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I often wonder what will come after the Xbox and the GameCube. After these two consoles are released no one knows what will actually come next, except possibly Shigeru Miyamoto and Hideo Kojima.
We can speculate over the development of the rumoured PlayStation 3, we can laugh over the idea of a GameSphere and we can giggle insanely over the thought of a Ybox. Whatever, none of us actually knows whatís coming next.
So, letís use our imaginations.
*Soothing neo-psychedelic music plays*
To be honest, anything could happen next. We donít know what kind of technical developments the people at Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony are up to. But, in a perfect world, here is what Iíd like to happen...
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Developers canít create any new technology, which rules out the prospect of more consoles. Theyíd be no different from the last ones. So, game creators start using Reality Gaming. The landscapes are crafted, or they could play in a real environment. The player is put in outfit and goes around accomplishing tasks. The enemies and other people in the game could be played by other humans. This, obviously, is an adventure game. But itís the best example.
First Person Shooters would be fantastic. You could be a commander of a SWAT team, or you could be a lowly Private, being bossed around by other people. Paintball guns and objectives would be introduced and away you go! You could even use real landscapes, it would all add to the atmosphere. Decent War-games could be introduced and new genres could be thought up. Obviously racers would be a bit hard to do, but they werenít that popular anyway :-D.
Puzzlers would be great this way round. Of course, blocks couldnít drop from the sky because of health issues, but hard logic tests could be introduced, as could other kinds of puzzles. Even the classic Lara Croft "Push some stones around to open up doorways" puzzles could be used.
Unfortunately, all this could be quite expensive, and, in all honesty, itís not going to happen. So, what else is there?
One idea Iíve always enjoyed entertaining is that of "Dream Gaming".
No, not a PickíníMix kind of thing, but games being played in your dreams. Let me explain:
When you sleep, you get hooked up to a machine, this machine taps the sub-conscious nerves that fire impulses to and from the brain which makes you dream, and manipulates them so you get put into a certain environment. This could be anything... A racetrack for racing games, A strange landscape for adventure games, a footy pitch for football games, anywhere really for FPSí...
The possibilities are endless.
Anyway, before you go to sleep you choose the game. Then, when you fall asleep the machine makes you dream you are in that certain landscape. Then, you just play!
The nerve impulses detect what you want to do in the dream and so you make that movement. Be it to combat roll, fire, run or just to simply walk forward. Whatever your sub-conscious mind thinks, thatís what happens.
Then, when you finish dreaming, the machine scans your brain and instantly saves the point that you got to.
How cool would this be?! Dream Gaming, not only would you have fun playing games, you wouldnít stay up all night playing them! And do you know how much play youíd get out of it? Well that all depends on how long you sleep and how many R.E.M cycles you go through in one night. But in theory, the more you sleep, the more you dream, the more you play!
I really love the thought of playing games in your sleep; itíd give me a reason to go to bed at night anyway!
*Soothing neo-psychedelic music ends*
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Well, thatís it from me. Iím off to go and try and invent a Dream Console and to see if I can buy some land to play a few Reality Games on :-D
RBS
We can speculate over the development of the rumoured PlayStation 3, we can laugh over the idea of a GameSphere and we can giggle insanely over the thought of a Ybox. Whatever, none of us actually knows whatís coming next.
So, letís use our imaginations.
*Soothing neo-psychedelic music plays*
To be honest, anything could happen next. We donít know what kind of technical developments the people at Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony are up to. But, in a perfect world, here is what Iíd like to happen...
~~~~~~~
Developers canít create any new technology, which rules out the prospect of more consoles. Theyíd be no different from the last ones. So, game creators start using Reality Gaming. The landscapes are crafted, or they could play in a real environment. The player is put in outfit and goes around accomplishing tasks. The enemies and other people in the game could be played by other humans. This, obviously, is an adventure game. But itís the best example.
First Person Shooters would be fantastic. You could be a commander of a SWAT team, or you could be a lowly Private, being bossed around by other people. Paintball guns and objectives would be introduced and away you go! You could even use real landscapes, it would all add to the atmosphere. Decent War-games could be introduced and new genres could be thought up. Obviously racers would be a bit hard to do, but they werenít that popular anyway :-D.
Puzzlers would be great this way round. Of course, blocks couldnít drop from the sky because of health issues, but hard logic tests could be introduced, as could other kinds of puzzles. Even the classic Lara Croft "Push some stones around to open up doorways" puzzles could be used.
Unfortunately, all this could be quite expensive, and, in all honesty, itís not going to happen. So, what else is there?
One idea Iíve always enjoyed entertaining is that of "Dream Gaming".
No, not a PickíníMix kind of thing, but games being played in your dreams. Let me explain:
When you sleep, you get hooked up to a machine, this machine taps the sub-conscious nerves that fire impulses to and from the brain which makes you dream, and manipulates them so you get put into a certain environment. This could be anything... A racetrack for racing games, A strange landscape for adventure games, a footy pitch for football games, anywhere really for FPSí...
The possibilities are endless.
Anyway, before you go to sleep you choose the game. Then, when you fall asleep the machine makes you dream you are in that certain landscape. Then, you just play!
The nerve impulses detect what you want to do in the dream and so you make that movement. Be it to combat roll, fire, run or just to simply walk forward. Whatever your sub-conscious mind thinks, thatís what happens.
Then, when you finish dreaming, the machine scans your brain and instantly saves the point that you got to.
How cool would this be?! Dream Gaming, not only would you have fun playing games, you wouldnít stay up all night playing them! And do you know how much play youíd get out of it? Well that all depends on how long you sleep and how many R.E.M cycles you go through in one night. But in theory, the more you sleep, the more you dream, the more you play!
I really love the thought of playing games in your sleep; itíd give me a reason to go to bed at night anyway!
*Soothing neo-psychedelic music ends*
~~~~~~~
Well, thatís it from me. Iím off to go and try and invent a Dream Console and to see if I can buy some land to play a few Reality Games on :-D
RBS
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A good point. Looking back and seeing how far games have come say in the last 10-15 years (the likes of paperboy, bombjack) it does show that games have indeed come a long way and if things continue to do so then maybe in the future we could see some hugely fun and very realistic games.
We could see games that require a lot of thinking and planning as to what you are going to do and what physical things you are going to use to help you.
Maybe also we will see fully explorable environments, one thing I would love to see included in most game (GTA3 is by far the best I have seen so far and it is still a bit off being fully explorable). A game were there are no limitations as to where you can and can't go, if the door dosn't open then find the key or smash it down. Nip into the pub for a quick drink? Go get petrol for the car? Visit some friends? Rob a bank? The list could go on and on but I guess you have got the picture.
So whats next in this waffle session? How about A gaming engine that makes a game truely interactive. I.E. all physical objects can be interacted with in some way and abey all the laws of physics that are appropriate to them. So you could use all objects as weapos or place objects to hide behind, crash into boxes and similar objects in your car. Again this list could go on and on but it is tha main idea that is important.
Next could be the characters, they could maybe act and behave very similar to humans, I.E. they need food and water to survive, go to the toilet at certain times, without sleep they would become tired and maybe make silly errors that could be costly in the long run of the game. There is problems here though, could take the fun out of the game? Also what the character can physically do, run, walk, jump, crouch, punch, kick etc. Are there enough buttons (and do we have enough fingers) to get the full use out of any character and could this improve in the future (maybe gamers will develop extra fingers for future control pads??)
Going back to the first idea, what about games that don't follow a linear path, I.E. you can do any task you want in any order and the order you do them in sets what will happen to you as the game goes on. Also what actions your character takes also decides on how the game will progress. So if you do poorly at certain areas then your character will not be rewarded as much as another who has done better than you.
There could also be more of a leap towards making games that have a kind of personal touch, one where you can import an image of yourself and then it would be as if you were the main character in a game.
There are probably lots more but I have waffled enough. Also I am at uni and have to go soon. Just one final thing.
The quality of games should get better, as time goes by better ways of making them will arrise and programmers skills will improve, remember most of todays games are far from perfect and Im sure we could all pick out the faults and problems. Idea behind games will get better, playability, graphics, gameplay, longetivity and the other important features will all improve and the games of the future will be something special. Why? because I say so (all you have to do is look back and see how far they have come and see the potential in them to do much better)
Shigywiggywo Rasta! : )
We could see games that require a lot of thinking and planning as to what you are going to do and what physical things you are going to use to help you.
Maybe also we will see fully explorable environments, one thing I would love to see included in most game (GTA3 is by far the best I have seen so far and it is still a bit off being fully explorable). A game were there are no limitations as to where you can and can't go, if the door dosn't open then find the key or smash it down. Nip into the pub for a quick drink? Go get petrol for the car? Visit some friends? Rob a bank? The list could go on and on but I guess you have got the picture.
So whats next in this waffle session? How about A gaming engine that makes a game truely interactive. I.E. all physical objects can be interacted with in some way and abey all the laws of physics that are appropriate to them. So you could use all objects as weapos or place objects to hide behind, crash into boxes and similar objects in your car. Again this list could go on and on but it is tha main idea that is important.
Next could be the characters, they could maybe act and behave very similar to humans, I.E. they need food and water to survive, go to the toilet at certain times, without sleep they would become tired and maybe make silly errors that could be costly in the long run of the game. There is problems here though, could take the fun out of the game? Also what the character can physically do, run, walk, jump, crouch, punch, kick etc. Are there enough buttons (and do we have enough fingers) to get the full use out of any character and could this improve in the future (maybe gamers will develop extra fingers for future control pads??)
Going back to the first idea, what about games that don't follow a linear path, I.E. you can do any task you want in any order and the order you do them in sets what will happen to you as the game goes on. Also what actions your character takes also decides on how the game will progress. So if you do poorly at certain areas then your character will not be rewarded as much as another who has done better than you.
There could also be more of a leap towards making games that have a kind of personal touch, one where you can import an image of yourself and then it would be as if you were the main character in a game.
There are probably lots more but I have waffled enough. Also I am at uni and have to go soon. Just one final thing.
The quality of games should get better, as time goes by better ways of making them will arrise and programmers skills will improve, remember most of todays games are far from perfect and Im sure we could all pick out the faults and problems. Idea behind games will get better, playability, graphics, gameplay, longetivity and the other important features will all improve and the games of the future will be something special. Why? because I say so (all you have to do is look back and see how far they have come and see the potential in them to do much better)
Shigywiggywo Rasta! : )
etila wrote:
> sorry i didn't mean to double post!
Meh, no worries
> sorry i didn't mean to double post!
Meh, no worries
Some goons are coming for you, Gareth :-)
etila wrote:
> what is the machine recorded the game you dreamed and played some highlights for
> you, showing you what happened if you don't remember and showing off to your
> friends about how good your sub concious is at playin games
Yeah, that's just what I thought... And copyrighted... so... um... you nicked that from me... :-D
Yeah that'd work, and that'd help jog your memory too. Thanksy verysky muchsky budsky :-)
> what is the machine recorded the game you dreamed and played some highlights for
> you, showing you what happened if you don't remember and showing off to your
> friends about how good your sub concious is at playin games
Yeah, that's just what I thought... And copyrighted... so... um... you nicked that from me... :-D
Yeah that'd work, and that'd help jog your memory too. Thanksy verysky muchsky budsky :-)
My dream console wouldn't play games. Muaha. Just films. We call it a DVD player... Wow, I have one. Well that was fun. Enjoy your time-wasting games, Chris! I'm going to watch such educational titles as ' Die Hard ' and ' The Devil's Advocate '.
Your Honour wrote:
> What's wrong with gaming today?
Why spend time thinking about what's going to
> happen in the future? Why not just be happy with what you've got at the
> moment?
You said yourself you don't know what will happen in the future, so
> why bother thinking about it?
2 reasons:
1) This is called the FUTURE OF GAMING Forum.
2) :-P
:-D
> What's wrong with gaming today?
Why spend time thinking about what's going to
> happen in the future? Why not just be happy with what you've got at the
> moment?
You said yourself you don't know what will happen in the future, so
> why bother thinking about it?
2 reasons:
1) This is called the FUTURE OF GAMING Forum.
2) :-P
:-D
What's wrong with gaming today?
Why spend time thinking about what's going to happen in the future? Why not just be happy with what you've got at the moment?
You said yourself you don't know what will happen in the future, so why bother thinking about it?
Why spend time thinking about what's going to happen in the future? Why not just be happy with what you've got at the moment?
You said yourself you don't know what will happen in the future, so why bother thinking about it?
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