Woo finding it's way into Video Games...

[Darkieus]

...Well, Apparently a "Modder" of Video Games has bought into the New World Order money-making Scheme Alex and many other Conspiracy Theorists are peddling around and brought it to the relative safety of what Video games should be.

Just go to "Fallout3nexus.com" and search for "NWO" since I can't post links.

Read that for a laugh, then dive into the comments.

It doesn't help that more and more adolescent men and women are buying into this, and coming onto gaming communities with this crap.

As you might already know, there's a PC MMO featured on Gamespot that highlights many of the world cultures major Conspiracies, including the Illuminati. I wonder how this is going to turn out in the end.

[JoeyDonuts]

As you might already know, there's a PC MMO featured on Gamespot that highlights many of the world cultures major Conspiracies, including the Illuminati. I wonder how this is going to turn out in the end.

Ahem.

Let me just go ahead and introduce you to Deus Ex, Fallout, and a host of other video games, movies, and books out there.

This kind of thing has been floating around for a while in the realms of video gaming. While it makes for an almost essential literary device (like time travel when SF writers run out of good ideas) it shouldn't be construed as art imitating life.

And wouldn't ya know it, the vast majority of videogamers possess the fundamental ability to discern that the title they're playing is, in fact, fiction!!!

Shocker, I know.

Did you also know that if the public libraries didn't specifically separate non-fiction from novels, all hell would break lose?

[Orphia Nay]

Did you also know that if the public libraries didn't specifically separate non-fiction from novels, all hell would break lose?

Then explain Dan Brown. ;) :D

[JoeyDonuts]

Then explain Dan Brown. ;) :D

Ahhh...he has his own section. "Crap." I'm sorry if there are any fans out there, but the craptacular novel-length misnomer that was Digital Fortress destroyed any amusement I had with Dan Brown.

[zaphod2016]

Then explain Dan Brown. ;) :D

FACT: The DaVinci Code is not fact.

;)

[Klimax]

I think somebody missed big time game called Area 51 and its sequel.

But it is mocking them however.

[MarkyX]

Area 51, Deus Ex, Assassin's Creed...

Conspiracy theories have always been a part of video gaming, because they make such good fictional stories.

[grandthefttoaster]

Gordon Freeman from Black Mesa calls Coast to Coast AM:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liKV4Ij8LtU

Now we have video games finding their way into woo.

[Alt+F4]

Isn't putting the NWO into video games putting it into the same realm of fantasy as World of Warcraft? It seems to me that the message here is that believing in the NWO is as unrealistic as believing you can be a level 80 mage in Azeroth.

[JJM 777]

Aliens from space have been a popular theme in game industry since its early beginnings.

[Bobby]

Even if the woo isn't in the original game it gets tacked on in the movie adaption (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=49800), seems there's no escaping it :).

[bookitty]

Funny enough, in the "Broken Steel" expansion pack there's a side quest involving a quack medicine. It can grow hair, make you happy, cure your ghoulish skin disease and anything else you can think of.

Turns out to be just water.

[Darkieus]

Well, I know Conspiracy Theories have been a popular topic in Video Games since the beginning (Big fan of Dues Ex btw), but I never really payed attention to the people who played these games.

And I still don't, except for those many that are my friends, and the reasonable few who play and sometimes post intelligent conversations in forums.

Just recently I walked over a conspiracy thread in a modding website and laughed.