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For me personally, the ultimate computer game would be one where each character in a gaming world is represented by an online computer gamer. When the person logs on, it would be like being born, you would recieve certain skills and abilities (perhaps even forms and alignments) that were unique and unalterable. Now, the programmers could ensure you weren't too pathetic/buff, but it would allow a unbelievable degree of involvement and interaction. It would mean incrediblie playability since you would evolve in a way no one else could and so if you joined a group would allow infinite diversity and enjoyment. It would basically be mirror of the real world in a fantasy environment. Could you imagine a game where, when you approached a character and they spoke, it was someone typing online, creating quests in their imagination. Or perhaps real happenings e.g. player logs on, gets a priest character, but no temple. Needs cash to finance set up, so pays you to rob another player etc. The world would be a dynamic and would allow play that was real and realistic. The quests would not be created but a neceesity. The repercussions would alter the environment and people in it e.g. a poor(er) merchant a new temple and
I know Ultima is an attempt to do this, but I mean to go one step further, a world where everything is player. no set quests etc. it would have to develop a personality of its own. Player might even get 'online born' as a dragon etc. What do you think.
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