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First thought: people living in parallel 5D universes must find 3D games boring to hell Just for the sake of argument, don't 3D games also include the 4th dime
by mootothemax 15y ago
First thought: people living in parallel 5D universes must find 3D games boring to hell
Just for the sake of argument, don't 3D games also include the 4th dimension? Surely a marketing guy from a games must have tried "NEW 4D ACTION YEAH!"-sloganed advertising by now?
- jeffreyg 15y agoThere's also a 4th spatial dimension. The 4th dimension does not automatically equal time - it is only considered that when talking about "space-time". also, check out Braid (braidgame.com) for a fun puzzle game that requires you to consider time travel.
- morsch 15y agoYou mean time? Not really. Few games allow any movement backwards in time, and practically none have free interaction with this "fourth" dimension as they have with the other three.
- cosgroveb 15y agoLots of games allow some movement backwards in time. They're called save points :)
- nooneelse 15y agoIf you want a game that allows more complicated movement in time, there is Achron (http://www.achrongame.com/site/ http://www.achrongame.com/site/).
- morsch 15y agoAgreed, that's why I wrote free interaction, meaning the same kind of freedom you have in the other dimensions. Achron is the only concept I know of that has fairly free interaction with time. However, there are a number of games that have deeper interaction with time than just save games, consider the variety of games that now offer some sort of "rewind" feature of the kind pioneered (afaik) by Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.
- locci 15y agoKen Kutaragi, ex CEO of SCEI, around 2006 declared the new Playstation 3 would be 4D.
- Legion 15y agoI'm pretty sure he meant 4C - as in 4 C-bills. Even that price estimate turned out to be optimistic.