Friday 30 March, 2018

Today's playthrough of G.A.B.O.S. confirmed what my last gamelog was about. The Mayor and the CEO were bending the rules when it came to sentence time so they could profit off the prison more than they should while the prisoners were unfairly sentenced to longer time served. One of the prisoners ended up shooting the CEO of the prison as the mayor ordered his team to break in and murder the prisoners. I found it interesting that the mayor used such degrading verbage when talking about the prisoners and how terrible of scum they are. The game seems to promote violence to prisoners as the only form of dealing with them. Sometimes I do believe that is the case but considering I was having to order my riot teams to enter a burning building to beat down any survivors seemed like a little bit much in all honesty. I look forward to finishing up the last 2 campaign missions and delving deeper into the game to see what else there is to take from the game!

Good work Ben! You dive into how the game seems to “promote violence as the only form of dealing with prisoners.” This is an interesting observation because it challenges if the game should have other mechanics for dealing with conflict resolution.