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1997, October 1, The END DAY
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Lots of games like to set themselves up in the future, showcasing their own vision of what awaits mankind beyond our time, and with such there naturally comes a whole bunch of technological advancements and wonders and great historical events. Some of them tend to be rather modest (Halo, for example, is rather low-key about its tech, Spartan wanking aside) while others are much more fantastic but also give themselves plenty of breathing room (The X games and Freelancer are pretty high-tech, but are also something like 1000 years ahead of our time, and Tyrian is the 201st century).
And then you've got the "It's the future, RIGHT NOW!" crowd. I'm pretty sure you can figure out who they are: the games that have mankind making fantastical developments in the span of a few decades, or portraying some kind of apocalypse in the near future, or (most interestingly for this thread) having made predictions for such things only for the date of doom or discovery to have passed years ago. It's like the wonder of SCIENCE!
from the 40s and 50s, except more pixelated.
So in this thread, let's talk about and share the more ridiculous or outright silly predictions that games have made for the future of mankind, especially those of the come-and-gone variety: where airplanes will be the transportation of choice, people will be playing golf on the moon, and computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive only the five richest kings of Europe will own them, I'll start off with a personal favorite, as well as the thread titler:
1997, October 1, The END DAY
And then you've got the "It's the future, RIGHT NOW!" crowd. I'm pretty sure you can figure out who they are: the games that have mankind making fantastical developments in the span of a few decades, or portraying some kind of apocalypse in the near future, or (most interestingly for this thread) having made predictions for such things only for the date of doom or discovery to have passed years ago. It's like the wonder of SCIENCE!
from the 40s and 50s, except more pixelated.So in this thread, let's talk about and share the more ridiculous or outright silly predictions that games have made for the future of mankind, especially those of the come-and-gone variety: where airplanes will be the transportation of choice, people will be playing golf on the moon, and computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive only the five richest kings of Europe will own them, I'll start off with a personal favorite, as well as the thread titler:
1997, October 1, The END DAY
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I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Inconceivable.
2183. I'll never know if we find that mass relay or not.
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FREE STICKER!
EDIT: And since you mentioned Capcom, I guess I should bring in the whole Original Mega Man series, which by 200X gives us fully-functional AI, plasma cannons, teleportation, energy-to-matter conversion, and (depending on the canonicity of Mega Man V GB) faster-than-light dog jets.
EDIT: Daggonit Titmouse stop stealing my thoughts!
Don't make me retcon you.
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This game is the reason I still excitedly check the Virtual Console thread every single monday. Well, that and Earthbound.
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Man I haven't heard about any Chryssalid attacks yet. I guess X-Com wasn't real.
Good old Clash At Demonhead. When was 199X anyway?
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"How pathetic, they must really want to die flying those Z-95 Headhunters"
"Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well." - Leto II
The Game Over consists of us all dying in 1999 while living in domed cities.
That's because X-Com is doing their job successfully.
Pff, yeah, that's exactly what X-COM would want you to think :P
Also, would you actually want to hear about a Chryssalid attack?
Also, to the OP: I hate you, because now I need to find that GBA copy of Crystalis.
EDIT: I guess it was GBC, and apparently it sucked and fundamentally changed the game. No thank you :P
XBL: LiquidSnake2061
Because seriously. A decade to beat that game?
Sadly, the storyline says it is set in the 24th century... so it's still going to happen! Fuck high paid baseball players using steroids. Robots! Robots with tank treads and motorcycle wheels!
But for reals:
June 6, 1996! Aliens and mass global destruction.
"A few years from now." The game was released in 1990.
It apparently takes place in 1999. It's funny, but this is really what is happening to TV... just give it a few more years...
Oh lord.
perhaps it means 20010, i have no clue :c
It's just a variable. 200X means anywhere from 2000-2009.
There aint no aliens in snatcher!
I have no idea what "double-fisted action" means (nor do I want to know, I'm guessing), but it totally looks like a dude holding two Wiimotes.
Running Man takes place in 2019. That could end up being about right :P
Oh right.. they were like weird robotic dudes.
I wonder if they could design a game where you hold the wiimotes in that way and use them like joysticks. It could come with a little pad you could use to "anchor" it to the table or your lap.
It might be too finicky for use as a serious joystick, but for a fun little WiiWare game it might be pretty cool.
Ultra Smash TV... 1000 pts.... Mar 24th
They included a control scheme like that in the Metal Slug Anthology. It was laughably unusable. Maybe another dev team could make it work better.
Wiki says that Half-Life takes place between the years 2000 and 2009, but I don't remember anything directly in the game indicating any specific period.
Set in 2006, the distant future.
(released in 2003)
Oh sure it takes place in the 25th Century but Buck Rogers comes from the 20th Century where in 1999 the Soviet Union and the US engage in a nuclear war. Buck is sent into space to destroy a Soviet space platform where an AI acts as a command center for Soviet operations. Buck disables the thing but his ship is too fucked up to return to Earth so he uses an experimental cryogenic system to freeze himself and wait to be rescued.
And in the 25th Century all the AI are have .DOS at the end of their name.
the distant future
the distant future
THE DISTANT FUTURE
Resident 8bitdo expert.
Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
And then three years later in its storyline was its sequel.
Basically, the world gets all doom and gloom, and the only source of amusement for people is the Battle Game. The Battle Game is a one on one battle of mecha-pilot vs. mecha-pilot. The winner gained power and prestige, the loser is forced to serve the winner.
Yeah.
I WILL NOT BE DOING 3DS FOR NWC THREAD. SOMEONE ELSE WILL HAVE TO TAKE OVER.
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Guitar Hero: Metallica: 1032 7229 7191
TATSUNOKO VS CAPCOM: 1935-2070-9123
Nintendo DS:
Worms: Open Warfare 2: 1418-7870-1606 Space Bust-a-Move: 017398 403043
Scribblenauts: 1290-7509-5558
Is the Metal Slug Anthology not good? 'cause I was thinking about getting it. Eventually.