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The future has its own distinct genres. FPS, Platform/Adventure and Driving games. I'd say about 75% of games come under this genre. In the mid 90's, there was a mini-craze type thing with interactive movies. Everyone thought that the 'amazing' new technology could handle interactive movies on the Hollywood scale. A few developers took chances and produced interactive movies. And they flopped. Big time. And so we saw the demise of a genre before it even became one. There were few, if any games that came out at the time that were good. Among these fairly decent games were the Tex Murphy series. I loved them. These were some games which really were properly interactive movies.
With technology that actually can, without too much glitching, sustain a decent interactive movie, this genre surely should step back into the limelight again. If a movie-game could be created on the scale of something like Lord of the Rings, it could become a massive hit. This would be the new-genre of future technology, such were 3D games of last generation technology.
Interactive movies can be really captivating experiences. If the director can manage to get that sense of true interactivity, they can hook you for days and you will never want to leave them. The closest that the gaming industry has come to this is with Role-Playing games. RPGs all tell a story, an epic one at that. Normal games tell stories which would be, in the film industry, the equivalent of a late-night channel five film with a budget in the hundreds.
Interactive movies could be really big. If one talented developing team could set the ball in motion, it could create a whole new genre for hundreds of other developers to mimic. I would like this to happen, and it would be a great thing with the technology soon to come.
With technology that actually can, without too much glitching, sustain a decent interactive movie, this genre surely should step back into the limelight again. If a movie-game could be created on the scale of something like Lord of the Rings, it could become a massive hit. This would be the new-genre of future technology, such were 3D games of last generation technology.
Interactive movies can be really captivating experiences. If the director can manage to get that sense of true interactivity, they can hook you for days and you will never want to leave them. The closest that the gaming industry has come to this is with Role-Playing games. RPGs all tell a story, an epic one at that. Normal games tell stories which would be, in the film industry, the equivalent of a late-night channel five film with a budget in the hundreds.
Interactive movies could be really big. If one talented developing team could set the ball in motion, it could create a whole new genre for hundreds of other developers to mimic. I would like this to happen, and it would be a great thing with the technology soon to come.
I havent read the topic yet but i saw the topic title and thought
SHENMUE
any1 who disagrees must be MAD....
SHENMUE
any1 who disagrees must be MAD....
Interactive Movies would be a step in the right direction but it would close the already ever-so quickly increasing gap between film and game. Would this be a bad thing? Would it be a good thing? A while ago an interactive movie was developed and I say a video clip of a man wearing virtual reality glasses and he was controlling what happens. Some debate that this was not a film but a game. This proves my first point that the gap between films and games are closing very quickly. Some other people reply to this topic it was a good one!
The future has its own distinct genres. FPS, Platform/Adventure and Driving games. I'd say about 75% of games come under this genre. In the mid 90's, there was a mini-craze type thing with interactive movies. Everyone thought that the 'amazing' new technology could handle interactive movies on the Hollywood scale. A few developers took chances and produced interactive movies. And they flopped. Big time. And so we saw the demise of a genre before it even became one. There were few, if any games that came out at the time that were good. Among these fairly decent games were the Tex Murphy series. I loved them. These were some games which really were properly interactive movies.
With technology that actually can, without too much glitching, sustain a decent interactive movie, this genre surely should step back into the limelight again. If a movie-game could be created on the scale of something like Lord of the Rings, it could become a massive hit. This would be the new-genre of future technology, such were 3D games of last generation technology.
Interactive movies can be really captivating experiences. If the director can manage to get that sense of true interactivity, they can hook you for days and you will never want to leave them. The closest that the gaming industry has come to this is with Role-Playing games. RPGs all tell a story, an epic one at that. Normal games tell stories which would be, in the film industry, the equivalent of a late-night channel five film with a budget in the hundreds.
Interactive movies could be really big. If one talented developing team could set the ball in motion, it could create a whole new genre for hundreds of other developers to mimic. I would like this to happen, and it would be a great thing with the technology soon to come.
With technology that actually can, without too much glitching, sustain a decent interactive movie, this genre surely should step back into the limelight again. If a movie-game could be created on the scale of something like Lord of the Rings, it could become a massive hit. This would be the new-genre of future technology, such were 3D games of last generation technology.
Interactive movies can be really captivating experiences. If the director can manage to get that sense of true interactivity, they can hook you for days and you will never want to leave them. The closest that the gaming industry has come to this is with Role-Playing games. RPGs all tell a story, an epic one at that. Normal games tell stories which would be, in the film industry, the equivalent of a late-night channel five film with a budget in the hundreds.
Interactive movies could be really big. If one talented developing team could set the ball in motion, it could create a whole new genre for hundreds of other developers to mimic. I would like this to happen, and it would be a great thing with the technology soon to come.