The current gen has as usual improved the visuals and allowed a few scenarios that weren't possibly due to technological constraints, services like LIVE have also expanded upon gaming as a social experience , offering us more and more ways to connect to other people around the world
The Wii has brought us a new way of interfacing with our games, with it's interesting input devices.
What else could be made better?
Do you feel any aspects of games design is overlooked?
What things do you believe would improve games?
I'd personally like to see more care and attention put into the animation within games, we are at a stage where we don't need to rely so heavily upon the hand animation. There are ways of producing animation routines which are a lot more flexible , but very few games choose to use this despite the obvious improvement it makes.
If you performed the same movement 10 times in a row, every single on of those motions would be slightly different, I want games have the facility yet to make minor adjustments to repeated animations. This would certainly lead to a more natural looking motion and would stop the robotic appearance that for instance a character in an RPG always has when you run.
Halo 3 uses a small amount of this for the breathing animation of the Spartan characters, which is a step in the right direction, but I want more of it dammit.
These techniques can be used to at the very least to blend the hand animations together.
Natural Motion and several other Physics software providers such as Havoc offer middle ware that allow for things similar to this, so it isn't exactly science fiction.
More procedural animation please, I can't wait to see the day when an enemy character dives or rolls out of the way, not because it has a pre determined rolling animation, but because it knows how to work it's entire body and how to move it in the most efficient way.
That brings me nicely onto AI, I want to see more improvement in AI, outside of FPS games nothing ever seems to change. There must be some more interesting uses for it other than squad AI.
Try and keep this discussion nice and positive, use your imagination to offer up some genuine improvements that the next generation hardware can make possible.
The Wii has brought us a new way of interfacing with our games, with it's interesting input devices.
What else could be made better?
Do you feel any aspects of games design is overlooked?
What things do you believe would improve games?
I'd personally like to see more care and attention put into the animation within games, we are at a stage where we don't need to rely so heavily upon the hand animation. There are ways of producing animation routines which are a lot more flexible , but very few games choose to use this despite the obvious improvement it makes.
If you performed the same movement 10 times in a row, every single on of those motions would be slightly different, I want games have the facility yet to make minor adjustments to repeated animations. This would certainly lead to a more natural looking motion and would stop the robotic appearance that for instance a character in an RPG always has when you run.
Halo 3 uses a small amount of this for the breathing animation of the Spartan characters, which is a step in the right direction, but I want more of it dammit.
These techniques can be used to at the very least to blend the hand animations together.
Natural Motion and several other Physics software providers such as Havoc offer middle ware that allow for things similar to this, so it isn't exactly science fiction.
More procedural animation please, I can't wait to see the day when an enemy character dives or rolls out of the way, not because it has a pre determined rolling animation, but because it knows how to work it's entire body and how to move it in the most efficient way.
That brings me nicely onto AI, I want to see more improvement in AI, outside of FPS games nothing ever seems to change. There must be some more interesting uses for it other than squad AI.
Try and keep this discussion nice and positive, use your imagination to offer up some genuine improvements that the next generation hardware can make possible.
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