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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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well sibs... you've done it again! You've killed my topic!
Can't we start the gameplay revolution...???
A blue hedgehog and his teenage sidekick start a gaming revolution... kinda poetic don't you think?
No?
Ah well, worth a try.
:D
A blue hedgehog and his teenage sidekick start a gaming revolution... kinda poetic don't you think?
No?
Ah well, worth a try.
:D
In general... yes
The distant future may be looking good, but what about the near future...?
Will we continue to see developers concentrate on graphics over gameplay until we reach the photorealistic stage...?
Will we continue to see developers concentrate on graphics over gameplay until we reach the photorealistic stage...?
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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