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[PATV] Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - Extra Credits Season 4, Ep. 7: TransGaming
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Extra Credits Season 4, Ep. 7: TransGaming
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/transgaming
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/transgaming
This week, we try (and fail) to contain our excitement about connected gaming experiences.
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But yeah, this stuff does seem pretty exciting. They were totally talking about my wife and me in that part about both playing games where the one person just wanted to spend time together, while not really enjoying the game.
But it was fun nonetheless.
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It's also an amazing change in the art of gaming. Think about movies, games and books that spin off into expanded universes. This is what trans-gaming is going to do for gaming. It's how a game becomes so much more than just the sum of that game. It can take what otherwise becomes a straight line narrative between multiple games of the same series and spins them into other games that take place in the same universe, but not necessarily the same series.
For instance, lets say the Mass Effect series branched out into an MMORTS game where you control armies, but had missions, objectives, and bonuses tie into the multiplayer and single player of the Mass Effect RPG. The single player of Mass Effect would then be further changed by the outcomes of the multiplayer. This makes the story of the RPG not only more important, but more expansive as well. It's no longer the story of your character, it's about how their actions have an effect on the rest of the universe. The story of the RTS also ties back in and becomes more then just your actions with your army, it's about it's effect on the whole of the universe.
This concept applied to Pokemon is something I think about frequently. I think a virtual pet game like Nintendogs would be a perfect way to interact with the Pokemon you own. And a Pokemon MMO is something that gets talked about a lot. It would be like playing as a hunter or warlock in Wow, I imagine (warlocks are the ones with the pet demons, right? I haven't played in a while).
Even something as simple as transferring saves from a console to a handheld would be great. I've heard the PS Vita can do this for some games?
I wonder if they'll bother fixing it...
If you play the multiplayer for around... 5 hours? you get 5 extra seconds of video if you chose a specific ending.
The idea is certainly good, but I think it needs to be tinkered with a bit.
...I kid. This has some pretty awesome potential.
Pokémon actually has more examples than given, though. I think their WiFi/web/crossover thing where you play simple flash games ni your browser is a decent, if fledgling example.
This video is kinda fuzzy, but for people who don't know what they're looking at, the orbital strike that impacts the Dust 541(heh. HEH.) screen is actually coming from the ship on the left screen, which is in EVE. This goes way beyond shared resource management and territory control, and straight into the far-flung future of a multiplayer experience shared in real-time between two games on two platforms.
Not only did this get me to play EVE again (and end up having a lot more fun with the redesigned tutorials), but it makes me want to get a PS3 just so I can say Bring the rain or Danger close or some shit all the time, to actual people who can bring that rain.