Copy Clerk  Posts: 65 Joined: 19 Mar 2008   | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2892 Joined: 4 May 2008     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1519 Joined: 18 Sep 2007     | Red Alert's Tesla Coils, and my balcony railing. That'll teach those feathered rats to crap on my patio furniture... -- Steve |
King of the Yetis  Posts: 1901 Joined: 15 Jul 2008    | I was actually going to do a Doctorpus M.D update on exactly this subject but could never think of more than two or three things. My favourite was always the gravity gun. What it could be used for: Making construction easy. Rescuing people from collapsed buildings, crushed cars etc What it's actually used for: Throwing radiators at people. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 397 Joined: 4 Sep 2008    | Lectures. Perfect Dark. Laptop Gun. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 203 Joined: 3 Aug 2008 | Time materia, to make sixth form go faster. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4654 Joined: 13 Feb 2008     |
Boy are you going to reverse that decision soon ;) |
Beat Writer  Posts: 206 Joined: 16 Jul 2008 | BFG 9000. And some other weapons. But most importantly, Meteror Materia. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1767 Joined: 13 Feb 2008   | Respawning. That would be crazy useful. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1088 Joined: 8 Apr 2008    | Ratchet & Clank's Sheepinator. Do I need to explain? |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 902 Joined: 14 May 2008 | Imagine how much fun the war in the middle east would be if all the soldiers had powers like juggernaut or last stand. |
Beat Writer Posts: 206 Joined: 16 Jul 2008 |
So would Esuna be for aids. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 973 Joined: 7 Nov 2007   | The portal gun, the possibilities are ENDLESS I tellz ya. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 618 Joined: 8 Jul 2008 | Class changing. *Poof* Now I'm a CEO! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1404 Joined: 28 Jun 2008   |
nah, it'd be more like. *poof*"What-ho! Old bean!" |
Beat Writer  Posts: 168 Joined: 22 May 2008 |
telsa coils sound like a futuristic contraceptive |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 432 Joined: 20 Aug 2008  | The Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (Portal Gun)and the Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator (Gravity Gun). Source Engine Dual-Wield. Yeah I learnt the names. I have nothing better to do |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 91 Joined: 27 Aug 2008  | I would want the hidden blade so if i forget where i put the knife i can cut my dinner without having to get up! I hate my cutlery it is so damn alusive! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2665 Joined: 8 May 2008  |
Really? I was going to say groove-a-tron. It's useful and fun. Not to mention great at parties! |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1088 Joined: 8 Apr 2008 |
But imagine the groove-a-tron if everyone was turned to sheep first |
Muckraker  Posts: 325 Joined: 4 Jun 2008 | Seriously, game physics could be used by engineers to test how much damage building can take before collapsing, thus saving lives. But that's boring so I choose the nanosuit from Crysis. Mainly because of the Cloak-mode but it's good to have Armor-mode, Speed-mode and Strength-mode too. |
Beat Writer Posts: 127 Joined: 26 Jun 2008 | Me and my friend were playing SSBB story mode and he pointed out how cool it would be with randomly placed floating platforms in real life just like in the game. We agreed that it could have it's uses but also a lot of issues. How would you know what kind of platform it was? What if you stepped on it and suddenly it flew you miles away from where it originally was? And what if it was one of those nasty ones that fall down after standing on them for a few seconds or turned around? Besides they would be plagued by vandalism and possibly even sabotage not to mention falling hazards, in the end they would probably be outlawed everywhere except for the Netherlands. Randomly placed floating money blocks however... that would be friggin' sweet! |
Beat Writer  Posts: 185 Joined: 20 Nov 2007 | Hm, when I read this thread title I thought about a different kind of game technology than the rest of you it seems. :P I was just pondering this yesterday because I was talking to a PhD student in the geology program that I'm studying at about his thesis project. He was using a super-realistic modeling program to simulate cave-ins underground (like in a mine tunnel or similar). The program calculated all the real-world physics to an exact degree, including the strength properties and existing fractures of the rock involved, how each piece of rock interacted with each other, and how the solid rocks in the ceiling would actually break into smaller pieces before falling. Realism to this degree required the program to run for between two and eight weeks for each simulation. He had to have like five computers running it simultaneously just to get any progress made. It's weird that a game physics engine can simulate moderately realistic physics and do it so fast it can be rendered in realtime, but I guess true realism is a big step up. However, a big part of it for games is that the video hardware is specifically designed to do those kinds of operations much faster than a regular CPU. With the new physics hardware coming out, I wonder if it wouldn't have many scientific applications as well as just gaming? Funny that leisure activities have driven the development of this technology, but then there's a lot more money in games than in scientific modeling software. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3684 Joined: 14 Jan 2008  | The miracle bed featured in every RPG. Because if RPGs have taught me anything it's Sleep>Cancer |
Muckraker  Posts: 340 Joined: 7 Sep 2008 |
My thoughts exactly. The Gravity Gun is also cool, and just about any gadget in the Ratchet and Clank universe. |
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There's a dog that keeps emptying itself on my front lawn, it makes me with I had a Zerg sunken colony to teach the little bugger a lesson.
Has anybody else thought of other uses for in-game equipment or items for the real world?