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The future of immersive gaming
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danhon
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 		The future of immersive gaming
Hey kids, new article:

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The ultimate problem with the massively multiplayer immersive gaming genre as it stands at the moment is a profound and depressing lack of innovation: since Microsoft/Warner Brothers released the AI promotion (and I hate to be carping on about this), the amount of real and successful innovation in the field has been next to nil. The main (weak) additions to the genre have been that of prize money (and there may well be problems with that, depending on what kind of game you're trying to build), and even more media tie-ins.

To be blunt: they have all, to a greater or lesser extent, sucked.


More at http://danhon.com/articles/archive/000407.shtml

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aliendial
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 		If they'd spend a little money on writers...

IMHO that's a big difference between AI and its pseudo-copycats. Plot, story etc. Sean Stewart invented his role on the fly and no one has come close to reproducing the quality of that component. Plus now they're charging us money (or trying to figure out how to charge us money) for the pleasure. Yeah, nothing in life is free, but there's a quality to the experience that paid games can't replicate.
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 		Innovation, huh? Just wait.
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