conspiracy theories would make good games, do you agree?

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Geometric-Crusher

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First of all, I don't believe in any conspiracy theories, that said, I believe that some could make a studio rich, after all, you would only have to render the graphics, all the fantasy and plot would already be ready.
Imagine an adventure game, in the cutscene there would be a dialogue about magnetic inversion, a character would say that they are cyclical and natural occurring every 800 years, and that this cools the earth for 300 years killing everyone through hunger, and whoever survives becomes rich because they enter empty houses and collect gold and precious stones, this would be the origin of our ultra rich of the present time.
or a game set in the Neolithic period, suddenly UFOs descend on the village of thatched houses and begin to gather people from various parts of the world, grouping them in what is now Iraq, the people would be slaves mining gold for them, then a civil war happens between the aliens, and our character would be one of these invaders but who would feel sympathy for some human families and decide to save them from the destruction that would occur due to the rising seas after the rival group fires at the moon.
These nonsense would make excellent games.
 
Conspiracies have existed and do exist during the entire history of humankind. "Not believing" in them, broadly speaking, is not believing in most of the major events that have shaped our history.

That said, have you ever heard of a franchise called Assassins Creed?
 
The way i understand it conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories because theyre false or not proven to be (un)true yet.
If they were right it becomes a fact, so its pretty much impossible to make a conspiracy theory game where its true in-game since that would be just a fictional game like every other.

You can pretend every fictional piece of media is conspiracy theory themed i guess.
 
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People today seem more inclined toward conspiratorial thinking, so I can see how playing with those elements could connect with people. Also, conspiracy theories being compelling ideas is part of what makes them spread. So a game doing a "what if" scenario about faking the moon landing or something like that could be interesting and fun to play with. But obviously there's limits to it. For example, I wouldn't be interested in playing a game about how Jewish people secretly control everything.
 
Angry_Megalodon said:
Conspiracies have existed and do exist during the entire history of humankind. "Not believing" in them, broadly speaking, is not believing in most of the major events that have shaped our history.

That said, have you ever heard of a franchise called Assassins Creed?
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This.

Some conspiracies ends up being true eventually. And the actual true conspiracy channels that exposes things have been first censored than banned from YouTube in the last decade.

There's obviously a lot of fake conspiracies and those are the ones that are still allowed to be on YouTube and not banned nor censored for obvious reasons. The media have also made a joke out of conspiracy and turned the word into a trigger word so that all the folks will view all conspiracy as fake by only giving attention to fake conspiracies cause obviously the media wouldn't want people to know the truth because of who they work for. Reason why every media or news channel have the same talking points.
 
DKehoe said:
People today seem more inclined toward conspiratorial thinking, so I can see how playing with those elements could connect with people. Also, conspiracy theories being compelling ideas is part of what makes them spread. So a game doing a "what if" scenario about faking the moon landing or something like that could be interesting and fun to play with. But obviously there's limits to it. For example, I wouldn't be interested in playing a game about how Jewish people secretly control everything.
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A theory that says Jesus was invented by the Roman Empire.

Imagine how strange this game would be. We'd control Marcus, whose name means servant of Mars, the god of war. In the middle of Titus's military campaign in Palestine, Marcus enters the command post and says, "Ave Titus, today we had a fierce battle on the lake. The enemy tried to swim, and we struck him with lancets." So Titus responds, "Excellent, you were fishing for those men. Cassius, call the scribes." Marcus says, "Scribes, my lord?"

"Yes, these people killed the one who taught them the truth... to love your enemies, right ? to give Caesar what is Caesar's, and to pray for your enemies instead of raising armies and fighting for the independence of this province."

I wouldn't be interested in playing this game , maybe.
 
Angry_Megalodon said:
Conspiracies have existed and do exist during the entire history of humankind. "Not believing" in them, broadly speaking, is not believing in most of the major events that have shaped our history.

That said, have you ever heard of a franchise called Assassins Creed?
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The CIA is the ones responsible for making the term "conspiracy theorist" sound like a nutjob after nobody believed the story about JFK's assassination.

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Geometric-Crusher said:
First of all, I don't believe in any conspiracy theories, that said, I believe that some could make a studio rich, after all, you would only have to render the graphics, all the fantasy and plot would already be ready.
Imagine an adventure game, in the cutscene there would be a dialogue about magnetic inversion, a character would say that they are cyclical and natural occurring every 800 years, and that this cools the earth for 300 years killing everyone through hunger, and whoever survives becomes rich because they enter empty houses and collect gold and precious stones, this would be the origin of our ultra rich of the present time.
or a game set in the Neolithic period, suddenly UFOs descend on the village of thatched houses and begin to gather people from various parts of the world, grouping them in what is now Iraq, the people would be slaves mining gold for them, then a civil war happens between the aliens, and our character would be one of these invaders but who would feel sympathy for some human families and decide to save them from the destruction that would occur due to the rising seas after the rival group fires at the moon.
These nonsense would make excellent games.
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Every arc in One Piece is basically based on conspiracy theories. The show is controversial and the more you dig deeper into these theories the more they became true and believable. Anyone who says One Piece is Bleach is not a true fan. Yeah, I'd buy that One Piece game without a question. Same thing with Attack on Titan and some other Anime. %100 lies don't exist in One Piece and that's what makes the show amazing.
 
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Is it a conspiracy theory in the game universe or just what it is?
Cuz a conspiracy theory that is fact isnt a conspiracy theory anymore.


If its a conspiracy in universe but as the player we know or are gonna find out whether its a conspiracy theory or not.....there are tons of games that do that.
Pretty much every game that has some dark giant corpo/govt running shit and suppressing the truth will be doing some conspiracy theory shit.

Think Control/Alan Wake/RemedyVerse.............they literally gaslight the general population in universe that weird shit aint going on in the world.

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back before, in 80s-90s, cyberpunk stories usually made by theories what if asian (chinese or japan usually) or evil corporate, take over the world via technology and capitalism.
and look, we live in said conspiracy by now...
not all conspiracy are not based on analysis. most are not true and illogical, but some are logical.
 
The other side of the coin is also important: No one makes games relating the four truths that I believe.

We evolved from microorganisms.

At some point in the Neolithic era, a group of people realized there was a "war of all against all" and decided to dominate the others to impose peace and end wars. Later, they discovered they needed war, either to incite factions of the nobility against each other or to keep the economy going.

The only true power comes from generals and the sword, not from gold, ties, or gods.

There is no way to change this, this condition is eternal because they have the bombs and seeds to plant man and animals on earth again after using them.
 
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A real conspiracy theorist would say that all plots in games and movies are already predictive programming placed there by "them" so people don't resist when the plots happen for real.
 
I can picture it now.

The mission is to track down and eliminate a cabal of elite pedophiles. You've obtained evidence from 4 chan, small time podcasts, and the voices in your head indicating that the cabal is operating out of a pizzeria basement in DC.

Loaded up with body armor, weapons, and your 63 IQ, you enter the pizza shop. You demand to see the basement where the children are being kept.

There are no kids. No cabal. There isn't even a basement. You lose the game every time, having accomplished nothing.

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The end.
 
IAmRei said:
back before, in 80s-90s, cyberpunk stories usually made by theories what if asian (chinese or japan usually) or evil corporate, take over the world via technology and capitalism.
and look, we live in said conspiracy by now...
not all conspiracy are not based on analysis. most are not true and illogical, but some are logical.
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Nineteen Eighty Four was written in like 1949?
 
Geometric-Crusher said:
First of all, I don't believe in any conspiracy theories, that said, I believe that some could make a studio rich, after all, you would only have to render the graphics, all the fantasy and plot would already be ready.
Imagine an adventure game, in the cutscene there would be a dialogue about magnetic inversion, a character would say that they are cyclical and natural occurring every 800 years, and that this cools the earth for 300 years killing everyone through hunger, and whoever survives becomes rich because they enter empty houses and collect gold and precious stones, this would be the origin of our ultra rich of the present time.
or a game set in the Neolithic period, suddenly UFOs descend on the village of thatched houses and begin to gather people from various parts of the world, grouping them in what is now Iraq, the people would be slaves mining gold for them, then a civil war happens between the aliens, and our character would be one of these invaders but who would feel sympathy for some human families and decide to save them from the destruction that would occur due to the rising seas after the rival group fires at the moon.
These nonsense would make excellent games.
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It's 2025, you don't have to start the topic like this when almost every day a new conspiracy theory becomes fact. We are rumning out of them unfortunately (obviously not talking about the fantasy ones, but just research Epstein for starters)
 
I'm not thinking of a game where the conspiracy theory is told by narrators, but rather a game where our main character is the son of one of the conspirators.

A hypothetical game begins as follows: our character hears his father and his friends saying, "It's time, we need to do this." Then we leave the house in-game and the driver takes us to the street. There are many 8-feet-tall men in their suits, and the lighting is provided by wireless power.

The game continues and then, a butler searches for our character while an artificial 'rain of mud' begins to fall on the city, then the game continues in the mansion and at the end of the game the character goes out into the streets again, and the old power plants and substations are now called cathedrals and have religious purposes, there are wires and lampposts, half of the 'Victorian buildings' are torn down and replaced by simple buildings of brick and wood, no man is taller than 6 feet, and many orphaned children do hard labor like adults, and the game ends with our character seeing the incubators where children are made.
 
Geometric-Crusher said:
The only true power comes from generals and the sword, not from gold, ties, or gods.
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"How can he explain to him? The world is not run from where he thinks. Not from his border fortresses, not even from Whitehall. The world is run from Antwerp, from Florence, from places he has never imagined; from Lisbon, from where the ships with sails of silk drift West and are burned up in the Sun. Not from castle walls, but from counting houses, not by the call of the bugle but by the click of the abacus, not by the grate and click of the mechanism of the gun but by the scrape of the pen on the page of the promissory note that pays for the gun and the gunsmith and the powder and shot."
 
I'd absolutely love a full on open zone style xfiles like game, with a big overarching conspiracy mystery to solve and lots of smaller conspiracy related mysteries in various locations around the world. Control/alan wake 2 has the right sort of vibe but mixing in some investigative mechanics in something like the Sherlock games or LA Noire, and a zone based map like dragon age inquisition.

Not many games go all in on typical real world conspiracy stuff, Indiana Jones the great circle did a little I guess. The best example I can think of tho is the Pandora directive for those who are old enough to remember it (one of the tex Murphy adventure and sequel to under a killing moon, which I believe was the first game on CD if I recall correctly)

 
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mdkirby said:
I'd absolutely love a full on open zone style xfiles like game, with a big overarching conspiracy mystery to solve and lots of smaller conspiracy related mysteries in various locations around the world. Control/alan wake 2 has the right sort of vibe but mixing in some investigative mechanics in something like the Sherlock games or LA Noire, and a zone based map like dragon age inquisition.

Not many games go all in on typical real world conspiracy stuff, Indiana Jones the great circle did a little I guess. The best example I can think of tho is the Pandora directive for those who are old enough to remember it (one of the tex Murphy adventure and sequel to under a killing moon, which I believe was the first game on CD if I recall correctly)

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Sounds like Hell is Us, tbh. Without the LA Noire stuff.
 
calico said:
"How can he explain to him? The world is not run from where he thinks. Not from his border fortresses, not even from Whitehall. The world is run from Antwerp, from Florence, from places he has never imagined; from Lisbon, from where the ships with sails of silk drift West and are burned up in the Sun. Not from castle walls, but from counting houses, not by the call of the bugle but by the click of the abacus, not by the grate and click of the mechanism of the gun but by the scrape of the pen on the page of the promissory note that pays for the gun and the gunsmith and the powder and shot."
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the musket precedes the abacus.
 
The Secret World MMO was pretty good in that regard and the best part were those detective quests with real websites and online browser content to investigate and puzzle solving.
 
TheAtomicPile said:
I can picture it now.

The mission is to track down and eliminate a cabal of elite pedophiles. You've obtained evidence from 4 chan, small time podcasts, and the voices in your head indicating that the cabal is operating out of a pizzeria basement in DC.

Loaded up with body armor, weapons, and your 63 IQ, you enter the pizza shop. You demand to see the basement where the children are being kept.

There are no kids. No cabal. There isn't even a basement. You lose the game every time, having accomplished nothing.

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The end.
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Happy Oh Yeah GIF
 
What if video games are part of the conspiracy?
"Let us strengthen the leisure society that has been so good to us. By using the video that we funded and the games connected to it, let us corrupt the morals of the youth and give them the means to satisfy immediately their instincts".
The Toronto Protocols, second meeting, 1985, cited by Serge Monast, investigative journalist.
 
I want a game where I play as Stanley Kubrick and I have to direct a convincing moon landing.
 
DKehoe said:
People today seem more inclined toward conspiratorial thinking, so I can see how playing with those elements could connect with people. Also, conspiracy theories being compelling ideas is part of what makes them spread. So a game doing a "what if" scenario about faking the moon landing or something like that could be interesting and fun to play with. But obviously there's limits to it. For example, I wouldn't be interested in playing a game about how Jewish people secretly control everything.
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Don't be ridiculous. The Jews would never allow a game like that to be made.

NOTE: My last name is Jaffe so I get a pass, dammit!!!!! :)
 
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