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Suppose if the RPG just wasn't the computer screen? Suppose if they weren't just made up cities? Suppose if they were real cities and real places with real people. Just imagine the possibilities if you could program a holographic exact replica of...let's say Los Angeles. Let us just imagine (assuming technology allows it) if you would simply put on a helmet of some sort with simply two gloves and you would be in a replica of Los Angeles. You can do so much with the idea, even though Virtual Reality has been so fantasized and overly talked about incorporating it with vast storylines and real places is an interesting concept. Just imagine if you were a police officer in training, and your entire objective in the game is to become a full fledged cop and to do that you must bring down the sinister crime lord of the city. Well let's use the city we have been using, Los Angeles and you would actually roam the Los Angeles streets (real streets!) as if you were really there. You're RPG gaming world would be so tremendously large that the player would indeed need to look at road signs to know where he is going and even stop and ask for directions from time to time. Let alone from the city replica part there would be virtually 1440 replicas. One for every minute of the 24 hour day. Since it would be very odd to have an all sun up Los Angeles day throughout the entire games a replica would be needed for every minute of the day. Every hour would be too much of a difference quite noticeable by the player. Even five minutes would be noticeable. Also, you could have video images of real people. Voice activation would be a key in the game. As long as you talk loudly and Cleary the computer (or character) would respond with the proper and programmed response. You could also do this with RPG games. It would almost be as if making a movie if everything would be video recorded with a camera (for characters and such) special effects would be needed for the goblins and thunder bolts and everything. For instance, if you wanted a world that didn't exist you could make a model of one, make the replica and enlarge it to make the character fit inside the model replica. The possibilities are endless.
This too would be wonderful for educational purposes. Let's say you wanted to tour The Statue of Liberty, or the set of Dawson's Creek. No need to get on an airplane, just pop in your proper disk, hit run and presto. You're at New York, etc.
RPG Gaming
Matt
SciFiGuy@People.PC.COM
Matt if you just manage to stay alive for another 15-20 (20-30 is probably more likely) years you will get to experience this. And for the ones who thinks The Matrix was a bit too fiction, I have only one thing to say to you! Take a good look at the history of video games and I believe you will find a pattern.
Idea Reviewer:
-Vegard Aure-
