Games in the future

No, i am not talking about next gen: ps4, xbox 720. No i am talking about the real future. 10 - 20 years. What do you expect games to like like and how do you think they will be played.

For a couple of years ago i started to become interested in VR. I thought it sounded awesome but now i have almost forgot it and i don't think it's so cool again when it isn't even being used for games when it has the ability. I, for one, hope that you in 10 or 15 years will be able to be in the game and be the main character instead of playing one with a controller. And maybe photorealistic graphics, but that may be a little scary if you are playing a resident evil kinda game. lol

No, i am not talking about next gen: ps4, xbox 720. No i am talking about the real future. 10 - 20 years. What do you expect games to like like and how do you think they will be played.

For a couple of years ago i started to become interested in VR. I thought it sounded awesome but now i have almost forgot it and i don't think it's so cool again when it isn't even being used for games when it has the ability. I, for one, hope that you in 10 or 15 years will be able to be in the game and be the main character instead of playing one with a controller. And maybe photorealistic graphics, but that may be a little scary if you are playing a resident evil kinda game. lol

Jackal_Vault101

it depends.

Am I actually moving around and running? if I am, what's the point of playing games? I can join a lord of the rings fans or something and reinact the scenes.

same **** but doesn't cost as much money.

Part of the reason why I like games is because it is relaxing. I can just sit back and kick it. If I have to make extreme motions, I'd rather do the action in real life. Like playing tennis game in Wii, I find is extremely stupid. If you are going to make tennis motion, GO OUT AND PLAY TENNIS.

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No, i am not talking about next gen: ps4, xbox 720. No i am talking about the real future. 10 - 20 years. What do you expect games to like like and how do you think they will be played.

For a couple of years ago i started to become interested in VR. I thought it sounded awesome but now i have almost forgot it and i don't think it's so cool again when it isn't even being used for games when it has the ability. I, for one, hope that you in 10 or 15 years will be able to be in the game and be the main character instead of playing one with a controller. And maybe photorealistic graphics, but that may be a little scary if you are playing a resident evil kinda game. lol

TriangleHard

it depends.

Am I actually moving around and running? if I am, what's the point of playing games? I can join a lord of the rings fans or something and reinact the scenes.

same **** but doesn't cost as much money.

Part of the reason why I like games is because it is relaxing. I can just sit back and kick it. If I have to make extreme motions, I'd rather do the action in real life. Like playing tennis game in Wii, I find is extremely stupid. If you are going to make tennis motion, GO OUT AND PLAY TENNIS.

I think graphics will be like watching an HD movie, more real than real life.

Gameplay; I hope it doesn't change too much. If anything, more responsive and solid.

Games will make you feel like your in the game, such as intense surround sound.

Also, you have to think about advances in technology like TVs, speakers, and even chairs. Maybe the chairs you sit on rumble or swivel when theres a space ship scene, or if you jump off a cliff, it maakes you feel like your falling.

I've always thought about stuff like this, and I'm very excited to see what's in our close future.

Well, yes you would be running around and feel immersed in the world you are playing in. I think everyone who has a little adventure inside of them would see the technology as revolutionary. And the point of it would not be to get exercises or extreme motions but to get a new and better form of entertainment, but then if you could get exercises at the same time that would just be better. And even if you did you wouldn't think of it because you already are bussy with (example) slaying big creatures.

To answer your other question the point of playing games is because that is how far the technology is and that will just do for now. Trust me when i say if Virtual Reality was out in stores now and had all it needed: Photorealistic graphics, Complete immersion and more then i don't think that the video games we know today would last much longer.

But as you said there is still the problem with those who just want to relax and having a good time but i still think that if they / you saw what someone is working on and new what would be coming in the next 10 - 15 years inside gaming then you would change your mind because it has not anything to do with getting exercises or games today.

Back when I was really young, I remember reading a book that had a chapter covering some of the technological advances to expect in the future. One item that stood out was how videogames in the future will be controlled strictly by means of voice commands.

I thought that was the lamest thing ever.

I used to think virtual reality sounded awesome. Then I read this:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15655_5-awesome-sci-fi-inventions-that-would-actually-suck.html

Read number 3

"It's not just that it would be addictive; it's that it would literally fill every possible human emotional need and utterly eliminate all motivation to ever do anything ever. Everyone's only goal would be to do just enough work to keep food and electricity coming into the holodeck, to keep those interruptions by reality to a minimum.

People would stop reproducing, your virtual Scarlett Johansson could have perfect virtual kids who'll never wind up in jail or steal money from you to buy crack. If you get tired of them, tell the holodeck to blink them out of existence. If you're saying that you're a high-minded person who pursues spiritual goals and would never be sucked in by anything as crude as a simulation, hey, they've got a holodeck for you, too. You can sit down to dinner with Plato and Abe Lincoln and Gandhi and Jesus. If somebody yanked you out of that to go work at the post office all day, you'd barricade yourself in with a shotgun.

If aliens showed up to Earth 1,000 years later, they'd find an abandoned planet with ten billion mummified corpses laying on the floor of ten billion dusty holodecks, with huge smiles on their faces."

What you just wrote there or rather quoted is excatly what i have been thinking too. For a couple of weaks ago i asked my teacher if there wouldn't come a problem similar to what you just said. It really is a scary thing to think of, and just what could happen in the end is also holding me a bit back. But i also do believe in that there is a balance between real life and a virtual, simulated one and if that balance could be found the problem may not be as big as someone think.

The question is now just how do we find that balance and where should it be?

My life revolves around games and movies. I don't have much of real life. I love Star Trek deeply so the concepts from that is imprinted on my subconcious mind - like the holodeck that was mentioned earlier in this chain of posts. I have also been gifted with being able to dream about whatever I spend all day doing - probably because I don't have real life concerns to distract me from the world of fantasy. I have been in virtual reality Everquest and WoW and Thief: The Dark Project and I have to say it is the most content I have ever been. Not even the most uplifting drug could beat how good it feels to play an MMO in virtual reality. The only problems I think are the method of the virtual reality. When you dream about it - I'd compare it to being like the matrix and plugging yourself in - but its only a dream and is actually healthy. But being awake and in the real world and uploading your brain to a game (or downloading the game to your brain) seems dangerous to me. Its messing with your brain - messing with your brain chemistry. It wouldn't surprise me, if this method was developed in the near future, that there would be alot of damage done to people's brains as a result. Maybe one day when science completely understands the brain and brainwaves then it would be possible.... A Star Trek Holodeck on the other hand would be perfect. Holograms that you can actually touch would in essence be real. You would actually be there, actually doing the things in the game - you aren't messing with brain chemistry or brain wave signals. But holodeck technology seems like pure fantasy. I doubt they could create that for centuries (though who knows - with the rate the human race has begun advancing). What I could imagine, for VR in the near future, would be something like in the movie Virtuosity (with Denzel Washington and Russel Crowe). In that you are suspended in a harness so you can move your legs and arms freely and you wear something like a traditional VR helmet - though the graphics were just like the real world. This I could see being developed without trouble and, in my dreams, I have played this already in an amusement arcade.... And it was good!

One thing I worry about though is that, while some people say the violence in movies and games is what is causing the violence in todays society - I think that's nonsense - but in VR...... Don't you think sneaking up behind people and slitting their throats or shooting them in the face with your magnum would have a profound psychological effect on people? Desensitizing them to violence to the extreme. I'd expect alot more maniacs and serial killers to be created - with their minds having been warped from snapping necks as Solid Snake and cleaning up bloodstains as Garret