Bethesda pleases the raving crowd with Doom unveiling — releases in spring 2016

venturebeat.com ^ | Dean Takahashi

[BenLurkin]

Egads

[Fungi]

Ben, you play this game?

[Sarah Barracuda]

Also Fallout4 coming out, looks amazing!

[BenLurkin]

No.

I keep waiting for a video game where the player travels to a world of art and beauty, and there meets interesting characters with which to discuss philosophy and literature.

Looks like it’s going to be a long wait.

[SamAdams76]

Wolfenstein 3-D. That was the game even before Doom.

I played that game back in the early 1990s, when very few people had home computers. At the time, it was mind-blowing. Kids today would laugh at the crudity, cheesiness and primitiveness of it.

[demshateGod]

Disgusting. What a world we’re going into.

[BenLurkin]

A lot of FReepers play RPS games.

I do not — but it is a subject of interest for them.

[ChildOfThe60s]

bttt

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

If you can shoot the philosophers and artists you might have a profitable idea.

[sparklite2]

The state of artificial intelligence in video games is awesome. I don’t know when they’ll be able to produce artificial pedantry, though.

[rikkir]

The graphics are amazing on this Doom.
I played Wolfie, and Doom back then. Apples and Oranges.

[BenLurkin]

So true.....

[Vince Ferrer]

While I don’t like the super violent ones, I do occasionally play 3d games. My favorite of all time is Deus Ex, which is a very open world game before the term existed. It had a plot to the story and gave you advice, but it was up to you how to get through the levels, and you could use a lot of creativity. The player could shoot characters, or knock them unconscious. I even played it all the way through the game just running away from people. That works too, except for two people out of hundreds that the story’s plot forces you to confront. But even then, you don’t have to kill them. It is more suspenseful to play like that than to go in guns blazing.

[justa-hairyape]

Looks like I will need a new computer next year, but that author apparently never played Doom 3. It did not have a simple story line. It had a brilliant story line. Amazing actually. Won’t ruin it for those of you who have never played, but man what a story line.

[BenLurkin]

An elevated discussion with an AI character would require a program which could both understand our questions and formulate an appropriate and interesting response. And a link to the internet I’m guessing.

Having the character actually speak the dialog would be good rather than typed inquiries and responses.

Is that possible? It certainly would be cool.

[BenLurkin]

I’ll look into that. Thanks!

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I might be mistaken, but IIRC the current goal of roboticists is to make robots that can analyze, react to, and navigate the world consistently at the same level as a 3 year old human. What you're looking for won't be truly available for quite some time, I'm thinking, partially because even a passable approximation of "intelligent" AI would require a level of effort that a game simply wouldn't justify at the present time.

[Scrambler Bob]

M4L Game

[Vince Ferrer]

The original game came out in 2000. The graphics are pretty bad compared to what is available now, but the story is still very good. There is a prequel out that is also good, plus another one coming soon.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

[KC_Lion]

Yep So Cool!

E3 2015: Fallout 4 Collector's Edition Includes Real-Life Pip-Boy http://m.ign.com/articles/2015/06/15/

At Least I have one Awesome thing to look forward too after tonight's Game of Thrones Episode >:(