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Bfire's ideas for next-gen game technology
Well, I'm really bored. That's right, today's gaming technology bores the shit (by the way, the Paradise isn't a totally family friendly site, expect risqué words, but never any porn) out of me. Ge-force can suck Voodoo's ass for all I care. Massive online worlds (that Everquest and Asheron crap) are just rip-offs (I hate paying $50 bucks AND monthly fees). So, what would I, a true gamer, love to see in gaming entertainment this century? Here we go.
Total Virtual Reality
I call it TVR. This would be the force-feedback of the future. I can picture
this as the perfect platform for the 3D shooter, although other genres could
benefit from it as well. You would buy a phone booth type of structure, where
you would enter and play games in TVR mode. Basically, the typical TVR booth has
a curved screen of sorts, this would surround you. A wireless joystick or gun
would serve as your weapon. Now for the cool parts. You would attach a system of
straps to your arms and legs (more advanced models can have a system of lasers
that can do this). These straps will allow you to actually sidestep to scroll
the screen left and right. Looking up, lets you look up, same thing for down.
When someone shoots you, you will feel physical pain in the appropriate parts of
your body (very small pain, of course, this isn't the suicide booth from
Futurama.) To run or walk, you have to actually run or walk (for you lazy asses,
you could still do this by pressing a button.) When you kill someone, when you
go by a garden, when you walk through a sewer, the booth will release the
appropriate scent. Sound will be truly surround, of course. When it's raining,
the booth will actually wet your sorry ass (this setting will definitely be
adjustable, of course.) When you go by a beach, the temperature will get hotter,
try to frag in Alaska, and you will actually be freezing. Now, by far, my most
favorite idea, is that TVR booths will be able to connect with each other through
the Internet, and, boy-oh-boy, get a load of deathmatches then. This is how
online fragfests would go. You could either have an incredibly detailed model
(probably recorded from a real actor) representing you on the battlefield, or if
you thing you look hot, you could enable a camera system on the booth to
represent your image perfectly. Heheheheh, I guess this will also mean
higher-tech cybersex, but code will need to be implemented to prevent people
from running naked online. To chat with your teammates, you could either just
yell and they will hear you perfectly, or for shy people (like me), you could
have your voice altered to sound like anything you like: male, female, gay guy,
Oprah, whatever. But understand that I'm not going overboard with this. You
won't be able to actually touch someone from across the globe, just look at
them.
Well friends, I hope you bared with me and read all that (whew, I was on a roll,
eh?). Now trust me, when you think about the rate of scientific and
technological growth today, the TVR booth IS possible THIS century. Maybe, if
I'm lucky, even before 2050. The surrounding screen is no biggie. The body
straps can easily be done. The wireless weapons, cameras, sounds, smells, and
temperatures, are all within TODAY's technology. All that prevents the TVR from
becoming a reality right now are four things: incredibly advanced coding (check
out the Programming World section), unbelievable
graphics, or more like movie shots (since they will surround you), the high
costs of producing and marketing such a product, and finally the need for
extremely fast Net access (I'm talking about the equivalent of fiber-opticing
every home here, ladies and gentlemen). Soon TVR will happen, and you will be
proud to say that you heard it at Bfire's Paradise first. Thanks all, God bless
you, and have an awesome night.
--The One And Only <<<Bluefire>>>