when do you think there will ever be a mega game?

[One Seven One]

i'm talking about a big BIG game one that has the world placed at your finger tips to ultimately do whatever you want, build a bunker out in the middle of nowhere and devolope weapons no one else thought about, become a traveling shoe polisher

when do you think something like this will be possible?

do you think it will be Practical?

affordable?

would it be virtual realty or consle? maybe people go either way if they wanted to

now, what do you have to say?

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

It's called: being a game programmer.

 

[Cxizent]

The thing about gaming is that it always operates inside certain constraints; there needs to be programming there for the stuff to happen. So unless we can get the source code for the universe, I'm highly dubious that a game will ever have the same sort of big BIG scale as life.

 

[Anarchemitis]

You mean like the terminal Citizen Kane of Gaming? I think we may never achieve it.
As of recent, the closest thing we have ever come I daresay is Half-Life 2.

 

[SimuLord]

A game like that would have to be a cross between The Sims, World of Warcraft, and NetHack in order to work. It'd have to have a lot of life-simulation elements to make the avatars believable. It'd have to be an MMORPG because the kind of procedural generation required is beyond the ken of every AI ever programmed and the content would have to be generated entirely by the playerbase (maybe if you made it moddable and extensible to a truly frightening degree like OBSE on steroids it could be singleplayer but you'd still need a very large community of players creating content.) And as far as NetHack goes, I'm thinking specifically of "the developers thought of EVERYTHING", that game's unofficial motto.

 

[SquirrelPants]

While it's a fun and amazing concept, we would, in fact, need to somehow access the source code for the universe...
Wait, I began to type that, and add a little joke to it, but I just had an idea that majorly applies to this...
It's...The Matrix.
Think about it, it's an amazingly realistic simulator of real life(Albeit in the past for the people in the "Real world.")

 

[Romicron]

Real Life.

Alternatively, if you put every Starcraft UMS map ever made into a big bucket you come pretty close...

 

[thiosk]

it was spore, and look where that got us

 

[Fightgarr]

It exists. Its called "go outside". It can be pretty limiting though, due to the A.I. and the in-game monetary system. The physics engine is also a but limiting, as is the whole realism aspect. Still... its a pretty sandbox-style game.