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What will be in the future? Will their be a gaming so real that it's almost like real life. Will it use emotions and senses such as smell and fear to the extreme creating a more real atmosphere. Will the computer's simply be better then ever with computers 100 times faster then our current ones. Or will computers get so powerful they overrun us humans and take over the world?
One thing we can positively say is computers WILL get better.
If we look at the original PCs in comparison with todays it can easily be seen that PCs have become more powerful with every year that has passed. Games have come from players made of small black blocks to gaming characters with facial expressions made up of millions of pixels. Gameplay has become more advanced then ever. From 2D characters we have gone to 3D adding more dimension to gameplay. Puzzles have become more harder. Gameplay is now more about completing a series of levels rather than trying to beat a score. We can now save games rather than access levels by passwords or simply having had none the ability to save games. We now also have the ability to play online against people all over the world rather than people sitting next to you. The advances are incredible. So will they get simply more powerful with the incorporation of smell and more realistic touch. Will they make you part of the game? Will they incorporate your voice even more such as in "Hey You Pikachu!" where you can talk using your own voice and maybe run a storyline totally dependent on your actions and speech to characters?
Then could gaming move to a darker side? With the development of Artificial Intelligence we are allowing non-living things to think themselves. Will computers be used for war in the future? Will AI robot computers storm the front lines with weaponry competing against other enemy AI robots with people controlling their every actions by high- tech internet connections? Think of it people could play war like a game! People could develop software to control the minds of AI robots. They could send these robot computers into war. They could use a mouse and keyboard or other device to make them fire and move. Human soldiers wouldn't die solving the sadness of human casulties in war. The only thing that would die would be robotics. The battlefields would be littered with metal rather than bodies and blood. It seems like the perfect solution to solving disputes.. But there is always the next step up. All it could take is one highly advanced robot that can think for itself to use its weaponry on the wrong target and kill. Even the slightest of bugs in the program could make it kill the wrong target. Could the story put across in Terminator come true? Maybe this is the future of computing?
The future can only tell.
One thing we can positively say is computers WILL get better.
If we look at the original PCs in comparison with todays it can easily be seen that PCs have become more powerful with every year that has passed. Games have come from players made of small black blocks to gaming characters with facial expressions made up of millions of pixels. Gameplay has become more advanced then ever. From 2D characters we have gone to 3D adding more dimension to gameplay. Puzzles have become more harder. Gameplay is now more about completing a series of levels rather than trying to beat a score. We can now save games rather than access levels by passwords or simply having had none the ability to save games. We now also have the ability to play online against people all over the world rather than people sitting next to you. The advances are incredible. So will they get simply more powerful with the incorporation of smell and more realistic touch. Will they make you part of the game? Will they incorporate your voice even more such as in "Hey You Pikachu!" where you can talk using your own voice and maybe run a storyline totally dependent on your actions and speech to characters?
Then could gaming move to a darker side? With the development of Artificial Intelligence we are allowing non-living things to think themselves. Will computers be used for war in the future? Will AI robot computers storm the front lines with weaponry competing against other enemy AI robots with people controlling their every actions by high- tech internet connections? Think of it people could play war like a game! People could develop software to control the minds of AI robots. They could send these robot computers into war. They could use a mouse and keyboard or other device to make them fire and move. Human soldiers wouldn't die solving the sadness of human casulties in war. The only thing that would die would be robotics. The battlefields would be littered with metal rather than bodies and blood. It seems like the perfect solution to solving disputes.. But there is always the next step up. All it could take is one highly advanced robot that can think for itself to use its weaponry on the wrong target and kill. Even the slightest of bugs in the program could make it kill the wrong target. Could the story put across in Terminator come true? Maybe this is the future of computing?
The future can only tell.
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*What is the future of gaming?*
I predict that it will be TRUE 3D gaming. Not as we have today, but the 3D as in putting groovy glases on and things appearing around you etc.
But then again, I also predicted Arsenal would win today... :-)
I predict that it will be TRUE 3D gaming. Not as we have today, but the 3D as in putting groovy glases on and things appearing around you etc.
But then again, I also predicted Arsenal would win today... :-)
When I said Ant squishing I should've put a more warlike face on like:
>:-B
>:-B
Rakuga wrote:
Puzzles have
> become more harder.
Whilst I'm going to refrain from pointing out the glaraing grammatical goof you've made there, I will say that I seriously doubt puzzles are any harder than they used to be. On the contrary, I'd say they're easier. They have definitely become more... detailed, I think is the word I'd use. Not harder though. Can anyone seroiously say they had much trouble beating Zelda:OOT ? There are blatant clues at every possible point you could get stuck on. Go back a generation or so, to the GB or SNES Zelda games, and they're arguably a lot more difficult. Other puzzley RPG games used to be very difficult, too - Mystic Quest for one. Also, if anybody ever completed Treasure Island Dizzy, my hat goes off to you!
>Gameplay is now more about completing a series
> of levels rather than trying to beat a score.
Yes, but is that such a good thing? With the lack of a high score feature, replay value is lost. The skill involved in a game used to be about your reactions, timing, and tactics you developed. Now it's more to do with having enough spare time to play your way through the series of less-than-challenging levels available.
>We can now save games
> rather than access levels by passwords or simply having had none the
> ability to save games.
Effectively, saving games is only the same as writing down a particularly long password. It's not an advance that impresses me much - particularly because it was perfectly possible to save your games back in the days of the Commodore and Spectrum. So we've effectively advanced to the point of being able to do what could be done 15 years ago. Perhaps the storage capacity has grown, but that's inevitable.
Then could
> gaming move to a darker side? With the development of Artificial
> Intelligence we are allowing non-living things to think themselves.
Actually, artificial intelligence isn't developing as fast as the media might like us to believe. The field riddled with major problems, and lacks any real foundations, to such an extent that many of the foremost experts on AI firmly believe it's impossible.
Your war idea sounds a little like robot wars gone crazy... though I suppose we'd all be okay so long as we stayed at the top of a flight of stairs.... ;)
Puzzles have
> become more harder.
Whilst I'm going to refrain from pointing out the glaraing grammatical goof you've made there, I will say that I seriously doubt puzzles are any harder than they used to be. On the contrary, I'd say they're easier. They have definitely become more... detailed, I think is the word I'd use. Not harder though. Can anyone seroiously say they had much trouble beating Zelda:OOT ? There are blatant clues at every possible point you could get stuck on. Go back a generation or so, to the GB or SNES Zelda games, and they're arguably a lot more difficult. Other puzzley RPG games used to be very difficult, too - Mystic Quest for one. Also, if anybody ever completed Treasure Island Dizzy, my hat goes off to you!
>Gameplay is now more about completing a series
> of levels rather than trying to beat a score.
Yes, but is that such a good thing? With the lack of a high score feature, replay value is lost. The skill involved in a game used to be about your reactions, timing, and tactics you developed. Now it's more to do with having enough spare time to play your way through the series of less-than-challenging levels available.
>We can now save games
> rather than access levels by passwords or simply having had none the
> ability to save games.
Effectively, saving games is only the same as writing down a particularly long password. It's not an advance that impresses me much - particularly because it was perfectly possible to save your games back in the days of the Commodore and Spectrum. So we've effectively advanced to the point of being able to do what could be done 15 years ago. Perhaps the storage capacity has grown, but that's inevitable.
Then could
> gaming move to a darker side? With the development of Artificial
> Intelligence we are allowing non-living things to think themselves.
Actually, artificial intelligence isn't developing as fast as the media might like us to believe. The field riddled with major problems, and lacks any real foundations, to such an extent that many of the foremost experts on AI firmly believe it's impossible.
Your war idea sounds a little like robot wars gone crazy... though I suppose we'd all be okay so long as we stayed at the top of a flight of stairs.... ;)
Dan uk wrote:
Me, Grix and Snipe will have some Ant squishing to do
> :-)
what about me?!?!?!? WHAT ABOUT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
*faints*
Me, Grix and Snipe will have some Ant squishing to do
> :-)
what about me?!?!?!? WHAT ABOUT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
*faints*
I don't think that the future of gaming will turn into killer robots.
The realistic future of gaming is online.
Sooner or later, the PS2, Gamecube and Xbox will all have broadband connections.
This would mean that we can have high speed deathmatches against each other.
It'll be the Ninty's Vs The Sony's.
Me, Grix and Snipe will have some Ant squishing to do :-)
The realistic future of gaming is online.
Sooner or later, the PS2, Gamecube and Xbox will all have broadband connections.
This would mean that we can have high speed deathmatches against each other.
It'll be the Ninty's Vs The Sony's.
Me, Grix and Snipe will have some Ant squishing to do :-)
Yeh! We could get our very own Bender like in Futurama!! :D
Your Honour wrote:
> Armatige Shanks wrote:
Maybe computers will
> become so
> intelligent they will realise the futility of taking over
> the
> world, and just spend all their time down the
> pub?
Lol!!!
That would need a very intelligent sort of
> computer!
Intelligent and drunk lol!
> Armatige Shanks wrote:
Maybe computers will
> become so
> intelligent they will realise the futility of taking over
> the
> world, and just spend all their time down the
> pub?
Lol!!!
That would need a very intelligent sort of
> computer!
Intelligent and drunk lol!
hehehe
Armatige Shanks wrote:
Maybe computers will
> become so intelligent they will realise the futility of taking over
> the world, and just spend all their time down the pub?
Lol!!!
That would need a very intelligent sort of computer!
Maybe computers will
> become so intelligent they will realise the futility of taking over
> the world, and just spend all their time down the pub?
Lol!!!
That would need a very intelligent sort of computer!
REM rock!
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