The Best Games of 2020 136
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.'"
You have got to be joking (Score:1, Informative)
ROFL. Put down the crack pipe. (Score:1, Informative)
ROFL!
11 years ago (i.e., 1998) I was happily playing DF2: Jedi Knight multiplayer against 4-8 people (iirc, it supported up to 16 players).
The game was released in 1997, and wasn't the first game to allow multiplayer.
The Gameboy color, which was released in 1998 ran for roughly 15 hours on two AA batteries. The gameboy did 9 on 4.
As for text messaging?
You're obviously American, as I was happily SMSing back in '95 here in good ol' Europe.
All cellphones I've had came with an address book, btw.
In other words, PUT THE FUCKING CRACK PIPE DOWN.
Re:Looking at those entries ... (Score:1, Informative)
Nope, Scott Adams. The man had a point, too. The rest of the paragraph went something like "It will be hard to convince me to shut off the holodeck, leaving Carmen Electra and her identical twin behind."
AC b/c I'm at work.
Re:Why should they be so different? (Score:3, Informative)
I really don't believe so. There are whole genres of games around today that pretty much didn't exist 10 years ago. Rhythm action, for example
You've never played with a Simon [wikipedia.org] have you? Oh, I guess you're right. That was nearly 20 years ago. 10 years ago we only had Parappa the Rappa [wikipedia.org].
Re:Dennou Coil. (Score:4, Informative)
No, no, wearing a Bluetooth headset outside of your car still makes you look like a douchebag.