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"The future of gaming revealed"

We all know that some things in the games industry will never change. Nintendo will never release anything other than cutesy, childish but oddly hard titles, SONY will milk every last release for another drop of cash, and projected release dates will always slip by a good few months. However, by my estimation, the games industry could go either way. Obviously graphics will improve to the point where they look photo realistic (code veronica and shenmue acheive this to some degree) and this will be on the latest generation of console that we're using now, or will be come october 26nd. Remember the first games on the playstation? oh how we marvelled at ridge racers 3d graphics, and at tekkens actual models of characters. compare these to games like gran turismo 2, ffviii and metal gear solid though, and you'll see what I mean by evolution. Using this to judge console game evolution on a single console, imagine what the final dreamcast games will like? staggering, in a word. However, the games industry has two paths it can go down. firstly, every available genre will evolve to the point where its unrecogniseable and blurs genres (super magnetic zombie first person tactical espionage fighting....hehe) or, developers will realise the key to the future lies in originality. Games like crazy taxi, chu chu rocket and so on are innovative and interesting... even if you don't like the game. The industry needs fresh games and genres like this to combat sonys endless onslaught of sequels and cheap rip offs. The playstation 2 will likely rule all, hell, I might even get one... but we shouldn't write off the dreamcast yet, just as we shouldn't get too excited about the playstation 2, dolphin or x box. what will happen happens..... but one things for sure, it's going to make for interesting viewing.

del the dream

Sheer Brilliance!! If that post had been a footballer it would have been Maradonna, but without the drugs.

We all know that some things in the games industry will never change. Nintendo will never release anything other than cutesy, childish but oddly hard titles, SONY will milk every last release for another drop of cash, and projected release dates will always slip by a good few months. However, by my estimation, the games industry could go either way. Obviously graphics will improve to the point where they look photo realistic (code veronica and shenmue acheive this to some degree) and this will be on the latest generation of console that we're using now, or will be come october 26nd. Remember the first games on the playstation? oh how we marvelled at ridge racers 3d graphics, and at tekkens actual models of characters. compare these to games like gran turismo 2, ffviii and metal gear solid though, and you'll see what I mean by evolution. Using this to judge console game evolution on a single console, imagine what the final dreamcast games will like? staggering, in a word. However, the games industry has two paths it can go down. firstly, every available genre will evolve to the point where its unrecogniseable and blurs genres (super magnetic zombie first person tactical espionage fighting....hehe) or, developers will realise the key to the future lies in originality. Games like crazy taxi, chu chu rocket and so on are innovative and interesting... even if you don't like the game. The industry needs fresh games and genres like this to combat sonys endless onslaught of sequels and cheap rip offs. The playstation 2 will likely rule all, hell, I might even get one... but we shouldn't write off the dreamcast yet, just as we shouldn't get too excited about the playstation 2, dolphin or x box. what will happen happens..... but one things for sure, it's going to make for interesting viewing.

del the dream