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I haven't planned this post in great detail, I haven't even thought up a witty line that could be used as a quote on the front page, should my post be good enough to win, but something was dawning on me - reality and it's boundaries and how gaming could take us that little bit further.
I know in a game you can shoot zombies, you can race around London in a Skyline GTR, hey, you can even take England to the World Cup and win, but I'm thinking more on the lines of what can't happen in reality for most of us.
Don't ask why, but I always thought it'd be great to be able to fly, haven't you? It would be pretty impressive, if you were having an argument with someone, you could just take off, no worries! Although if everyone could fly, it'd be fairly pointless, besides we'd all look funny and have wings...
Right - in a game can you fly? Who cares, I want the sensation of flying - I want to feel that adrenalin rush as I'm soaring through the air at 30mph, so it's never going to happen, but it'd could be good.
Gravity, Let's get rid of that - oh wait! You can! But you have to really be an astronaut, so I'm never going to be able to float, don't you think that it'd be fun to float about, or at least own some gravity boots and walk on the ceiling, or up a building, or a tree or something?
How far can gaming sequench these wants and desires? They could make a 'NASA Sim 2001', but I can't see that happening. Games are fun, but I think that to alter reality, or at least to gain a sense of reality, without altering it, we're going to have to need Virtual Reality - I don't mean Sega Lock On, that was pathetic, I'm talking real virtual programs, that really do make you feel as if you're in another world - oh right, the Matrix. But the Matrix just gets more and more boring every time you see it, doesn't it?
What technological advances will we see in this coming 20 years or so, will I still be telling Goatboy to quit smoking, even though he's living on Mars? Or maybe Virtual Reality will become the only way to alter reality, Japan becoming even richer, people actually believing everything in that virtual reality, maybe we're all in one now? Perhaps while our Souls stay still, we're just experiencing the life on this planet?
Anyway, I'm losing myself in a world of confusion, I hope you'll discuss whatever it is I have tried to talk about, please don't shout at me, I'm going to own a Dojo.
Cheers
Dan
I know in a game you can shoot zombies, you can race around London in a Skyline GTR, hey, you can even take England to the World Cup and win, but I'm thinking more on the lines of what can't happen in reality for most of us.
Don't ask why, but I always thought it'd be great to be able to fly, haven't you? It would be pretty impressive, if you were having an argument with someone, you could just take off, no worries! Although if everyone could fly, it'd be fairly pointless, besides we'd all look funny and have wings...
Right - in a game can you fly? Who cares, I want the sensation of flying - I want to feel that adrenalin rush as I'm soaring through the air at 30mph, so it's never going to happen, but it'd could be good.
Gravity, Let's get rid of that - oh wait! You can! But you have to really be an astronaut, so I'm never going to be able to float, don't you think that it'd be fun to float about, or at least own some gravity boots and walk on the ceiling, or up a building, or a tree or something?
How far can gaming sequench these wants and desires? They could make a 'NASA Sim 2001', but I can't see that happening. Games are fun, but I think that to alter reality, or at least to gain a sense of reality, without altering it, we're going to have to need Virtual Reality - I don't mean Sega Lock On, that was pathetic, I'm talking real virtual programs, that really do make you feel as if you're in another world - oh right, the Matrix. But the Matrix just gets more and more boring every time you see it, doesn't it?
What technological advances will we see in this coming 20 years or so, will I still be telling Goatboy to quit smoking, even though he's living on Mars? Or maybe Virtual Reality will become the only way to alter reality, Japan becoming even richer, people actually believing everything in that virtual reality, maybe we're all in one now? Perhaps while our Souls stay still, we're just experiencing the life on this planet?
Anyway, I'm losing myself in a world of confusion, I hope you'll discuss whatever it is I have tried to talk about, please don't shout at me, I'm going to own a Dojo.
Cheers
Dan
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Phew, for a moment I thought you were serious.
I don't really want to have to plug myself into a different world to play a game though, I love the ease of console gaming, the pick up and play simple-ness of it.
I don't want to have to dress in a holo-suit and make cyber-love to a cyber-lady thanks.
I'll just play games with my hands for fun, I don't want total immersion, I want to live my life in proper reality.
Gaming is fun, but not life.
I don't want to have to dress in a holo-suit and make cyber-love to a cyber-lady thanks.
I'll just play games with my hands for fun, I don't want total immersion, I want to live my life in proper reality.
Gaming is fun, but not life.
Oasis - 'In my mind my dreams are real...' (Shakermaker i think).
Without wanting to give the monkeys too much credit, the point being that it doesn't matter whether something is real if you truely believe it is. Maybe right, maybe not, i guess it depends on your own opinion on it, but an interesting idea whatever, no?
Without wanting to give the monkeys too much credit, the point being that it doesn't matter whether something is real if you truely believe it is. Maybe right, maybe not, i guess it depends on your own opinion on it, but an interesting idea whatever, no?
Strafex wrote:
Ah. Gaming N-Chip style.
You plug the computer into your brain and feel like you're in this pre-programmed world (and idea around long before the Matrix was made).
I think that Gaming will move towards that area in the future but you can garauntees problems with Sanity.
It will trully become difficult to know whether it's real or not.
Aha Eternal Darkness you don't know if what is happening in the game real or not as you can go insane so you don't know what is true and what is false.
Ok i know you dont mean that but still...
Ah. Gaming N-Chip style.
You plug the computer into your brain and feel like you're in this pre-programmed world (and idea around long before the Matrix was made).
I think that Gaming will move towards that area in the future but you can garauntees problems with Sanity.
It will trully become difficult to know whether it's real or not.
Aha Eternal Darkness you don't know if what is happening in the game real or not as you can go insane so you don't know what is true and what is false.
Ok i know you dont mean that but still...
Ah. Gaming N-Chip style.
You plug the computer into your brain and feel like you're in this pre-programmed world (and idea around long before the Matrix was made).
I think that Gaming will move towards that area in the future but you can garauntees problems with Sanity.
It will trully become difficult to know whether it's real or not.
Is someone at your bed about to kill you with a knife, or did someone plug your brain into the computer while you were asleep...?
You plug the computer into your brain and feel like you're in this pre-programmed world (and idea around long before the Matrix was made).
I think that Gaming will move towards that area in the future but you can garauntees problems with Sanity.
It will trully become difficult to know whether it's real or not.
Is someone at your bed about to kill you with a knife, or did someone plug your brain into the computer while you were asleep...?
indeed I wrote a topic entitled feel everything once before wasn't like this mind, i don't think i cant remmember, na this is quite original na it was different!
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