how real will games get?
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I loved that game .. Can i get that on my PC ?
they should develop some kind of addon that u attach to your body and so when u get hit/shot/damaged in whatever area of the player model, that pain can get transferred to the player. obv it shouldnt be lifelike, i mean getting shot in the leg i imagine is pretty painful 
Radiation said:I've always wondered why right now we couldn't have a graphical overlay on the real environment.
Imagine shooting stuff in your house or outside that's overlayed onto your view and being perfectly placed and lighted to the surroundings?
People might start getting some good exercise then, the only problem is you might not have the most interesting places to visit unless it could work out where all surfaces and objects are and overlay interesting textures etc.
It could be a sunny outside but you could overlay a resident evil scenario and all of a sudden it looks like its night time and there's zombies coming for you, just think of the possibilities.
Problem with that is it could mess you up, i.e playing so much to the point where you dont know the difference between game and reality. You'd need to have a stable mind for sure. Well.. i'm assuming anyway.
Plenty of games feature people been blown to pieces in a bloody mess. Quake, for example, spawned the phrase "gibbing". Heck, even Doom looks pretty brutal when you smash someone open to reveal a split-open ribcage and a bunch of meaty chunks. Games like Painkiller, Blood2, SoF etc have prided themselves on gory deaths.
One thing to bear in mind is that excessive gore doesn't necessarily translate to fun gameplay. You talk about people being pushed back by rockets, part of that is a gameplay element. Part of what makes Quake so great is the physics, being able to bounce people several metres up in the air with a rocket and then pin them against the ceiling/wall with shaft.
At the end of the day, gore is little more than a novelty that quickly wears off once you've seen a baddie blown into a thousand pieces for the hundreth time. It can make games more initially appealing, but in the long term there needs to be good gameplay underneath it to keep the player interested. Take the Carmageddon series as an example: Carma1+2, great games, played them both for months. Carma TDR2000, on the otherhand, crap game underneath it and lasted less than a week on my PC.
One thing to bear in mind is that excessive gore doesn't necessarily translate to fun gameplay. You talk about people being pushed back by rockets, part of that is a gameplay element. Part of what makes Quake so great is the physics, being able to bounce people several metres up in the air with a rocket and then pin them against the ceiling/wall with shaft.
At the end of the day, gore is little more than a novelty that quickly wears off once you've seen a baddie blown into a thousand pieces for the hundreth time. It can make games more initially appealing, but in the long term there needs to be good gameplay underneath it to keep the player interested. Take the Carmageddon series as an example: Carma1+2, great games, played them both for months. Carma TDR2000, on the otherhand, crap game underneath it and lasted less than a week on my PC.
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WhoA! that *** RULE!!!, i kinda get anoyed with all this technology when i shoot a guy in the head with a massive sniper rifle its still thier intact with no marks? I enjoyed it on farcry were you had decals on thier actual body like holes> But i want proper holes ECT
Sweetloaf said:So did Barbarian on the C64
It also had large breasts on the cover, not desperately relevant I know, but true nonetheless
Here it is I remember it well, the game was good too and those little pixely graphics were funny when he took the head off and it bounced around
Think its a page3 model, Ms. Whittaker.
I dont think games have got worse since then, some of the beasts in HL2 are nasty but not horific, a movie still beats pc for this. I watched a documentary on this by the father of a CS player and a psychologist he consulted agreed with this
Eliot said:
No but some of the zombie like things appear to have very little skin left
