• Yermaw@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    I’ve heard people say they won’t make HL3 until the next big leap in gaming is here.

    1 was with us into “true 3D” era

    2 was with us into physics engines

    Alyx was with us into VR gaming.

    3 will be with us …?*

    I’m excited to find where we’re going. Gaming has been pretty stale for a long time. Sure we’ve had plenty of games that have got very clever with what we have, but we haven’t had a major leap in a long time, they’ve just been getting a bit more polish and shine each year. Short of deep-dive VR I honestly don’t know what could be next.

    *Possibly actual AI? A world filled with characters that are actually intelligently responsive rather than just following a set of predefined behaviour patterns? Vortigaunt teammate that learns from you? Thinking about where we’re at technologically I have been wondering how long until AI is ready for implementation in games. Maybe this is it?

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      next big leap is an AAA game actually worth its price, which is what valve is trying to accomplish.