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Through every generation something new is developed that brings joy to the newbies of this world, and that isn't a 300 posts and 10000 words newbies I mean the younguns. The future of our planet. Every generation there is something that is the best thing around and every wanted at the time but it cost a bomb.
Think about when your parents would talk to you about 'In my day', well they didn't have the great technology that we has, believe it or not but they didn't have any form of computers, right not I am expecting some seriously worried people trying to imagine this world but it wasn't so long ago now.
So how have we come so far so quick? If you took some from 0BC and took them into the 15th century would they have been that amazed at the rate of which technology had involved? I doubt it. But if you took your great great grandad and put him in the world today he'd probally have a heart attack. WE have progressed so far and done it in such little time.
The Amiga was possibly to my knowledge which started this all off with the games which although addictive and amazing at the time didn't offer us anything out of this world. Through various staged the technology has doubled from the SNES and Sega to the Playstation and Saturn then onto the Jaguar and N64 to the Dreamcast and PS2 to the XBox and GameCube.
All of this has happened in a maximum of I'd say 9 years. But 20 years ago if someone even played on a SNES they would have been highly impressed, so as a result of this quick advances does that make us expect more? Again going back to the old days topic, if you had asked someone what would you want from a computer game 20 years ago and then asked that same person the same question now the answers would be completley different.
Does this make us more greedy? Expecting more out of things? Well not really, we've grown to live with out surrondings which involves gaming, gaming is like an art, some are good at it some aren't, there's no one inbetween. But what can the future hold for us, hard to imagine but what do you think computer games will be like when people my age (Secondary School) start to have children. As time seems to be getting shorter and technology starts to speed up who knows what the next step is.
Thanks for reading
Think about when your parents would talk to you about 'In my day', well they didn't have the great technology that we has, believe it or not but they didn't have any form of computers, right not I am expecting some seriously worried people trying to imagine this world but it wasn't so long ago now.
So how have we come so far so quick? If you took some from 0BC and took them into the 15th century would they have been that amazed at the rate of which technology had involved? I doubt it. But if you took your great great grandad and put him in the world today he'd probally have a heart attack. WE have progressed so far and done it in such little time.
The Amiga was possibly to my knowledge which started this all off with the games which although addictive and amazing at the time didn't offer us anything out of this world. Through various staged the technology has doubled from the SNES and Sega to the Playstation and Saturn then onto the Jaguar and N64 to the Dreamcast and PS2 to the XBox and GameCube.
All of this has happened in a maximum of I'd say 9 years. But 20 years ago if someone even played on a SNES they would have been highly impressed, so as a result of this quick advances does that make us expect more? Again going back to the old days topic, if you had asked someone what would you want from a computer game 20 years ago and then asked that same person the same question now the answers would be completley different.
Does this make us more greedy? Expecting more out of things? Well not really, we've grown to live with out surrondings which involves gaming, gaming is like an art, some are good at it some aren't, there's no one inbetween. But what can the future hold for us, hard to imagine but what do you think computer games will be like when people my age (Secondary School) start to have children. As time seems to be getting shorter and technology starts to speed up who knows what the next step is.
Thanks for reading
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Fogmaster wrote:
> More attention! your right, but it's not award winning + your a newbie, you
> don't get any respect, which is good.
And you think that I respect you because you've been here about 100 times longer then me? You are sadly mistaken and if I had it my way this battle would go to the death.
: - )
But being honest I can't actually see a decent topic to post in on FOG Chat at the moment, Prime is used for only one thing and that seems to be TWLT and then you find newbies posting irrelivant topics around the forums ruining them *cough* Racing Rules *cough*
> More attention! your right, but it's not award winning + your a newbie, you
> don't get any respect, which is good.
And you think that I respect you because you've been here about 100 times longer then me? You are sadly mistaken and if I had it my way this battle would go to the death.
: - )
But being honest I can't actually see a decent topic to post in on FOG Chat at the moment, Prime is used for only one thing and that seems to be TWLT and then you find newbies posting irrelivant topics around the forums ruining them *cough* Racing Rules *cough*
More attention! your right, but it's not award winning + your a newbie, you don't get any respect, which is good.
Well why I hear you ask am I gonna POP this? Well it's simple this award winning piece wrote by one hell of a Nice Guy deserves more attention and I look in FOG to notice that apart from this there are no other threads worth posting in, so here's something for you lot to do...
: - )
: - )
Yeah, another good topic from the nice guy! :)
A lot depends on how TV/monitor standards develop but theres no reason that real 3D TVs wont be around in 15 years. With the power of these machines 2 pictures could easily be generated for each eye meaning real 3D is a possibility.
Pictures may even be projected straight onto the retina, the mind boggles. The future certainally will be exciting.
Pictures may even be projected straight onto the retina, the mind boggles. The future certainally will be exciting.
New Jimmy wrote:
> I totally agree with you the rate of Advance has made us greedy. Back in the
> days of the Amiga, Snes and Megadrive I would have been stunned with a game with
> amazing TV like 2D graphics. Infact thats where I thought gaming would go. Its
> not that 3D games didnt exsist, but they were slow and lifeless compared to
> their 2D cousins.
That is hard to believe nowadays really isn't it with the fast inprovments in technology coming so quickly you have to be super rich to be able to keep up with it
It helps give us a wider perspective though, at the
> moment we talk about next gen games, and imagine the power of the Playstation3
> Xbox2 or GameCube2. We expect only a slight graphical improvement but the same
> gameplay, but in reality these machines are 5-6 years away. By then cpus could
> be running at 10GHz+, on a 256 bit achitechture .. just imagine what a console
> like that could do!
Thinking of that just makes me have to close my mouth and try not to drool, but like you say that isn't for a long time now but it isn't that far away so just think what your kids will be asking for in Christmas 2015.
> I totally agree with you the rate of Advance has made us greedy. Back in the
> days of the Amiga, Snes and Megadrive I would have been stunned with a game with
> amazing TV like 2D graphics. Infact thats where I thought gaming would go. Its
> not that 3D games didnt exsist, but they were slow and lifeless compared to
> their 2D cousins.
That is hard to believe nowadays really isn't it with the fast inprovments in technology coming so quickly you have to be super rich to be able to keep up with it
It helps give us a wider perspective though, at the
> moment we talk about next gen games, and imagine the power of the Playstation3
> Xbox2 or GameCube2. We expect only a slight graphical improvement but the same
> gameplay, but in reality these machines are 5-6 years away. By then cpus could
> be running at 10GHz+, on a 256 bit achitechture .. just imagine what a console
> like that could do!
Thinking of that just makes me have to close my mouth and try not to drool, but like you say that isn't for a long time now but it isn't that far away so just think what your kids will be asking for in Christmas 2015.
I totally agree with you the rate of Advance has made us greedy. Back in the days of the Amiga, Snes and Megadrive I would have been stunned with a game with amazing TV like 2D graphics. Infact thats where I thought gaming would go. Its not that 3D games didnt exsist, but they were slow and lifeless compared to their 2D cousins. The exponential improvement in processing power changed all that!
Ironically Sega were one of the companies responsible for pushing the 3D gaming revolution with VituaRacing and VirtuaFighter... unfortunately the Saturn wasnt up to the 3D job.
It helps give us a wider perspective though, at the moment we talk about next gen games, and imagine the power of the Playstation3 Xbox2 or GameCube2. We expect only a slight graphical improvement but the same gameplay, but in reality these machines are 5-6 years away. By then cpus could be running at 10GHz+, on a 256 bit achitechture .. just imagine what a console like that could do!
Its sure to be special, lets just look forward to the future, as what it will bring is anyones guess!
Ironically Sega were one of the companies responsible for pushing the 3D gaming revolution with VituaRacing and VirtuaFighter... unfortunately the Saturn wasnt up to the 3D job.
It helps give us a wider perspective though, at the moment we talk about next gen games, and imagine the power of the Playstation3 Xbox2 or GameCube2. We expect only a slight graphical improvement but the same gameplay, but in reality these machines are 5-6 years away. By then cpus could be running at 10GHz+, on a 256 bit achitechture .. just imagine what a console like that could do!
Its sure to be special, lets just look forward to the future, as what it will bring is anyones guess!
Mr Nice Guy wrote:
> FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> don't kill yourself about it will ya
Hmmmm
> don't give a crazy man ideas, it's bad for their health.
Hehe.
> FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> don't kill yourself about it will ya
Hmmmm
> don't give a crazy man ideas, it's bad for their health.
Hehe.
FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> don't kill yourself about it will ya
Hmmmm don't give a crazy man ideas, it's bad for their health.
> don't kill yourself about it will ya
Hmmmm don't give a crazy man ideas, it's bad for their health.
Good topic MNG. Well written.
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