No, I’m guessing players won’t be able to commit brutal rapes like the ones depicted on the HBO show, which is a line mainstream video games have not crossed (and I’m certainly not advocating for that), but they can probably do anything but. We are already doing this in video games on a daily basis with the sorts of freedoms they allow, but it will be especially interesting to have a direct analog to Westworld in the form of Red Dead Online. But it’s just because we are far away from “believable reality” that most people don’t seem to realize it or care about it.” If you’re put in a world like that and abuse your essentially unlimited power to rape or murder, what exactly does that say about you as a person? Westworld very clearly wants us to hate the kind of guests that do truly perverse things in the park, and the creators of the park that allow this stuff to happen, but in a way, we are already moving toward this in our games. “We are obviously a long, long way away from say, fully haptic VR bodysuits that put us into games with photorealistic, human-like AI characters, but it’s the same principle. Here’s what I said when the show premiered: I’ve already talked briefly about Westworld’s connection to the modern day moral choices we face in video games. Rugged vigilante or chaos-sewing outlaw? White hat or black hat? But they’ll be faced with similar choices. ![]() And therein lies the opportunity for players to essentially be playing through Westworld version 1.0, if the show depicts version say, 13.0 dozens of years in the future. While I presume the single player story mode will have a fairly scripted narrative that will assign players to a certain personality, John Marston or otherwise, the online component will be much more free-wheeling, if it’s anything like GTA Online. ![]() So, I find it rather fascinating that when we will be in the middle of season two of Westworld, we will simultaneously be playing the presumably gorgeous, well-scripted sequel to one of the very games that served as a direct inspiration for it.
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