Bluffmaster
Forerunner
Hi Guys,
I am sure most of the experienced gamers here have played almost all types of games belonging to different genres and I am no exception either. With the advance in technology we have seen an evolution of almost all the departments of game development. We now have better graphics, better presentation, better game design and mammoth game development budgets to go with it. Sure, everything looks pretty and "realistic" now but if there is one essential thing which hasn't changed much over the years, it has to be the game genres.
An FPS is still an FPS with a few tweaks here and there but the gameplay is essentially the same. There maybe a huge visual difference between Doom and Doom 3 but it still remains a run and gun shooter. This observation left me wondering, has every genre been invented already? Is there nothing new that we can come up with? Most of you would debate that maybe Motion gaming and 3D gaming is the next big thing but even if so, the genres would still remain the same.
So, just for fun, lets stress our brain a little to see if we can come up with a new kind of a genre which has the potential to fill some new life in the slowly decaying gaming industry? Lets share some ideas guys.
My idea of a new genre would be something like what the peeps in the movie "Inception" do. Create a world using your imagination. Its a pretty vague idea at this time and I am not sure how it would work in a gaming environment but it sounds interesting. And please don't confuse it with games like simcity or something, everything happens in real time here. With each step the protagonist takes, we have the ability to change the gaming world, build structures, destroy structures etc. Basically we are to play a GOD. How does it sound?
I am sure most of the experienced gamers here have played almost all types of games belonging to different genres and I am no exception either. With the advance in technology we have seen an evolution of almost all the departments of game development. We now have better graphics, better presentation, better game design and mammoth game development budgets to go with it. Sure, everything looks pretty and "realistic" now but if there is one essential thing which hasn't changed much over the years, it has to be the game genres.
An FPS is still an FPS with a few tweaks here and there but the gameplay is essentially the same. There maybe a huge visual difference between Doom and Doom 3 but it still remains a run and gun shooter. This observation left me wondering, has every genre been invented already? Is there nothing new that we can come up with? Most of you would debate that maybe Motion gaming and 3D gaming is the next big thing but even if so, the genres would still remain the same.
So, just for fun, lets stress our brain a little to see if we can come up with a new kind of a genre which has the potential to fill some new life in the slowly decaying gaming industry? Lets share some ideas guys.
My idea of a new genre would be something like what the peeps in the movie "Inception" do. Create a world using your imagination. Its a pretty vague idea at this time and I am not sure how it would work in a gaming environment but it sounds interesting. And please don't confuse it with games like simcity or something, everything happens in real time here. With each step the protagonist takes, we have the ability to change the gaming world, build structures, destroy structures etc. Basically we are to play a GOD. How does it sound?
