Virtual Reality ? :)

shae

So I was reading last weeks casual friday at the Escapist (wonderful online magazine if you havn't read it yet) and the question posed to their team was this:

"Fifteen years from now, videogames may become 3-D holographs, programmed to give input to each of the 5 senses. What genre of game would you choose to be your first experience with true 'virtual reality'."

Which of coure in turn made me wonder what I myself would like to play in VR of the future and then FURTHER more, what my fellow wonderful players over at mmorpg.com would like to do in this brave new world. Because we matter too right, not just gifted writers for online magazines

And so as for me: I would love to be thrown in the middle of a horror mistery, slap dab in the middle of a slasher flick a la "scream", where every time I logged on I would be busy trying to figure out who was pegging off my friends one at a time .

So what about you ???

Kiamde

Postal 2.

I have a lot of bottled-up anger.

Demonicas

I think i would probably go for a fantasy genre for my first " real VR " experience, ( whenever that may be ). Something along the lines of FFXI or WoW.

However a good MMOFPS wouldn't be so bad either, something with a Halo feel to it would be amazing,though FF would still be 1st choice.

Trigget4k

FPS would be the most fun.. but if you got addicted to playing the games what would happen??

Sackynut

BATTLE FIELD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! think of how fun it would be to be IN the battlefield of your favorite game. also, a horrer game might be pretty good as well, but scary though.

Mysk

Mech Warrior. I thought about this around the time that the Lawnmower Man came out.

For my first VR experience I'd be strapped into a giant mech, music blaring, the sounds of my mech moving around me and dust blowing up as weapons fire strafes the ground around my feet. Kicking the jump jets in and hearing the roar as the mech vibrates and the G-Force pulls at me from the several tonne mech rocketting away from the newly viscerated earth.

Then you twist around and your computer squeals at you as you get a lock on your target and your vision's temporarily clouded from the smoke trails of your SRM volley. The glass on the front of your mech flashes as you lay into the short range pulse laser (or empty your machine gun ammo) into the other mech, then your whole world starts shaking as you take the full brunt of your target's own missle volley and your vision becomes a world of technicolor glare as your mech's cockpit/head is hit by a PPC blast. Then you hit the eject seconds before your mech's nuclear core goes into melt down...

...and you look across the miles beneath your feet to watch the mushroom cloud rush up at you and you laugh at the poor sod who just got turned into atoms. YEAHH!!!! >D GIMME GIMME GIMME!

*sigh*
I wish.

...but hey, your idea's cool too actually. I'd enjoy a good mystery. Just not as my first experience.

hartam

Dark and Light.

Laserwolf

I definately have dreamed of a VR Sword fight. They have a game like this in Arcades where you swing a sword  joystick thing that controls the characters sword in the game.

Wouldn't be a game for those out-of-shape. Would also be great if the controller could tell how much force was behind a swing. All these 10 and 11 year olds would only be able to pick-off the 300-400 lb players heh heh.

 

I just have this vision of a heavily panting 400 lb knight surrounded by a pack of circling 10 year olds moving in for the kill.

pistolier

EVE-ONLINE with out a question of a doubt. those amazing graphics and so much to do and wow it would be toooooooooooooooo cool-.
yeah.

Fantom18

If it was able to motivate all 5 senses I'd wanna be put into Leisure suit Larry or Playboy the Mansion.

Nah Im just jokin even though that would be fun, proly an fps but what happens when you get shot? Do you feel like your shot or just a lil jolt and you respawn. That would suck if it felt like you were acctually shot. Imagin the headshots.

-F18

Drachonis

Funny this topic is brough up,

becaus I am starting to think I am going to have to wait 15+ years to acutually get a game that will keep me interested. In any case, if any of you have read the Otherland saga by Tad Williams, and I know you have Then you will remember that on of the protagonists was a VR gamer by the name of Orlando. In the beginning of the series, he is brought into the conspiracy because his hight lvl warrior character on some Massive ( and I mean massive ) virtual reality RPG gets deleted for no reason. And I mean the detail in which Mr. Williams describes this VRRPG is amazing. I had to think to my self... one day, mabye we will get games that indepth and immersive. Oh well, here is to waiting M8tes.

shae

Kiamde: Seriously, you scare me

Misk: You've obviously thought of this before :P, but uh yah big explosions for you do it, nice vivid response though, thanks.

Drachonis: Loved Otherland ! Tad Williams is amazing, but anyways I can totally see it getting out of hand. As it is now, I get attached to my characters in MMO's in a crazy way, I can't imagine what it would be like ot have a character in a VRMMO, where your not just playing a character on screen but actually BEING that character. Scary thought.

Drachonis

I have to agree, a good mmo steals my life as it is now. A VRMMOG would probally end up taking my soul or something

Mysk

Shae, I thought about it a lot. When the Lawnmower Man came out I was still in a stage where I played games heavily. Their portrayal of a VR game that was a total experience was just about everything that I wanted at the time.

I was also rather into the MechWarrior sim games (perhaps surprisingly, I'm not at all fond of the flash-bang meg games released in the last few years). My imagination obviously ran wild with the idea. It got to the point where I more or less designed the physical game arena that the players would enter and the "cockpit" that a player would interact with.

It's not just that 'big explosions do it for me', we are after all talking about one's first experience in a fully immersed, totally simulated reality. There are a lot of other things that I could think of that I would love to do that include nothing blowing up - like flying freely over mountain tops or exploring the mysterious depths of the oceans (possibly of some fantasy world).

Think of it as the first time you experienced an MMORPG. It was a magical experience and on some level we probably judge every MMORPG that we play on that first experience.

I would want my first foray into a full VR experience to be something that I could look back on and remember the adrenlin, the thrill, and the absolute flood of sensation to every one 'o the five senses.

After that I would gladly join the mystery game and go on the hunt for the slasher. Digging through the clues and piecing the mystery together piece-by-piece would be a very fascinating experience made thoroughly enjoyable by the knowledge that there was no actual slasher and no real deaths.

~Mysk