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What will the distant future of gaming hold? Well, I've thought about it, and come up with some of the things that I feel will have come around by 2050...
*Artificial Intelligence in games will have become so real that enemies really did act in a human way. Furthermore, games would actually adapt to your style. If you always shot of the lights in levels, the guards would equip night-vision goggles for the next level.
No longer would you have to play "one-player". You could be the commander of a team consisting of yourself and computer characters who would act just like real people... but how would you interact with them in a real way...
*Interaction. The plastic pad with coloured buttons is dead! It can never allow you full interactivity. Instead there will be two major changes. Firstly, voice recognition software will be perfected so that you could order computer characters around. Secondly motion sensors, and perhaps VR, will replace the controller for most tasks.
*Multiplayer gaming will be identical over the Internet or in your front room. You will be able to talk to the other players, and maybe even see them. There will be no slowdown, no lag.
*Internet gaming will be realised. Masses of true online games will be launched where you are part of a bigger community. There will be cyber plannets where you compete with millions of other people for supremicy and worlds of car races where you had to go up the ranks to win world championships.
*Photorealism will be acheived and gameplay will be the focus of developers efforts. Middleware will mean that extra game characters (like the people living in the city) will be bought off-the-shelf for use in games, as will objects and buildings.
The future is looking good indeed!
Sonic
*Artificial Intelligence in games will have become so real that enemies really did act in a human way. Furthermore, games would actually adapt to your style. If you always shot of the lights in levels, the guards would equip night-vision goggles for the next level.
No longer would you have to play "one-player". You could be the commander of a team consisting of yourself and computer characters who would act just like real people... but how would you interact with them in a real way...
*Interaction. The plastic pad with coloured buttons is dead! It can never allow you full interactivity. Instead there will be two major changes. Firstly, voice recognition software will be perfected so that you could order computer characters around. Secondly motion sensors, and perhaps VR, will replace the controller for most tasks.
*Multiplayer gaming will be identical over the Internet or in your front room. You will be able to talk to the other players, and maybe even see them. There will be no slowdown, no lag.
*Internet gaming will be realised. Masses of true online games will be launched where you are part of a bigger community. There will be cyber plannets where you compete with millions of other people for supremicy and worlds of car races where you had to go up the ranks to win world championships.
*Photorealism will be acheived and gameplay will be the focus of developers efforts. Middleware will mean that extra game characters (like the people living in the city) will be bought off-the-shelf for use in games, as will objects and buildings.
The future is looking good indeed!
Sonic
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Rock and Role? Whats that got to do with this topic?
Protoss wrote:
> That is true I think; but you know what the press is like.
Games have a huge
> potential but any obstacles will be overcome, I am confident of that.
Isn't it odd how Rock 'n' Roll music was the curse of mankind 20 years back... yet people are quite happy with it now.
Odd how Video Games are the source of all evil these days...
> That is true I think; but you know what the press is like.
Games have a huge
> potential but any obstacles will be overcome, I am confident of that.
Isn't it odd how Rock 'n' Roll music was the curse of mankind 20 years back... yet people are quite happy with it now.
Odd how Video Games are the source of all evil these days...
That is true I think; but you know what the press is like.
Games have a huge potential but any obstacles will be overcome, I am confident of that.
Games have a huge potential but any obstacles will be overcome, I am confident of that.
Interesting point Protoss, but in reality I think that by the time photorealism comes about, people will actually know there is no link between games and violence (PLEASE GOD!).
After all, if you really want to kill someone after playing a violent game, even if that game didn't exist something would have triggered you to kill- films, TV or music for example.
It's the people who are stupid- not the games!
After all, if you really want to kill someone after playing a violent game, even if that game didn't exist something would have triggered you to kill- films, TV or music for example.
It's the people who are stupid- not the games!
The problem with photorealistic games, and virtual reality, would be that it is even harder to distiquish from real life. I mean remember when GTA1 first came out, the controversy? If a photorealistic shooter came out then
surely scenes from say GTA3 in one of these games would be just like killing real people. Yeah, you know its a game, but just think about it...a strange idea I think. They'll do it anyways but its worth bearing in mind. Will it get to a point where the government have to ban some games?
Of course just think of a photorealistic Star Wars game where you interact with wingmates over the internet in a daring attack on the Death Star. Hmmmm...
surely scenes from say GTA3 in one of these games would be just like killing real people. Yeah, you know its a game, but just think about it...a strange idea I think. They'll do it anyways but its worth bearing in mind. Will it get to a point where the government have to ban some games?
Of course just think of a photorealistic Star Wars game where you interact with wingmates over the internet in a daring attack on the Death Star. Hmmmm...
Have you seen the Capcom Mecha game for the Xbox? Called Tekki, it requires a special peripheral which is just like what the inside of a mecha would look like. It has dual joy sticks, and FIFTY buttons! Now that's simulation.
The unit is 3 times the size of the Xbox itself!
It'll be interesting to play (not that it'll ever come out over here!)
The unit is 3 times the size of the Xbox itself!
It'll be interesting to play (not that it'll ever come out over here!)
Out of all the stuff you've mentioned, increased interaction is top of my list.
For me games are all about immersion - whether the gameworld looks real or unreal isn't important, but if interaction was improved and increased, that would finally give 3D realms the "balance" you have previously mentioned.
For me games are all about immersion - whether the gameworld looks real or unreal isn't important, but if interaction was improved and increased, that would finally give 3D realms the "balance" you have previously mentioned.
Cheers Solskjaer!
I think the main thing that will have to change in games is interaction. Think about it- we can make the most graphically perfect worlds, but we can't actually do anything new in them. Realism isn't just graphics.
The plus-point about VR headsets is that, if they have motion sensors incorporated, you can see completely around you in all directions. Now, you mix that in with a handgun with motion sensor in one hand, and a controller of somekind in another, and you have a brilliant complete First Person Shooter!
Now that technology is around today- all we need is the price to drop, and people to be introduced to it slowly.
Sonic
I think the main thing that will have to change in games is interaction. Think about it- we can make the most graphically perfect worlds, but we can't actually do anything new in them. Realism isn't just graphics.
The plus-point about VR headsets is that, if they have motion sensors incorporated, you can see completely around you in all directions. Now, you mix that in with a handgun with motion sensor in one hand, and a controller of somekind in another, and you have a brilliant complete First Person Shooter!
Now that technology is around today- all we need is the price to drop, and people to be introduced to it slowly.
Sonic
Good topic Sonic, and i'm quite confident that we'll see one or two of those ideas develop more within the next 10 years at the most - Like the on-line gaming ones. On-line gaming's already growing very rapidly, and it could even be even bigger by 2006!
But I still feel photorealism is quite a long way off, and may only be achieved by one company at a time - like how Microsoft currently have the graphically superior machine.
I also don't think that interaction is too far away, but I also do not belive that pads will die at the same time.
Motion sensors are quite possible - but what about the fat people! How would they be able to pull off a perfect bicycle kick in ISS 2050!???
And many gamers will still be happy with pads as they will have come a very long way from the ones of today.
And I have almost no doubt that TV sets will be replaced with VR headsets.
But don't you think that would all look completely odd in an arcade!?? Even one of the future!
But I still feel photorealism is quite a long way off, and may only be achieved by one company at a time - like how Microsoft currently have the graphically superior machine.
I also don't think that interaction is too far away, but I also do not belive that pads will die at the same time.
Motion sensors are quite possible - but what about the fat people! How would they be able to pull off a perfect bicycle kick in ISS 2050!???
And many gamers will still be happy with pads as they will have come a very long way from the ones of today.
And I have almost no doubt that TV sets will be replaced with VR headsets.
But don't you think that would all look completely odd in an arcade!?? Even one of the future!
hey, I only posted on it, cos no one else did and I felt sorry for you :D
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