Woohoo, official off-topic thread!

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ScreamPaste Carpe Noctem

Originally posted by Nephthys
Your a scary gai.
How so? o.o

Nephthys The Gr8est!!!!!!!!

Dunno. It sounded like a cool thing to say at the time.

NemeBro Senior Member

Originally posted by General Kaliero
Imagine something like an adventure game that overlays a virtual dungeon on your home as you walk around it, visible through the screen as you explore. Maybe you're looking for treasure, or fighting enemies that pop out from behind corners, or any number of things like that.
Game-areas being equivelant to the size of my house?

Unless I misunderstood exactly what you meant.

General Kaliero F = ma, beeyotches.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Game-areas being equivelant to the size of my house?

Unless I misunderstood exactly what you meant.


The concept would need a lot of fine-tuning, but that was my immediate concept, yeah. The game could use low-visibility darkness to mask the process of recognizing walls and doors before rendering a virtual texture to match them, if the process even took that long to perform. Like carrying a torch through a cave or something. End result being that it generates a virtual space matching the dimensions of the space you're playing in.

NemeBro Senior Member

Originally posted by General Kaliero
The concept would need a lot of fine-tuning, but that was my immediate concept, yeah. The game could use low-visibility darkness to mask the process of recognizing walls and doors before rendering a virtual texture to match them, if the process even took that long to perform. Like carrying a torch through a cave or something. End result being that it generates a virtual space matching the dimensions of the space you're playing in.
Or they could go the whole nine yards and sell ENTIRE HOUSES that are game systems that use the technolog that could theoretically make the walls, ceilings, and floor themselves a tv/computer/game screen and everything would look like a super kewl awesome dungeon insde your mega fun house. : D

I have also heard Kinect's technology is being used to make intereactive holograms. mmm

PERHAPS USE THAT TECHNOLOGY IN TANDEM TO FILL THE GAME WORLD OF YOUR HOUSE IN!?

General Kaliero F = ma, beeyotches.

Hell, extend the concept and range a bit further, and you have the first LAMMORPG*. Turn a neighborhood or an entire city into a fantasy realm with magic, swords, and absolutely no griefing because you could murder that son of a ***** in a second.

*

Spoiler:
pronounced "Lamb or pig"

NemeBro Senior Member

Originally posted by General Kaliero
Hell, extend the concept and range a bit further, and you have the first LAMMORPG*. Turn a neighborhood or an entire city into a fantasy realm with magic, swords, and absolutely no griefing because you could murder that son of a ***** in a second.

*pronounced "Lamb or pig"

**** yeah! Like a total bawss.

Though, to be serious, ideally, the future of gaming takes place completely mentally.

General Kaliero F = ma, beeyotches.

Oh yeah, to be sure. But I think we're a little further away from Matrix-style brainplugs yet.

NemeBro Senior Member

A year or so ago I actually saw something on that. mmm

Not Matrix-type though, it did not require plugs.

Phanteros the Shade knight

At this rate we all will have our own personel animus.

RE: Blaxican #gottem

Originally posted by Nemesis X
Eyelashes can't crush my balls of steel you fool.
Is this what my influence over Xbox LIVE does to an impressionable young youth?!

NemeBro Senior Member

Who here wants to see what I look like sopping-wet?

RE: Blaxican #gottem

If you don't have your own TV, if you literally can't even spend like 70 bucks for a 16 inch television, then how can you afford:

1. Video games, which cost like 60 bucks not including taxes, and/or

2. The $400 console itself.

With 400 bucks you could buy a Wii/360/PS3 and a 20 inch 1080p plasma screen TV.

ermm

I'm really not buying the "you can use the Ipadcontroller as a TV!" argument.

Ridley_Prime Smug icon slayer

Originally posted by Nemesis X
Johnny Cage's fists weren't mortal either and yet they broke the moment they made contact with my indestructible nuts estahuh

Then he powered back up and did his enhanced ball breaker move special, followed by his ball breaker x-ray, and left you unconscious or wishing you were dead.

😄

Originally posted by General Kaliero
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/3524-Our-Oscars

Excellent, excellent video.


I'm not impressed.

Originally posted by ScreamPaste
So, Nintendo wins E3 two years in a row. Awesome. mmm The Wii-U looks INCREDIBLE. 😐

I don't know about two E3s in a row, but yeah. They certainly won this one..

Originally posted by Peach
It's basically what I and a few others pointed out in the Wii U thread. Most hardcore gamers are very set in their ways and surprisingly conservative, and 1) don't like sharing their hobby and 2) immediately dismiss anything that's out of their comfort zone (what they're used to) as not being worthwhile. In short, most of them tend to be whiny children who pout when everything's not catered 100% to them, and need to grow up.

Ironically, that might perhaps sum up the Wii U bashers in this thread also. mmm

RE: Blaxican #gottem

"What have I done?!"

This isn't the comic book verse. wtf

ScreamPaste Carpe Noctem

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
If you don't have your own TV, if you literally can't even spend like 70 bucks for a 16 inch television, then how can you afford:

1. Video games, which cost like 60 bucks not including taxes, and/or

2. The $400 console itself.

With 400 bucks you could buy a Wii/360/PS3 and a 20 inch 1080p plasma screen TV.

ermm

I'm really not buying the "you can use the Ipadcontroller as a TV!" argument.

Not buying a tiny television. mmm Would rather save up for a decent sized one I can use for a couple years with satisfaction. Also, I in theory /could/ buy a small tv and one of those, but with the wii-U coming out there's no reason to buy a Ps3 or a 360. Not that I couldn't already get 90% of their good games on the PC, which sort of alleviates my need of a tv further. Without a tv my gaming has admittedly suffered, in that I haven't been able to play my Wii.

The consoles I'm actually interested in; the Wii-U and 3DS, have their own screens, and one can use a tv. I'll buy the Wii-U first if I can.

Also, I've never seen a tv of any reasonable size for less than 200$ mmm

RE: Blaxican #gottem

You're not willing to buy a 20 inch television for 100 bucks (I have a 1080p 32inch LCD that I got for $120 on tiger direct, btw. never underestimate da intranets), but you have no qualms about playing games on an Ipadcontroller that has a 3 inch screen?

Peach mordrem

I got my TV for $100.

...I bought it second-hand from a friend when he got a new one.

It's only 27", but I don't have room for anything larger, and it works perfectly fine, so yay.

ScreamPaste Carpe Noctem

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
You're not willing to buy a 20 inch television for 100 bucks (I have a 1080p 32inch LCD that I got for $120 on tiger direct, btw. never underestimate da intranets), but you have no qualms about playing games on an Ipadcontroller that has a 3 inch screen?

The screen is 6.2 inches. It's also not an iPad. 😐

If I can find a cheapish one, sure, but I tend to buy things with the frame of mind that I want to get several years use out of it. mmm So, I want to buy a 30-ish inch tv when I finally do.

Ridley_Prime Smug icon slayer

Originally posted by ScreamPaste
but with the wii-U coming out there's no reason to buy a Ps3 or a 360.

Spoken like a true fanboy. 🤨 Still too early really to dictate if whether or not a Wii U makes the PS3 and 360 obsolete in terms of games library...

Originally posted by ScreamPaste
Not that I couldn't already get 90% of their good games on the PC, which sort of alleviates my need of a tv further.

Most of that 10% that currently aren't on the PC are some pretty damn good games though, but to each his own. 😬