What is the future of gaming?

[Teebone]

I'd like to see racing games make a bigger ripple. Also: I want EA to lose it's exclusitivity with the NFL. There hasn't been a good football game in over a fucking decade.

[Archon14]

A future I could die happily in.

No need to dream about space travel if I can just live in a mass effect simulation

[Deleted]

No need to dream about space travel if I can just live in a mass effect simulation

"you got a minute Miranda?"

[Archon14]

"you got a minute Miranda?"

The replayability value...

[Deleted]

The replayability value...

So much depth.

[Archon14]

So much depth.

The branching story, it's like there was a bunch of holes, you pick one and just go in there!

(I guess it's time for a moderator to put this down)

[Arrashi]

More budget, lackluster games, that replace actual content with "Features". More "licensed" games that spend 50% of their budget for that license.

[Dhrizzle]

I think procedurally generated content will be the next major leap. Imagine a game like Skyrim but the entire area is unique to your game, the world evolves according to what you do and dialogue is synthesised to reflect the changes.

I don't see virtual reality being a massive thing for most core games such as first/third person action/adventure/shooter titles. I can see it becoming big amongst fans of simulator type games possibly with specialised controllers.

[Arrashi]

I think procedurally generated content will be the next major leap. Imagine a game like Skyrim but the entire area is unique to your game, the world evolves according to what you do and dialogue is synthesised to reflect the changes.

Well, we all saw how "radiant" quests worked in Fallout 4. They have a loooooong way before they can menage something like that.

[Dezerte]

Hopefully some kind of VR-environment where physical exertion is incorporated.

[Sorrior]

NPC's that are like real people, in a game which is a simulation in your mind, might just be the tip that turns people into prefering the game over real life.

Not that I'm complaining.

Some of us do already

[Pull My Finger]

More budget, lackluster games, that replace actual content with "Features". More "licensed" games that spend 50% of their budget for that license.

Realistic prognosis.

I don't see anything meaningful coming. Apart from more online bullshit, more real life currency bullshit, and VR bullshit. But none of that is the future of gaming. It's just bullshit.

[Faroth]

I think procedurally generated content will be the next major leap. Imagine a game like Skyrim but the entire area is unique to your game, the world evolves according to what you do and dialogue is synthesised to reflect the changes.

I don't see virtual reality being a massive thing for most core games such as first/third person action/adventure/shooter titles. I can see it becoming big amongst fans of simulator type games possibly with specialised controllers.

I saw FPS being huge for VR. Being able to turn your head left and right to look around quickly instead of spinning with the mouse which turns your whole body. Being able to shoot straight ahead while glancing left and right, etc. seems it would be favorable for FPS games.

I also see VR, ironically, as a huge potential for non-videogame gaming. If someone makes it so you can sit around a virtual table with family and friends around the globe and it seems like you're all really there, I can see virtual tabletop gaming being a huge potential market. Or even virtual board games.

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Realistic prognosis.

I don't see anything meaningful coming. Apart from more online bullshit, more real life currency bullshit, and VR bullshit. But none of that is the future of gaming. It's just bullshit.

Considering we go down the path of "everything we think up in sci-fi we eventually seem to be making reality" I don't see VR as bullshit. I see PSVR, Occulus Rift, etc as the equivalent of the Atari 2600 of VR. Like someone said earlier, pushing VR to Ready Player One levels is more of the long term goal. We're nowhere near it.

[Jibjub]

Everyone saying they want real 3D, VR gaming forget that about two weeks after the Wii came out people were Wii Bowling from their chairs, just barely snapping their wrists to throw the ball.

The future of gaming is not more rigs and VR. Or at least that's not the NEXT big thing.

I think the future is more open world experiences with more dynamic story-lines that branch and branch and real, true consequences. And better AI.

[Pull My Finger]

Considering we go down the path of "everything we think up in sci-fi we eventually seem to be making reality" I don't see VR as bullshit. I see PSVR, Occulus Rift, etc as the equivalent of the Atari 2600 of VR. Like someone said earlier, pushing VR to Ready Player One levels is more of the long term goal. We're nowhere near it.

I mean BS as in "sucks", not as in "not gonna happen". I just don't think it's a particularly appealing idea, and what it most certainly isn't is "the future of gaming". It's an entirely different thing, and would most certainly not attract or interest everyone who is into "traditional" gaming.

[Belize]

I hope we get nickled and dimed for horse armore DLC and episodic game releases instead of whole finished products.

[Dhrizzle]

I hope we get nickled and dimed for horse armore DLC and episodic game releases instead of whole finished products.

Anyone daft enough to pay for horse armour deserves to lose their money, and I thank them for funding games for the rest of us.