What do YOU want to be the next evolution in gaming?

[CyanideSandwich]

I'd like to see a game involving Kratos free-running across Venetian rooftops with a Portal gun and slaying dragons by shouting, and to include a co-op mode where player 2 is Batman.

But that's just me.

 

[CyanideSandwich]

I'd love to see an evolution in game design / player choice.

As is we have a lot of choose your own adventure games. Pick 3 and regardless of your choice you'll go and do the same thing but with a different intent. I'd like to see game development take the pick 3 idea and stretch it into essentially 3 completely different stories with different environments and outcomes.

I'd also want every game released to provide full control options to a player. Every game should offer motion and non-motion controls. All games should allow full customization of the controllers, the game difficulty and all mechanical specifics of a game so players can adjust as they please. Have sliders for how much damage a headshot does, how much damage specific weapons deal, etc. I realize this sort of menu would probably have 300 sliders, but at least each gamer could potentially tailor the experience to one that best suits them if they wanted to.

Lastly and most importantly, I want to see the future gaming let go of grinding. Activities that are not fun should be absolutely minimized or provide options to bypass them. I'm sick of slowly running down huge corridors for 2 minutes just to get to a quest giver who has me run back down these corridors just to start the mission. It's not uncommon for quests to be shorter than the travel time required to really start them. Games like MMO's, Fallout, FF, etc should all have optional fast travel to get to your quest location so you can actually enjoy the gameplay and story within seconds of being issued the quest.

This... is an amazing - nay, godly - idea.

 

[WalrusPowers]

Next video-game evolution? Well, I dunno, but that phrase got me thinking about how cool dynamically evolving virtual life would be.

 

[CaptainOctopus]

Time travel games! Think about a game where you can travel back in time to 1999, destroy the factories producing the xbox, kill the people who planned the Wii, convince Sony to use an unnecessarily complicated architecture for their next playstation, plant a virus on all Everquest servers, activate ION cannon ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVu53CSbCtw ) on EA, Ubisoft and Activision headquarters, kick George Bush so hard in the balls he can't run for president and shoot Usama Bin Laden in the head with a double barrel shotgun. I would call the game "The man who travel back in time and did some cool stuff... 2000!!!".

 

[VladG]

Less focus on hardware, more focus on software. Better development tools and processes. AAA games are far too expensive to develop nowadays, and that's why you get so many 6-10 hour long games with mediocre mechanics and story.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Direct input to and output from the brain.

 

[Brown Cap]

I think a Siri-like dialogue would be pretty friggin awesome. Cool Revolution: Instead of choices of text to use, ACTUAL speech you make with NPCs and characters. Talk to a videogame? SWEET.

 

[OldNewNewOld]

I put my trust in Nintendo for this kind of things.
They have jet to disappointed me (except Virtual Boy, but at that time I was just a kid and didn't even have money to buy it).

They are experimenting with gaming on all sorts of sides and the usually do it right.

 

[MSfire012]

Better quality on the games. Like more innovation, better writing and dub, more variety of genres and games, etc.

I honestly see no reason to make drastic improvements on the graphic technologies or to create virtual realities; all I really want is to play a good game, that?s all.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Next video-game evolution? Well, I dunno, but that phrase got me thinking about how cool dynamically evolving virtual life would be.

So basically if the spore didn't have evolution as understood by a 5 year old?

That would be extremely cool. Also an absolute ***** to code but it could probably be done.

 

[xPixelatedx]

Virtual reality. Now.

I agree, and I mean that Realistically speaking. We have long since passed the technology required for this, especially considering we can make the headsets the equivalent of 'thick sunglasses' by this point.Playing in actual VR machines is still some of the most fun I have had in a videogame since, well... ever. There is no reason why we shouldn't have this now. Things like the 3DS and Vita tease at it with their augmented reality stuff. Now lets take this a step further and get serious with it.

Or this would be fine to:

It's amazing what we could do with everything we already have at our disposal, but no one in the business is actually cool enough to do it.

 

[Cowabungaa]

The things that are now, for me, most often hampering complete immersion are:

- Animation, especially facial animations.
- AI

I'm glad to see that some games are starting to pay more attention to animations, notably Battlefield 3 and Rage took some good steps. AI I suppose, both friendly and enemy, is still a work in progress.

 

[DanteLives]

Some sort of face-scanner which will ban kids from 18 rated games until their 18th birthday.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

More dev's like Valve, Bungie, and Gearbox.

 

[babloyi]

Direct input to and output from the brain.

Yes, this.
Or at least output: a mind-controller!

Or if I wanted to be even MORE unrealistic , the next evolution being that developers STOP this obsession with upping the graphics to more and more and more and more "realistic", which nobody really should care about, giving them time to focus on AI, physics, story, etc.

 

[DanielBrown]

Virtual Reality, definetly.
Let me jump into an imaginary world and stay there, while machines keep me alive! Screw this place!
/doomandgloom

 

[Gamer_152]

I'd like the video game industry to try and make more than just empowerment fantasies and tongue in cheek nods to power fantasies. Don't get me wrong, those things are great, but when held up to other creative mediums video games seem to lack narrative diversity and depth, and the way the industry so often pushes these things away seems juvenile and underdeveloped.