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SimCandidate - Why Aren't There More Political Sims?
Thanks to Slate for their piece discussing why there aren't more videogames simulating current-day politics. The article posits: "The U.S. presidential campaign may be the first true election of the digital age, but it's still missing one key ingredient. Where is the video-game version of Campaign 2004?" It goes on to suggest that "presidential politics lends itself naturally to the idiom and audience of today's games. Political campaigns are already structured like games, with an escalating series of discrete competitions that determine the eventual winner. In addition, there's an existing body of readily available data, going back many decades, that could be harnessed to craft the simulation" Would you play a modern-day political sim videogame?
Why hasn't there been a reality TV show yet, like
"Who wants to be a Senator?"
Are you an NBC-Crat or a CBS-ican?
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For added realism, players could have cheat codes which allow them to edit the voting machine results:).
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Would you play a modern-day political sim videogame?
Now that it's back up, I sure would!
Who wants to play a game in which the only way to win is to cheat.
"For the same reason there aren't any religious sims, either."
Oh I dunno. The way people jump my ass here if I don't sing the praises of Mozilla, you'd think it was a religious sim.
"Derp de derp."
Sierra should ressurect the Leisure Suit Larry engine for a Bill Clinton game.
Christ, it's even worse than I thought- "Noah has gotten bored and decided it would be fun to stop feeding the animals. Consequently, the animals have organized a mutiny against him..." If that isn't blasphemous, I don't know what is! :)
Kind of funny in the review of "Forgiveness," when they ask why no one can make a good game based on mythology of the western world- but they talk about Norse mythology games which are good. Which west is Mr. Awful talking about? Last time I checked, Europe was very much part of the Western world...
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So...what would this game be like...you sit back and refrain from voting, and it just picks a candidate for you? EA Voter Apathy 2004!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?