True Vision of Future, 2017

[Ed Oscuro]

Looking into the deep future:

- The most topic titles at Hidden Object Games Emporium include "History of Where's Waldoing," "Big Fish in trouble?!," "HOGocalypto: 2018! Is this the end of HOG?" and "How much would you pay for an Online Hidden Object Game Leaderboard!?"

- As Cave, Konami, Capcom, and Zynga announce a new agreement with outdoor advertising giants ADAMS, CBS News, and Clear Channel to bring media to poster-sized digital signage and roving kiosks, old-timers decry the dilution of the classic handheld interface for social networking games and interpersonal contact requirements.

- A new sidescrolling Castlevania is released! However, it isn't actually Castlevania, according to at least two internet experts.

- The sun slips sideways and sends a fleet of solar serpents our way! Everyone to battle stations!

[mrsmiley381]

- The sun slips sideways and sends a fleet of solar serpents our way! Everyone to battle stations!

The other stuff amde me sad because of how true they are, but that one made me sad because it'll probably never happen.

Unless roving kiosks is technical jargon for arcade cabs with no pay-to-win elements, in which case I'd be quite happy.

[Estebang]

- Angry Birds On Ice: The Musical premieres to a sold-out audience and includes viewer participation through a smartphone app.

- Call of Duty: Ancient Warfare 2 (the follow-up to the highly acclaimed Future Warfare 3) makes its exclusive debut on the iPad 9.

- China finds great support for its Farmville-themed forced rural labor program.

- The US military instates its controversial "achievement" and "experience point" systems to boost soldier performance and morale during the wars with Iran and Syria.

- A battered, broken and desperate Cave, kept on life support by their Farmville clones, does the unthinkable and assists the MAME dev team in adding support for DFK, AK and SDOJ. "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!"

[Ed Oscuro]

- A battered, broken and desperate Cave, kept on life support by their Farmville clones, does the unthinkable and assists the MAME dev team in adding support for DFK, AK and SDOJ. "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!"

Pretty good list, but why did you forget the ad-sponsored update, 160u8?



(Fun diversion: Look at the "designed by" link on the MAMEdev homepage, click on the link, then look down to get this. It's a small, small world, and it is collapsing in on itself!)

[Estebang]

You're saying that MAME will have banner ads and commercial interludes when starting up a game in 2017?

I added another bullet point.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

Cave looking to attract new demographics to kkep the genre alive adds knitting, cats and gambling in their shmups

[Udderdude]

- Angry Birds On Ice: The Musical premieres to a sold-out audience and includes viewer participation through a smartphone app.

- China finds great support for its Farmville-themed forced rural labor program.

- A battered, broken and desperate Cave, kept on life support by their Farmville clones, does the unthinkable and assists the MAME dev team in adding support for DFK, AK and SDOJ. "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!"

lol.

[Estebang]

- Cave's latest smartphone-exclusive shmup is "DoughDawnPatch 3: Zombie Fart Wars - From the Makers of the HARDEST BOSS EVER Video!" You can stock up to 99 Mega Fart Bombs and they're priced at $1 each through microtransaction.

[Mortificator]

- The cock slap will be the new handshake.

[Sandlegs]

-every flush of your toilet will bring bathroom themed advertisements.

-every time you open the fridge or cupboard food ads play.

-when you start your car, ads for mechanics and oil change places play.

-you cannot disable these without breaking your terms of service agreement for everything you own.

[Observer]

- A.D. 2017. War was beginning.

(Sorry, it has to be done )

[JBC]

The Large Hadron Collider is struck by lightning during activation, transporting Eric Chahi to another world.

Viper Phase 2

Aliens: Colonial Marines is delayed

[neorichieb1971]

By 2017 common folk would have lost another 50% of their investments down a black hole, with no explanation other than a perception of some kind caused it.

Chinas bubble bursts and 50 million cars go on the used global market. Except the UK doesn't get many because we are right hand drive.

UK primeminister announces to first time mothers on welfare "your first ones on us, but if you have more your completely on your own"

[BPzeBanshee]

- PC Engine Fan X breaks into Taito's office, finds the ancient R-GRAY prototype PCB and uses its awesomeness to save the world from the evil aliens from Planet Z.

- Tony Abbott, Prime Minister of Australia by unpopular non-demand and backdoor handshakes with corporate giants, gets assassinated by a trained shark while doing his yearly triathlon in his usual Speedos.

- XOP G gets released and takes the world by storm, reviving the genre and influencing space vagina bosses for another 10 years.

Viper Phase 2

- Seibu Kaihatsu Inc. is restored as a company by popular demand after the smashing amount of purchases of Raiden Fighters ACES + OST Special Pack for Games on Demand/PSN and creates Viper Phase 2 which has a place in every town in the world and has a movie made after it. It is however not placed in RaidenCon convention's main section (the convention for Raiden games/material also founded by Seibu worldwide) but in the Misc. section which has Deathsmiles III Uncensored Edition.

[Kaiser]

- mjclark comes back and this time he's a terminator, his mission? Go back in time and kill system11 before he bans him.

- BPzebanshee produces shmups that smash Cave shmups to pieces in quality, Cave goes bankrupt.

- icycalm becomes the skynet.

- Shoe-sama will come up with a Shoe-machine-gun, the best trolling weapon yet.

- Ponies become the queens of j-pop

[sven666]

shmups forum progresses just like it did in 2012 and 2007 and 2002...

[Accutron]

I hope you like handheld games. The forum might go on, but the games won't. If even a single arcade shmup is released after 2017-2018, it will break an extremely well-defined 25+ year trend. I've run several statistical model variations, and they all say the same thing: arcade shmups are gone in 2017-2018 at the *latest*. This trend was recently reinforced with data from 2011 which falls directly on the projection. The simplified model is y=2018-x, where y is the year and x is the number of arcade shmups released in that year. Game counts are taken from the by-the-year list of arcade shooters in the chat forum. If there are any statisticians here, feel free to check my work, but it doesn't take a genius to see a very clear and rigid trend. Arcade shmups (and arcade games in other genres as well) are going bye-bye.

[Udderdude]

This thread suddenly got a lot more depressing.

Damn you, hard data.

[Zaarock]

Shmupocalypse 2017

- By 2017 people also realize no-one is playing shmups on these forums (a rigid trend also, maybe )

- A.D. 2017. War was beginning.

- Zero Wing memes get revived while at the same time the shmup genre dies out, becoming what most people will remember the genre for

[Davey]

If there are any statisticians here, feel free to check my work, but it doesn't take a genius to see a very clear and rigid trend.

The trend line doesn't have to be linear; more likely it'll asymptotically approach zero. Or maybe I'm wrong and we'll get -7 new arcade shmups in 2025.

[mrsmiley381]

If there are any statisticians here, feel free to check my work, but it doesn't take a genius to see a very clear and rigid trend.

The trend line doesn't have to be linear; more likely it'll asymptotically approach zero. Or maybe I'm wrong and we'll get -7 new arcade shmups in 2025.

Maybe at that point MAME devs would start removing shmups from the supported game list.

Terrifying thought, isn't it?

[Ed Oscuro]

Unless roving kiosks is technical jargon for arcade cabs with no pay-to-win elements, in which case I'd be quite happy.

One armed bandits, but the arm is like a rape tool for stealing your dollar bills

I've run several statistical model variations, and they all say the same thing: arcade shmups are gone in 2017-2018 at the *latest*.

There is a statistical model for a trend whose appearance was statistically an outlier within the history of gaming?

Wonders never cease!

But this thread is for true visions of future, we seek certainty, not high-probability predictions which are obviously useless at the bets window.

[Accutron]

Okay you want certainty...full size consoles will disappear and be replaced with touch sensing motion tracking camera-equipped mini-tablet handhelds that can communicate only with approved and signed display devices. No games will be actually held in resident storage on your game system, but will instead be streamed to you on the fly each time you play. When you buy 'physical' copy of a game, you don't actually get a game, just a box, manual, and a flash card with an unlocker code which immediately expires after being installed on a single system or user account, thus preventing resale. There will still be Gamestops, but they will be floundering under the collapse of their used game business model. One generation after that, all physical game sales or even the pretext of a physical game will come to an end. Non-retro arcades will be completely dead. In short, we will see a convergence of device types and rigid media control by the game companies. The era of physically existent, non-portable games will completely cease, except on the PC.

[Specineff]

-First and third-person shooters require an internet connection during single-player modes, in order to download and display advertisements in real time while you traverse the alien wastelands or uncharted islands, courtesy of Mtn Dew and New Triple Salsa Doritos.

-MAME adds support for App store games.

-Facebook updates with your PSN or Xbox Live kill-to-death ratio automatically. Get defriended when you fall into n00b status.

-Turns out The Matrix, Tron and Terminator were actually warnings sent from the future. The MCP, Skynet and the Architect are very real, working together, and pissed at the human race.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

Imo there will always be shmups while theres ppl who like these games, the only think that remains unclear if they'll be any professionally made that hasnt been basdardised with rpg elements. RPG hybridisation seems to be a growing trend with gaming as a whole