Is this game premise baaaad or is it just me?

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Ser_Bunnylot

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New game released on Steam: Cabela's African Adventures

http://store.steampowered.com/app/250200/

Now, I get hunting simulators like deer hunter or beaver hunter or what not, but given what's been happening with poaching of endangered species I just feel this game is a bit much.

Are people outside SA ignorant of what's happening to our wildlife?
 
Ser_Bunnylot said:
New game released on Steam: Cabela's African Adventures

http://store.steampowered.com/app/250200/

Now, I get hunting simulators like deer hunter or beaver hunter or what not, but given what's been happening with poaching of endangered species I just feel this game is a bit much.

Are people outside SA ignorant of what's happening to our wildlife?
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It's not available in our region, I can't see what it is. :wtf:

Edit: Oh you added the name, never mind, I'll have a look.
 
I really think a game that encourages you to kill endangered species is a bad idea. Not because I think people will go out and kill those animals because of the game, but because we need to encourage awareness about endangered species, which is the exact opposite of what this game is doing.
 
Clive Woofer said:
I really think a game that encourages you to kill endangered species is a bad idea. Not because I think people will go out and kill those animals because of the game, but because we need to encourage awareness about endangered species, which is the exact opposite of what this game is doing.
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I agree. I think they should make a game like this, where if you try to kill an endangered animal, a message pops up asking you to make a donation. Not sure what to think think of this. Definitely not a game I would ever play.

Then again, in Far Cry 3 you were also encouraged to kill endangered animals. No-one seemed to make too much fuss about that.
 
While I find the concept absolutely abominable. I feel that it's pixels. It's not real and if it means people aren't actually going out there killing real animals instead then by all means, work it.
 
Ser_Bunnylot said:
New game released on Steam: Cabela's African Adventures

http://store.steampowered.com/app/250200/

Now, I get hunting simulators like deer hunter or beaver hunter or what not, but given what's been happening with poaching of endangered species I just feel this game is a bit much.

Are people outside SA ignorant of what's happening to our wildlife?
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Nope not at all because it's 90% of the people that poach most of our endangered species are foreigners. They enter via Botswana or Namibia (if we look at the Kalahari national park) do what they mist and leave again, making it tricky to catch or apprehend them.

Solution for it? Death. Just shoot and ask questions about nationality later.
 
First and foremost it's "just" a game, worse yet it looks like a really bad game.

Nothing I would enjoy or put too much stock in to. There are new endangered species all the time and I'm pretty sure potential poachers don't play much games.

Now make an African Dinosaur hunting sim and you have my attention.
 
I did think it's right to kill endangered species. Maybe there is a double standard here with its ok to kill people but not ok to kill sharks and Rhinos but humans are far from endangered. Also I know playing surgeon simulator doesn't make me a doctor, Grid doesn't make me a racing driver, GTA doesn't make me a criminal and saints row doesn't make........................whatever you call yourself in saints row IV so a virtual poacher won't make me become a poacher. However it just doesn't feel right to me, its like that cock fighting mini game in sleeping dogs, it just doesn't feel right.

Maybe an idea is to have the option but also the consequence of say being virtually arrested or shot by a game ranger if you shoot something endangered.. Might also be great exposure to foreigners also if they have an anti poaching organisation promo video every time you kill an endangered animal, something you can't skip and a shock factor at the start.
 
It's not that shooting pixels is going to turn you into an evil killer.

I just see this game as incredibly bad taste. Given what's the current state of affairs with poaching, I see this game as equivalent to creating a sim where you fly planes into the world trade centre, or go on shooting sprees on school campuses. Sure it's just a game at the end of the day, but it's still not right.

I would not have a problem with a game where you kill rhino and elephant riding Nazis that have trained leopards. Same animals... different premise...
 
Clive Woofer said:
I really think a game that encourages you to kill endangered species is a bad idea. Not because I think people will go out and kill those animals because of the game, but because we need to encourage awareness about endangered species, which is the exact opposite of what this game is doing.
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Or bloody hell get more creative, seen too many simulators of killing animals. Why not for once in our life time will we make a game where you stop or hunt the poachers? I would def buy that game, Track and monitor the poacher till he points a gun at an animal and you take him out.
 
ArchieChoke said:
Or bloody hell get more creative, seen too many simulators of killing animals. Why not for once in our life time will we make a game where you stop or hunt the poachers? I would def buy that game, Track and monitor the poacher till he points a gun at an animal and you take him out.
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+1 I like that idea. It would be so awesome if someone can do that and then the proceeds go to some Rhino charity.
 
ArchieChoke said:
Or bloody hell get more creative, seen too many simulators of killing animals. Why not for once in our life time will we make a game where you stop or hunt the poachers? I would def buy that game, Track and monitor the poacher till he points a gun at an animal and you take him out.
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There is a game reserve which hired a former SAS soldier to train their rangers to fight poachers. It's now like a sniper unit with extreme camouflage training and perfect marksmanship at 600m with iron sights. They're basically training SAS level soldiers to protect our rhinos.
 
I played one of the Cabela's games a few years back, i think it was dangerous hunt back in 2005.

The aim of the game was to hunt not to poach.
But yes i would also suggest that they just removing any endangered animal from the game. Let the person hunt an impala or Koedoe or whatever they want, but just not an endangered animal. They could add the animals to the game but once you aim on it your the gun does not shoot, something like disabling friendly fire in other games.
 
Lycanthrope said:
While I find the concept absolutely abominable. I feel that it's pixels. It's not real and if it means people aren't actually going out there killing real animals instead then by all means, work it.
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I agree. it's like blaming the violent behavior of psycho kids on video games
 
MalicE said:
I agree. it's like blaming the violent behavior of psycho kids on video games
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Fair enough, but that's not what worries most of us. It's the hit this does to spread for the awareness of endangered species. If the game at least penalizes you whenever you kill an endangered species, that I would be fine with.
 
sho, i feel a lot of double standards here. we complain about the gaming industry not being accurately portrayed when there is a question about gaming violence in the media. or some ethnic group complains about being singled out in a game and we shrug it off. we kill millions of people in CoD every day (look up the recent statistic "Call of Duty By The Numbers") and yet we don't bat an eye-lid. then when you can kill a lion or a rhino and now its bad?

we are a bit sensitive about poaching in our country, and rightly so. beautiful creatures are being wiped out thanks to greed, misinformation and narrow-minded views. that wont stop me from shooting a coyote in GTA V or a tiger in Far Cry 3, for the same reason i wont stop shooting a gang-member in the face.

gaming is my inconsequential escape from the real world. there is no consequence in the real world to what i do in the virtual world. thus i have no problem with hunting simulators. then again i am able to distinguish the difference between the two.
 
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Hmmm....would be awsum man.especially if you had to chase down run away poachers with vehicles and added advantage of knowing the roads to cut them off.
 
Clive Woofer said:
Fair enough, but that's not what worries most of us. It's the hit this does to spread for the awareness of endangered species. If the game at least penalizes you whenever you kill an endangered species, that I would be fine with.
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yeah, I understand. but then by that logic you should expect GTA to penalize you whenever you kill a pedestian :p
 
I have killed millions upon millions of people in games, not once did I plan or kill one in real life, not even when I was hijacked. In fact games had quite the opposite affect the more I killed people in game the less I had a urge to do so IRL.

What I am basically saying is I don't see this game as promoting killing animals, in fact it does the opposite. It takes the edge off of doing it real life. I don't know the content of the game, but it would be cool if they have info cards or like a mini Wikipedia about the animals in the game teaching you about the animals, habits and that they are soon to be a extinct creature if that is the case.

PS poachers don't do it because its fun, they do it because there is a money value to it, remove the value and you remove the need to poach.
 
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