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The PS2 has always been claimed to be the third place whilst the X Box and Nintendo Gamecube have also claimed to be revolutionary. The third place has brought a lot of great things; adult games, sensational graphics and amazing storylines. This is all very well but can you imagine the ultimate games console, the 4th place. It could be known as the Sensuous Gaming System (SGS) and it would use your senses in games. Below is a list of how each sense would be used.
Sight - The most amazing visuals would be displayed, it would look almost real, true 3D visuals such as Max Payne would be considered a joke.
Hear - The SGS is like an arcade machine, the kind that you sit in. Speakers surround the gamer giving a dolby surround effect. If somebody is walking behind you, you'll hear the footsteps from the back speaker, if they are walking ahead the footsteps from the front, and if they are to the side the footsteps to the side. (or not footsteps at all depending on the type of game).
Touch - When playing you would be connected up to the ultimate rumble force feel, it can send pulses throughout your body. If you receive a shot to the heart you will feel it, if you are tackled in a football game you will feel it, and if you are gently being nurtured after a bad injury you will also feel it.
Smell - This is the clever part of the SGS, ever thought that a game is so real that you can smell the pine wood or the leather jacket? Well now you can, the SGS has a built in air freshner that distributes various smells when they are triggered off, with each SGS game they'll be a special air freshner.
Taste - Now this is the trickiest of all. There is a brace style guard attached in your mouth, now I am not sure how it will work exactly because an electric shock would not be pleasant but the idea is that somehow you get to taste things i.e. blood when being shot!
This is what I visualise for the future of gaming although I am somewhat doubtful about the taste factor. Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft are you listening? Now go make us a console that be considered to be the 4th place!
Sight - The most amazing visuals would be displayed, it would look almost real, true 3D visuals such as Max Payne would be considered a joke.
Hear - The SGS is like an arcade machine, the kind that you sit in. Speakers surround the gamer giving a dolby surround effect. If somebody is walking behind you, you'll hear the footsteps from the back speaker, if they are walking ahead the footsteps from the front, and if they are to the side the footsteps to the side. (or not footsteps at all depending on the type of game).
Touch - When playing you would be connected up to the ultimate rumble force feel, it can send pulses throughout your body. If you receive a shot to the heart you will feel it, if you are tackled in a football game you will feel it, and if you are gently being nurtured after a bad injury you will also feel it.
Smell - This is the clever part of the SGS, ever thought that a game is so real that you can smell the pine wood or the leather jacket? Well now you can, the SGS has a built in air freshner that distributes various smells when they are triggered off, with each SGS game they'll be a special air freshner.
Taste - Now this is the trickiest of all. There is a brace style guard attached in your mouth, now I am not sure how it will work exactly because an electric shock would not be pleasant but the idea is that somehow you get to taste things i.e. blood when being shot!
This is what I visualise for the future of gaming although I am somewhat doubtful about the taste factor. Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft are you listening? Now go make us a console that be considered to be the 4th place!
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ps2update.cjb.net wrote:
> Looks like me and RastaBillySkank have it sussed as far as creating a new
> console is concerned,
Michael Wilson
Heheheh :-)
> Looks like me and RastaBillySkank have it sussed as far as creating a new
> console is concerned,
Michael Wilson
Heheheh :-)
Nice one, RBS.
This is a post I posted a little while ago...
Games *supposedly* have everything these days. We’ve got FMV (Full Motion Video for the uneducated) sequences, speech, amazingly good graphics, cheats, special modes etc etc...
You’ve got to admit (and so have I) that the things we’ve got in games at the moment are pretty impressive. Particularly the FMV sequences... I never thought that we’d be able to have, basically, videos in games, especially not on cartridges. But developers have gone out and proved that we can. If they did that, then surely they can do anything?
Like I said games *supposedly* have everything. Well I don’t think they do. NOTHING can have everything. Bill Gates can’t have everything, can he? I can’t have everything. Hell, even God can’t have everything. But let’s just slip off to a fantasy world for a minute (Goatboy’s already there so forgot him :-D) Developers can do anything, ANYTHING. They can put anything they want in to a game. But they’re fresh out of ideas.
So... the question is, what would YOU put into a game if you had the chance? What do you thinks missing that would add to the games, atmosphere, playability and overall enjoyment level?
Well, this is what I think is missing: Complete interaction... and I mean COMPLETE interaction (nudge nudge wink wink ;-D)
Why do I think this is missing? Well let me tell you...
Being able to interact with parts of the scenery and certain people in today’s games adds to the feeling of actually being there, in the game. But complete interaction would make the game just like life. Of course at the moment we have Virtual Reality but in that you can’t touch or smell anything which is such a vital part of interaction...
If you had the ability to touch and smell imagine all the possibilities! You could smell a creature approaching you could tell what was poisonous… You could actually touch the trees, people and buildings. Maybe to decide whether or not you could light a match off something. You could choose what you want to say to the characters instead of sticking to the boring speech you could walk up to a gorgeous looking bird and say "How’re you doin’?" Joey style. It just all adds to the feel of the game.
The most useful part of it would be to be able to actually pick up everything. If something you thought looked nice then you could keep it. If you think something may be useful in the future you could keep that. By doing this you could figure out different ways to complete puzzles and missions. You wouldn’t have to stick to the pre-programmed ways, making it all the more life-like and enjoyable.
Also in this way, you could create little side-adventures for yourself. The overall quest would always be there but you could set yourself a target perhaps. Maybe to get up to a certain ledge, whether or not it had any relevance to the overall quest. Or you could kidnap a guard and persuade him to become your spy or something. Imagine how much this would add to the overall enjoyment that you’d get from the game.
Games *supposedly* have everything these days. We’ve got FMV (Full Motion Video for the uneducated) sequences, speech, amazingly good graphics, cheats, special modes etc etc...
You’ve got to admit (and so have I) that the things we’ve got in games at the moment are pretty impressive. Particularly the FMV sequences... I never thought that we’d be able to have, basically, videos in games, especially not on cartridges. But developers have gone out and proved that we can. If they did that, then surely they can do anything?
Like I said games *supposedly* have everything. Well I don’t think they do. NOTHING can have everything. Bill Gates can’t have everything, can he? I can’t have everything. Hell, even God can’t have everything. But let’s just slip off to a fantasy world for a minute (Goatboy’s already there so forgot him :-D) Developers can do anything, ANYTHING. They can put anything they want in to a game. But they’re fresh out of ideas.
So... the question is, what would YOU put into a game if you had the chance? What do you thinks missing that would add to the games, atmosphere, playability and overall enjoyment level?
Well, this is what I think is missing: Complete interaction... and I mean COMPLETE interaction (nudge nudge wink wink ;-D)
Why do I think this is missing? Well let me tell you...
Being able to interact with parts of the scenery and certain people in today’s games adds to the feeling of actually being there, in the game. But complete interaction would make the game just like life. Of course at the moment we have Virtual Reality but in that you can’t touch or smell anything which is such a vital part of interaction...
If you had the ability to touch and smell imagine all the possibilities! You could smell a creature approaching you could tell what was poisonous… You could actually touch the trees, people and buildings. Maybe to decide whether or not you could light a match off something. You could choose what you want to say to the characters instead of sticking to the boring speech you could walk up to a gorgeous looking bird and say "How’re you doin’?" Joey style. It just all adds to the feel of the game.
The most useful part of it would be to be able to actually pick up everything. If something you thought looked nice then you could keep it. If you think something may be useful in the future you could keep that. By doing this you could figure out different ways to complete puzzles and missions. You wouldn’t have to stick to the pre-programmed ways, making it all the more life-like and enjoyable.
Also in this way, you could create little side-adventures for yourself. The overall quest would always be there but you could set yourself a target perhaps. Maybe to get up to a certain ledge, whether or not it had any relevance to the overall quest. Or you could kidnap a guard and persuade him to become your spy or something. Imagine how much this would add to the overall enjoyment that you’d get from the game.
Nice topic.
4th place, sounds intresting.
Sight Hear etc etc
The taste one wouldn;t be too pleasent, blood.. Urgh :o)
What if you trod in dog mess? And landed on your face? (In the game..) That wouldn't be too pleasent..
But hey its something to think about while we wait for GC and X-Box.. (HURRY UP DAMMIT)
4th place, sounds intresting.
Sight Hear etc etc
The taste one wouldn;t be too pleasent, blood.. Urgh :o)
What if you trod in dog mess? And landed on your face? (In the game..) That wouldn't be too pleasent..
But hey its something to think about while we wait for GC and X-Box.. (HURRY UP DAMMIT)
The PS2 has always been claimed to be the third place whilst the X Box and Nintendo Gamecube have also claimed to be revolutionary. The third place has brought a lot of great things; adult games, sensational graphics and amazing storylines. This is all very well but can you imagine the ultimate games console, the 4th place. It could be known as the Sensuous Gaming System (SGS) and it would use your senses in games. Below is a list of how each sense would be used.
Sight - The most amazing visuals would be displayed, it would look almost real, true 3D visuals such as Max Payne would be considered a joke.
Hear - The SGS is like an arcade machine, the kind that you sit in. Speakers surround the gamer giving a dolby surround effect. If somebody is walking behind you, you'll hear the footsteps from the back speaker, if they are walking ahead the footsteps from the front, and if they are to the side the footsteps to the side. (or not footsteps at all depending on the type of game).
Touch - When playing you would be connected up to the ultimate rumble force feel, it can send pulses throughout your body. If you receive a shot to the heart you will feel it, if you are tackled in a football game you will feel it, and if you are gently being nurtured after a bad injury you will also feel it.
Smell - This is the clever part of the SGS, ever thought that a game is so real that you can smell the pine wood or the leather jacket? Well now you can, the SGS has a built in air freshner that distributes various smells when they are triggered off, with each SGS game they'll be a special air freshner.
Taste - Now this is the trickiest of all. There is a brace style guard attached in your mouth, now I am not sure how it will work exactly because an electric shock would not be pleasant but the idea is that somehow you get to taste things i.e. blood when being shot!
This is what I visualise for the future of gaming although I am somewhat doubtful about the taste factor. Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft are you listening? Now go make us a console that be considered to be the 4th place!
Sight - The most amazing visuals would be displayed, it would look almost real, true 3D visuals such as Max Payne would be considered a joke.
Hear - The SGS is like an arcade machine, the kind that you sit in. Speakers surround the gamer giving a dolby surround effect. If somebody is walking behind you, you'll hear the footsteps from the back speaker, if they are walking ahead the footsteps from the front, and if they are to the side the footsteps to the side. (or not footsteps at all depending on the type of game).
Touch - When playing you would be connected up to the ultimate rumble force feel, it can send pulses throughout your body. If you receive a shot to the heart you will feel it, if you are tackled in a football game you will feel it, and if you are gently being nurtured after a bad injury you will also feel it.
Smell - This is the clever part of the SGS, ever thought that a game is so real that you can smell the pine wood or the leather jacket? Well now you can, the SGS has a built in air freshner that distributes various smells when they are triggered off, with each SGS game they'll be a special air freshner.
Taste - Now this is the trickiest of all. There is a brace style guard attached in your mouth, now I am not sure how it will work exactly because an electric shock would not be pleasant but the idea is that somehow you get to taste things i.e. blood when being shot!
This is what I visualise for the future of gaming although I am somewhat doubtful about the taste factor. Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft are you listening? Now go make us a console that be considered to be the 4th place!