The title itself is both vague and clear. There are two features that I would like to see in games in the future.
Imagine sitting there and playing an RPG of some sort. What if you could "shout" out, or simply say the name of the spell to make your character cast it? Why haven't this been done? What is it that makes it so complicated?
The only thing I could see that is a problem is that they would have to create a very dynamic system that recognizes dialects and different languages. But why not create a system that when you start the game you get to record the basic commands based on what class you choose, like the spells or abilities that you start out with? And then when you gain a new spell you record a command for that one. I would love this. Although I probably wouldn't want to use it in the presence of others or maybe that would be even better :D
The second thing is actually talking to characters. I do realize that this cannot, at least for a long time, be done. However, I would love to see the ability much like that in the old text-based Zork-games. If I want to ask an npc about something, I approach him or her and type my question and the npc responds to that. Why isn't that done? Or at least available as an option?
I do realize that you would have to phrase your questions in a certain way like "What do you know about..." , "Where can I find..." , "Where can I buy..." and so on. It would feel a lot more personal that way. Why are there no games that does that?
If you have examples of games that does this, please tell me about them below :) And please add your own thoughts about how all of this could work, and why you would like it/dislike it!
Cheers!
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
This is something I've thought about myself. I was getting my hopes up that Kinect's mic would be used for this kind of thing, but so far there hasn't been much, at least not for a "hardcore" gamer.
That idea of recording the commands early on is actually pretty similar to what Nintendogs does. Would be cool to have something like that in Mass Effect so I don't have to pause to use a power. Just yell "Unity!" or "Shockwave!"