything goes.
There are no rules.”
I’ve accidentally found a real game inside the fake game.
you could watch this episode of Criminal Mindson Disney+, I only discovered after paying 2.49 for iton Amazon.
like, tell me how you think Gods Of Combat works.
