Smells: The Next Level in Gaming

[exfileme]

first game the GPU, then PhysX, 3D, and ray tracing. Now it seems that certain smells triggered within a game will be the next step in the evolution of games.

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[tenor77]

This seems as necessary as a weekly colon check. Do they have a smell for that btw?

Imagine if a Xbox had this? I wonder what kind of an error they could make with this one.....

 

[antilycus]

i have no sense of smell, so this is stupid.

 

[LATTEH]

i dont think if i was playin left 4 dead i would want to smell zombies O_O


but playing a racing game and seeming the ruber from the tires may be nice

 

[LATTEH]

[citation][nom]LATTEH[/nom]i dont think if i was playin left 4 dead i would want to smell zombies O_O but playing a racing game and seeming the ruber from the tires may be nice[/citation]


i meant smelling LOL

 

[Guest]

This is just something I am not interested in. I feel that it would be a pain to replenish all the scent bottles. Also, what about compatibility. I wouldn't want to buy it just for a few games. Neither would I want it if it just had a limited amount of smells.

 

[Master Exon]

I will play a game that requires my sense of smell.

 

[average joe]

Stupid.
As long as it can be turned off.
Kids have trouble getting there folks to buy an xbox now.
Imagine if it sticks up the whole house.

 

[vorless]

i want to smell the burning flesh of my victims while using my flame thrower in CoD5

 

[average joe]

I meant stinks.

 

[verenos]

Nothing like buying a game and wondering I wonder what the Orc on the cover smells like!

 

[gorehound]

i want to smell the rotting corpses of a WW2 shooter.

 

[crisisavatar]

[citation][nom]Antilycus[/nom]i have no sense of smell, so this is stupid.[/citation]
haha sucks to be you, we will all be smelling our way into something unnecessary while you are not !

 

[vertigo_2000]

Just one more thing to bring down the framerates in Crysis.

Then nVidia and AMD will be competing on who has the more authentic smells in their games. Very trivial.

 

[idisarmu]

Is this going to be another gimmick just like AmbX? I think so.

 

[Supertrek32]

I absolutely HATE artificial smells like this. Whenever I go to an amusment park with a ride that has smells, I end up getting sick later on because the junk always manages to stick to clothes (or skin, if you're sweating). I'm sorry, but smelling fake stink bug/BO/whatever for 8 hours isn't cool, and I can't imagine furniture smelling like it forever would be very cool either.

 

[doomsdaydave11]

I can't say I've never thought of the idea, but it's kind of a joke. I can't see this idea taking off within the next 15 years...

 

[eklipz330]

[citation][nom]LATTEH[/nom]i dont think if i was playin left 4 dead i would want to smell zombies O_Obut playing a racing game and seeming the ruber from the tires may be nice[/citation]

lol boomer throw up WILL MAKE YOU BARF lmfao no1 would play l4d anymore

 

[Guest]

why middle eastern locals? can't say sub Saharan desert or something like.. i know i know.. it misses the point.. but being politically correct should also be included in writing don't you think?
anyways... i still remember seeing the FMV in Return to Zork back in 94.. and was amazed to semi interact with those videos.. its about time they focus on that before they focus on smells.. 3D is nice.. but still its been over 15 years and still can't make real live action in a game?

 

[cablechewer]

Maybe I am dating myself, but I remember when my sister was a kid and she was into collecting all these scratch and sniff stickers. When I read verenos' comment my first thought was of those stickers. I really don't want scratch'n'sniff orcs I will be happy to stick with graphics and sound until we figure out holodecks or direct neural interfaces