This week was a bit too quick for me, so I only got to play a new game today actually. Earlier my friend got her birthday present, a new Spider-Man PlayStation with a Spider-Man game included! So I got to play it!(Not the Miles Morales game) This Spider-Man game came out in 2018 and it got really good reviews, but I really couldn’t bring myself to spend money on it at the time. But I really love Spider-Man games for all the mechanics and open-world aspects. Being able to finally pick this game up even if it was only a couple hours was like heaven.
The features in this game really set it apart from other city based games, such as taking selfies while web-slinging. This really helps make the player FEEL like THEY are Peter Parker, whom loves taking pictures! It’s, what I feel like, a small touch that adds to the overall feeling of it. Plus adding such a feature helps show how much thought developers could put into it. The selfie thing isn’t exactly necessary for story but for immersion it’s very important!
Though besides that I do love fast traveling through New York City by web, its a great take on open-world games and I’ve always been amazed by the games themselves. Not just this one but previous ones too. I’ve always felt like Spider-Man games were truly ahead of their time.
What is the future of videogames? What do you think you will you be playing in 10 or 20 years? Describe, predict, guess, & reflect on games. Have fun
This is an incredible question because I love to think about how much games have changed over the years. And I believe, in order to see how the future will go, we must look at the consoles of the past. A big point is the Virtual Boy from Nintendo. This game system was so far ahead of it’s time it couldn’t even be replicated properly. Having this sort of virtual reality in such an old system actually paved the way to how games could and can be made. Such as, now we have Virtual Reality almost everywhere. Roller coasters are even using it!
Right now, it’s interesting to watch how people react to each games. Such as the free-to-play Genshin Impact. It’s a huge open world game that will have frequent updates once every 6 weeks. Usually games would be done at their release, but then The Sims pretty much introduced DLC and now so many games have them, Genshin Impact’s updates are free but the point I’m making is we are going to get games that will involve the populace in it’s development. Imagine getting Super Mario Bros but only the first world, then every few weeks you get the next world!
In the next few years I believe gaming will become more of a lifestyle. We interrogate gaming into our daily lives live we’ve never done so before. Virtual Reality but much like Roller Coasters, is also PART of reality. Virtual architecture both for easier sight seeing and for easier building. Virtual shopping, as if you are actually in the store picking out your food. There could be so many different and realistic style games that aren’t just games anymore. Open-world could simply and actually become A world.