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[RoboFu]

So all of us older gamers lived through the first golden age of gaming. We had constant innovation for years in the hardware and software sectors that push new and exciting ideas in game design, but now it's the same things year after year just a little bigger, prettier, more convenient, and brighter. Just by looking at the image groups below it looks like storage is at a dead end, controllers are about as good as they can get with a 2d screen, Tvs just get slightly better colors and images year over year, and graphics hardware now need crazy amounts of power for the most minuscule upgrades.

What do you think will be the next break out tech to push industry innovation forward again?



The evolution and stagnation of gaming tech:

just so no one thinks I am picking on GOW.

 

[Joel Was Right]

VR. It is the next frontier. Whoever cracks it will have a generation of people literally plugged in, and addicted

 

[BennyBlanco]

Generating your own games through AI prompts

Make me a metroidvania about a goth girl with giant tits in the style of cuphead and the final boss is Goku

 

[LectureMaster]

We thought it was gonna be Game Pass.

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[Represent.]

AI. Specifically NPC AI over just enemy AI

 

[DarkShadowXI]

AI that understands you've played a video game before and stops spoon feeding you tutorials for 10 hours.

 

[Loomy]

VR, but no one wants that apparently.

 

[Rosoboy19]

Generating your own games through AI prompts

Make me a metroidvania about a goth girl with giant tits in the style of cuphead and the final boss is Goku

That game would be a massive hit with the skibidi toilet generation.

 

[RoboFu]

IDK is AI really that much of a tangible thing? Maybe. It could bring back the " point and click " style of gaming if your actions and words really influenced AI behavior. Could be a good VR experience.

 

[Walliwallipaloo]

Umm... hopefully actual passion and creativity.
But first the forest must burn for new growth to rise...

 

[R6Rider]

VR, but no one wants that apparently.

More VR would be awesome.

Some of the best games I've played this generation have been VR titles.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Ideas.

Not just more tech for tech's sake.

 

[DarkShadowXI]

We already have AI call centers where they sound like humans.

Will we have AI online opponents or even friends in the near future to keep an online game alive indefinitely?

Will they teabag you and say unpleasantries about your mother?

One can only dream.

 

[RoboFu]

Ideas.

Not just more tech for tech's sake.

tech breeds ideas. the move cds and video brought in new ideas even if not the best it got people thinking. the move to 3D brought a whole slew of hardware and gameplay changes.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I think TV screens and surround sound systems are going away.
Soon everyone will be playing on handheld devices with earbuds and or glasses/VR/AR.

Ask your Great Grandpa about that old cable called an HDMI. He might remember.

 

[Rentahamster]

We haven't waggled enough yet. There's still much to discover in the waggle realm.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Matchmaking via in game scenario rather than the pre game lobby.

 

[March Climber]

Whoever figures this out first for a full game, without the unrealistic amount of tint, blur, and sharpening effects:




Whether it's AI-based or some other sort of related system.

Edit: Also, whenever someone figures out the legalities of A.I. enhancements with voices, we can get things like this:



This guy created an entire story scenario that never existed in the game simply by talking to the NPCs.

I would love for controllers in general to evolve but we have reached a point to where everyone is scared to change the status quo. It will always be two sticks, 4 shoulder buttons, d-pad, and 4 face buttons.

 

[RoboFu]

I think TV screens and surround sound systems are going away.
Soon everyone will be playing on handheld devices with earbuds and or glasses/VR/AR.

Ask your Great Grandpa about that old cable called an HDMI. He might remember.

TV replacement is what I am thinking as well. Ar/Vr might be it if they can get the glasses small enough.. which is only a waiting game now. could you image not just games but a horror movie where the scene is literally all around you.

 

[DarkShadowXI]

I think TV screens and surround sound systems are going away.
Soon everyone will be playing on handheld devices with earbuds and or glasses/VR/AR.

Ask your Great Grandpa about that old cable called an HDMI. He might remember.

Bury me with my component cables, please!

They're getting closer to the glasses being accepted as a normal thing. I can't believe Meta is leading the way, but here we are.

They gotta get battery life to 18 hours, so we have a long way to go. Pretty amazing what they can do now, though.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Generating your own games through AI prompts

Make me a metroidvania about a goth girl with giant tits in the style of cuphead and the final boss is Goku

I used to code my own games from library books on the C64 as a tot.

It wasn't fun, so I played already made games.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Bury me with my component cables, please!

Component cables, I think those were the slings our ancestors used to throw rocks when hunting for food.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

Affordable prices so that normies and their kids buy consoles again?

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

tech breeds ideas. the move cds and video brought in new ideas even if not the best it got people thinking. the move to 3D brought a whole slew of hardware and gameplay changes.

Sure, but how long ago was that? With diminishing returns comes diminishing creative innovation from tech.

 

[RoboFu]

I used to code my own games from library books on the C64 as a tot.

It wasn't fun, so I played already made games.

I think the first iteration of what he is talking about will be like "Make your own quest" adventure mode in say a game like GOW. you just type our say a short description of what it is you want to do and AI fills in the rest using the game assets.

 

[Boss Mog]

AI is gonna be the next big game changer. At every level. It will accelerate dev time and reduce costs. It will boost performance and it will be integrated directly both into the console interface and into the games themselves. At the console level you'll be able to ask it tips or strategies and at the game level you'll be able to have conversations with NPCs in RPGs and such.

 

[RoboFu]

Sure, but how long ago was that? With diminishing returns comes diminishing creative innovation from tech.

which is the whole point of this thread. What could possibly be that next thing?

 

[DarkShadowXI]

Whoever figures this out first for a full game, without the unrealistic amount of tint, blur, and sharpening effects:




Whether it's AI-based or some other sort of related system.

Edit: Also, whenever someone figures out the legalities of A.I. enhancements with voices, we can get things like this:



This guy created an entire story scenario that never existed in the game simply by talking to the NPCs.

I would love for controllers in general to evolve but we have reached a point to where everyone is scared to change the status quo. It will always be two sticks, 4 shoulder buttons, d-pad, and 4 face buttons.

I think we've hit a point where they've perfected controllers. Pretty much all of the 1st party ones are comfortable for most.

The innovations in haptics and dynamic triggers have been welcomed.

To your point, I don't see controllers ever changing, either. Just minor advances in immersion.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I think the first iteration of what he is talking about will be like "Make your own quest" adventure mode in say a game like GOW. you just type our say a short description of what it is you want to do and AI fills in the rest using the game assets.

/remove all the propaganda assets

"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

 

[Hudo]

Good games (that work as advertised) at reasonable prices. Most games are mid to shit and cost 70€+

 

[Guilty_AI]

Good games (that work as advertised) at reasonable prices. Most games are mid to shit and cost 70€+

this, what's most needed right now is the need to figure out efficient development pipelines and sustainable business models

 

[metareferential]

Of course if you take Sony's and Nintendo's first party you're going to see more stagnation.

The industry has been moving, just outside of first parties: just look at UE, Frostbite, RTX, DLSS, VR, etc.

And now everything is going AI. For better or worse.

 

[RoboFu]

I think we've hit a point where they've perfected controllers. Pretty much all of the 1st party ones are comfortable for most.

The innovations in haptics and dynamic triggers have been welcomed.

To your point, I don't see controllers ever changing, either. Just minor advances in immersion.

controllers would change if there was big enough movement. something like sensors that read your heartbeat on the controller handles. ( actually been done before in arcades ) Ai that uses it to see if your are lying. or to notice if your anxiety level or breathing heavy as you are hiding from an enemy. could be fun.

 

[RCX]

New gameplay ideas.

Stop making it prettier. It looks great as it is. 8K is pointless and you're hitting a wall in terms of what will impress.

Make games that play better. Play differently. Present original ideas and surprise people. Build on top of old ones and add new spins that we can't believe nobody though of before. Set new standards of how games can be pure, unbridled fun.

Quit trying to confuse the market with shiny shit. That's the domain of a select few and generally leads to failure (Hellblade 2, I'm looking at you)

 

[March Climber]

I think we've hit a point where they've perfected controllers. Pretty much all of the 1st party ones are comfortable for most.

The innovations in haptics and dynamic triggers have been welcomed.

To your point, I don't see controllers ever changing, either. Just minor advances in immersion.

I think the right stick is a gigantic flaw that everyone continues to ignore, especially now that a large portion of 3D games use camera movement and camera aim. I think there is room for innovation there, but again everyone is stubborn about it so it doesn't matter.

I still remember a large number of gamers and media alike, dragging Valve over the coals for even attempting to change it:

 

[RoboFu]

Of course if you take Sony's and Nintendo's first party you're going to see more stagnation.

The industry has been moving, just outside of first parties: just look at UE, Frostbite, RTX, DLSS, VR, etc.

And now everything is going AI. For better or worse.

those things only make prettier versions of what we already have.

 

[metareferential]

those things only make prettier versions of what we already have.

No, not VR.

It still is a new tech, though. We've had just less than a decade of it. And just a couple years of good affordable tech.

It's basically where 3D graphics was in 1990.

 

[bitbydeath]

Dynamic AI

We got a glimpse of it in RDR2, it improved with Days Gone and I expect/hope it will be taken even further again in GTAVI.

 

[Wildebeest]

War games. Not like Call of Duty. Games you can play in a bunker. Games you can play while fighting on the front line.

 

[Sethbacca]

No, not VR.

It still is a new tech, though. We've had just less than a decade of it. And just a couple years of good affordable tech.

It's basically where 3D graphics was in 1990.

VR has been around since WAAAAAAAAAY before that. But yeah, it's got a ways to go before it's in a form factor that people will use while still providing good graphics.

 

[Zacfoldor]

AI. A killer app for AI that uses a mic+LLM could be awesome and we've never seen the like.

They kinda did it in fortnite with the vadar questions(I don't play fortnite for the record, and hate that shit, just so everyone knows this).

Anyway, yeah, the Vadar thing in Fortnite but in a SP game would blow fucking MINDS. Kojima style.

Imagine a MGS game but with accessible AI thru mic. Then pull a Nintendo and make puzzles around the AI and now you got a stew going.

This would need to be an online connected game but it could be SP. Much as I hate fortnite it is way out ahead on AI. MS could have done this so easy but it just never crosses their minds, these things. The AI companion sites already understand this and already have AI companions but we need that integrated into a videogame, like imagine if Cortana was an AI and you could chat with her while you played.

 

[DarkShadowXI]

VR has been around since WAAAAAAAAAY before that. But yeah, it's got a ways to go before it's in a form factor that people will use while still providing good graphics.

Even SEGA was tinkering with it before Virtual Boy. And they're still not the first.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

I want matrix level vr or a holodeck

 

[VGA-Games]

What this Industry really needs is more of Nintendo!!!

Quality and Fun new Video Games from all Publishers and Game Developers!!!

 

[MacReady13]

VR for mine. Once you've witnessed it it's an incredible experience.

But also, why the focus on tech so much when the REAL focus should ALWAYS be on gameplay. Storytelling to a lesser degree but that is pretty important. Gameplay though is king and should be the main focus moving forward.

 

[StueyDuck]

with the inevitable emergence of cloud gaming (it will actually be good one day) expect most of gaming to go handheld.

Much like how kids watch movies and tv shows on their cellphones, gaming won't be far behind and all the companies will pivot towards it.

Playstation will evenetually be an app you download.

but we are talking way down the line here.

Also AI in gaming is also coming, lets just hope it's used properly and not cheaply.

 

[existensmaximum]

Actual fun games would be super cool.

 

[lastmessiah]

I played this VR puzzle game called Ghost Town, made by The Room devs, and it convinced me that this is the future once it is affordable/accessible to the unwashed masses.

 

[Project EVE]

photo mode day 1 in every game, forget the trophy requirement. photo mode day 1.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Stereoscopic 3D deserves another push.