Real Life First Person Shooter, Chatroulette Version [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p747PrxmZJ4

by makmanalp • 11 years ago

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morey• 11 years ago

It is on HN before it is viral. The technology they put together for this is great!

jaz46• 11 years ago

Reddit beat HN to the punch

hanniabu• 11 years ago

That's really awesome and well done. Great job to all involved, even the players!

nsxwolf• 11 years ago

Great stuff. Ben Folds did something similarly fun and surprising with Chatroulette:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEYxiK0kpEw

shoo2• 11 years ago

Just imagine if they had met each other on Chatroulette!

chime• 11 years ago

There was a movie called Gamer (2009) with a similar concept: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034032/ (trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2g94xQmtHw )

gear54rus• 11 years ago

Immediately thought of it.

- I've got a bad feeling about this, Chris, Imma be honest with you

- That's right, I'm not gonna die, you are

- That is a good point

That's the inception of it we're witnessing.

downandout• 11 years ago

This is awesome! But hopefully it doesn't inspire the first Periscope-based mass-shooting.

toisanji• 11 years ago

someone make this into a company

tempestn2• 11 years ago

I recall hearing about a real-life zombie apocalypse sim you could do in London. Ya, here you go: http://zombieexperiences.co.uk/

kendallpark2• 11 years ago

This is amazing.

It also speaks to the absurdity of FPSes. I was laughing so hard at all the little FPS tropes. Like how the guns were cached in "obvious" places or how the guy knew there would be something of use inside the conspicuous pot outside.

"Okay, now dual-wield the pistols." --said no one ever in real life

InclinedPlane3• 11 years ago

They tested dual-wielding on mythbusters, it's absolutely of no advantage. You can't shoot faster or better since the gating factor is not the gun (you can shoot semi-automatic pistols extremely rapidly) it's the ability to focus and aim more than anything, both of which are hampered by dual-wielding not improved.

P.S. In terms of raw cool-factor, it's hard to beat this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tEYcUSQDyw

I won't spoil it by describing it.

smtucker• 11 years ago

Unfortunately it is hard to scientifically test the rule of cool

n0us• 11 years ago

They forgot to use the crosshairs and auto-aim

wingerlang4• 11 years ago

it's the ability to focus and aim more than anything

But if you're swamped with zombies, then maybe simply having more firepower is an advantage.

abandonliberty2• 11 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DpCellB_UQ

An example of what (a world record holder) can do with a revolver.

kendallpark2• 11 years ago

I think a case could be made for dual needlers though, if they ever exist in the future. ;)

rawTruthHurts• 11 years ago

But this is mistaking games for real life, right?

abandonliberty2• 11 years ago

The quest for realism is interesting. Reduction to absurdity: a fully realistic FPS would cause PTSD and mental trauma to its players.

What do we actually want to create with our games? Complete lack of realism can be fun (e.g. surgeon simulator), and these games are proliferating. Games with more realism may be able to create more meaning and insight for their audience.

shoo2• 11 years ago

Hilarious. It reminds me of the terrible DOOM movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45jgCxucL0k

This is much better than the movie. The interactivity and the humanity of it is wonderful.

Ratelman• 11 years ago

Freakin brilliant! Almost makes me want to try out Chatroulette just for the chance at something like this.

tajen• 11 years ago

Ever thought of trying Amazon Mechanical Turk, as a worker, on the section "Image recognition"?

soylentcola• 11 years ago

Honestly didn't realize it was still around. I remember when it first blew up in the public consciousness, a local bar had a funny event one night where they set up a computer with a webcam/mic pointed at the bar and a projector to put the video on the wall. Then we logged on to Chatroulette and let the amusement roll.

Loads of people were taken aback by talking to a bar full of people. Some were really cool and chatted with us. Of course plenty of dudes were just whackin it. Some clicked "next" when they saw the bar full of people but at least one just kept going until we had to get up and click "next". Pretty fun idea but they only did it a few times before the novelty of Chatroulette mostly wore off.

tempestn2• 11 years ago

That was so amazing. It's a great thing about technology in general; when Chatroulette was built, it's pretty clear they didn't envision people using it in that way. Often the tech has to come first, and the awesomeness follows. (Also a lot of penises, but that part probably was foreseen.)

beyti• 11 years ago

now, I think "video game" has a different meaning than before.

I'll be waiting for this to create this type of games and going on even multiplayer era. great stuff.

Btw I think, this would allow elder/non-tech people to enter gaming

arc_of_descent• 11 years ago

Innovation!

notahacker• 11 years ago

Corny sets. The fear of impending doom. Watchers giving not-always-very-helpful advice.

All it needs is sarcastic commentary to take me back to my childhood and the Crystal Maze, from the pre-FPS era.

untog• 11 years ago

There's an Indiegogo for a live Crystal Maze, open to the public:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-crystal-maze-a-live-i...

I'm already humming the theme music.

camperman• 11 years ago

This is hilarious. Reminds me of the real life remake of Goldeneye 64:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RR5V0rmN4o

skeuomorf• 11 years ago

This is pretty cool. It reminded me of [0] where a guy emulates kinda GTA-like behavior.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb1hOCX_UVo

Real Life First Person Shooter, Chatroulette Version [video]

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