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The Best Games of 2020
Gamasutra held a contest this year to describe what hit video games in the year 2020 would be like. Over 150 detailed entries were sent in, and they've posted the top 20. One persistent theme is the ever-present connectedness to the outside world, both in reality-based games and with multiplayer modes that are part of typical daily interactions. Quoting:
"It's just an average day at your job. Noon swings around and it's time to amble out of the cubicle farm and venture outside into the city to find some lunch. You put on your slick steel framed Hunters Glasses, place your Hunters earpiece, and with black and white Hunters Gloves on, step out of the building and onto the street. After a block suddenly your dark tinted shades switch to a red tint. A silky female voice echoes in your ear, 'Players within range. Good Hunting.' The glasses are acting as a WiFi enabled computer screen. You swivel your head to scope the scene and find someone standing out within the red crowd as a white outline. The man with the white outline is scouting the area as well, trying to find who else is in the game right now. You get within range, pack a virtual snow ball with your gloves, approach slowly, wind up and throw with all your might the virtual snow ball at the man with the white outline. 'Player Eliminated,' says the female voice, 'Uploading Statistics.'"
Duke Nukem Forever
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." - Thomas Sowell
The Best Game of 2020 will *not* be Duke Nukem Forever, due to a slight delay in the release schedule.
Geeze guys! You are geeks!
reminded me of a saying I once heard. "Humanity's last invention will be the holodeck."
Of course, this means you have to use your hands, so it's actually more kinda like a baby's toy.
You know what really killed VR's prospects as a game interface? You look like a total tosser wearing any kind of VR goggles. The worst possible off-in-his-own-world nerd stereotype brought to horrible life. The example quoted in the summary seems to think that not being enough of a tosser was the reason for failure. And let's not forget how you're inevitably going to get tased when you walk down the street "scouting out targets". Jesus.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
New level cap: Level 130!
Paladins are still busted!
New Archmage heroic class - start at level 120!
All your life are belong to us!
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Back then multiplayer was you bringing your controller to your friend's house or connecting your Game Boy to your buddy's via link cable. The only time you'd ever play with someone that you didn't know was when you played Street Fighter at the arcade in the mall or movie theater.
While this may be true for you, most of us have been playing multiplayer games since 1993 or so. Yeah, they had this bad ass console called a "Computer" and it had a James Bond clone called DOOM that had internet multiplayer. Crazy, I know. =)
In 2020 articles are sold by the sentence.
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I see the "future" of gaming in digital restriction management. Sports Game 2019 will automatically stop working when Sports Game 2020 is released. Moreover, maybe Sports League will convince Console Company to lock players out of the game when actual sports games are being played so as to conserve their audience.
Also, to shut down the used game market, games will become tied to the first console they're played on and won't work on others.
The rise of the big game financiers will push all games stories towards a generic formula that involves space marines. People won't like it, but what are you going to do, read a book! Muhahahaha!
Oh, sorry. Continuing, Rock Band 2020 will innovate significantly, featuring not only toy guitars drums and a microphone, but also a virtual hotel room that you wreck after the show for bonus points and a USB whiskey bottle.
It'll be a bright future!
Use the Firehose to mod down Second Life stories!
"It's just an average day at your job. Noon swings around and it's time to amble out of the cubicle farm and venture outside into the city to find some lunch. You put on your slick steel framed Hunters Glasses, place your Hunters earpiece, and with black and white Hunters Gloves on, step out of the building and onto the street. After a block suddenly your dark tinted shades switch to a red tint. A silky female voice echoes in your ear, 'Players within range. Good Hunting.' The glasses are acting as a WiFi enabled computer screen. You swivel your head to scope the scene and find someone standing out within the red crowd as a white outline. The man with the white outline is scouting the area as well, trying to find who else is in the game right now. You get within range, pack a virtual snow ball with your gloves, approach slowly, wind up and
you are struck by a car.
'Player Eliminated,' says the female voice, 'Uploading Statistics.'"
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Quite right. The only thing douche-ier is wearing two Bluetooth headsets at once, one in each ear. I saw a man so clad not long ago.
Our intelligent designer has never created an animal that we couldn't improve by strapping a bomb to it.