I really wonder what the state of video games will be in a few years time. For they seem to be going at a pace that’s almost unprecedented. And this in terms of visual quality, writing and voice-overs. Nowadays, by the looks of it, you can pull the games that are coming in to the market up to the level of movies. I don’t know, they might even qualify, one of these days, for the Oscars itself. If you’d like a brief history of video games, do look into this link.

But how have they changed? From the pacmans of bygone days? Well, to begin with, they are increasingly open ended. That means, the player can actually choose what the ending of the game will be. So because of your choices, your ending might be different from another players. This involves the player into the game a lot.

Another thing that gets the player into the game is the voice-overs. Big names are hired. It attracts a lot of people this way and plus they know what they are “voicing” about. The character you interact with in the game sound the way they should. Makes them more natural and so acceptable.

The final element which perhaps is the most important is the visual quality. Gone are the days where 2d elements ruled the screen. They had to concentrate more on the other aspects of the game as a compromise then. But now, it’s a whole new story. But of course,  this has a lot to do with your graphics hardware. You need to have a decent to a good hardware and the prices fortunately are dropping very fast. And they are getting increasingly powerful. Pixar the renowned animation studio, took about 5 hours to create a single frame for its Toy Story back in 1995 but now, the hardware has advanced so much that a similar scene takes about a fraction of a second such that about 65 frames can be created in a single second. Talk about improvement!

And that’s not all, games that are there in stereoscopic 3d are becoming increasingly common. This perhaps is the final frontier in gaming. Think of the level of immersion into the game that is possible with this technology! Games indeed have come a long way and as for their future accomplishments? Well, I’m awaiting a huge explosion for one thing – No a pixelosion!