The crash of the Video Game industry

[MultiVaC]

It think he's way off on the movies to games comparison. Look at HL2, a game he convieniently fails to mention. The voice acting and dialogue can stand with the majority of movies out there. Dr. Breen is a far more convincing villan than most of the crappy ones you see in action movies. The animations are so sophisticated that characters can convey emotions without saying a word. And it will only get better, games will get to a point where characters are photorealistic and move just like people do in real life. Games are in thier infancy still, and they will without a doubt reach the point where you can feel the emotion just as much as in movies. And not just in cutscenes, but in interactive scenes like Black Mesa East. There's nothing wrong with the pacing when you are in scripted sequences like that, uneless you are some kind of super noob who manageed to get killed by the Combine soldiers on the part where Dog is throwing an APC at them. So they will be just replayable as a movie. Actually, imo they already are much, much more replayable. But what's worse is that he says that watching a DVD only takes a couple hours out of his schedule but video games take hours and hours. FFS, who the hell sits down and plays an entire game start to finish? Show a little restraint, you don't NEED to know what happens at the end right away.

 

[theotherguy]

I don't think the gaming industry will collapse as much as it will evolve. To fill our void for novelty until holograms and direct stimulation come about, I think we will see more and more procedurally generated games like spore. No longer will we compare it to a movie in which the characters fail over and over again, but video games will become more of a dynamic world with dynamic storytelling and charachters.

I'm not just talking sim games, I'm talking FPS and RTS games that have hardcore elements being built entirely from scratch from the computer, different every time and dynamic in every way. That is the novelty I think we will be seeing in the next few decades.

Procedurally generating code and creating dynamic worlds would also cost considerably less than the hundreds of artists creating games today, and would probably bring the price of producing games and consoles down quite alot.

Also, as games move towards photorealism, those kind of graphics will soon loose their novelty, and instead we'll be looking for artistic and stylistic graphics that mess with our minds and our perception of reality, similar to the movement in art after photography was invented.

 

[PvtRyan]

I read it on teh intarwebs so it must be true!

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

"people's desire for tech novelty outweighed by their fear of being caught in an enormous electrical dorkhat."
-> lol

I thought about this back in the day too. The day video games become not fun.

I think now, though, VR may be the new thing. Not the dork hat, looks like you are there VR, but the motion sensing, feel like you are there kind of gameplay. Everything old is new again.