I love gaming at the moment. The use of a controller and the current way we interact with our consoles is more then enough to satisfy my needs. However with the introduction of Kinect, Ive been thinking. Where are we going with gaming, and how long will it take us to get there?
Kinect seems like the new craze for the xbox 360, it eliminates the use of controller by making you the controller. Your actions interact with the game, and it looks like gaming has reached an important milestone. But this is not the future of gaming every one’s dreamt of. It’s a gaming experience that everyone has looked forward to, but its not life changing. All my gaming life I have sat and pondered the future of gaming. Ive dreamt of the future, when you can be transported into the game (almost tron like). You know what I would give if I could feel as if I’m my character, put my persona into the game. I want to know the true thrill of storming across the battlefield with fear and adrenaline coursing through my veins. I want to feel bursts of my enemies blood brush across my face, my life slowed to nanoseconds so I can witness and absorb the problems of humanity fought by men not politicians. I want to feel the fatal shot that takes me down. Now this may sound like a sadist thought, but you can read the journals of simple men who used to be like us. Who had families and friend, yet they stood there ground for the greater good. There is no other feeling on earth that equates to war. But the closest anyone like me can get to it, is through gaming. That is why I find it such an intriguing concept. But that’s just my fantasy, if gaming could reach this level of authenticity. There’s no reason we all couldn’t live our fantasies. It could take gaming in a whole new direction.
So what I’m saying, is I hope that the future of gaming doesn’t hit a wall. I hope that it doesn’t stop adapting and evolving, because the potential of gaming is important. It could save lives and transform the world as we know it, and we could be known as the forefathers and the generation that laid the foundation to make this possible.
Oh, and I’m sure we wont look to much of a nob wearing this.
