Seeing as how i'll be 47, a thing of the past. On topic, I imagine more of the same, just prettier, and call of duty will have had more games and map packs than all the grains of sand on earth.
So what will gaming be like in 20 years ?
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actually it would be called the xbox 1080 .DefinitelyPsychotic said:
But Virtual reality would bring about a set of problems wouldn'T you think ? Imagine playing Call of Duty , in a Virtual Reality . You would actually feel like yout killing actual people. Virtual reality version of Silent hill , would give heart attacks to millions of people. etc....
Playstation 5 and XBOX360 3 will still be around after their launch 7 years former forcing us to look at a painful 12288x12288 texture resolution, while PCs can through mods reach much higher levels of detail. PC gamers of course will blame this and many other faults of gaming on the Console Market, while the Console Market will simply insult PC gamers for little to no reason. DRM will still be in full force on video games, but will require biometric registration to launch all games, across all platforms, or a nominal fee of 59.99 +applicable taxes in the currency of your current country will be deducted from your Gamer© Account.
Looks like things are only going to get worse.
Looks like things are only going to get worse.
I envision Facebook style games of today being like Atari games of 20 years from now. The subscription/micro transaction style formula will continue to evolve going forward. Consoles will be dead.
Near photo-realistic graphics if not actually using characters generated by profile pictures of friends. No offline options, separate purchases for single player and multiplayer experiences to keep prices as low as possible for different tastes. Continued franchises from today based on brand recognition and strength of past titles.
Near photo-realistic graphics if not actually using characters generated by profile pictures of friends. No offline options, separate purchases for single player and multiplayer experiences to keep prices as low as possible for different tastes. Continued franchises from today based on brand recognition and strength of past titles.
Crappy motion controls will be superceded by neural-net controls.
Bioware will realise that they can't build a world worth a damn and buy the licenses to the Forgotten Realms/Planescape/Old Republic IPs again. (Am I the only one who feels that the universes of Dragon Age and Mass Effect feel shallow?)
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare X" will be set in space.
My design document for "Star Wars: Corellian Trader" (A space trading RPG seamlessly marrying the KOTOR, Privateer/Elite and X-wing games.) will again be turned down by Lucasarts so that they can fill the gamesphere with more crap Licenses of the prequal-prequals.
Bioware will realise that they can't build a world worth a damn and buy the licenses to the Forgotten Realms/Planescape/Old Republic IPs again. (Am I the only one who feels that the universes of Dragon Age and Mass Effect feel shallow?)
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare X" will be set in space.
My design document for "Star Wars: Corellian Trader" (A space trading RPG seamlessly marrying the KOTOR, Privateer/Elite and X-wing games.) will again be turned down by Lucasarts so that they can fill the gamesphere with more crap Licenses of the prequal-prequals.
All using extremely efficient tiny lithography processes that make powerful and complex CPU / GPU's (22nm at least), that use a more 3D core-matrix. To cut a long post short, probably little in the way of PC's we know today, as we'll be able to fit it all into much smaller packages. "Smart-Devices" or "Tablet PC's", with the by-ratio equivalent output potential of the best enthusiast rigs on the market. Will this kill custom PC building. Maybe so, but I forsee less call, apart from in industry for faster, greater load carrying, and more complex rendering methods. We'll reach a point where the consumer can run all the latest games and software on their home devices (maybe a little more than 20 years away).
New non-volatile memory hardware will increase the capacity of these devices beyond necessary parameters.
The only thing I see getting in the way is enterprise and business. They will implement limitations, and force the consumer to buy new devices / hardware upgrades, regardless of the potential of the current state of hardware. Developers will likely be paid off or bought out and made to have their software run poorly on older hardware to encourage the adoption of new hardware. It's pretty bleak, but necessary to keep the economy rolling. It is an economy built on lies, but so is this one.
This reply is going somewhere that could result in a thesis on my views on the global governance structure. Technology!
But yes, if you were just to look up the recent advancements in theoretical, experimental and future consumer hardware, this is all well forseeable and not in any sense remotely fantasy. It could be really very very cool.
BTW (Addendum): While I'd lament the loss of customisation, and even will probably "rebel" against the adoption of "all-in-one" tablet devices, I don't see it as an overtly bad thing. It doesn't make sense to keep making big bulky machines, when it can all be done on a much smaller board. I do embrace, tentatively, a palm device that can output onto a 42" 8640p 20Ghz fold-out screen at 240FPS an utterly mind-renchingly beautiful vista, from Tamriel, wirelessly and seamlessly streamed. Passive Solid-3D too, naturally.
New non-volatile memory hardware will increase the capacity of these devices beyond necessary parameters.
The only thing I see getting in the way is enterprise and business. They will implement limitations, and force the consumer to buy new devices / hardware upgrades, regardless of the potential of the current state of hardware. Developers will likely be paid off or bought out and made to have their software run poorly on older hardware to encourage the adoption of new hardware. It's pretty bleak, but necessary to keep the economy rolling. It is an economy built on lies, but so is this one.
This reply is going somewhere that could result in a thesis on my views on the global governance structure. Technology!
But yes, if you were just to look up the recent advancements in theoretical, experimental and future consumer hardware, this is all well forseeable and not in any sense remotely fantasy. It could be really very very cool.
BTW (Addendum): While I'd lament the loss of customisation, and even will probably "rebel" against the adoption of "all-in-one" tablet devices, I don't see it as an overtly bad thing. It doesn't make sense to keep making big bulky machines, when it can all be done on a much smaller board. I do embrace, tentatively, a palm device that can output onto a 42" 8640p 20Ghz fold-out screen at 240FPS an utterly mind-renchingly beautiful vista, from Tamriel, wirelessly and seamlessly streamed. Passive Solid-3D too, naturally.
Well I'll simply turn on my brain's wireless interface and ask a local AI to help me craft up a game, maybe something along the line of a turn of the century zombie survival scenario. Some friends will get an automated invite once I've finished building the game world and then we'll play through it. Though calling it a 'game' at that point would be selling it short since the simulation would be so convincing.
I do subscribe to a very Ray Kurzweillian idea of the future though.
I do subscribe to a very Ray Kurzweillian idea of the future though.
Well, first of all, they are right next to each other. Why don't the just hit each other for real? -.-krazykidd said:
And secondly, it's stupid for the same reason Kinect is stupid. I play video games to relax and have fun. Not to jump around and do crap.
Although a virtual reality version would be cool.
Procedurally generated worlds, NPCs, storylines... think Mass Effect, Oblivion or GTA on the scale of Minecraft, with graphics that make Crysis look like Wolfenstein 3D. Building worlds by hand is just becoming prohibitively expensive, so the game engines themselves will build them for us.
Game consoles will no longer exist. There will just be a computer that does everything. Actually owning games is doubtful. All games will be streamed to a terminal. Think OnLive but better. Pirates will still find a way 
Virtual reality via headsets is likely.
The news will be full of people dying because they did extended play-sessions without taking a break.
Virtual reality via headsets is likely.
The news will be full of people dying because they did extended play-sessions without taking a break.
I predict another crash before too long. Arrogant giants of the industry are already losing touch and determined independent developers are emerging to take their places.
In any case I think it has to get worse before it gets better. But overall it should be decent at least.
In any case I think it has to get worse before it gets better. But overall it should be decent at least.