deanb Posted March 4, 2011 Report Share Posted March 4, 2011 So in the space of 60 years gaming has changed quite a bit from: 50years ago (1958) Though a crap ton of stuff(that I had posted that went when I accidentally hit ctrl+w instead of shift+w that you'll have to imagine, including Pong cabinet, Atari 2600, SNES, PS2, etc.) to modern day It's been quite a dramatic leap. Where do you see gaming and it's technologies and types of game being in 10, 20, 50 years time? Speculate away to the best of your sci-fi knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted March 4, 2011 Report Share Posted March 4, 2011 Exploring the the different senses and obviously plenty of virtual sex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slithy toves Posted March 4, 2011 Report Share Posted March 4, 2011 handhelds and i hate to say it but also phones. cos i do most of my gaming on my psp and ds since the ps2 era, and it's mainly because it's easy to do here and there and it fits into my life. i have ps3 games but i rarely get to play them enough to make me feel like i used to when playing. my handhelds let me do that. i personally, probs cos i'm a girl and i carry a huge backpack that lets me carry my work laptop with me, don't mind carrying around a computer a ds and a psp, but most people do. so having something that can be phone + handheld device is probably the real future. as much as part of me wants to keep my phone and psp apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harri Posted March 4, 2011 Report Share Posted March 4, 2011 I see the general acceptance of video games, not as a niche. It is already seen today with call of duty, but in the future, I think it will be recognized in the vein of movies and literature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slithy toves Posted March 4, 2011 Report Share Posted March 4, 2011 I see the general acceptance of video games, not as a niche. It is already seen today with call of duty, but in the future, I think it will be recognized in the vein of movies and literature. that, honestly, would be pretty great. videogame awards that were art based as opposed to flash in the pan / finance based crap. you know, at least until they became the oscars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteer01 Posted March 4, 2011 Report Share Posted March 4, 2011 It's been quite a dramatic leap. Where do you see gaming and it's technologies and types of game being in 10, 20, 50 years time? Speculate away to the best of your sci-fi knowledge. Read Ray Kurzweil in my MIS classes during University...so that has a big impact on my ideas of where things are going...but in the next 5-10 years? Social. Not stupid social gaming games, but games that with a social aspect. This includes co-op multiplayer, VS multiplayer, online leaderboards...all stuff we have now, and probably some ideas we don't see much of now. For me, that shift started this generation, and I already know people who basically buy the games their friends play so that they can play with/against them online. Computer gaming has had this for years, but I really think online/multiplayer is going to continue to become more and more important as people start to expect it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted March 4, 2011 Report Share Posted March 4, 2011 Synaptic response gaming. Basically visual stimulus is fed directly into your brain that you 'see' everything and enjoy the game and can plug out when you're done. It'll start with biometric game reading to study the human response to a game. This would help developers to tune games to an individual. When you get to that point it leads to infinite amounts of choices. So basically you will tailor make games such that a player can choose experiences in a game that they are willing to experience. Anything they aren't willing to experience will be 'removed' from their game world. You'll have 'servers' for those who like to experience similar things or rather have a 90% intersection between their sets. This will lead to games now feeding you direct visual stimuli that you basically do not need to focus on making 'graphics' as you can tap into the person's imagination. The focus will be on the different kinds of gaming experiences that they can provide. All sorts of leisurely games can be included in this from puzzles to open world exploration. However this will probably require the point where hardware driven gaming is mostly going tangential to where we are heading now which is mostly visceral graphic experiences or casual timewasters where you are accumulating virtual experience and virtual currency. At one point they will be worth more than physical experience and currency or they can be so integrated that earning this experience becomes vital in our daily lives. I see a world where we'll all be connected a lot more deeply than we are now. In fact the greatest media creators would be those who would openly display their creative imagination. So the most imaginative people will function as the greatest creators. Initially they won't be monetized and these people might die which would of course lead to backlash. And then it'll get monetized and controlled. Hmm I guess I'm going off a tangent there and describing a story that I'm writing now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 4, 2011 Report Share Posted March 4, 2011 tl;dr: The Matrix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted March 4, 2011 Report Share Posted March 4, 2011 tl;dr: The Matrix. Not really because that's more direct plug-in. Feeding from the imagination is probably more GiTS SAC crossed with Grant Morrison's Invisibles really. The Matrix doesn't feed from your imagination it creates your imagination. It's like how we expect psy-internet to be. We'll get some descriptions right but it's like how people in the 40s-60s uncannily got internet shopping right but most others wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pirate Posted March 5, 2011 Report Share Posted March 5, 2011 I have seen videos of games being full on virtual reality. Kinect is probably the prototype to this, but I've seen footage from Japan where someone was playing a fighting game that was fully reacting to the person's kicks, punches, ducks, jumps... I imagine them extending that to a whole new level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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