Among Us is blowing up. Blame fascism - "It's 'consensual non-consent,' minus the sex."

[Dante Alighieri]

I knew who wrote it before I even actually checked.

I just automatically assume that any article posted here from that cesspool of a site is written by that faggot Phil.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

from what i can tell this game seems to be a rip off of a IRC game i played ages ago, maybe one of you know it. We all had to find some kind of killer, and there was a village idiot that if died the killer lost.

There's a few different variants of the basic concept. It goes back at least to the 80's as a party game. You're probably describing Werewolf, but it might be Mafia (they're basically the same game, but the Village Idiot title is more of a Werewolf thing).

Yup, Mafia and Werewolf are the same game and they've spawned a shit ton different variations, house rules and what have you, one of the variations is Among us. The basic premise is always the same, there is a group of good players and evil players. The evil players know each other, but the good players only know the number of the evil players but not who is in the group. The good players win if the evil group is wiped out, the evil players win if the good group is wiped out.

Then there are two play cycles. During the night the evil group meets and decides who to kill, after it is decided the target is killed and day starts. During the day the killed player is revealed, everyone tries to guess who the killers are and if someone is accused more than half the people have to vote for their execution. If the vote passes, they are executed, if no vote passes that day, then nobody is killed and night starts again.

Now here's where all kinds of different roles come in, most of them are house rules, but the most basic one is an Investigator role who is a member of the good party who every night can choose which player to investigate after which he finds out whether they're good or evil-aligned. There's militia, a member of the good group who can kill a player either each night or a limited number of times in a game. There's false alignments, a role where a good player appears guilty if investigated, and an evil player who appears good (usually called the Godfather). Then there's third parties which have wildly different win conditions, there's one role which wins if it gets itself killed before a certain number of day/night cycles occur. There's much more types of roles but here are just the most basic ones.

 

[I can't imagine]

Yup, Mafia and Werewolf are the same game and they've spawned a shit ton different variations, house rules and what have you, one of the variations is Among us. The basic premise is always the same, there is a group of good players and evil players. The evil players know each other, but the good players only know the number of the evil players but not who is in the group. The good players win if the evil group is wiped out, the evil players win if the good group is wiped out.

Then there are two play cycles. During the night the evil group meets and decides who to kill, after it is decided the target is killed and day starts. During the day the killed player is revealed, everyone tries to guess who the killers are and if someone is accused more than half the people have to vote for their execution. If the vote passes, they are executed, if no vote passes that day, then nobody is killed and night starts again.

Now here's where all kinds of different roles come in, most of them are house rules, but the most basic one is an Investigator role who is a member of the good party who every night can choose which player to investigate after which he finds out whether they're good or evil-aligned. There's militia, a member of the good group who can kill a player either each night or a limited number of times in a game. There's false alignments, a role where a good player appears guilty if investigated, and an evil player who appears good (usually called the Godfather). Then there's third parties which have wildly different win conditions, there's one role which wins if it gets itself killed before a certain number of day/night cycles occur. There's much more types of roles but here are just the most basic ones.

Yeah, I remember playing it at sci-fi conventions in the early 90's. It was a popular thing in gaming rooms back then since it took less time than a full D&D dungeon crawl or Battletech game, so it didn't require as much commitment.

The devs of Among Us flat out said the game was directly influenced by Mafia, so it isn't like they tried to hide it. They added in some minigames so it would be more video game-like, so it isn't exactly 100% the same thing, but it's very much the same basic game at its core.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Among Us is a vidya version of Mafia/Werewolf. I played quite a bit of Mafia/Werewolf during my teenage years.

 

[Overcast]

So it’s Trouble In Terrorist Town but space themed?

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Seems like the author is just mad that they have no friends to play Among Us with...

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

We need to carry out a holocaust against journalists

 

[BScCollateral]

We need to carry out a holocaust against journalists

Well ... thin the herd a bit. Figure out how many jobs there are in journalism and then reduce their numbers to something sustainable.

I'm not a fan of retraining them. There are very few journalists able to work other jobs, although they have existed in the past.

 

[／Ｏｕｒ Ｌａｄｄｉｅ／]

why do they keep making up shit

Because if they can make an entirely new lexicon and define its rules, they think they can eke out a technical victory by entrapping their mortal foes and people like Klamportd Dniphfth, Orange Be His Name in weird linguistic gotchas and then cancel them.

to which the response is usually: wut, lmao
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[tamago]

I guess it's a real slow day at the office.

 

[The Last Stand]

Close enough.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

the writer of this article doesnt like fun do they? they'd rather you play some bullshit game with no real gameplay and a half baked story right?

 

[I can't imagine]

the writer of this article doesnt like fun do they? they'd rather you play some bullshit game with no real gameplay and a half baked story right?

Ana Valens has a thread on KF. Pretty much checks every cliche in the book: poorly passing tranny, overshares about their sexual activities (or lack thereof), pathological fear of GamerGate in the year 2020, literally any criticism is indicative of alt-right transphobia, some of the most random hot takes that manage to seem ridiculous even by the low standards of the Daily Dot...there's a lot to take in.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

There's a few different variants of the basic concept. It goes back at least to the 80's as a party game. You're probably describing Werewolf, but it might be Mafia (they're basically the same game, but the Village Idiot title is more of a Werewolf thing).

Funny that the game originated from Soviet Russia.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

So being nazis in games are good? Did I understand the tranny correctly?

Some people say it's a horseshoe but it's really more of a downward spiral.

 

[Secret Asshole]

FUCKING LOL. Holy shit, people like this can't fucking live in society. Its Mafia, that's all it is, with a little bit of set tasks and people in space suits. People like this are fucking human garbage, trying to constantly look for things that aren't there, screaming in the dark. This is the most pretentious, bullshit garbage over a fun little game with friends. Which this person has none of because they're an insufferable piece of shit.

The fact the Daily Dot paid for this steaming pile of human feces is a fucking joke in and of itself. This person must live alone, with triple locks on the door and would die if encountering a crowd bigger than 5. And the person who wrote this is clearly mentally ill and paranoid.

This isn't journalism or critique; its a paranoid schizophrenic's ramblings that is completely incoherent. Its a perfect example of why we need to stop listening to people based on if they're a troon or a woman or this or that. If this wasn't written by a progtard troon, any editor would have wiped their ass with it and thrown it in the garbage can.

 

[BScCollateral]

I think it would be interesting to see this game played by different sorts of groups to see if and how their behavior is different. Would people who know each other in real life work together differently? What about people trained to work in teams?

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

It doesn’t matter how I win, just that I do

I didn't have to read past this, because it's the entirety of everything the lunatic left believes in - power, at all costs, by any means necessary.

 

[JP's_Canadian_Cider]

This almost makes one nostalgic for the time when only chicks that were hot got to work in journalism... and you know, actually chicks too. Not just chubby, mediocre men who let their hair grow out.

 

[Kulee Baba]

This comic was a little off because the 2010s were "This game you like is sexist" but now it's spot on. Congratulations "White Korra" writers.