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Post by elchevalier on Jul 20, 2011 21:31:00 GMT -5
So, what does the future holds? Endless sequels of COD and Halo? A bunch of Angry Birds clones for handhelds? Getting charged for seeing the ending of the game? The more i think about it, the darker it gets.
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Post by elchevalier on Jul 21, 2011 18:42:23 GMT -5
Racing games? Really?
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Post by elchevalier on Jul 22, 2011 13:20:21 GMT -5
In other words, the future looks something like this:
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Post by ECM on Jul 23, 2011 12:17:53 GMT -5
Yeah, FPS's won't be the bread 'n butter of gaming anymore by the time 2018 rolls around. Portable/cheap gaming will continue to rise in popularity, but on the other end, 3D television sets will take off. Racing games are something that will hugely benefit from 3D but aren't well-suited to portables, so there will be a huge enough gulf in quality that everyone will be into them. Also, people are going to be watching lots of motorcycle races on their TV sets, so racing games will be a natural way to live that experience. Next big thing! Actually, I suggest checking out Ridge Racer 3D on 3DS if you need to see what 3D can do for a racer on a portable. Also, pretty much everything benefits from true 3D, especially any game with jumping and any game that requires judging the distance between your avatar's fist/sword/baseball bat and a foe's face--basically, it's what will finally make 3D gaming vastly more accessible to the 'layman' because it takes a huge percentage of the difficulty in navigating a 3D world **warning: bad play on words ahead** out of the picture (of course we'll still need to actually freaking master how cameras function, something that we're *still* waiting on). Note: years ago I had one of those PC set-ups that supported 3D and it was pretty awesome BUT the glasses got *very* annoying after even an hour of playing, so I pretty much gave up on it. (It also sucked that you were basically limited to very low resolutions due to the demand on the video card, so even though you could normally go 16x12 you were, effectively, limited to 8x6, if you were lucky.) |
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Post by elchevalier on Jul 23, 2011 12:20:11 GMT -5
I don't benefit from 3D, i get less headaches with 2D, as in zero headaches.
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Post by ECM on Jul 23, 2011 12:21:33 GMT -5
Uh, no, you DO/WILL benefit from it, period. You see in three spatial dimensions, not three dimensions projected onto a two dimensional surface.
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Post by elchevalier on Jul 23, 2011 12:39:33 GMT -5
No i won't, no 3D for me at all. I don't want it in my movies, and neither on my games. I hardly see myself moving from that position.
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Post by ECM on Jul 23, 2011 12:45:33 GMT -5
That's because it isn't ubiquitous, yet.
At some point, though, they'll start designing games around being fully 3D, and you'll either have to stop playing them or get on the bus.
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Post by ECM on Jul 23, 2011 12:50:07 GMT -5
Yeah, they were going to do that on GT5 but, for whatever reason, nixed it (that is: the ability to pan around...probably issues w/ tracking since you can't very well look left since there'd be nothing there).
But the 3D in RR is pretty nice: you get that feeling of depth and the sense of actual the Z-axis for the other cars, rather than the very '2D' feeling of most racing games where you can, pretty much, cut them off without concern for broadsiding them.
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Post by elchevalier on Jul 23, 2011 13:02:24 GMT -5
I don't see myself buying any current or new consoles anyway, the wii (regular wii, not wii u) is going to be the last one i buy. So, i'm not taking that bus!
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