Topic: Videogames in 50 years.

Sometimes I wonder,how will games be in about 50 years from now?I imagine my children playing with a PlayStation 48 or something...LOL.But seriously,maybe by that time you could be in the game.Wear a mask and gloves and suddenly be in the Star Wars universe as Boba Fett!Really cool,huh? ;)

{MW}DMC

That sounds AWESOME!!! Thats how I picture it, except when you put the helmet and gloves on, the technology would be less advanced. But I vision it very simular to you DMC. Im afraid that in 50 years, Star Wars will be nothing but ancient history. :/ :( What do you think?

That doesn't depend on us,but GL.If GL decides to continue SW through his children(he won't live until then)then SW will still RULE!

SW will live on through the fans. We don't need new movies and tv shows. Give us a few books, some comics, a game or two... Just do it every so often and SW will live forever.

But, yes, it'll be very interesting to see what video games are like in years to come. ...and to think I started out on an Atari 2600. :P

Our grandchildren will look upon our gaming computers and consoles with a mixture of disgust and extreme pity, wondering how their forefathers ever survived without Virtual Reality chips implanted in their skulls for a completely immersive gaming experience.

I'm not a big video game player but, Full Emersion RPGs would be kind of nice. Like .hack//SIGN but without the "lost in a video game with no way to get out" part.

I am sure that you will think of me as quite nihilistic, but I think that we will all be dead in fifty years.

That, or Raptured into Glorious Eternity.  :P
Hack//SIGN?  I seriously hope it doesn't get that bad...people will have no obligation to live their normal lives if virtual lives are more entertaining...I see millions of gamers jacked into a gaming Matrix 24/7, with robots to maintain their physical bodies and run society...we all know how that would turn out. ;)

It was a thought, from one angle I'm sure people would enjoy it and it life as we know it would go to pot but there would probably be a server issue. No matter how many people it can hold it has to fill up sometime. Knock offs and connection speed issues. No matter how advanced VGs get the internet will always be slow.

I'm not sure about 50 years, but some years from now (10, maybe 20) our brainwaves may influence how a game might work. Like being too worked up will make it harder to steer in a racing game. Or if its fined tuned enough, we might find ourselves using REAL Jedi Mind Tricks inside a game!

It would be just so cool!Do you think that PlayStation,X-box and nintendo will still be there?My opinion is yes,but with different names.I mean,imagine:Playstation 50 or somthing! LOL :D

naw, I think that they'll go all the way up to PS20, and then go to numerals or something. Like, PSI, PSII, PSIII, PSIV, PSV, and so forth...

Well,yeah that's an option too...But maybe Sony just change the name...Like Microsoft who changed X-box to X-box 360.

...They only did that because the PS3 was coming out, and an XBOX 2 would have sounded less-advanced.  Of course, now their next iteriations will have to be X-Box 720, then 1080, and so on. 

I would bet that 50 years from now, the internet would be pingless, and wireless worldwide.  Of course there would be technical issues...and haxxors.  :P  Just imagine some n00b speed-hacking in a lifelike game of Counter-Strike...

Wow,I don't want to imagine that....a world-wide mess.

Nintendo will definitly be around in 50 years. They are the video game KING. Despite what every silly rumour says they aren't going out of bussiness.

Have any of you seen the film eXistenz? It's about virtual reality games... It's great, but also kinda sick and disturbing lol. Anyway that's also how I see the future of video games. Sick and disturbing hehehe

I saw a movie once, I think it was called Brainscan. It was a movie about virtual reality. I thought it was cool!! hehe, it even had a SW reference or two. I have no idea when it came out though. I've never heard of eXistenz, but maybe I'll look it up on imdb later.

Yah, i agree I wouldn't want a game system called ps20 It's just too boring...

Anyways what game systems do you guys plan on getting

PS3

Nintendo Wii

Xbox 360??

None!  I'm a PC gamer! :P

in 50 years, there will be Halo 25.
lol

I am going to get the Wii.

They say that the Wii will not concentrate on graphics but on gameplay.I have an X-box360 and I will buy PS3 when it comes out.Halo 25....Imagine graphics...But Halo 3 will be the last one....

Surprised nobody has mentioned Tron yet. I think it would be awesome to throw a virtual frisbee at somebody and have it slice them in half =P . I can't even imagine 50 years from now, if they could go from atari to what halo 3 is gunna be like (and the amazing concept of the Wii) in less than 30 years, i have no clue to what the future holds...

Yeah...but we can still continue to make speculations....

We'll proably have a war and all die or some stupid crap like that. :P


TW

Oh my!(C3-PO)The odds of the destruction of Earth in 50 years are approximattely 1.000.000.000 to 1!
Han Solo:"Never tell me the odds!"

Hmmm... How many here know about Star Trek and the "Holodeck" ? Its basicaly a large square room and it creates holograms that look and feel (yes feel) real.

I think that we may have something like that in some fifty odd years from now.

Now that would be pretty cool.

And it will create less rape, molesting, AIDS, and HIVs. (If ya know what i mean...:P)


TW

Yeah....I wouldn't need to look for hot girls....

Or hot guys, for da ladies. ;)

TW

...but only if we can program in a Boba Fett type.... :P

Miba,you seem to be a little 'obsessed'with Boba Fett..... ;)

lol, just trying to make a joke off the "what would you hire boba for" thread.

Lol,but I would REALLY LIKE a Twilek chick dancing in front of me.... :D

dude.....thats wronge.......dude.....
*shakes head*

HAHAHAHA! lol same here dude...............same here........:lol:



TW

Ah,dreams... :D

Hey, there go those problems. Now to deal with the degradation of morals that this would cause.

I think it's a distinct possibility that something like a holodeck could come around in the distant future. If that's so, people will undoubtedly use it for what TW implied, and with the technology available they could simulate the perfect experience. But think about it: who would want an actual wife/girlfriend when you could have the perfect spouse without the "problem" of a personality? Never any stress from a relationship, just whatever you want, all the time. I think it would make people forget about love in real life, because the simulated thing would feel superior and wouldn't take as much effort as an actual relationship. Honestly, that scares me: forget the sanctity of marriage, the sanctity of life itself is at risk. No relationships, no kids, no human race. Maybe that's a bit extreme, and probably wouldn't happen, but I think it's safe to assume that people will stop wanting to get married when you could have your Twi'lek dancing girls.

Now that I've put my two cents in, I suggest we get back on topic before this gets off-color.

Gunslinger,I 100%agree with you! :D Let's get back on topic then.If SW exists by then,imagine that you play SWG online but in virtual reality!You will be the player and see things like in real life!!! *faints*

with the Holodeck:
*ding-dong**Salesman walks in*
Salesman: Hello?
Your wife:Yes?
Salesman: May I speak to the Man of the house?
Your wife: He's been in the holodeck since 2025.

Society will collapse when thrill is cheaper than living

Also there will probably be this statis cell thing where you have all this technology strapped on to you and just float there for hours on end and just play video games all year, only stopping to eat, drink, etc.

Man that would suck....But maybe they could make some rules...

that whole idea sounds cool but how much would something like that cost, im thinking in the 100000's or more.

Not if it's in mass production...

They would be about as expensive as the 360 is to us. People who want it and will use it alot will think its a good investment while people who don't apreciate it will think of it as a waste of money.

But about the gaming itself, i am both excited and afraid of what the future has to bring. I mean a holodeck would be awesome, until it malfunctions and the stuff becomes real... Virtual Rancor= awesome Real one= Death

At which point you get a Nobel prize for breaking the Law of Conservation of Matter. Cool.

That depends on how the holodeck is made, if the virtual creations are made from even the slightest amount of gas or plasma, it can be transformed into a solid. which does not break the Law of Conservation of Matter.

ps. i was only joking in the first place, no need to destroy my fun.

wohooooooooooooooo the end of the world ,oh no what will happen to the nachos?!!!!!!!1

what are you talking about...?