Bloodgod42
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Im just curious what people here thought was the next evolution in gaming.
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(the following is just a rambling I had while posting this...feel free to skip it, but please leave your 2-cents)
I mean, we have made great leaps from the 8-bit days, and now that we 'almost' have photo-realistic graphics, the holy grail in gaming (at least at one time).
If we say that: great game-play, a well written, professionally voice acted, excellent graphics are a givin, then where do we go from here???
Whats the next BIG main-stream "thing" to bring more immersion to gettin' our game on!?!
Realistically, it's based on what can make companies money. What i mean there is that it has to work on a "main-stream" pc so that they can sell more, and currently, the "main-stream" pc is not that great. Good news is that it's getting better expodentialy, and within 5 years I'm bettin that the average pc will contain 5+Ghz cpu (multi-cores combined, but giving that all the developers will get on-board and code to utilize them, we're golden). I think 2/4GB DDR2/3 will be in the majority of pc's, as well as 512MB-1GB gpu's. We'll have super fast, and more importantly, affordable, solid state drives. So my point to all this is that they finally have some 'horsepower' to work with and Im wondering where's it's gonna lead us. 3-D? Virtual Reality? The Matrix? (4-D? once we fire up the LHC, lol)
My guess is that after they take the graphics to the limits (about 5 years, fingers crossed) they will improve the way the image is received by the brain. That could be something as simple as a monitor thats curved, or a "good" video head-set that doesn't look "super" geeky (or make you cross-eyed), all the way to human implants that can send the video directly to our brain without any monitor at all.
So anyways, what are all YOUR thoughts/guesses/premonitions?
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.
.
(the following is just a rambling I had while posting this...feel free to skip it, but please leave your 2-cents)
I mean, we have made great leaps from the 8-bit days, and now that we 'almost' have photo-realistic graphics, the holy grail in gaming (at least at one time).
If we say that: great game-play, a well written, professionally voice acted, excellent graphics are a givin, then where do we go from here???
Whats the next BIG main-stream "thing" to bring more immersion to gettin' our game on!?!
Realistically, it's based on what can make companies money. What i mean there is that it has to work on a "main-stream" pc so that they can sell more, and currently, the "main-stream" pc is not that great. Good news is that it's getting better expodentialy, and within 5 years I'm bettin that the average pc will contain 5+Ghz cpu (multi-cores combined, but giving that all the developers will get on-board and code to utilize them, we're golden). I think 2/4GB DDR2/3 will be in the majority of pc's, as well as 512MB-1GB gpu's. We'll have super fast, and more importantly, affordable, solid state drives. So my point to all this is that they finally have some 'horsepower' to work with and Im wondering where's it's gonna lead us. 3-D? Virtual Reality? The Matrix? (4-D? once we fire up the LHC, lol)
My guess is that after they take the graphics to the limits (about 5 years, fingers crossed) they will improve the way the image is received by the brain. That could be something as simple as a monitor thats curved, or a "good" video head-set that doesn't look "super" geeky (or make you cross-eyed), all the way to human implants that can send the video directly to our brain without any monitor at all.
So anyways, what are all YOUR thoughts/guesses/premonitions?