Mario is down in those pipes all the days. Do we REALLY know what those pipes are used for? Better find out before we want to smell them.
Smellable Games Are Decades Away
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I really wouldn't want to smell most of the games I play... I mean really, who WANTS to smell death all over the place.
I'm gonna have to go on the side of not bothering with smell in the games, and instead focusing those developing resources on stuff that won't get turned off for 95% of the time of gameplay.
The first thought that ran through my mind reading this article was the sewer chapter for No Mercy in Left 4 Dead. And I don't want to know what radioactive sewage smells like in Half Life 2. Seriously.
The first thought that ran through my mind reading this article was the sewer chapter for No Mercy in Left 4 Dead. And I don't want to know what radioactive sewage smells like in Half Life 2. Seriously.
There are some things I can think of that I don't want to smell. Any time I run up against something in a game and a character remarks, "This stinks" or something like that, I never think, "man, I wish I could smell it."
I don't want to smell rotting zombies.
I don't want to smell rotting zombies.
How would you be able to do that with Sci-fi/ fantasy based games? What would phazon from Metroid Prime smell like, or the scenery in Bioshock?
What would a rotting zombie smell like? Although it could be made it would either be unrealistic or terribly limited for the technology that it is.PirateKing said:
Am I ready to smell my games? No, but I do smell the boxes of a brand new game... Amazing.
The sewer level, and hell any level from Oblivion or Fallout would reek. Think about the diner in the middle of the wasteland with all the dead bodies... *hurk*
The sewer level, and hell any level from Oblivion or Fallout would reek. Think about the diner in the middle of the wasteland with all the dead bodies... *hurk*
Left 4 Dead woul be much more ... disturbed, you could see what the survivors are coughing about when a boomer vomits on them ... yummy :|
We look at an experiment in psychology where a TV programme claimed to be using smell of vision for the first time, they used the explanation of inducing the smell using a frequency of electromagnetic waves or similar, and asked viewers to right in if they smelt anything (they were told it would be a summery smell). And, around 80, people wrote in. Which is only a small result but only about five or so wrote in to say they did not smell something. The twist was that the TV programme did no such thing which shows the power of suggestion may be enough. So perhaps video games should just claim they can do and we'll fill in the blanks.
There were some Smell-o-Vision games in the 90.Some sierra adventures had scratch and sniff cards that required you to scratch a ceratin space on a card when the Games told you too.
But the smells quickly wore off and it wasn't really useful or anything.
But the smells quickly wore off and it wasn't really useful or anything.
With some games having certain scents in the air can make the experience much more immersive. One time we did that, played one of the Medal Of Honor games in a home theatre setup with the scent of gunpowder in the room, it just made the game feel so much more real
dumbest thing ever. before you say I'm wrong, think of how bad a sewer level would be. Or a rotting corpse. I don't want to smell the games, I wan't to play them.