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Nothing serious in here, well not a lot anyway. No ground breaking news or new information in here. This is all for the fun and hopefully the humour of it.
So let us begin, all of us on here love games, we play these games on consoles. Consoles have one single purpose in life - to play our games. But as time has gone by the consoles have more and more features which means they are able to do more than play games. So what will they be able to do say twenty years from now.
Picture the scene, you arrive home from work and say hi to the wife and kids then decide it is time for a quick game of your beloved console. You enter the room and it talks to you, "Good evening master. How was your day? Which game do you wish to play?"
After deciding which game you want to play the console then changes the lights to an appropriate level to get the full potential of the graphics, then asks if you would like to play alone or challenge someone via the net. While playing it then offers you numerous features like foot massage, make you some dinner, chill your beers, iron your pants for tomorrow.
Also when your kids come in it automatically prevents any indecent images such as gore and blood or pornographic images (whatever floats your boat I guess) making the whole argument of games influence this, games influence that disappear from the world altogether.
So what else could consoles do for us in the future? Call and e-mail people for us? Record television onto some storage device? Download games for us while we are at work? Make you toast? Wash your clothes? It could be a combination of all the electrical appliances you own. (But would that still make it a console?) The list could go on and on.
Here is what I think the worlds best console would have, (please note that the size would probably be huge but that's not what's important) and of course it is my view so most will disagree.
Most important of all it must have the latest technology to play the games available as best it can. Be able to give out great graphics, sound and have no faults with it at all. Also with built in modem, hard disk and film player (whatever plays films in 20 years)
All the plugs and sockets to allow you to connect it to speakers, PC's,(no doubt most houses will have some kind of central computer to control most things so it would connect to that to.
Refrigerated compartment to keep your beers (or other beverage) cold and store and snacks you might want while playing an new game non-stop (we all do it)
Ability to phone, so that it can make the all important call to work saying that you are ill, gives you a wide choice of excuses and voices to use. Also can phone in pizzas and take away so that you can play non-stop while it orders.
The console should also be artificially intelligent (Or as high as the standards at the time allow it to be) so that if you are bored you can always talk to it. You could program it to be any way you want it.
It would also be quite small (apart from the storage spaces), and the storage could be detached to allow you to carry it around and use it on the go. It would have a built in digital camera and the choice to have a digital scanner which could be used to generate a computer clone of yourself that could be used in the games giving them a more personal feel.
I know this all seems very far fetched and that's the point. So what would you like to see the console of the future do? What options and add ons would it have?
I know I said before there was nothing serious in here, well I lied. Those of you who have read this far please read on.
A few things to bring up here so listen to be waffle on and please post your views.
As a kid I was in and out of hospital a lot I was in at least 3 times a month until I was 3, I had really bad asthma and also spent the first year and a half with my right foot in a cast (had to have my Achilles tendon cut and stretched). I don't want to bore you with all the details but one thing I know is that I was in a lot of pain sometimes. So what I want to go on about is games and if it is at all possible for them to reduce the pain people feel by making them concentrate on doing other things. I know that they say that music has a kind of painkiller effect as it relaxes the body and also the mind. So what about games, can they have similar effects?
I guess it all depends on how you define pain and just exactly how pain effects you. Does something to take your mind of the pain help reduce the pain? Some games could add to the pain with there load sounds and sometimes annoying graphics (enough to give most a sore head).
Games are similar to music as they both are designed to be a form of entertainment. Although many games have you on the edge of your seat in suspense or excitement there are lots that are just plain fun and enjoyable and I my opinion could be a good form of pain relief.
From the time I spent in hospital I remember the nurses trying to make things as fun and pleasant for you as possible, playing board games and trying to keep us happy. Now technology has changed and it is probably more likely to find consoles instead of board games but I imagine they both do the same thing. Keep your mind of why you are there and put an element of fun into your stay.
So what do you think? Can games help reduce pain in that way?
I also have another point to bring up. Ok we all know just how far gaming has come, we just need to look back 20 years to see. Not only does this make the present look great but it also makes the future look very promising indeed. So what is the future going to hold for us the gamers? Is there going to be an end or will things always get better and better. When I look at most of today's games I can see small ways of making them better, little flaws that are there as there are limits on what developers can and can not do. So in twenty years the limitations could disappear, with technology so good maybe developers will be able to do anything they want and make games that compared to today's games are out of this world with breath taking graphics and brilliant gameplay. We could see games that have no linear path to follow, a fully explore able environment and truly intelligent computer A.I. Nobody knows what will happen as predicting the future is a gift that nobody I know has (maybe somewhere someone can, but would you really want to know?) Also the question of will you still be playing games as much when you are older and possibly married with kids?
I know that gaming has given me a lot and if I have kids I would like them to have all that games have given me and more. So what do you see happening to the industry in twenty years? Will something new take the industry by storm and change it for the better or dare I say it will it all end?
Please post your views if you have any at all.
So let us begin, all of us on here love games, we play these games on consoles. Consoles have one single purpose in life - to play our games. But as time has gone by the consoles have more and more features which means they are able to do more than play games. So what will they be able to do say twenty years from now.
Picture the scene, you arrive home from work and say hi to the wife and kids then decide it is time for a quick game of your beloved console. You enter the room and it talks to you, "Good evening master. How was your day? Which game do you wish to play?"
After deciding which game you want to play the console then changes the lights to an appropriate level to get the full potential of the graphics, then asks if you would like to play alone or challenge someone via the net. While playing it then offers you numerous features like foot massage, make you some dinner, chill your beers, iron your pants for tomorrow.
Also when your kids come in it automatically prevents any indecent images such as gore and blood or pornographic images (whatever floats your boat I guess) making the whole argument of games influence this, games influence that disappear from the world altogether.
So what else could consoles do for us in the future? Call and e-mail people for us? Record television onto some storage device? Download games for us while we are at work? Make you toast? Wash your clothes? It could be a combination of all the electrical appliances you own. (But would that still make it a console?) The list could go on and on.
Here is what I think the worlds best console would have, (please note that the size would probably be huge but that's not what's important) and of course it is my view so most will disagree.
Most important of all it must have the latest technology to play the games available as best it can. Be able to give out great graphics, sound and have no faults with it at all. Also with built in modem, hard disk and film player (whatever plays films in 20 years)
All the plugs and sockets to allow you to connect it to speakers, PC's,(no doubt most houses will have some kind of central computer to control most things so it would connect to that to.
Refrigerated compartment to keep your beers (or other beverage) cold and store and snacks you might want while playing an new game non-stop (we all do it)
Ability to phone, so that it can make the all important call to work saying that you are ill, gives you a wide choice of excuses and voices to use. Also can phone in pizzas and take away so that you can play non-stop while it orders.
The console should also be artificially intelligent (Or as high as the standards at the time allow it to be) so that if you are bored you can always talk to it. You could program it to be any way you want it.
It would also be quite small (apart from the storage spaces), and the storage could be detached to allow you to carry it around and use it on the go. It would have a built in digital camera and the choice to have a digital scanner which could be used to generate a computer clone of yourself that could be used in the games giving them a more personal feel.
I know this all seems very far fetched and that's the point. So what would you like to see the console of the future do? What options and add ons would it have?
I know I said before there was nothing serious in here, well I lied. Those of you who have read this far please read on.
A few things to bring up here so listen to be waffle on and please post your views.
As a kid I was in and out of hospital a lot I was in at least 3 times a month until I was 3, I had really bad asthma and also spent the first year and a half with my right foot in a cast (had to have my Achilles tendon cut and stretched). I don't want to bore you with all the details but one thing I know is that I was in a lot of pain sometimes. So what I want to go on about is games and if it is at all possible for them to reduce the pain people feel by making them concentrate on doing other things. I know that they say that music has a kind of painkiller effect as it relaxes the body and also the mind. So what about games, can they have similar effects?
I guess it all depends on how you define pain and just exactly how pain effects you. Does something to take your mind of the pain help reduce the pain? Some games could add to the pain with there load sounds and sometimes annoying graphics (enough to give most a sore head).
Games are similar to music as they both are designed to be a form of entertainment. Although many games have you on the edge of your seat in suspense or excitement there are lots that are just plain fun and enjoyable and I my opinion could be a good form of pain relief.
From the time I spent in hospital I remember the nurses trying to make things as fun and pleasant for you as possible, playing board games and trying to keep us happy. Now technology has changed and it is probably more likely to find consoles instead of board games but I imagine they both do the same thing. Keep your mind of why you are there and put an element of fun into your stay.
So what do you think? Can games help reduce pain in that way?
I also have another point to bring up. Ok we all know just how far gaming has come, we just need to look back 20 years to see. Not only does this make the present look great but it also makes the future look very promising indeed. So what is the future going to hold for us the gamers? Is there going to be an end or will things always get better and better. When I look at most of today's games I can see small ways of making them better, little flaws that are there as there are limits on what developers can and can not do. So in twenty years the limitations could disappear, with technology so good maybe developers will be able to do anything they want and make games that compared to today's games are out of this world with breath taking graphics and brilliant gameplay. We could see games that have no linear path to follow, a fully explore able environment and truly intelligent computer A.I. Nobody knows what will happen as predicting the future is a gift that nobody I know has (maybe somewhere someone can, but would you really want to know?) Also the question of will you still be playing games as much when you are older and possibly married with kids?
I know that gaming has given me a lot and if I have kids I would like them to have all that games have given me and more. So what do you see happening to the industry in twenty years? Will something new take the industry by storm and change it for the better or dare I say it will it all end?
Please post your views if you have any at all.
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Ice Blaster wrote:
> Well done, you beat me!!:(
Cheers IB, didn't expect to win, I even pre-ordered GTA3 last night coz I didn't think I would win before it gets released. Ohh well guess I will need to pick another game
> Well done, you beat me!!:(
Cheers IB, didn't expect to win, I even pre-ordered GTA3 last night coz I didn't think I would win before it gets released. Ohh well guess I will need to pick another game
Well done, you beat me!!:(
Following on from the perfect console and what I would want, how about this......
We all spend sometimes hours playing games and instead of consoles doing our wasing and so on as you said how about some sort of link where the more time/work you do playing games on your console it converts it into useful energy that then does your ironing and so on. Doing work would never be so much fun!
Also only being one console that developers produce games for but then again that would take away the console wars arguments and lets be honest to some extent they make it all the more interesting.
Also games do releave us from pain, they keep our mind occupied on oter things their our escape from reality, it is similar to say your arm hurts and someone kicks you in the 'goolies' and you instantly forget about your arm.
Also the part about your computer speaking, asking you questions and you awnsering I can see this happening and it looks as though Bill as it in mind wit is slogan "Where do you want to go today?"
SL
We all spend sometimes hours playing games and instead of consoles doing our wasing and so on as you said how about some sort of link where the more time/work you do playing games on your console it converts it into useful energy that then does your ironing and so on. Doing work would never be so much fun!
Also only being one console that developers produce games for but then again that would take away the console wars arguments and lets be honest to some extent they make it all the more interesting.
Also games do releave us from pain, they keep our mind occupied on oter things their our escape from reality, it is similar to say your arm hurts and someone kicks you in the 'goolies' and you instantly forget about your arm.
Also the part about your computer speaking, asking you questions and you awnsering I can see this happening and it looks as though Bill as it in mind wit is slogan "Where do you want to go today?"
SL
no replies? Has nobody got any views on any of this?
Nothing serious in here, well not a lot anyway. No ground breaking news or new information in here. This is all for the fun and hopefully the humour of it.
So let us begin, all of us on here love games, we play these games on consoles. Consoles have one single purpose in life - to play our games. But as time has gone by the consoles have more and more features which means they are able to do more than play games. So what will they be able to do say twenty years from now.
Picture the scene, you arrive home from work and say hi to the wife and kids then decide it is time for a quick game of your beloved console. You enter the room and it talks to you, "Good evening master. How was your day? Which game do you wish to play?"
After deciding which game you want to play the console then changes the lights to an appropriate level to get the full potential of the graphics, then asks if you would like to play alone or challenge someone via the net. While playing it then offers you numerous features like foot massage, make you some dinner, chill your beers, iron your pants for tomorrow.
Also when your kids come in it automatically prevents any indecent images such as gore and blood or pornographic images (whatever floats your boat I guess) making the whole argument of games influence this, games influence that disappear from the world altogether.
So what else could consoles do for us in the future? Call and e-mail people for us? Record television onto some storage device? Download games for us while we are at work? Make you toast? Wash your clothes? It could be a combination of all the electrical appliances you own. (But would that still make it a console?) The list could go on and on.
Here is what I think the worlds best console would have, (please note that the size would probably be huge but that's not what's important) and of course it is my view so most will disagree.
Most important of all it must have the latest technology to play the games available as best it can. Be able to give out great graphics, sound and have no faults with it at all. Also with built in modem, hard disk and film player (whatever plays films in 20 years)
All the plugs and sockets to allow you to connect it to speakers, PC's,(no doubt most houses will have some kind of central computer to control most things so it would connect to that to.
Refrigerated compartment to keep your beers (or other beverage) cold and store and snacks you might want while playing an new game non-stop (we all do it)
Ability to phone, so that it can make the all important call to work saying that you are ill, gives you a wide choice of excuses and voices to use. Also can phone in pizzas and take away so that you can play non-stop while it orders.
The console should also be artificially intelligent (Or as high as the standards at the time allow it to be) so that if you are bored you can always talk to it. You could program it to be any way you want it.
It would also be quite small (apart from the storage spaces), and the storage could be detached to allow you to carry it around and use it on the go. It would have a built in digital camera and the choice to have a digital scanner which could be used to generate a computer clone of yourself that could be used in the games giving them a more personal feel.
I know this all seems very far fetched and that's the point. So what would you like to see the console of the future do? What options and add ons would it have?
I know I said before there was nothing serious in here, well I lied. Those of you who have read this far please read on.
A few things to bring up here so listen to be waffle on and please post your views.
As a kid I was in and out of hospital a lot I was in at least 3 times a month until I was 3, I had really bad asthma and also spent the first year and a half with my right foot in a cast (had to have my Achilles tendon cut and stretched). I don't want to bore you with all the details but one thing I know is that I was in a lot of pain sometimes. So what I want to go on about is games and if it is at all possible for them to reduce the pain people feel by making them concentrate on doing other things. I know that they say that music has a kind of painkiller effect as it relaxes the body and also the mind. So what about games, can they have similar effects?
I guess it all depends on how you define pain and just exactly how pain effects you. Does something to take your mind of the pain help reduce the pain? Some games could add to the pain with there load sounds and sometimes annoying graphics (enough to give most a sore head).
Games are similar to music as they both are designed to be a form of entertainment. Although many games have you on the edge of your seat in suspense or excitement there are lots that are just plain fun and enjoyable and I my opinion could be a good form of pain relief.
From the time I spent in hospital I remember the nurses trying to make things as fun and pleasant for you as possible, playing board games and trying to keep us happy. Now technology has changed and it is probably more likely to find consoles instead of board games but I imagine they both do the same thing. Keep your mind of why you are there and put an element of fun into your stay.
So what do you think? Can games help reduce pain in that way?
I also have another point to bring up. Ok we all know just how far gaming has come, we just need to look back 20 years to see. Not only does this make the present look great but it also makes the future look very promising indeed. So what is the future going to hold for us the gamers? Is there going to be an end or will things always get better and better. When I look at most of today's games I can see small ways of making them better, little flaws that are there as there are limits on what developers can and can not do. So in twenty years the limitations could disappear, with technology so good maybe developers will be able to do anything they want and make games that compared to today's games are out of this world with breath taking graphics and brilliant gameplay. We could see games that have no linear path to follow, a fully explore able environment and truly intelligent computer A.I. Nobody knows what will happen as predicting the future is a gift that nobody I know has (maybe somewhere someone can, but would you really want to know?) Also the question of will you still be playing games as much when you are older and possibly married with kids?
I know that gaming has given me a lot and if I have kids I would like them to have all that games have given me and more. So what do you see happening to the industry in twenty years? Will something new take the industry by storm and change it for the better or dare I say it will it all end?
Please post your views if you have any at all.
So let us begin, all of us on here love games, we play these games on consoles. Consoles have one single purpose in life - to play our games. But as time has gone by the consoles have more and more features which means they are able to do more than play games. So what will they be able to do say twenty years from now.
Picture the scene, you arrive home from work and say hi to the wife and kids then decide it is time for a quick game of your beloved console. You enter the room and it talks to you, "Good evening master. How was your day? Which game do you wish to play?"
After deciding which game you want to play the console then changes the lights to an appropriate level to get the full potential of the graphics, then asks if you would like to play alone or challenge someone via the net. While playing it then offers you numerous features like foot massage, make you some dinner, chill your beers, iron your pants for tomorrow.
Also when your kids come in it automatically prevents any indecent images such as gore and blood or pornographic images (whatever floats your boat I guess) making the whole argument of games influence this, games influence that disappear from the world altogether.
So what else could consoles do for us in the future? Call and e-mail people for us? Record television onto some storage device? Download games for us while we are at work? Make you toast? Wash your clothes? It could be a combination of all the electrical appliances you own. (But would that still make it a console?) The list could go on and on.
Here is what I think the worlds best console would have, (please note that the size would probably be huge but that's not what's important) and of course it is my view so most will disagree.
Most important of all it must have the latest technology to play the games available as best it can. Be able to give out great graphics, sound and have no faults with it at all. Also with built in modem, hard disk and film player (whatever plays films in 20 years)
All the plugs and sockets to allow you to connect it to speakers, PC's,(no doubt most houses will have some kind of central computer to control most things so it would connect to that to.
Refrigerated compartment to keep your beers (or other beverage) cold and store and snacks you might want while playing an new game non-stop (we all do it)
Ability to phone, so that it can make the all important call to work saying that you are ill, gives you a wide choice of excuses and voices to use. Also can phone in pizzas and take away so that you can play non-stop while it orders.
The console should also be artificially intelligent (Or as high as the standards at the time allow it to be) so that if you are bored you can always talk to it. You could program it to be any way you want it.
It would also be quite small (apart from the storage spaces), and the storage could be detached to allow you to carry it around and use it on the go. It would have a built in digital camera and the choice to have a digital scanner which could be used to generate a computer clone of yourself that could be used in the games giving them a more personal feel.
I know this all seems very far fetched and that's the point. So what would you like to see the console of the future do? What options and add ons would it have?
I know I said before there was nothing serious in here, well I lied. Those of you who have read this far please read on.
A few things to bring up here so listen to be waffle on and please post your views.
As a kid I was in and out of hospital a lot I was in at least 3 times a month until I was 3, I had really bad asthma and also spent the first year and a half with my right foot in a cast (had to have my Achilles tendon cut and stretched). I don't want to bore you with all the details but one thing I know is that I was in a lot of pain sometimes. So what I want to go on about is games and if it is at all possible for them to reduce the pain people feel by making them concentrate on doing other things. I know that they say that music has a kind of painkiller effect as it relaxes the body and also the mind. So what about games, can they have similar effects?
I guess it all depends on how you define pain and just exactly how pain effects you. Does something to take your mind of the pain help reduce the pain? Some games could add to the pain with there load sounds and sometimes annoying graphics (enough to give most a sore head).
Games are similar to music as they both are designed to be a form of entertainment. Although many games have you on the edge of your seat in suspense or excitement there are lots that are just plain fun and enjoyable and I my opinion could be a good form of pain relief.
From the time I spent in hospital I remember the nurses trying to make things as fun and pleasant for you as possible, playing board games and trying to keep us happy. Now technology has changed and it is probably more likely to find consoles instead of board games but I imagine they both do the same thing. Keep your mind of why you are there and put an element of fun into your stay.
So what do you think? Can games help reduce pain in that way?
I also have another point to bring up. Ok we all know just how far gaming has come, we just need to look back 20 years to see. Not only does this make the present look great but it also makes the future look very promising indeed. So what is the future going to hold for us the gamers? Is there going to be an end or will things always get better and better. When I look at most of today's games I can see small ways of making them better, little flaws that are there as there are limits on what developers can and can not do. So in twenty years the limitations could disappear, with technology so good maybe developers will be able to do anything they want and make games that compared to today's games are out of this world with breath taking graphics and brilliant gameplay. We could see games that have no linear path to follow, a fully explore able environment and truly intelligent computer A.I. Nobody knows what will happen as predicting the future is a gift that nobody I know has (maybe somewhere someone can, but would you really want to know?) Also the question of will you still be playing games as much when you are older and possibly married with kids?
I know that gaming has given me a lot and if I have kids I would like them to have all that games have given me and more. So what do you see happening to the industry in twenty years? Will something new take the industry by storm and change it for the better or dare I say it will it all end?
Please post your views if you have any at all.
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