If you think video game controversies are relatively new, think again.
Back in the 90s, a game called “Carmaggedon” was released. Instead of being a straight-out racing game, the developers added a twist: mow down as many pedestrians as possible while at it. Points were awarded depending on whether you toppled a mailman or ran over a wheelchair-rolling granny.
This game set the “trend” for future games. It seems that every year, game makers are trying to outdo one another with the most violent and controversial titles they could dump on the market. Thanks to freedom of speech and expression, we now have games where we can pick up hookers, and bash their heads in to get our money back.
If you think that’s not enough, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Below are five HORRIBLE game ideas that are likely to get released within the next ten years.
Casino King
Diner Dash too boring and unrealistic for you? How about the exciting and glamorous world of running casinos?
You own a small gambling outfit in Sin City. Starting out with a back-door card parlor, you grow your illegal den into a casino, eventually becoming the Strip’s biggest gambling haven next to MGM Grand and Caesar’s Palace.
You need to manage each game, from the slot machines to the baccarat tables. There will be random events like cheating players that need to get shaken down and beaten up, rival mobs shooting up your place, and an FBI raid.
GTA 5: Mario Gone Mad
What do you get when Rockstar Games partners with Nintendo? The next Grand Theft Auto, of course.
Not content with chainsawing random hookers and rousing the National Guard, Rockstar went one step farther by taking one of our most beloved childhood characters and turning him into a demented psychopath.
Meet Mario “Super” Tortellini, newly released convict from Liberty City Penitentiary and looking to avenge the death of his brother. Mario will stop at nothing to get his revenge: you get to blow up cop cars, double tap civilians and spread banana peel terror to reclaim the status of the Tortellini family.
Modern Warfare 4: Opposing Forces
After running through just about every war there was in contemporary history, Activision finally ran out of ideas. This time, they managed to rehash old titles and save millions on development, by retelling the other side of the story.
You get to play the roles of the Nazis and Imperial Japanese in World War 2. Massacre civilians, herd Jews into concentration camps, and impale babies on bayonets. In the next installment, MW 5: Uprising, you get to car bomb packed cities and rain mortar shells on suburbs in your role as a jihadist rising through Al Qaeda’s ranks.
Sweatshop Tycoon
You produce basketball shoes for Nike in China. Need we explain this one?