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[TamerVirus]

Uncle Boris's Shadow Puppet Simulator 2046

9/10- It has a little something for everyone!- IGN

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[Egan_BW]

Now you tell me what gaming is gonna be like in 2046

DF version 1.

[Superdorf]

Now you tell me what gaming is gonna be like in 2046

DF version 1.

YES.

[itisnotlogical]

Now you tell me what gaming is gonna be like in 2046

It's going to be very similar today, but people will complain even more. Video games will have reverted from an art form back to the expensive children's toy they were viewed as in the Atari days. This is largely due to gamers presenting themselves as an exclusionary, temperamental group that defaults to swearing, harassment and death threats when the new Pokemon game doesn't let them import their level 100 Klefki, or when their favorite games marketplace changes the font from 10px to 11px. AAA developers will go by pseudonyms if they choose to be credited at all, while "cult" indie developers start developing literal cults.

[Frumple]

I remember in the first Back to the Future, when Marty travelled to the future for the first time, there were VR pixelated games, why didn’t the movie makers think we would move past gsmes with such big pixels? Gsmes of course still carry pixels, but they are smaller and there are lots more of them, compared to the “VR” in BttF, when there were Dig Dug graphics but with less resolution

Because it was 1989, and the primary gaming system at the time was the fricken NES.
3D polygonal gaming was still years away. We have the benefit of hindsight.

Now you tell me what gaming is gonna be like in 2046

Reasonable retcon, they could have totally just tripped over a heavy retro area/gaming fad. It's not like we don't regularly produce low-fi games nowadays, no reason that couldn't have been what was going on in BttF, if you were trying to explain it by something that would make sense in-universe.

[King Zultan]

Now you tell me what gaming is gonna be like in 2046

Everything will be a game, as all things will become VR.

[Kagus]

I remember in the first Back to the Future, when Marty travelled to the future for the first time, there were VR pixelated games, why didn’t the movie makers think we would move past gsmes with such big pixels? Gsmes of course still carry pixels, but they are smaller and there are lots more of them, compared to the “VR” in BttF, when there were Dig Dug graphics but with less resolution

Because it was 1989, and the primary gaming system at the time was the fricken NES.
3D polygonal gaming was still years away. We have the benefit of hindsight.

Now you tell me what gaming is gonna be like in 2046

Reasonable retcon, they could have totally just tripped over a heavy retro area/gaming fad. It's not like we don't regularly produce low-fi games nowadays, no reason that couldn't have been what was going on in BttF, if you were trying to explain it by something that would make sense in-universe.

Or it was predicting a more mainstream move into voxels, which require significantly more processing power due to their third dimension, ergo lower resolution on higher-end machines.

[Iduno]

The Fast and the Furious saga has produced a more consistently good product and has a better fan base somehow than the Star Wars.

[TamerVirus]

That's because F&F gives fans what they want:
Expensive cars
Outlandish stunts
The rock doing rock things
Vin Diesel prattling on about family

[Il Palazzo]

SW would be great too, if it had Vin Diesel as Kylo and The Rock as Rey.

[Iduno]

There are people who edit baseball games down to just the parts where literally anything at all is happening, which shortens the game from 3-4 hours to about 15 minutes. Baseball is the Dragonball Z of sports.

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[Iduno]

A group of us were watching the Soccer/Futbol world championship one year, and ran out of beer. We got back with food and more beer 45 minutes later, to find out we had missed 0 scores, and 0 shots on goal. I don't think there were any statistics that are tracked that changed during that period of time.

Make the court smaller, and ice it over. That'll speed it up enough to be interesting, at least. To prevent floppers, give everyone a stick that is ostensibly to push the ball around.

[Naturegirl1999]

Ice soccer/ice football sounds interesting, it would be interesting to learn how different hockey would be if played with a sphere instead of a fisk