- Oddley765
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Posted by: SharkTooth__
This is what I've been thinking, as well. They're going to change the industry and it's going to be huge. It hit me a while back. I've been following Critical Path and what people have been saying about where the industry is going. Games are turning into more than just games. The industry is getting to a point of revolution. Dynamic characters, photorealism, emergent gameplay, and the lot of it is all going to truly have a presence in it. Changes are coming and BUNGiE is at the tip of the spear.
There are some very interesting prospects here, although then support xbox 360 I don't seem so much of that being used. More the genre blurring and persistent universe with an economy for now.
In future with next generation and kinect upgrades they could potentially map you facial expressions or body animation on to characters in real time.
Only new consoles could achieve this in my opinion and would have to be server based but there are a number of possibilities:
1. Facial expression sync'd with your microphone chatter, serious immersion and personalisation of characters. Imagine no more NPC's? Or imagine AI takes over your character when you're not playing in a persistent single universe?
2. Body animation, this seems very hard to implement but with Microsoft patenting a webcam/projector style device to use with Kinect style devices and all your walls/room become the game, similar to the interface in the movie Gamer. Long ways off perfecting though.
3. Customisable AI, imagine have a group of followers or clans etc that are made up of your online friends, AI's when they aren't playing and the ability to customise them such as aggressive, explosive, tactical, support, intelligence gathering etc. Again not for this generation of consoles.
4. Characters, in-game actions, roles and gaming across devices. Possible in this generation and much of what I have talked about in this thread. Overall enables players to use their console/PC as the main game but when away they can use their character from a different game aspect e.g. console/FPS and mobile phone/RTS strategy.
5. Kinect & Forge style mechanics. Imagine building Halo forge maps using the Kinect. You could combine the controller and Kinect for some insane features and customisation. Possible in this generation but more likely in the next generation, systems and designs have a long way to go to make this work intuitively.