OK here's mine.
The future of gaming is ultra-realism.
I have a plan for a game which will probably need at least an AMD FX-53 + Radeon 9800 to run it.
Imagine something like this:
You install the game from a DVD onto your HD then double click the icon on your desktop to start.
There is no configuration to do because it will auto detect your system capabilities and adjust all the details to the max that your system can do.
There is no menu screen, just straight into the "game".
OK... the screen fades from black and you find yourself in a dark, derelict building with a group of about 8 soliders, looking down you realize that you have an SA80 in your hands.
You can hear the distant rumbling of explosions which makes the floor shake a little sometimes, apart from that there is only the sound of the wind.
One guy is telling you that we have to move out quickly because an enemy group of soldiers were spotted heading this way.
We start walking out of the building and you put on your night vision goggles which makes the distant anti aircraft tracer fire glow bright green in the sky.
All of a sudden the "leader" guy yells at us to get down, so you find cover in a muddy ditch, full of freezing cold water but you can't move because you'll be spotted by the enemy seen creeping across the field towards us.
The guy to the left of you takes a frag grenade out and pulls the pin, then cooks it off a little to give them no chance to run.
He throws it high and far then everyone starts opening fire with a vicious roar of gunfire.
The noise of your rifle makes your ears ring as you pick out the opposition with their AK47s but just before the last enemy guy falls he gets up in a kneeling position and throws a grenade over, a soldier over to the far left shoots him in the chest but it's too late, the nade lands about 30 feet away, instantly killing two and your vision blurs as a piece of red hot shrapnel tears into your lower leg.
Only two other remain, one with a severe gunshot wound to his upper arm and the guy on the right who seems to be in shock but otherwise physically unhurt.
No opposition remains but you must find a road patrol quickly to get the soldier with the shot wound to medical aid.
Your injury is not life threatening but it hurts to walk and you can only limp around.
Then, you suddenly realize that you are sat in front of your computer, not in a dark, cold, hostile location fighting to survive.
Of course, the graphics would need to be ultra realistic to pull it off and the AI would need to be indistinguishable from real humans but I think it would rock as a "game".
Maybe in the future games will be more a form of escapism than they are now but the best games are always the ones that are realistic.
I really want to make a game that's like watching a movie, Raven Shield has been the only game to come close - walk up some steps with your team following when you are using night vision: like watching a live raid!
