At PAX this year, I was seriously creeped out by the Army-sponsored immersive FPS experience thingy. (Disclaimer: I didn't play it. I just saw the 50-foot-cube curtained-off thing with a humvee (or however the hell you spell the original military incarnation of that vehicle), and the huge sounds of explosions from within, and the wide-eyed line of teenagers waiting to get into the coolest thing ever.) There was a vibe coming off the whole thing that the Army is the ultimate in real-life FPSes, and it's the most superreallistic game ever, and the implications were too painful to think about for long.
(Gratifying, though, was that the lines to play Rock Band were longer. I approve of games that glorify music.)
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Date: 2007-09-04 10:04 pm (UTC)(Gratifying, though, was that the lines to play Rock Band were longer. I approve of games that glorify music.)