The Next 25 Years of Video Games

great article :)

11/12/2009 9:30:16 PM

Kiran

One thing I think you should have mentioned is the username, many already have universal usernames that they can be recognized by. Probably by 2050 or so more people will know you by your username than by your real name.

11/10/2009 6:08:29 PM

whitekurama

Have they considered using a hat to hide the electrodes? Not only would it hide the jackassery, but it would come in as many hat-tastic varieties as there are hats. Of course, if ever presented with the national anthem, people would be faced with the paradox of not removing their hat, or being jacked out of the game that's playing it in the first place.

11/10/2009 1:00:18 PM

FatCorgi

Obviously all of the people researching this s**t have never read the book "Feed"... I'm worried about our future.

11/10/2009 11:30:32 AM

elgsus

This totally makes me think of Deus Ex.

11/10/2009 11:29:55 AM

Dilemma

i think that the "Well when that Matrix s**t comes about I'm going to put a gun in my mouth." problem will be fixed flashpenny
someone could start a new gaming revolution where they stop making movie games and the average budget is in hundreds of dollars instead of thosens (or is it millions hmmmmm) they spend on well that usual same-as-3-other-games-that-come out-this-week

and mr. wong did u get ur ideas from "Serial Experiments Lain"? cause really i think all of those were in the first few episodes (besides the last one which was a big chuck of the plot)

10/29/2009 9:53:24 PM

monkyyy

Here-we-are-&-ps3-home-is-nowhere-to-be-seen

8/19/2009 11:50:58 PM

Kindahuge

Does that photo of the kid in the helmet on page 4 remind anyone else of "Akira"?

8/5/2009 4:01:58 PM

Literacy

Someone might have mentioned this before, but I am to lazy to read 113 comments. Ruck Rucker wrote a book called Postsingular about tiny nanomachines that used quantum entanglement to create a worldwide "Orphidnet" (that was the nanomachines were called--Orphids) and they were in everyone, so everyone was connected all the time to the new "internet." and the little Orphids could make AI assistance to help you and make you smarter and stuff. It's pretty good.

Also I get $0.50 everytime one of you reads it, so help keep me and my seven foster children fed. And my camel.

7/30/2009 5:53:08 PM

Mr.Quark

Good God I do not want this s**t to happen! Can't video game makers accept the fact that games are fine the way they are? Or better yet actually go back to the f*****g 90s and realize that games were magnificent back then? No, no they can't. Well when that Matrix s**t comes about I'm going to put a gun in my mouth.

7/23/2009 11:17:21 AM

Flashpenny

"But anyway, Spore looks pretty cool and we're looking forward to it."

made me lol

6/14/2009 1:14:36 PM

SnaveNareik

This makes me want to cry. I don't want to be alive that long.

5/13/2009 10:21:41 AM

LOZERwendy

Sometimes Cracked has dick jokes, sometimes it has wacky historical factoids, and sometimes it has visions of the future that blow your f*****g mind. Thanks, Cracked. I am scared as s**t of the future.

Also,
"There will be two kinds of people in the next 100 years: Those who trust technology, become transapient and the next step in evolution - And then the people who don't wish to evolve, mistrust technology, and fear change. Guess which one will be around longer, and which one will be wiped off the face of the earth as a matter of eventuality."
Hmm, I'll have to get back to you on that, Magneto.

3/23/2009 5:27:22 PM

stillhilarious

That'll be so kick-ass. I'd just not get into it and let everyone else sit around in their virtual world. In the real world there would be nobody to stop me from doing whatever I wanted.

"Let's go play with some TNT!"

"I feel like joy riding in a tank today."

"Lets play God and splice the genes of every animal togather."

3/20/2009 2:32:58 PM

Nicholas

This is going to be hell on earth. Think about it, no free will, no actual friends, no face time with anybody, NO HUMANS!! I dont know about you, but I think I would rather be dead then not have friends, and lives, and sports, and actual love, and meaning to life. The scariest part about this though is that it would be the most evil time in existence because there would be no religion or the bible to tell people to do good, in fact, jesus would be completely forgotten. No one would go to heaven anymore because (from the christian fate) no one would be able to get saved because they wouldnt be able to hear anything about any of that. So I'm pretty sure god would bring on the apocalypse before any of that could happen, because he wouldn't ever allow that to happen. So that stage in mankind will never happen because mankind wont be in existence.

3/20/2009 2:20:14 PM

johneridoe

This is seriously making me want to go live in a hole in Nunavut, living off venison for the rest of my life.

2/22/2009 3:08:44 PM

Witchfinder

i'm seriously beginning to wish I'd been born 20 years earlier

2/14/2009 12:39:08 PM

TAKEN

"There will be two kinds of people in the next 100 years: Those who trust technology, become transapient and the next step in evolution - And then the people who don't wish to evolve, mistrust technology, and fear change. Guess which one will be around longer, and which one will be wiped off the face of the earth as a matter of eventuality."

My guess is the ones who will be around longer are the ones having sex with real people, instead of the ones boinking machines.

1/18/2009 10:03:33 PM

Caegn

the difficulty would have to be so damn high on those games it would make insanity mode look like a walk in the park...
lets hope the future doesnt end up like harvest of stars lol

1/17/2009 10:24:11 PM

Scifi_Lover52

To add on to the ironic revenge, by then medical technology will have probably advanced far enough for computers to be able to revive us. They could literally make us respawn. We could be trapped in real-life Counter-Strike for eternity.

1/5/2009 6:06:08 PM

Sledgeham