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Many people seem to make comparisons between gaming and life; being created, taught how to do basic things like moving a model, interacting with surroundings. But how similar really is gaming to life. I could go on about metaphors, but that doesn’t really prove anything.
Games are basically thought up, created, brought out and then end. But when you look at this, how is this like life? As a person I should know that that’s not what happens in life. That may be a basic outline, but so much more goes on, in the mind and in actions that we do. We dream of many things we could never do in real life. Some of us dream we could overcome a fear, some hope that one day we shall be able to do things that as a race we can’t do like flying, or sometimes just standing up to someone and telling them your point of view. As a distinctive race we dream more than try.
When games are being made, designers always think of impossible ideas that will always seem to be just one step away until the goal is achieved. They will always wonder of things like gaming becoming hard to recognise because of it’s realism. Almost matching life. Giving gaming characters minds that will overcome those of the human race. Characters with no need to be daring because they know where everything is, giving human players no chance at all. Just recently realistic expressions have been achieved in the form of Eternal Darkness. It has been tried before but until now nothing has come close to human expressions.
But even though we have made many achievements in both gaming and life, there will always be more goals to achieve when that one more has been reached. When brilliant transport becomes available, there will always be a greater form or speed to compete with. This is what drives people. Knowing that more goals can be achieved and there’s always someone better than you that you want to try and beat.
So while designers are working hard, both on paper, in dreams and in their minds to make game models have more expressions, in the future games could someday become sad because no one is buying them. Crying, or showing some kind of emotion when their format is no longer being created. Soon games might even work like pets. A naïve child may someday walk into a video game store and feel emotion for a game that hasn’t been sold, sadness may make him buy this. Not only would it be a great way of getting better sales. It would be improving gaming, or at least that’s what designers think.
I say think for a reason. I’ve always had a slight fear that some day we won’t be able to tell organic life apart from man made. We’ve already seen robots that can sense the slightest thing, and show emotions. But soon will they become even more advanced than us? Someday this may happen, but lets hope that future technology doesn’t get the essence or human life that is needed to make us who we are.
All I can say is the future has more to hold than simple machinery. Possibilities are endless, but sometimes, people don’t know when to stop, lets just hope they.
I hope you understood what I’m trying to get across and thanks for reading.
RiCkOsS
Games are basically thought up, created, brought out and then end. But when you look at this, how is this like life? As a person I should know that that’s not what happens in life. That may be a basic outline, but so much more goes on, in the mind and in actions that we do. We dream of many things we could never do in real life. Some of us dream we could overcome a fear, some hope that one day we shall be able to do things that as a race we can’t do like flying, or sometimes just standing up to someone and telling them your point of view. As a distinctive race we dream more than try.
When games are being made, designers always think of impossible ideas that will always seem to be just one step away until the goal is achieved. They will always wonder of things like gaming becoming hard to recognise because of it’s realism. Almost matching life. Giving gaming characters minds that will overcome those of the human race. Characters with no need to be daring because they know where everything is, giving human players no chance at all. Just recently realistic expressions have been achieved in the form of Eternal Darkness. It has been tried before but until now nothing has come close to human expressions.
But even though we have made many achievements in both gaming and life, there will always be more goals to achieve when that one more has been reached. When brilliant transport becomes available, there will always be a greater form or speed to compete with. This is what drives people. Knowing that more goals can be achieved and there’s always someone better than you that you want to try and beat.
So while designers are working hard, both on paper, in dreams and in their minds to make game models have more expressions, in the future games could someday become sad because no one is buying them. Crying, or showing some kind of emotion when their format is no longer being created. Soon games might even work like pets. A naïve child may someday walk into a video game store and feel emotion for a game that hasn’t been sold, sadness may make him buy this. Not only would it be a great way of getting better sales. It would be improving gaming, or at least that’s what designers think.
I say think for a reason. I’ve always had a slight fear that some day we won’t be able to tell organic life apart from man made. We’ve already seen robots that can sense the slightest thing, and show emotions. But soon will they become even more advanced than us? Someday this may happen, but lets hope that future technology doesn’t get the essence or human life that is needed to make us who we are.
All I can say is the future has more to hold than simple machinery. Possibilities are endless, but sometimes, people don’t know when to stop, lets just hope they.
I hope you understood what I’m trying to get across and thanks for reading.
RiCkOsS
RiCk0sS wrote:
> Hey Twain, have you got MSN Messanger yet? If you do my address is
> [email protected] ;-)
I've got this icon in the Start menu called Windowws Messaging if that's got anything to do with it, but if not, then, no I haven't. I'm still at [email protected]
> Hey Twain, have you got MSN Messanger yet? If you do my address is
> [email protected] ;-)
I've got this icon in the Start menu called Windowws Messaging if that's got anything to do with it, but if not, then, no I haven't. I'm still at [email protected]
Hey Twain, have you got MSN Messanger yet? If you do my address is [email protected] ;-)
I find realism have bad and good points to it in gaming; firstly realism can be great for simulation games, maybe training people for different jobs, but also it's not so good when you want a break from the norm.
While realism is working on teaching naive individuals to learn basic driving skills without killing a dozen farm animals in the proccess, gaming is used to train people's imaginations. Wonder what's over the hill on an RPG. What's down below you on those platforms games when you fall off a platform and lose a life.
Realism isn't always good, for gamers like myself, it doesn't really work, but i'm sure many people will benifit from these realistic simulators.
While realism is working on teaching naive individuals to learn basic driving skills without killing a dozen farm animals in the proccess, gaming is used to train people's imaginations. Wonder what's over the hill on an RPG. What's down below you on those platforms games when you fall off a platform and lose a life.
Realism isn't always good, for gamers like myself, it doesn't really work, but i'm sure many people will benifit from these realistic simulators.
Nice post there Ricky. And very true it was, too.
Yes, games are becoming a little bit more realistic eah time, more life-like, but does this ruin a game, or make it better>
I think it makes it better.
Yes, games are becoming a little bit more realistic eah time, more life-like, but does this ruin a game, or make it better>
I think it makes it better.
The whole point of gaming was to be able to do things not possible in real life. Games were meant to be surreal.
Sure many new games try to be realistic, but then this adds more of a challenge therefore giving more of a sense of accomplishment at the end.
But there are games that take it too far.
Shenmue tries to recreate everything in life, waiting for buses, wasting time etc. I don't want to have to wait to enjoy myself. I pay my £30-40 to enjoy myself all the way through the game.
Longevity helps when playing a game, although this only helps if the game is immersive, or offers some long term reward or goal, motivation. When gaming tries to emulate life, it is then when it becomes mundane, a chore, much like life itself. So in recreating life, the game shoots itself in the foot for not being consistent.
Surreal games, such as GTA3, offer surreal gameplay, in that although the actions in the game are possible, they are not going to be attempted by anyone but the most disturbed people that would probably go out and do this anyway. Surreal games offer much more immersive gameplay, as the objectives held in them cannot be performed in real life. Take these examples:
Fishing games: While fishing itself can be enjoyable, waiting for hours on end for a bite can be somewhat tedious, and so they make the game unrealisticly easy, and so destroying the realism.
Football Games: Football games are okay to play, although it cannot the freedom, PoV and all round feel of a kick-about with your mates, or even if you go to see a live football match.
In a way, all games are surreal, but trying to be realistic is very difficult, and will result in flaws, but the flaws in them can make them more enjoyable.
Sure many new games try to be realistic, but then this adds more of a challenge therefore giving more of a sense of accomplishment at the end.
But there are games that take it too far.
Shenmue tries to recreate everything in life, waiting for buses, wasting time etc. I don't want to have to wait to enjoy myself. I pay my £30-40 to enjoy myself all the way through the game.
Longevity helps when playing a game, although this only helps if the game is immersive, or offers some long term reward or goal, motivation. When gaming tries to emulate life, it is then when it becomes mundane, a chore, much like life itself. So in recreating life, the game shoots itself in the foot for not being consistent.
Surreal games, such as GTA3, offer surreal gameplay, in that although the actions in the game are possible, they are not going to be attempted by anyone but the most disturbed people that would probably go out and do this anyway. Surreal games offer much more immersive gameplay, as the objectives held in them cannot be performed in real life. Take these examples:
Fishing games: While fishing itself can be enjoyable, waiting for hours on end for a bite can be somewhat tedious, and so they make the game unrealisticly easy, and so destroying the realism.
Football Games: Football games are okay to play, although it cannot the freedom, PoV and all round feel of a kick-about with your mates, or even if you go to see a live football match.
In a way, all games are surreal, but trying to be realistic is very difficult, and will result in flaws, but the flaws in them can make them more enjoyable.
Many people seem to make comparisons between gaming and life; being created, taught how to do basic things like moving a model, interacting with surroundings. But how similar really is gaming to life. I could go on about metaphors, but that doesn’t really prove anything.
Games are basically thought up, created, brought out and then end. But when you look at this, how is this like life? As a person I should know that that’s not what happens in life. That may be a basic outline, but so much more goes on, in the mind and in actions that we do. We dream of many things we could never do in real life. Some of us dream we could overcome a fear, some hope that one day we shall be able to do things that as a race we can’t do like flying, or sometimes just standing up to someone and telling them your point of view. As a distinctive race we dream more than try.
When games are being made, designers always think of impossible ideas that will always seem to be just one step away until the goal is achieved. They will always wonder of things like gaming becoming hard to recognise because of it’s realism. Almost matching life. Giving gaming characters minds that will overcome those of the human race. Characters with no need to be daring because they know where everything is, giving human players no chance at all. Just recently realistic expressions have been achieved in the form of Eternal Darkness. It has been tried before but until now nothing has come close to human expressions.
But even though we have made many achievements in both gaming and life, there will always be more goals to achieve when that one more has been reached. When brilliant transport becomes available, there will always be a greater form or speed to compete with. This is what drives people. Knowing that more goals can be achieved and there’s always someone better than you that you want to try and beat.
So while designers are working hard, both on paper, in dreams and in their minds to make game models have more expressions, in the future games could someday become sad because no one is buying them. Crying, or showing some kind of emotion when their format is no longer being created. Soon games might even work like pets. A naïve child may someday walk into a video game store and feel emotion for a game that hasn’t been sold, sadness may make him buy this. Not only would it be a great way of getting better sales. It would be improving gaming, or at least that’s what designers think.
I say think for a reason. I’ve always had a slight fear that some day we won’t be able to tell organic life apart from man made. We’ve already seen robots that can sense the slightest thing, and show emotions. But soon will they become even more advanced than us? Someday this may happen, but lets hope that future technology doesn’t get the essence or human life that is needed to make us who we are.
All I can say is the future has more to hold than simple machinery. Possibilities are endless, but sometimes, people don’t know when to stop, lets just hope they.
I hope you understood what I’m trying to get across and thanks for reading.
RiCkOsS
Games are basically thought up, created, brought out and then end. But when you look at this, how is this like life? As a person I should know that that’s not what happens in life. That may be a basic outline, but so much more goes on, in the mind and in actions that we do. We dream of many things we could never do in real life. Some of us dream we could overcome a fear, some hope that one day we shall be able to do things that as a race we can’t do like flying, or sometimes just standing up to someone and telling them your point of view. As a distinctive race we dream more than try.
When games are being made, designers always think of impossible ideas that will always seem to be just one step away until the goal is achieved. They will always wonder of things like gaming becoming hard to recognise because of it’s realism. Almost matching life. Giving gaming characters minds that will overcome those of the human race. Characters with no need to be daring because they know where everything is, giving human players no chance at all. Just recently realistic expressions have been achieved in the form of Eternal Darkness. It has been tried before but until now nothing has come close to human expressions.
But even though we have made many achievements in both gaming and life, there will always be more goals to achieve when that one more has been reached. When brilliant transport becomes available, there will always be a greater form or speed to compete with. This is what drives people. Knowing that more goals can be achieved and there’s always someone better than you that you want to try and beat.
So while designers are working hard, both on paper, in dreams and in their minds to make game models have more expressions, in the future games could someday become sad because no one is buying them. Crying, or showing some kind of emotion when their format is no longer being created. Soon games might even work like pets. A naïve child may someday walk into a video game store and feel emotion for a game that hasn’t been sold, sadness may make him buy this. Not only would it be a great way of getting better sales. It would be improving gaming, or at least that’s what designers think.
I say think for a reason. I’ve always had a slight fear that some day we won’t be able to tell organic life apart from man made. We’ve already seen robots that can sense the slightest thing, and show emotions. But soon will they become even more advanced than us? Someday this may happen, but lets hope that future technology doesn’t get the essence or human life that is needed to make us who we are.
All I can say is the future has more to hold than simple machinery. Possibilities are endless, but sometimes, people don’t know when to stop, lets just hope they.
I hope you understood what I’m trying to get across and thanks for reading.
RiCkOsS