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I was thinking how graphics / gameplay might change in the next gen... Here is some things I'd like to see.
1. Liquid Simulation. (In 3d, not 2d. Don't link falling sand. :P) This would be totally awesome, like being inside of a boat when it sinks. Or Portal with water puzzles. Or a god game where you could control the water and lava to kill your people.
2. Muscle and Bone Simulation. Animation still has a long way to go in games, I think this would help alot. In games everyones arms are very rigid, but check out the scene in The Incredibles where Mr Incredible is lifting weights with the trains. Notice that they simulate his muscles so you can see them expand and contract.
Also, it would lead to a new level of gore. Think about tearing someone apart dynamically with a shotgun. *shudder*
3. More Enemies. I want to see an FPS with 500 players online on a huge map. AWESOME.
Any things that you want to see in games?
1. Liquid Simulation. (In 3d, not 2d. Don't link falling sand. :P) This would be totally awesome, like being inside of a boat when it sinks. Or Portal with water puzzles. Or a god game where you could control the water and lava to kill your people.
2. Muscle and Bone Simulation. Animation still has a long way to go in games, I think this would help alot. In games everyones arms are very rigid, but check out the scene in The Incredibles where Mr Incredible is lifting weights with the trains. Notice that they simulate his muscles so you can see them expand and contract.
Also, it would lead to a new level of gore. Think about tearing someone apart dynamically with a shotgun. *shudder*
3. More Enemies. I want to see an FPS with 500 players online on a huge map. AWESOME.
Any things that you want to see in games?
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2 is getting very close - look into the Euphoria tech demos and how it's used in GTA/Force Unleashed.
3 - you do not necessarily want to see this. More people does not mean more fun.
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Dynamic changes to textures. Wet, damaged, blood, tears etc..
Better shadows. The dithered shadow effect i've been seeing a lot of lately needs to be fixed/improved what ever. The shadows in Mass Effect & GTA4 are good examples of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m4pe6UAS2M
Now hopefully we will see some cool games made with it besides GOW of course.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
In terms of animation, I want to see emotion involved in the motions. Characters in games have run cycles, for example. Games would be great if they had different cycles for running into battle, running away from battle, running to try to save a loved one, running away from a natural disaster, etc. In Gears of War, there ought to be different animation for reloading, active reloading and ALMOST getting it right, active reloading and totally missing it, and such. The new Brothers in Arms game seems to be doing some of this with the main character's reactions while being shot at, but many of the more basic anims in that game don't look very good at all.
It'd add some strategy beyond 'hit it until it's dead'.
Yahtzee posited something like this a couple of years ago. It was very rudimentary (each limb has a certain amount of hitpoints, and each of those limbs is governed by what it's connected to), but people are thinking about it.
Euphoria does something like this, but not quite.
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For the umpteenth time, it doesn't count in the general scheme of things because most people won't play a game that looks as legible as this:
Hydrophobia? http://www.bladeinteractive.com/hydro.html
As someone else said, better object interaction.
Rainbow Six Vegas does this.
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Haha that's a good idea - I'm going to take a picture of my face and put it on my character in Mount&Blade. Unfortunately, since face skins are shared, I think that means something like 1/10th the rest of the population in the game will also have my face... but I suppose I have no problem with burying an axe into my face.
This is an interesting idea.
A friend of mine that worked on Blue Dragon as an animator told me that the main character has different base animation sets according to his age as he progresses through the game. That sounded pretty cool too and is somewhat similar to what you are suggesting.
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In other words, TRUE destructiblity.
I'd also like to see a system that makes clipping impossible, since two characters that are physically interacting with each other looks awkward and unwieldy, presumably to avoid clipping issues.
Movement in general still looks unnatural, however, with the advances in graphics. I think there's too much of a reliance on motion capture. Most of the time it doesn't fit the graphics at all, especially if the characters are wearing heavy armour or other gear. Take a look at the Haze intro; questionable graphics and dialogue aside, it's a perfect example of how stupid motion capturing can look sometimes. The characters move like the fucking ninja turtles from the first movie.
Hair, of course, has also yet to be perfected. But that might take a while.
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wow that was simply amazing. They need to make that into either an FPS or a dragon ball z game. I know that sounds pretty weird, but imagine fighting in dense city throwing the enemy through like 4 buildings and just watching that unfold. The computer you would need for that would be atrocious though, there was slow down in there footage reel there and most of that wasn't textured or had shadows and light.
Haha, YES.
One day, one day...
The Tony Hawk series did it some years ago. Don't know if they do it anymore. The last one I played was a review copy of THUG.
Also, that destruction video is awesome.
The below passage is from the BBC news site from back in the day, near the bottom, talking about GB camera peripherial
More interestingly, the Game Boy Camera enables one to take rather rough-looking photographs, mess about with them, and incorporate them in some (pretty basic) games. The accompanying Game Boy Printer can print out stickers depicting the photographs, or images contained in compatible games. The software developers Rare developed a system whereby a photograph of a person's face, taken with a Game Boy Camera, could be transferred to a Nintendo 64 using the Transfer Pak [sic] device and applied to the face of a multiplayer character in the game Perfect Dark, thus enabling people to play as themselves in-game; unfortunately, the system was removed from the game during development when it was realised that, if some murderer was found to have been playing Perfect Dark with likenesses of his or her victims, the repercussions from the media would be, to put it mildly, undesirable.
Actually, Pak is the correct speling when it comes to Nintendo products. :P
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Yes, hence [sic] after it indicates as such.
Oh, was it them who added the sic? I thought it was Kalk. :P
Also, I managed to get the spelling of 'spelling' wrong.
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This would, of course, be only for postmodern games, but still...
That would be terribly disorienting, 360 panoramic view...that would suck
It would work basically the same as any other game screen, except everything would be skinnier and halls would look freaky. Stuff on your left is still on your left and stuff on your right is still on your right.
So you know what's going on behind you. Why not?
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I suspect you could try this in UTClassic by editing the ini and increasing the view angle... or whatever that setting's called. It's the setthing you manually alter to run UT on Widescreen monitors.
Are you... are you serious?
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