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Videogaming has undergone many changes since it's hobbyist inception. Quantum leaps in hardware have enabled richer and more immersive home gaming experiences, previously only experienced whilst simultaneously feeding a large metal cabinet all your hard earned pennies and fending off a queue of sweaty palmed fanatics.
Now, it is possible to spend over 100 hours completing one game, becoming involved in the subtle nuances in a character's role, in essence, developing your own persona within the game, rather than spending a frentic, button battering 60-120 seconds trying to pulverise opposition to a bloody pulp using pre-prescribed personalities and qualities.
The newest gaming mantra is about using games to generate deeper "emotion" in players, backed up by an industry trend heading towards film type production values, with detailed plots. Hardware and software producers alike seem to be pushing towards development tools and methodologies that will push interactive game play much further than the average player is currently used to.
Whilst pushing towards games that are more immersive, the element of multiplayer interaction is coming to the fore of console technology. Already the Dreamcast contains a built-in modem so that players can showdown on-line, rumours are also abound the the US / European version of Playstation 2 will play host to some kind of expansion to allow network gaming. The latest Xbox specs from Microsoft feature an "expansion port" of unspecified use, which could be used for a modem, and also "100MBps Ethernet", which I take to mean a network card of some description, which is strange as the overwhelming majority of homes have no such network, does Microsoft know something we don't? With improvements in WAP technology just around the corner, multi-player mobile gaming is nearly upon us.
Add into the mix that the next generation of consoles are due to have hard drives, the Playstation 2 via an internal expansion, the Xbox will come with hard drive storage which is measly in terms of current PC benchmarks, but massive when compared to the memory cards that consoles use today.
These advances, not only in technology, but also in industry thinking and gaming trends, whilst not appearing to be a conscious effort overall, could culminate into something larger than the sum of it's parts. Imagine, through the console of the future you could take part in a game online. The game may have a form or objectives to it, but they may become more personalised to you as you make your way through the game. You may meet real-world friends online within the game, form communities, trade items and knowledge, make peace or war with other players, or you may chose to go it alone. At the end of a heavy session, your progress can be stored on the consoles hard drive, which now enable you to store the many thousands of game variables that may be set.
Even after you turn your console off, the game world still carries on, hosted on servers, with players the world over logging onto the gaming system at the peak times applicable to their country, a real-time, 24 hour, round-the-clock game world. If something happens within to world that affects your gaming experience, it is likely a sophisticated mobile messaging system will contact you through your mobile, PDA, e-mail, or even fax to inform you of recent happenings.
Admittedly, the logistics and programming expertise needed to realise this future of gaming is many years away, but already parts of it are fitting into place like the pieces of jigsaw, which the industry has no picture to, but is experimenting with by turning the pieces around to see which bits fit where.
Now, it is possible to spend over 100 hours completing one game, becoming involved in the subtle nuances in a character's role, in essence, developing your own persona within the game, rather than spending a frentic, button battering 60-120 seconds trying to pulverise opposition to a bloody pulp using pre-prescribed personalities and qualities.
The newest gaming mantra is about using games to generate deeper "emotion" in players, backed up by an industry trend heading towards film type production values, with detailed plots. Hardware and software producers alike seem to be pushing towards development tools and methodologies that will push interactive game play much further than the average player is currently used to.
Whilst pushing towards games that are more immersive, the element of multiplayer interaction is coming to the fore of console technology. Already the Dreamcast contains a built-in modem so that players can showdown on-line, rumours are also abound the the US / European version of Playstation 2 will play host to some kind of expansion to allow network gaming. The latest Xbox specs from Microsoft feature an "expansion port" of unspecified use, which could be used for a modem, and also "100MBps Ethernet", which I take to mean a network card of some description, which is strange as the overwhelming majority of homes have no such network, does Microsoft know something we don't? With improvements in WAP technology just around the corner, multi-player mobile gaming is nearly upon us.
Add into the mix that the next generation of consoles are due to have hard drives, the Playstation 2 via an internal expansion, the Xbox will come with hard drive storage which is measly in terms of current PC benchmarks, but massive when compared to the memory cards that consoles use today.
These advances, not only in technology, but also in industry thinking and gaming trends, whilst not appearing to be a conscious effort overall, could culminate into something larger than the sum of it's parts. Imagine, through the console of the future you could take part in a game online. The game may have a form or objectives to it, but they may become more personalised to you as you make your way through the game. You may meet real-world friends online within the game, form communities, trade items and knowledge, make peace or war with other players, or you may chose to go it alone. At the end of a heavy session, your progress can be stored on the consoles hard drive, which now enable you to store the many thousands of game variables that may be set.
Even after you turn your console off, the game world still carries on, hosted on servers, with players the world over logging onto the gaming system at the peak times applicable to their country, a real-time, 24 hour, round-the-clock game world. If something happens within to world that affects your gaming experience, it is likely a sophisticated mobile messaging system will contact you through your mobile, PDA, e-mail, or even fax to inform you of recent happenings.
Admittedly, the logistics and programming expertise needed to realise this future of gaming is many years away, but already parts of it are fitting into place like the pieces of jigsaw, which the industry has no picture to, but is experimenting with by turning the pieces around to see which bits fit where.
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Doughnut Monster wrote:
> was that an insult to someone?
i think he meant that he wants to be recognised for posting crap too! You're a bit paranoid aint ya Dognuts! :D
> was that an insult to someone?
i think he meant that he wants to be recognised for posting crap too! You're a bit paranoid aint ya Dognuts! :D
was that an insult to someone?
Meka_Dragon wrote:
We are
> mistrusting, because all too often the standard of posing does drop to
> "Gaystation poo sucks" - when we see something other than this from a
> 'newbie' it's surprising!
---
Hey! No fair!
It's not JUST newbies that post crap y'know.
*sulks*
We are
> mistrusting, because all too often the standard of posing does drop to
> "Gaystation poo sucks" - when we see something other than this from a
> 'newbie' it's surprising!
---
Hey! No fair!
It's not JUST newbies that post crap y'know.
*sulks*
funkygamer wrote:
> Hehehe, I didn't think the guys in here were so
> suspicious :), do you mind me asking how you found my site?? If you used a
> search engine, which one??
I just copied the very first sentence into the Google search bar and your site was the only one to come up. So I thought "Aha! The cheating so-and-so copied it!" And then I noticed the URL and the name of the author! :-)
Excuse the suspicion, but as Meka said, such posts from Newbies are rare, and there have been a number instances of such cheating to win Gameaday in the past. We weren't always so mistrusting! :-)
> Oh... and welcome to SR.
> I believe I
> said somewhere the other day
> that not all Newbies were the same, and
> someone asked me > to name them. So to whoever that was... here's
> one!
Thanks for that, I'm amazed so many of the regulars like the post
Not meaning to devalue your post, but you'll find we're easily pleased! :-)
> Hehehe, I didn't think the guys in here were so
> suspicious :), do you mind me asking how you found my site?? If you used a
> search engine, which one??
I just copied the very first sentence into the Google search bar and your site was the only one to come up. So I thought "Aha! The cheating so-and-so copied it!" And then I noticed the URL and the name of the author! :-)
Excuse the suspicion, but as Meka said, such posts from Newbies are rare, and there have been a number instances of such cheating to win Gameaday in the past. We weren't always so mistrusting! :-)
> Oh... and welcome to SR.
> I believe I
> said somewhere the other day
> that not all Newbies were the same, and
> someone asked me > to name them. So to whoever that was... here's
> one!
Thanks for that, I'm amazed so many of the regulars like the post
Not meaning to devalue your post, but you'll find we're easily pleased! :-)
Funkygamer you got your own site?
Google is pretty good, as you can siply paste in a couple of lines of text. If it's anywhere else on the net, Google will probably find it!
We are mistrusting, because all too often the standard of posing does drop to "Gaystation poo sucks" - when we see something other than this from a 'newbie' it's surprising!
We are mistrusting, because all too often the standard of posing does drop to "Gaystation poo sucks" - when we see something other than this from a 'newbie' it's surprising!
> Fantastic stuff!
> I have to admit, I was dubious and searched the net to see
> if it was lifted from another website... and it was!
> However, it's obviously your own site and your own work, > so a very big 'well done' on a great article.
Hehehe, I didn't think the guys in here were so suspicious :), do you mind me asking how you found my site?? If you used a search engine, which one??
> Oh... and welcome to SR.
> I believe I said somewhere the other day
> that not all Newbies were the same, and someone asked me > to name them. So to whoever that was... here's one!
Thanks for that, I'm amazed so many of the regulars like the post, I am honoured, I don't get the chance to write stuff like that too often, but when I do I like to make an effort ;)
> I have to admit, I was dubious and searched the net to see
> if it was lifted from another website... and it was!
> However, it's obviously your own site and your own work, > so a very big 'well done' on a great article.
Hehehe, I didn't think the guys in here were so suspicious :), do you mind me asking how you found my site?? If you used a search engine, which one??
> Oh... and welcome to SR.
> I believe I said somewhere the other day
> that not all Newbies were the same, and someone asked me > to name them. So to whoever that was... here's one!
Thanks for that, I'm amazed so many of the regulars like the post, I am honoured, I don't get the chance to write stuff like that too often, but when I do I like to make an effort ;)
Wow! Thanks to all you guys, it is nice that you all liked the post... I wrote from the heart, and yes, it was written about... ohhh, 8 - 9 months ago, before I even knew of this forum. so sorry for the "oldness" of it, but you get the gist n'est pas?
Wouldn't it be something if even half of that stuff came true?
Wouldn't it be something if even half of that stuff came true?
Fantastic stuff!
I have to admit, I was dubious and searched the net to see if it was lifted from another website... and it was!
However, it's obviously your own site and your own work, so a very big 'well done' on a great article.
Oh... and welcome to SR.
I believe I said somewhere the other day that not all Newbies were the same, and someone asked me to name them. So to whoever that was... here's one!
I have to admit, I was dubious and searched the net to see if it was lifted from another website... and it was!
However, it's obviously your own site and your own work, so a very big 'well done' on a great article.
Oh... and welcome to SR.
I believe I said somewhere the other day that not all Newbies were the same, and someone asked me to name them. So to whoever that was... here's one!
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