I've seen screenshots, video clips, and animating gifs of various games with beautiful water effects. There are games that involve doing some scuba diving and such. Now where are my First-Person Oculus-ready surfing games?
Think about it. I have done some actual surfing, and it's a fun experience, but I kinda lack the balls to take on competition-sized waves. You know the kind I'm talking about. Overhead-sized waves (anything that crests over 6-10ft). But what about something more extreme, like the kinds of waves that require getting towed into them (20-40ft titans, like Jaws and Pipeline)? I'm talking about the kinds of waves that Laird Hamilton and Kelley Slater take on.
Pick a location, pick a time (sunrise, noon, afternoon, dusk, and if you're up to it, nighttime (moonlit while at it)), cloudy or clear skies, or slightly rainy to hurricane downpours and surges, or generate your own (workshop?), pick a board, or carve/design your own (more workshop), and surf's up.
An FPS (First-Person Surfer) game would utterly rock, especially with the Oculus on the horizon and our latest graphics to render the water and scenery to surreal levels (hell, even duck-diving under waves would look awesome). I know I don't normally value graphics all that much, but being out in the water, you need something awesome to look at, like the shores of Hawaii, Tahiti or something in full-force; even through the tube of the wave (reflections and refractions in first-person would be unreal; difficult to accomplish in real life, now the experience can be shared for the less-ballsy); especially if you're looking through some VR-lens.
Just as well, we need surfing games again. Especially ones with today's graphics that would also allow for first person perspectives (Cry-Engine or Unreal Engine 4 seems up to the task for rendering power for such a game). Naturally, rendering water, and it's physics, must be a bastard to master.
Videos:
http://youtu.be/VOLVowDWuikhttp://youtu.be/UCgd9Ji6aXohttp://youtu.be/T8HCF2cef74http://youtu.be/7woVTuN8k3chttp://youtu.be/M9-CaewvynAEDIT:
Uplink to Google Earth, and pick a location, and it generates a location based on the image (interpreting the breakers and topological information, and even the water color (of course, aligning the images with the generator so it can process properly (topomaps, and calculating surf conditions based on image references (reads metadata of when pic was taken and where for further accuracy)); and with Live Weather Maps, interpret the kind of surf you'll take on, on the spot. Kinda like Flight Simulator does, except for the waters.) and some tweaking, and you're set. Have fun with my town under the right settings. There's a reason we have some of the best surfers from here.
Additionally, you can always see other people's replay information, and edit your own surf videos and take snapshots, for the creative, yet unskilled surfers.
The VR experience would be the definition of awesome; but experiencing the real thing still surpasses even that. Can't beat real life experience. However, unlike real life, the VR experience won't kill you if you botch a 40ft monster wave, and hit a reef while at it.
EDIT EDIT:
Since we're on boards anyway, why not also make the same thing with other games like BMX and skating games? Sponsored by
Nitro Circus maybe? A Nitro Circus game would be pretty damn fun. Speaking of which,
Nitro Circus Live is back with a new season. 11PM on Tuesdays on MTV2 for anyone interested. It's worth the watch.
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