Console Gaming

[theklng]

Cool. You guys should do a video talk show, with callers and all, discussing what's hot in the gaming world.

Great idea except for the fact that these are Writers debating, and not TV-Show hosts.
Planned observation and spontaneous creativity are diametrically-opposed things, and even if they rehearsed all their lines in the same way comedians do it, the viewer-calls would likely throw a monkey-wrench into the whole thing.

Don't believe me?
Check-out <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1060-Washington-DC>Yahtzee's trip to DC and you'll understand what I'm talking about.

i don't think the point would necessarily be to have comedy. rather, it would be to have a sober discussion of what is going to happen in the future of games and the games industry. not to mention the potential for other, tangential subjects that will hold relevance to games in the future (yahtzee mentioned neural interfaces, james mentioned holodecks). the point of having viewers call in would be to have a discussion where arbitrary statements may come in and throw the discussion around.

entertainment does not have to be comedy to be entertaining.

 

[Enosh_]

so yatzee with "motion gaming sucks", moviebob jerking of nintendo for the n-th time and james, well I don't even see what his point was

 

[Neferius]

i don't think the point would necessarily be to have comedy. rather, it would be to have a sober discussion of [...]

A little-known fact, but Yahtzee is Rarely sober
...where do you think he gets all his pizazz?

 

[Neferius]

[...] and james, well I don't even see what his point was

He was holding-back and chillin' like always

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Interesting read. I like Bob's approach, that motion controls could have some outlet for cheap, short, unhindered events. Using them for every action, though, becomes limiting. One aspect I can see them being useful for is dual-wielding something. Pistols, knives, axes, what have you--separate controls for each weapon, with separate cursors for aiming. I don't like the full motions, though, and I'm in agreeance with Yahtzee that they remove me from the game. I still play Zelda and Red Steel 2 sitting on the couch, for the most part, so I still flick the wiimote the desired directions, but I don't go for the full arm swing for a sword. For games like that, motion controls are fine, it feels more like I'm the one swinging the sword, all that. But for Donkey Kong and Metroid: Other M, the Nunchuk-less controller feels more natural, that I'm moving an avatar of myself across a two-dimensional area.

 

[DoctorObviously]

More Extra Consideration please!

 

[Sixcess]

Great stuff. Yahtzee makes a lot of sense once you look past the jokes and it's good to see another opportunity for him to do so. Big fan of EC as well so this is pretty golden.

 

[CaptainSHOOK]

Good job guys, although a little bit too agreeable considering you guys have quite different opinions on a lot of things 'a la gaming' (I watch each of your shows, including GameOverthinker) So I know you guys disagree a lot. Let's get the blood going and maybe a few harmless, fun insults eh? (yes, Canadian) Still, love this idea and it would be awesome to see more of these. Keep them coming, it's just an email or 2 come on!!!

 

[ckam]

This is actually pretty interesting. I hope there are more of these.

Also, we can declare at this point that James is the Idealist, Yahtzee is the Pessimist, and Bob is in between.

In TV Tropes terms, James is the Superego, Yahtzee is the Id, and Bob is the Ego.

 

[theklng]

i don't think the point would necessarily be to have comedy. rather, it would be to have a sober discussion of [...]

A little-known fact, but Yahtzee is Rarely sober
...where do you think he gets all his pizazz?

little-known fact: a discussion can only be sober, because it never drinks. were you born yesterday? i mean, there's a pretty big distinction between using the word sober in relation to a discussion than to a person.

where do these people come from?

 

[deleted_scifidownbeat]

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[Raykuza]

This is a thing of which we need more.

On a side note: Is that a big theta in my captcha box?

 

[3dgill]

The Holobands from the show Caprica would be the mountain top of gaming. How much time will pass before such things exist and are safe enough for the consumer market? Who knows? I'd guess 40 years. That will be an awesome day though.

 

[Axzarious]

Great discussion. I would have to agree with yahtzee on his final point. The pinnacle of gaming would be that in which we would be able to rely soley opon our minds for input. The possibilites for this would be endless.

 

[LazyAza]

Oh man this was like the escapist article equivelent of some kinda super fandom cross over or something. You guys should do more stuff together, makes for very interesting and entertaining material.

 

[A_Libertarian]

It's interesting how sci-fi gaming is divided between super-active holodecks and super-static gaming matrix style...

.. what he said.

We all want holodecks, but only so we can have sex with fantasy women.

 

[DuderSkanks]

The three people that make up my Trinity of Higher Level Gaming Discussion, together in a piece?
SIGN ME UP!
Really hoping this can be continued on bi-weekly at the very least. It seems to be getting only positive reviews from people here.
This just made my day!

 

[JaketheLate]

I have one tiny bone to pick with MovieBobs example of the 1960's renaissance in film as a hopeful eventuality with games, and that's that the movie studios that were left were the big ones, and their livelihood was completely dependent on the industry. For gaming, outside of Nintendo, the other two competitors are arms of much larger corporations. I fear that if the game industry faces melancholy, like the film industry did, Microsoft and Sony will simply cut and run, leaving Nintendo holding the sack. And as much as I love Nintendo games, the company isn't very innovative, nor does it encourage innovation in those it helps publish *cough*Pokemon*cough*

 

[JaketheLate]

go pull at a sci-fi con. I guarantee the girls there would be just as interested in doing it mail bikinis or star trek uniforms as you would be.

 

[Jonluw]

Spoiler: In regards to what Yahtzee said about Tony Stark tech

I can totally see this going somewhere in the future.