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roydotor2000
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*This topic is based on a Game Theory episode

Could games really predict the future? C'mon they're only video games........... BUT, are they only video games?

What do you think?

post opinions pls.

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R1a2z3e4
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I mean some games are inspired from the future like sci-fi games or what will happen in the future etc.

FishPreferred
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I mean some games are inspired from the future like sci-fi games or what will happen in the future etc.


Are you suggesting that game designers travelled to the distant future and took notes of what they saw in order to base games off it?
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Was contemplating adding a fix, seem necessary now..

I mean some games are inspired from the future like sci-fi games or what will happen in the future etc.


*some games are inspired from the perceived future, like sci-fi games or what is believed will happen in the future
R1a2z3e4
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Are you suggesting that game designers travelled to the distant future and took notes of what they saw in order to base games off it?


You know it is not possible till now. I mean the creativity of game designers for sci-fi games and what will happen in the future etc.
FishPreferred
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You know it is not possible till now. I mean the creativity of game designers for sci-fi games and what will happen in the future etc.


Uh...yeah...that still doesn't make any sense, so I'm going to go with what pang said.
R1a2z3e4
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Uh...yeah...that still doesn't make any sense, so I'm going to go with what pang said.


As you wish sir...
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as far as the thread's topic, my answer is an absolute yes. many sci-fi games that are out there inspired people to make things that make stuffs like that possible ( like the handphone, look in Star Trek and compare it with what we have right now and you'll see what i mean). but sci-fi games themselves are products of someone's imagination of what would future looks like. so maybe it's like the "if and only if" mathematical symbol in regards to the relation between the perceived future and games

roydotor2000
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Speaking of games, will there be WW3 in 2060 or 50?

Kennethhartanto
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i don't know, that's like 40 to 50 years to the future, a lot of things can happen at the time between those 40 to 50 years

roydotor2000
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So, do you think there would be a high economy growth rate in sometime in the future like some games featured

MacII
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But inasmuch as fiction is just extrapolation on the existing, yes of course some of these things will find their echoes in future.

Little mysterious or clairvoyant about it.

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