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I was thinking yesterday and for some weird reason I was thinking about what new ideas I would like to see most in the gaming industry. To be honest there were quite a few ideas but there were only really a couple of ideas that could really make the gaming industry bigger and a lot better. Sure it will be quite some time before these ideas get used to the best of their ability and no doubt before they become good they will go through early development and be used in some way in games that don't really need or use such a feature.
The first idea is the idea of voice recognition and using your voice as part of an input along with the controller or another peripheral device. It may even be able to just use your voice as an input in some games. This could be a good addition to some games but not all, it would give the gamer the ability to play the game and at the same time use their voice to control other parts of the game. So if you were a leader in an army say, then you could control your soldier and at the same time command other units with your voice to either move in and attack or retreat and defend. I think this is an idea that does have potential but also has to be used in a good way and be useful to the game. There are also a few problems I can see with this.
First problem is getting software that can analyse the gamers voice, a microphone could be used to input the users voice but as of yet there isn't really any software that can fully understand a human voice, some can break it down and output it to screen or use only certain inputs to control the game but ignore others. It is the latter of these that will probably be used initially until something better comes along. Also what about accents, not everyone speaks with a true and understandable English accent, in fact very little do, so such a peripheral or addition would need to be able to cope with different accents such as Scottish, Liverpudlian, Geordie etc.
This is an idea that could work well in my view but only if it is used right. It does have to potential, whether any developer is brave enough to build on the basic ideas being used today then it could be quite some time before an idea like this is used, maybe we will see something similar in the next big consoles. Also the developers have to take the chance by including options for it in their games.
The next idea I had is the one that impresses me the most, something that I can't wait to see in the gaming industry. The idea of motion recognition, in my view an idea that has the potential to make the gaming industry a lot lot better. This idea is used in the police 24/7 arcade game in that you have to physically move to avoid being shot, a camera picks up your movements and responds by making your character in the game move. The possibilities with this one are almost endless. The best one could be the chance to have a light sabre game where the peripheral is a pole and when you move and swing it then the character on screen copies your actions. Or what about a gun shooting game like time crisis, when you run out of ammo you could use the handle of your gun to literally smash the enemy in the face. In terms of where this idea could go then it is hard to say, it does have bucket loads of potential and could make games even greater than they are but again, this idea is not going to be useful with all varieties of games.
As with any idea I guess, this one too has some problems. Firstly getting appropriate hardware and software to make this kind of thing actually work properly. Secondly making it at a suitable price so people will actually be able to afford it and want to use it. I guess the last problem is actually getting developers to spend the time to learn how to use it best and to include the option for such things in their games.
Well think that could be me, a shorter post than usual. Must be the cold weather making me cold and unable to type more. So what ideas are you looking forward to that you think could change the industry?
Are there any that you think don?t have the potential to become more than an idea?
The first idea is the idea of voice recognition and using your voice as part of an input along with the controller or another peripheral device. It may even be able to just use your voice as an input in some games. This could be a good addition to some games but not all, it would give the gamer the ability to play the game and at the same time use their voice to control other parts of the game. So if you were a leader in an army say, then you could control your soldier and at the same time command other units with your voice to either move in and attack or retreat and defend. I think this is an idea that does have potential but also has to be used in a good way and be useful to the game. There are also a few problems I can see with this.
First problem is getting software that can analyse the gamers voice, a microphone could be used to input the users voice but as of yet there isn't really any software that can fully understand a human voice, some can break it down and output it to screen or use only certain inputs to control the game but ignore others. It is the latter of these that will probably be used initially until something better comes along. Also what about accents, not everyone speaks with a true and understandable English accent, in fact very little do, so such a peripheral or addition would need to be able to cope with different accents such as Scottish, Liverpudlian, Geordie etc.
This is an idea that could work well in my view but only if it is used right. It does have to potential, whether any developer is brave enough to build on the basic ideas being used today then it could be quite some time before an idea like this is used, maybe we will see something similar in the next big consoles. Also the developers have to take the chance by including options for it in their games.
The next idea I had is the one that impresses me the most, something that I can't wait to see in the gaming industry. The idea of motion recognition, in my view an idea that has the potential to make the gaming industry a lot lot better. This idea is used in the police 24/7 arcade game in that you have to physically move to avoid being shot, a camera picks up your movements and responds by making your character in the game move. The possibilities with this one are almost endless. The best one could be the chance to have a light sabre game where the peripheral is a pole and when you move and swing it then the character on screen copies your actions. Or what about a gun shooting game like time crisis, when you run out of ammo you could use the handle of your gun to literally smash the enemy in the face. In terms of where this idea could go then it is hard to say, it does have bucket loads of potential and could make games even greater than they are but again, this idea is not going to be useful with all varieties of games.
As with any idea I guess, this one too has some problems. Firstly getting appropriate hardware and software to make this kind of thing actually work properly. Secondly making it at a suitable price so people will actually be able to afford it and want to use it. I guess the last problem is actually getting developers to spend the time to learn how to use it best and to include the option for such things in their games.
Well think that could be me, a shorter post than usual. Must be the cold weather making me cold and unable to type more. So what ideas are you looking forward to that you think could change the industry?
Are there any that you think don?t have the potential to become more than an idea?
There was a Voice Recognition game on the N64, it was something to do with Pikachu. it never got realeased over here though, just in Japan and the USA.
Im not saying that these should replace other ways of interacting with games just an extra option available to those who want it. I personally think that these two are going to be big and are a way forward for the industry. I think it is only a matter of time before we see these taking off and hopefully making playing games an even more exciting and fun experience.
Oh and Stryke, I just write what comes into my head. Just keeping you on your toes. : )
Oh and Stryke, I just write what comes into my head. Just keeping you on your toes. : )
Alan, stop it with the good GAD attempts every 5 minutes. It means I have to try harder to stay above you on the winners list, and I can't be bothered. Stoppit! :-)
Sony are way ahead of you ;-)
Socom Navy Seals allows you to use a USB microphone to talk to your A.I teammates and give them instructions, Apparantly it can tell if your being serious or sarcastic. However I have this IBM speak freely package that uses a similar system and changes spoken words into text, I know technology must have moved on from then but it rarely works. The way I see forward is for online players (people) to talk to each other using a microphone headset :-)
Socom Navy Seals allows you to use a USB microphone to talk to your A.I teammates and give them instructions, Apparantly it can tell if your being serious or sarcastic. However I have this IBM speak freely package that uses a similar system and changes spoken words into text, I know technology must have moved on from then but it rarely works. The way I see forward is for online players (people) to talk to each other using a microphone headset :-)
A fact: Sony believe that the future of gaming is all about motion capture and voice recognition.
It was in EDGE One Hundred and Something... they interviewed SCEI and the head guy said something about gaming needing to evolve, and that people need to interact more.
The thing is... I, like you Aliboy, can't see how, when there is such a wide range of accents in the world, Sony will be able to get it 'just right'. If they don't get the voice recognition 'just right', then someone will have paid at least £50 for a PS2 add-on, or £350 for a PS3, just to be told that their voice sucks, and that they sound like a girl... I mean, errr incompatible idiot.
The same goes for motion sensor... guns are fine, but you can do 'guns' on PS2, and no doubt there'll be features which allow for X-Box and GameCube to do guns aswell! And hey, motion capture (Police 24/7) would be perfect for all us able people... But what about old Donald, the 3-foot Dwarf from The Dominican? He might be too small to play the game... but do you think he'd be too small to use a GameCube, PS2 or X-Box pad? Okay, I know the X-Box pad is big, and Donald IS small... okay, okay, GC and PS2 pad then!
I know gaming is already unavailable to some people because they're disabled... either they're blind, or deaf, or their hands don't function how we would say normally. But what is the point in further limiting the type of people who can play games? There are people who can't walk who like to play games, you know! There are also people who although aren't completely disabled in the legs, aren't fast enough walkers to play the games. And that's only covered motion sensor... what about dumb people? I bet SONY aren't going to pay the £2500 for an 'in-throat' Voice-Rec system just so some person can play a game that cost 20 minutes and a 50p DVD to copy!
Having controllers is a much better way to play games... not only is it more disability friendly, but it's also nicer to play... I've played Police 24/7 and even a US version of Hey You, Pikachu @ CEX, and they're only good for a while.
Now... while voice recognition and motion sensor might open up the world of gaming to a few hundred more people, the same voice recognition and motion sensor would close gaming off to so many people. Like I said... "..what is the point in further limiting the type of people who can play games?"
Controllers are the future... Motion capture would hardly help the people who couldn't use their hands anyway, because knowing SONY they'd need to hold a gun, or some other item.
Like I said, Controllers are the future. Advancements in the games industry need to come through innovative gameplay ideas... not some stupid plan to see how many people worldwide we can exclude from playing games!
Game
PS: Great Post!
It was in EDGE One Hundred and Something... they interviewed SCEI and the head guy said something about gaming needing to evolve, and that people need to interact more.
The thing is... I, like you Aliboy, can't see how, when there is such a wide range of accents in the world, Sony will be able to get it 'just right'. If they don't get the voice recognition 'just right', then someone will have paid at least £50 for a PS2 add-on, or £350 for a PS3, just to be told that their voice sucks, and that they sound like a girl... I mean, errr incompatible idiot.
The same goes for motion sensor... guns are fine, but you can do 'guns' on PS2, and no doubt there'll be features which allow for X-Box and GameCube to do guns aswell! And hey, motion capture (Police 24/7) would be perfect for all us able people... But what about old Donald, the 3-foot Dwarf from The Dominican? He might be too small to play the game... but do you think he'd be too small to use a GameCube, PS2 or X-Box pad? Okay, I know the X-Box pad is big, and Donald IS small... okay, okay, GC and PS2 pad then!
I know gaming is already unavailable to some people because they're disabled... either they're blind, or deaf, or their hands don't function how we would say normally. But what is the point in further limiting the type of people who can play games? There are people who can't walk who like to play games, you know! There are also people who although aren't completely disabled in the legs, aren't fast enough walkers to play the games. And that's only covered motion sensor... what about dumb people? I bet SONY aren't going to pay the £2500 for an 'in-throat' Voice-Rec system just so some person can play a game that cost 20 minutes and a 50p DVD to copy!
Having controllers is a much better way to play games... not only is it more disability friendly, but it's also nicer to play... I've played Police 24/7 and even a US version of Hey You, Pikachu @ CEX, and they're only good for a while.
Now... while voice recognition and motion sensor might open up the world of gaming to a few hundred more people, the same voice recognition and motion sensor would close gaming off to so many people. Like I said... "..what is the point in further limiting the type of people who can play games?"
Controllers are the future... Motion capture would hardly help the people who couldn't use their hands anyway, because knowing SONY they'd need to hold a gun, or some other item.
Like I said, Controllers are the future. Advancements in the games industry need to come through innovative gameplay ideas... not some stupid plan to see how many people worldwide we can exclude from playing games!
Game
PS: Great Post!
I was thinking yesterday and for some weird reason I was thinking about what new ideas I would like to see most in the gaming industry. To be honest there were quite a few ideas but there were only really a couple of ideas that could really make the gaming industry bigger and a lot better. Sure it will be quite some time before these ideas get used to the best of their ability and no doubt before they become good they will go through early development and be used in some way in games that don't really need or use such a feature.
The first idea is the idea of voice recognition and using your voice as part of an input along with the controller or another peripheral device. It may even be able to just use your voice as an input in some games. This could be a good addition to some games but not all, it would give the gamer the ability to play the game and at the same time use their voice to control other parts of the game. So if you were a leader in an army say, then you could control your soldier and at the same time command other units with your voice to either move in and attack or retreat and defend. I think this is an idea that does have potential but also has to be used in a good way and be useful to the game. There are also a few problems I can see with this.
First problem is getting software that can analyse the gamers voice, a microphone could be used to input the users voice but as of yet there isn't really any software that can fully understand a human voice, some can break it down and output it to screen or use only certain inputs to control the game but ignore others. It is the latter of these that will probably be used initially until something better comes along. Also what about accents, not everyone speaks with a true and understandable English accent, in fact very little do, so such a peripheral or addition would need to be able to cope with different accents such as Scottish, Liverpudlian, Geordie etc.
This is an idea that could work well in my view but only if it is used right. It does have to potential, whether any developer is brave enough to build on the basic ideas being used today then it could be quite some time before an idea like this is used, maybe we will see something similar in the next big consoles. Also the developers have to take the chance by including options for it in their games.
The next idea I had is the one that impresses me the most, something that I can't wait to see in the gaming industry. The idea of motion recognition, in my view an idea that has the potential to make the gaming industry a lot lot better. This idea is used in the police 24/7 arcade game in that you have to physically move to avoid being shot, a camera picks up your movements and responds by making your character in the game move. The possibilities with this one are almost endless. The best one could be the chance to have a light sabre game where the peripheral is a pole and when you move and swing it then the character on screen copies your actions. Or what about a gun shooting game like time crisis, when you run out of ammo you could use the handle of your gun to literally smash the enemy in the face. In terms of where this idea could go then it is hard to say, it does have bucket loads of potential and could make games even greater than they are but again, this idea is not going to be useful with all varieties of games.
As with any idea I guess, this one too has some problems. Firstly getting appropriate hardware and software to make this kind of thing actually work properly. Secondly making it at a suitable price so people will actually be able to afford it and want to use it. I guess the last problem is actually getting developers to spend the time to learn how to use it best and to include the option for such things in their games.
Well think that could be me, a shorter post than usual. Must be the cold weather making me cold and unable to type more. So what ideas are you looking forward to that you think could change the industry?
Are there any that you think don?t have the potential to become more than an idea?
The first idea is the idea of voice recognition and using your voice as part of an input along with the controller or another peripheral device. It may even be able to just use your voice as an input in some games. This could be a good addition to some games but not all, it would give the gamer the ability to play the game and at the same time use their voice to control other parts of the game. So if you were a leader in an army say, then you could control your soldier and at the same time command other units with your voice to either move in and attack or retreat and defend. I think this is an idea that does have potential but also has to be used in a good way and be useful to the game. There are also a few problems I can see with this.
First problem is getting software that can analyse the gamers voice, a microphone could be used to input the users voice but as of yet there isn't really any software that can fully understand a human voice, some can break it down and output it to screen or use only certain inputs to control the game but ignore others. It is the latter of these that will probably be used initially until something better comes along. Also what about accents, not everyone speaks with a true and understandable English accent, in fact very little do, so such a peripheral or addition would need to be able to cope with different accents such as Scottish, Liverpudlian, Geordie etc.
This is an idea that could work well in my view but only if it is used right. It does have to potential, whether any developer is brave enough to build on the basic ideas being used today then it could be quite some time before an idea like this is used, maybe we will see something similar in the next big consoles. Also the developers have to take the chance by including options for it in their games.
The next idea I had is the one that impresses me the most, something that I can't wait to see in the gaming industry. The idea of motion recognition, in my view an idea that has the potential to make the gaming industry a lot lot better. This idea is used in the police 24/7 arcade game in that you have to physically move to avoid being shot, a camera picks up your movements and responds by making your character in the game move. The possibilities with this one are almost endless. The best one could be the chance to have a light sabre game where the peripheral is a pole and when you move and swing it then the character on screen copies your actions. Or what about a gun shooting game like time crisis, when you run out of ammo you could use the handle of your gun to literally smash the enemy in the face. In terms of where this idea could go then it is hard to say, it does have bucket loads of potential and could make games even greater than they are but again, this idea is not going to be useful with all varieties of games.
As with any idea I guess, this one too has some problems. Firstly getting appropriate hardware and software to make this kind of thing actually work properly. Secondly making it at a suitable price so people will actually be able to afford it and want to use it. I guess the last problem is actually getting developers to spend the time to learn how to use it best and to include the option for such things in their games.
Well think that could be me, a shorter post than usual. Must be the cold weather making me cold and unable to type more. So what ideas are you looking forward to that you think could change the industry?
Are there any that you think don?t have the potential to become more than an idea?