Gaming In The Next Years
#1
Posted 06 August 2007 - 06:34 PM
I'm looking forward to seeing what the Sims 3 looks like. Yes, it's already being developed, though I don't know what the exact "stage" of development is. Also looking forward to Spore of course. Also looking forward to those cool virtual reality helmets. But then, we were supposed to have flying cars by now, too.
#2
Posted 07 August 2007 - 01:15 AM
I'd like to see a nintendo handheld with holographic capability. And you'd be able to touch things in the holographic like you could with the touch screen.
I'd also like to see a virtual reality gameing environment. Like where you synch your body into some kind of port, and then you're brain recieves the information from the port as it would in real life from your senses.
Tom Clancy made a series of books where the characters had port thingies in the backs of their heads (they're medically inserted at a certain age for all citizens) that allowed them to synch into a virtual network, a lot like the internet. Can't remember the name of the series though.
#3
Posted 07 August 2007 - 05:51 AM
As for holographic capabilities, I guess that would be cool. However, I am perfectly content with the games are being played today, and I think that shouldn't be changed too much. That's just my opinion though.
#4
Posted 07 August 2007 - 10:15 AM
#5
Posted 07 August 2007 - 10:38 AM
#6
Posted 07 August 2007 - 10:53 AM
I'm not sure if I personally still want Nintendo to make games more accessible to people down to the last retard though...
#7
Posted 07 August 2007 - 11:50 AM
It all depends on who wins out in the console wars, in my opinion. Personally, I can already imagine a glove controller like the one that was hyped for back in the days of "da RevOlution!!!11oneone"... real gesture based control would be awesome.
#8
Posted 07 August 2007 - 12:55 PM
Anyway, I think something like that is available for the computer.
http://www.vrealities.com/P5.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P5_glove
Ooh, Minority Report. Whether or not it catches on is something else.
#9
Posted 07 August 2007 - 07:43 PM
Golden Legacy, on Aug 7 2007, 10:50 AM, said:
It all depends on who wins out in the console wars, in my opinion. Personally, I can already imagine a glove controller like the one that was hyped for back in the days of "da RevOlution!!!11oneone"... real gesture based control would be awesome.
I believe there was a power glove for the NES or SNES. And as for a one handed controller, what about the wiimote? :P
And aqua, just think about the possibilities of what you could do with virtual reality. Imagine having COMPLETE control over how your character moves in say, SSBB. Or maybe in a game such as Soul Calibur. Imagine being able to fly through the world if Super Mario Galaxy, or fighting the space pirates in MP:3.
You see where I'm going with this?
But yes, some games shouldn't be virtual reality. And yeah, people would probably spend far more time playing games. Which is exactly why the gameing industry will try to impliment it someday.
#11
Posted 07 August 2007 - 08:47 PM
But I still want virtual reality.
#14
Posted 08 August 2007 - 01:25 PM
Mr.T, on Aug 8 2007, 03:43 AM, said:
You see where I'm going with this?
Yes, I can completely see where you're going with this. Having complete control over your character in SSB would be interesting; you run and want to jump over a hole, but jump only halfway and fall into the gap, seeing as every character in SSB can jump at least twice as well as a person in real life.
You see where I'm going with this?
#15
Posted 08 August 2007 - 01:32 PM
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 01:33 PM
#17
Posted 08 August 2007 - 01:37 PM
#18
Posted 08 August 2007 - 08:48 PM
But personally, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw the beginnings of VR before we died. Scientists have already been able to decipher some of the electostatic (or whatever they're called) signals that our brain uses to control our limbs and muscles, and that means that they can translate our brains signals into commands that a video game could understand. Which they've already done. http://www.emotiv.com/ Look at the video in the bottom left corner of the page.
Aquamarine, on Aug 8 2007, 12:25 PM, said:
You see where I'm going with this?
You don't seem to understand how virtual reality works. It's like the matrix after you;ve been ejected. You aren't limited by your physical human body. Infact, in theory, there would be no limitations in a virtual world. you could jump as high as you wanted, run as fast as you wanted, or hit harder than anyone else. Basically, you have all the abilities of your SSB character, plus you can move in anyway that you could in real life.
#19
Posted 09 August 2007 - 05:54 AM
I want more of the same. Sony and Nintendo are trying to come up with new things, but you cant fix what wasn't broken. Why scrap an awesome idea like the touch screen, and make it 360 times more difficult with holograms? Why bother make motion sensing into virtual reality? It's pointless to try and make a great thing better, when they work. It's not worth the risk.
#20
Posted 09 August 2007 - 08:11 AM
Mr.T, on Aug 9 2007, 04:48 AM, said:
I know, I understood you. I just couldn't think of a good way to counter what you said and still make it obvious that I think virtual reality would be quite a bad thing. So yeah...
#21
Posted 09 August 2007 - 04:03 PM
Except for the possibility of hacking the virtual internet, or virtual games for that matter, to make the punches, kicks, and bullets more real, and therefore makeing them near lethal. Kinda like how if you die in the matrix, you die in real life. That, and I'd imagine it'd make breaking into a government system a bit easier, and enable the possibilities of uploading programs into peoples brains to make them mindless minions of an evil master's master plan of mastery.
Nope. Nothin' bad about it.
#22
Posted 09 August 2007 - 07:20 PM
And besides, you just know that someone out there is going to fall off the stairs or run into a crowded city street with their helmet on. :P
#23
Posted 10 August 2007 - 04:24 AM
And Toasty, besides having many cons, I also think virtual reality wouldn't be good because it wouldn't be as FUN as today's games. Of course, you're going to say I'm not right, but I SO am...
#24
Posted 10 August 2007 - 11:11 AM
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Posted 11 August 2007 - 07:00 AM
#28
Posted 11 August 2007 - 11:37 PM
Seriously though I'm not great at imagining what will happen. I guess the gaming companies will just keep new consoles coming until they feel it isn't worth it. We'll probably be dead by then though.
#29
Posted 14 August 2007 - 12:57 AM
Aquamarine, on Aug 9 2007, 03:11 PM, said:
They're not, but before, and Nintendo, they just kept trying to better everything. DS lite, PS2 slim. They were good changes. Touch screen was good change. Motion sensing was good change. I just dont want them to make a huge jump into VR. It would make games so much more complicated. Hell, the touch screen confused me at first.
#30
Posted 14 August 2007 - 03:44 AM
#31
Posted 14 August 2007 - 09:44 AM
Jesus!
#32
Posted 14 August 2007 - 11:39 AM
I agree that we'd never see the "Nintendo VR" in our lifetime (there's no way to bring that technology to the masses that soon), but I'm sure science will venture into it sometime before that.
#33
Posted 15 August 2007 - 01:24 AM
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Posted 15 August 2007 - 01:35 AM
#36
Posted 16 August 2007 - 12:59 AM
Wind Dude, on Aug 15 2007, 08:35 AM, said:
Well how else would they do it? I was just giving an example, it's not '' This is DEFINATELY what it's going to be''
#37
Posted 17 August 2007 - 10:29 AM
And Caael, you can pretty much say that that's definately going to be how VR works. Unless everyone get's interfaces fused into the back of their brains and you can surf the internet virtually by "synching in," like in the Tom Clancy novels, you can pretty much bet that VR will consist of a pair of glasses and a helmet thingy.
#38
Posted 17 August 2007 - 03:20 PM
Wind Dude, on Aug 15 2007, 01:44 AM, said:
Jesus!
VR already exists. They use it in some government departments. At today's rate of technological development, I wouldn't be surprised to see it coming to gaming within two decades.
#39
Posted 17 August 2007 - 03:43 PM
#41
Posted 20 August 2007 - 04:30 AM