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[Vieo]

Since the moment you started playing games, do you think the death-toll, on all the virtual baddies you've slain, ranges in the billions?

For example.. If you jump on a goomba and flaten him, that counts as one. If you kill a zombie in an RE game, that counts as one. When you swallow a cherry and eat a ghost in Pac-man, that counts as one. When you killed Sephiroth, that counted as one. etc, etc. You get the idea.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

A billion? No.

 

[DDayton]

I strike fear into the hearts of Goombas.

 

[Mama Smurf]

God not even close.

 

[Amir0x]

Maybe a million. And that's stretching it.

 

[tetsuoxb]

You realize this is only possible if you killed 1 baddie per second, every second of the day for 31.709791 years?

So, no, not bloody likely.

 

[Mama Smurf]

If I do a quick calculation...let's say I've been playing games for 15 years, maybe 250 days a year (just a guess, probably not that often)...even if I killed a 1000 bad guys a day, which seems unlikely, I'd only have killed 3.75 million.

 

[Baron Aloha]

Well I've played through all of the Dynasty Warriors & Samurai Warriors games at least once each so that's probably a million right there. :lol

But a billion? I don't think so. But I guess if you were to include fighting games and everything else since 1981 when I first started playing games it would be maybe a couple million for me.

 

[Folder]

You realize this is only possible if you killed 1 baddie per second, every second of the day for 31.709791 years?

So, no, not bloody likely.

:lol
When I was a kid I would imagine what the bottom of game worlds looked like.
At the bottom of a Mario game or, like Kung Fu Master. I'd wonder what would happen to all those bodies.
Also, perhaps it is possible to kill over a billion baddies. Are there any games with planets full of badies you can blow up? Just a thought...

 

[Vieo]

Are you guys sure? Every UFO you killed in games like Space Invaders counts as one as well. You can kill a lot of UFOs really quickly in Space Invaders. =P

Hey, wouldn't it be cool if Next Gen consoles included a feature that keeps track of your death-toll across games that you play? When consoles started using an internal clock and calender, it was incorporated into games like Animal Crossing (theres some more, but I forget).

 

[luxsol]

Only game i really kept track of my kills was Goldeneye. I'd give myself 999 ammo or unlimited ammo (it's been years since i last played it) and kill as many soldiers as possible in that lab (facility?) as they streamed out of all those doors at the end. I became so obsessed with wanting to get more kills in one game that I went into a room with a sliding door, taped down the shoot button, had my character aim at the door with the RCP-90s and left it on overnight as hundreds of soldiers tried to come into a single door.
Don't really remember what the total kills were, but I know I was disappointed by it.

 

[Folder]

Only game i really kept track of my kills was Goldeneye. I'd give myself 999 ammo or unlimited ammo (it's been years since i last played it) and kill as many soldiers as possible in that lab (facility?) as they streamed out of all those doors at the end. I became so obsessed with wanting to get more kills in one game that I went into a room with a sliding door, taped down the shoot button, had my character aim at the door with the RCP-90s and left it on overnight as hundreds of soldiers tried to come into a single door.
Don't really remember what the total kills were, but I know I was disappointed by it.

I used to do something similar. Of course, I'd never admit to it...

 

[tetsuoxb]

Are you guys sure? Every UFO you killed in games like Space Invaders counts as one as well. You can kill a lot of UFOs really quickly in Space Invaders. =P

Hey, wouldn't it be cool if Next Gen consoles included a feature that keeps track of your death-toll across games that you play? When consoles started using an internal clock and calender, it was incorporated into games like Animal Crossing (theres some more, but I forget).

Is this a troll? A death toll counter? HAHAHAHA, lets just make the industry look worse.

"MOM MOM! I played all day today and my body count since christmas is 75,000. And why they hell did you buy me katamari damacy 3? Rolling over people doesnt add to my counter. What now bitch?!?! "

um. no.

 

[Karg]

I'm sure there is a game that someone has played where you've blown a planet up full of baddies. Trying to think of one now...

 

[Mama Smurf]

Are you guys sure? Every UFO you killed in games like Space Invaders counts as one as well. You can kill a lot of UFOs really quickly in Space Invaders. =P

Hey, wouldn't it be cool if Next Gen consoles included a feature that keeps track of your death-toll across games that you play? When consoles started using an internal clock and calender, it was incorporated into games like Animal Crossing (theres some more, but I forget).

Look at tetsuoxb's post. I mean, you've got to sleep and eat and got to school/work and stuff too, so even if you managed to play for 12 hours a day, you're now down to over 63 years if you killed one a second.

Even taking into accoutn games where you can potentially kill more than one bad guy within a second, think of all that time wasted on racers and the like not killing things.

 

[8bit]

Are you guys sure? Every UFO you killed in games like Space Invaders counts as one as well. You can kill a lot of UFOs really quickly in Space Invaders. =P

Hey, wouldn't it be cool if Next Gen consoles included a feature that keeps track of your death-toll across games that you play? When consoles started using an internal clock and calender, it was incorporated into games like Animal Crossing (theres some more, but I forget).

There's an upgrade in blood will tell that keeps count of your kills. As of last night, I had dispatched approximately 2800 baddies to their doom.

Look at tetsuoxb's post. I mean, you've got to sleep and eat and got to school/work and stuff too, so even if you managed to play for 12 hours a day, you're now down to over 63 years if you killed one a second.

Even taking into accoutn games where you can potentially kill more than one bad guy within a second, think of all that time wasted on racers and the like not killing things.

Not the way I play racers.

 

[Vieo]

There's also levels of DOOM where you can use the BFG to mow down a mob of baddies. You also have to include GTA games. You can mow down tons of people just by speeding or blowing up cars.

Pretty much any game ever created where you kill stuff counts. You take down loads of baddies in Ikaruga as well. Also, every baddie in games like WarCraft, StarCraft, Total Rome, etc, that one of the members of your forces kill, counts as a kill as well. =)

 

[DDayton]

Pfft. Give me 5 minutes and I'll create a game where you kill a billion creatures a second.

Edit: Bask in the glories of BASIC!

10 Print "Welcome to Kill-Em-All 2000!"
20 Print "Press ENTER to destroy a galaxy containing one billion sentient beings, or type SPARE THEM and press ENTER to let them live."
30 Input A$
40 If A$="SPARE THEM" then print "They Live!": Goto 20
50 Print "**BOOM**": DeathToll=DeathToll+1000000000
55 Billions+Billions+1
60 Print "Total Killed:";: Print DeathToll
65 Print "Total Killed in BILLIONS:";: Print Billions
70 Goto 20

 

[Fowler]

Ah, but what happens when you keep nuking 100 Lemmings? It takes less than 100 seconds to nuke 100 Lemmings!!!

 

[Wuster]

I might possibly hit a few hundred million.

You see, I'm a big fan of Civilization, and in the many games I've played, I have razed countless cities and starved cities down in population as part of my maniacal scheme to take over the world.

Are they baddies? Well, it depends on what your definition of baddie is

 

[Azih]

Yeah destroying cities/planets in 4x games is really the only way to get to a billion kills and beyond.

 

[refreshZ]

How many virtual baddies have been killed by everyone added together?

Now that has got to be an insanely high number...

 

[Mama Smurf]

How many grains of rice do you think people have eaten in the history of time?

 

[Chopin Trusty Balls]

Wasnt there Civilization clone where you could launch a nuke to the enemy country,it would then show you how many people died.
Thats probobly the only way to reach a Billion
Also in MK3 you could blow up earth as Smoke

 

[DDayton]

Whoo hoo! I just killed 203 billion off.

I encourage everyone to load up their dusty copies of QBasic and join in the slaughter.

Edit:

Whoo hoo! Death reigns upon the masses!

Think I could get EA or Square to buy the publishing rights?

 

[CoryCubed]

I know I'm in the millions, mostly from Goldeneye on N64.

 

[SiegfriedFM]

Nuclear War on Amiga gave you a kill count in the millions.

 

[Quartet]

yes, 1 dreamcast word: Bangahio

 

[GDGF]

Maybe not a billion, but old school shooter fans have to have numbers way up there. Give me a Robotron DS, and I'll get back to you.

 

[Folder]

Pfft. Give me 5 minutes and I'll create a game where you kill a billion creatures a second.

Edit: Bask in the glories of BASIC!

10 Print "Welcome to Kill-Em-All 2000!"
20 Print "Press ENTER to destroy a galaxy containing one billion sentient beings, or type SPARE THEM and press ENTER to let them live."
30 Input A$
40 If A$="SPARE THEM" then print "They Live!": Goto 20
50 Print "**BOOM**": DeathToll=DeathToll+1000000000
55 Billions+Billions+1
60 Print "Total Killed:";: Print DeathToll
65 Print "Total Killed in BILLIONS:";: Print Billions
70 Goto 20

I. Love. You.
:lol

 

[DDayton]

Maybe not a billion, but old school shooter fans have to have numbers way up there. Give me a Robotron DS, and I'll get back to you.

Hmm... Robotron X / 64 was a fun little blaster, albiet a bit simplistic. Perhaps a port is in order!

I. Love. You.

I don't think I really know how to respond to that.

 

[Folder]

I don't think I really know how to respond to that.

Secretly you do...

 

[DDayton]

Secretly you do...

Well, other than with the standard Spong jokes, of course.

 

[Ferrio]

I've blown up the death start many many many times. I'm sure there were quite a few people onboard.

 

[Folder]

Well, other than with the standard Spong jokes, of course.

of course.

 

[belgurdo]

Well, I've killed a few real baddies across a few states...at least I think they were baddies.