Chapter 639 "Liar" (Ask for a Monthly Pass!)
A melodious melody sounded.
The background music can't be said to be cheerful or sad. It can only be said that it is very smooth, as smooth as the narration read by the actor and the many shots that flashed on the screen.
"My father is a philanthropist and the founder of the luxury brand. He used to be a high-spirited person, often appearing on TV, and often appearing in fashion magazines because of his handsome appearance."
"Until, the hijacking incident before I was born."
"After that, my parents kept a low profile and I was well protected by them. I was rarely mentioned by the media. No one knew about our daily life."
"Shortly after I was born, my mother resigned and became a full-time wife in order to take better care of me. No matter how busy my father is, he will always take time to accompany me."
"My father once took a fancy to a kindergarten, but it was far away from home, and it took 45 minutes to pick up and drop me off. My father could choose to let the driver pick me up, but he still picked me up twice a week for three years, until I went to primary school."
"My father would tell me bedtime stories, help me with homework, participate in parent-child activities at school, and regularly organize family dinners..."
"So, I can't really understand what some of my friends said: their parents are too busy to spend time with them."
"Can you be busier than the president of a company?"
Accompanied by the male protagonist's narration, scenes of scenes flashed across the screen.
There is a scene where the male protagonist is born in a luxurious delivery room.
The whole space is very spacious, with couch and furniture, it looks like a hotel suite, nurses, nutritionists, and nurses come and go, and the table is full of various nutritious meals, like a sumptuous dinner.
The male protagonist's parents held the baby with happy smiles on their faces.
There are also scenes of the hero's life as a baby.
In a mansion with a beach and a private pier, several servants shuttle back and forth to take care of the baby boy's daily life, and the boy's mother is also smiling and accompanying him.
And the scene when I went to kindergarten.
The hero's father drives a luxury car, and the prosperity of the city on the roadside flashes one by one. In the high-end private kindergarten, the protagonist is doing various studies, including language, mathematics, science, art and so on.
The teacher's teaching courses are rich and interesting. He will put the eggs in the incubator to hatch the chicks, and he can also witness the whole process of the caterpillar turning into a beautiful butterfly.
Here, there are special teachers who teach all children to draw. Every month, the theme of art will learn about some artists, and let the children imitate these paintings with immature painting skills. Whether they are beautiful or ugly, they will be praised and rewarded. Hang it on the wall.
Even the building blocks to play with during breaks look expensive.
"When I was in kindergarten, my father established a clear concept of time for me. The class time is 7:30 in the morning. If you arrive ten minutes late, the school will be closed. If you are late, you will be fined and included in your grades."
"My dad never made me late. He always told me that there are only a few things in the world that money can't buy, and time is one of them. So, I have to cherish every second of it. This concept of time is always in my heart.”
"My father didn't allow me to eat fast food, didn't allow me to wear a digital watch, and was not allowed to use a mobile phone until I was 15 years old, and there was a limit on how long I could use it every day. I couldn't play computer games for more than 40 minutes, and I could increase it on weekends. to an hour."
"I tried to get my mother to plead with him, but it didn't work. But he would spend all his time reading with me."
After a series of shots at the beginning explain the childhood background of the wealthy protagonist, He An finds that he can finally control the protagonist to play the game.
This is the protagonist in childhood, still the same over-the-shoulder perspective as the prologue, and the content of the game in the first act is to play and live in the parents' mansion.
He An quickly realized that this was a standard interactive movie game.
All the character modeling here is very detailed, and all the character dialogue expressions and body movements obviously use motion capture. The extremely exquisite pictures make everything look very real.
At the same time, all UIs in the game are hidden in the scene, or integrated with the scene, so as to guide the player's behavior without destroying the immersion of the game.
At the same time, the camera switching in the game is also very particular, using techniques that are only used in many movies.
The only strange thing is that all the character styles seem to have some facial makeup. For example, the appearance of the rich, the rich father, and the rich mother seem to be too good-looking, and the whole family looks like a star.
And the servants, housekeepers, and drivers at home really fit the stereotype.
This makes people feel a little awkward, but because all the characters have this style of painting, they get used to it quickly.
As an interactive movie game, there are not many operations that can be performed, mainly walking, and pressing specific cases when specific options are triggered, that is, some more advanced QTEs.
For example, in the mansion, the player can play the role of the young rich protagonist and experience a lot of content:
In a dedicated studio, learn painting under the guidance of a private teacher;
Learn various instruments such as piano and violin;
Go horseback riding at a private stable;
Shooting arrows and playing with dogs on their own lawn;
Participate in children's parties organized by other wealthy families, and play bouncy castles, ice cream machines, carousels, and small trains with other peers in the banquet hall;
Flying on a private jet with the rest of the kids to celebrate a birthday in Africa on safari and receiving mountains of gifts from high-end shopping malls…
In each scene, the player can manipulate the protagonist to experience various interactive scenes, such as riding a horse, playing the piano, playing with a small train and so on.
In addition to these small games, there are many more detailed elements in the scene, such as talking with various characters, checking the surrounding books, newspapers and news, unpacking small gifts, and so on.
When switching scenes, many different switching methods are used, which are somewhat similar to the transitions of movies. For example, the protagonist takes a picture after completing a group photo, and then this photo comes to the protagonist’s bedside, and starts the next scene at the same time.
In some transitions with relatively large spans, the protagonist’s narration will also be added, that is, the protagonist’s memories of his childhood when he becomes an adult.
After the end of childhood comes youth, and the protagonist begins to enter high school and university, but there is no scene of loose education and alcohol parties in TV dramas. Instead, every minute is very full.
Not only do you have to do well in tests like the SAT, but you also have to not relax in any test in the four years of high school, as well as Olympiads, sports, debates, social services...any activity that can help you get into the Ivy League, there will be people Flocking, full of competition.
The protagonist heard the news of a classmate's suicide, and knew a term: "Stanford Duck Syndrome". Everyone pretended to be super relaxed and perfect on the surface, but under the water, they were kicking their legs desperately. When all you see are calm ducks, you feel like you're the only one who isn't perfect.
There is also the so-called "4": 4 hours of sleep, 4 large cups of coffee, GPA4.0.
At different stages of the game, He An has to make a lot of choices.
In childhood, although the protagonist’s daily schedule is strictly arranged, he can choose different entertainment activities during the rest time, and he can choose different hobbies, such as learning painting or music, and he can also choose different entertainment modes in each holiday. .
And these choices seem to influence later experiences in adolescence.
For example, if you learn equestrianism from a young age, then when you grow up, the protagonist's father will give the protagonist a private horse farm worth tens of millions of dollars, and participating in equestrian competitions can get you a lot of money, and at the same time, it will have some impact on the future process.
This game has a concept of funds, and some specific options must have specific funds to choose, but this limitation does not exist for the rich protagonist, because no matter how much money is spent, it will be replenished immediately.
...
Scenes pass quickly.
While He An was immersed in the game, he also lamented the waste of scenes and materials in the game.
Most of the scenes are used once and never appear again, such as the scene in the African safari park, the young protagonist went there to watch various rare animals, learned a lot of knowledge, and received gifts, but after that, the zoo’s The scene never happened again.
There are some large-scale scenes that will be reused, such as the mansion in the protagonist's home and the horse farm. As the story progresses, the things that can be done in the mansion and the horse farm will be gradually unlocked, and some new content will be experienced every once in a while.
But even so, in order to achieve this cinematic effect, it is quite extravagant.
He An can realize that Mr. Pei has obviously made a trade-off in this extravagant approach: due to the low reuse rate and high detail of the scene, the duration of the entire game is compressed.
Generally speaking, domestic 3A game masterpieces will be cleared in 8-10 hours if you just run the plot. Of course, some branches are particularly rich or the game duration in the open world will be particularly long.
The rich man's version of "Struggle" is only about three hours long, and the poor man's version should be about the same.
It is like a movie that stitches together many scattered and fragmented scenes, and uses these representative scenes to piece together the whole picture of the protagonist's life.
Of course, if you choose all the options again, this time may be doubled again.
In the game, you can jump back to the previous scene and play repeatedly according to the progress line at any time. Similar games will have this function.
After graduating from university, the protagonist can choose to fall in love with different girls and get married. He can choose to work in his father's company, become a painter, musician or equestrian coach according to his hobbies, start his own business, and so on.
When he got married, his father chartered an Italian island for him, and spent 5 million dollars to arrange two Boeing planes to transport guests. All guests booked five-star hotels, rented 50 special cars to transport guests, and airlifted several meals of flowers from the Netherlands In the end, the wedding was held on the rocks on the sea, and a whole team of international chefs was invited, and even the wedding dress cost 600,000 knives...
At the wedding scene, the player can manipulate the protagonist to chat with the guests, and everyone will send sincere blessings, and can personally experience the whole process of the wedding.
Of course, it is impossible to make the entire island in the game, but it only uses the perspective of the movie to give a bird's-eye view, and the main scenes are all concentrated in the small area of the wedding scene.
But the finely crafted details are still jaw-dropping.
After the protagonist gets married and has children, his career goes smoothly. No matter which company you apply for, you will be admitted immediately, and you will be promoted step by step in your work.
His parents retired and enjoyed their old age.
During school, the protagonist met some poor friends and found that his lifestyle was completely different. These poor friends seem to be unmotivated, idle, and do not cherish time.
Therefore, after the protagonist has achieved great success in his career, he tries to help others as much as possible.
"Like I said, my dad thought the world was full of the law of the jungle, and we were the ones on top, but there were also countless people watching us and wanting to see us fall."
"He said that poor people are lazy, selfish, and unreasonable, and you should never believe that you can be friends with those poor people."
"He said, stay away from them, or you will get into trouble."
"I still don't agree with him."
"I know that my father's point of view is derived from the hijacking incident before I was born, but I still think that that lunatic does not represent the poor, and I will not hate him just because I almost died at the hands of the poor. All the poor."
"I know some poor friends. In my opinion, they are no different from me. Maybe the reason why they are poor is that they lack a little self-motivation and fighting spirit. But I didn't have these from the beginning."
"So, I went to the university to give lectures and wrote a book, "Struggle and Get Rich", hoping that my lifestyle and outlook on wealth will have some positive influence on them."
"I want to tell them that money will not fall from the sky, and that only hard work is the only way to change their destiny. Only by not being satisfied with the status quo and not giving up any opportunities can life be changed for the better."
"I told them that I have been studying hard day after day, and I never dared to relax or waste any time."
"I tell them I never wear luxury clothes, not even from my dad's luxury brand, I don't buy fancy cars, I don't drive meaningless parties, every second of my life is spent on something meaningful things."
"There is no doubt that my views have attracted a lot of ridicule on the Internet. Many people feel that I am not qualified to talk about 'struggle' because I was born into a rich family and never understood what 'struggle' means for poor people. what."
"However, there are also many people who expressed their gratitude to me. My decades of self-discipline have moved them. They said that my father's hard work gave me a better growth environment, and they also hope that they can give their children a better life through hard work." these things."
"I'm very happy, it shows that everything I do counts."
In the last scene, the protagonist came to a bookstore in a poor area to sign a sale.
People lined up in a long queue and came to him one by one, handed over the books they bought, got autographs, and thanked the protagonist.
There are a lot of people who signed, and every time He An signed, he had to slide the mouse, and it was repeated mechanically, but everyone's smiles and thanks were different, which made people feel that this matter was meaningful.
A man in shabby clothes and looking like a tramp comes to the protagonist, his hands are empty.
The protagonist bowed his head to sign, but found that the other party did not hand over the book, and was a little surprised.
When he looked up, he realized that the expression on the homeless man's face was grim and oppressive, as if filled with deep-seated hatred.
He An was stunned for a moment, because the face of this homeless man was very different from the poor man who hijacked the protagonist's mother at the beginning, but the expression on his face made people feel very familiar.
The figure of the homeless man seemed to block the light, he took out a sharp knife from his wide pocket numbly and without any emotion, and stabbed it into the protagonist's chest!
Screams resounded, and the scene became a mess, but these voices quickly moved away from the protagonist, and the picture spun around and quickly blurred.
With a "snap", the blood-stained book fell down, just covering the protagonist's face, and the "struggle and get rich" on the cover seemed inexplicably ironic.
Before the screen went black, the protagonist heard a slight but clear sentence from the homeless man.
"fraud."
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