In the game "The Witcher 3", almost most of the NPCs have GWENT card interaction options, GWENT card this game is simply poisonous, in addition to the game large and small NPCs have a deck of cards in their pockets, in addition to the game, players are also crazy about the pursuit of GWENT cards. Gwent has a variety of physical cards, and even some players have set up a special Gwent card battle website, and if you don't play cards for a day, you will feel uncomfortable!

The GWENT card pattern is based on the world view of The Witcher 3, which can be roughly divided into four cards: weather, unit, hero, and leader, each with its own special skills.

The gameplay is a best-of-three system, each card has its own attack power, and some special cards will also have their own skills. Each game of both sides take turns to play cards, until one side has no cards to play or give up the cards, calculate the attack power of both sides, the highest attack power will win. The cards are also divided into factions, and these factions also appear in the game. The rules are simple but very fun, and collecting GWENT cards and studying decks have become two of the biggest hobbies in the game for many players.

The Witcher 3 is a great way to embed a full-fledged card game into the game, and it would be even better if Blizzard could embed Hearthstone into WOW as well.

For example, if "Hearthstone" is added to WOW, there is a chance that such funny dialogue will appear.

Player: Lieutenant Thorne, I'm assigning a mission.

Thorne: Gilneth will not perish! Well, Commander, I'm afraid you won't be able to assign a mission today!

Player: Why? By the way, where is Alona, I was going to go with her to Tanaan for my daily life, she used to be waiting for me here.

Thorne: Oh, she should be over there in the mine right now.

Player: What is she doing there?

Thorne: Playing Hearthstone with Rand Sori, she just bought 50 packs from Benjamin yesterday to fight it out!

Gamer:...... Well, then why didn't you go?

Thorne: They're so bad they're not interested. Speaking of Commanders, do you want to talk about Gwent?

Player: Are you sure there are no copyright issues?

Thorne: That makes sense, then let's hit the Hearthstone Your president whispered: Let's go, continue to open up the wasteland M Hellfire today The president sent to you: Don't disturb me when you go away, I'm going to play Hearthstone!

You have blocked your president.

In fact, this set of mature card games is directly embedded in the game as a mini-game, and it is not the first thing The Witcher 3 did, in Jester's memory, in FF8. There is this kind of setting for scum, of course, the most famous is definitely The Witcher 3.

Of course, it's not just "Like a Dragon 0" and "The Witcher 3" that have taken great pains in mini-games, other games, such as "GTA5", which has swept the world, and the mode of free editing of maps added in it, can also change the game into various racing games. Even FPS games can be seen as an in-game mini-game enhancement.

Of course, the mini-game settings in GTA5 are more than just this kind of free editor, strictly speaking. The way of playing derived from this kind of freelance editing is contributed by players, not game companies, but in GTA5. There are also such mini-games-like things designed by game designers - and that is stocks.

Stocks...... It's so simple, and that's probably what people who have played the stock trading game in GTA5 think.

In GTA5, it's also a lot of fun to play around with stocks.

There are various estates in the game. The ultimate goal of many players in life is to buy all the buildings - and buy all the buildings inside the second ring and beyond! Of course, it is not enough to rely on the little money that is robbed every day, if you want to make money, you still have to speculate in stocks...... In the game, of course.

The trick of stock trading in GTA5 is to get the exact timing, although it is similar to stock trading in reality as a whole, but in the plot of the game, Lester, the think tank member behind the protagonists, will obtain some insider information through hacking, such as some assassination missions, after killing the target, it may affect the trend of the stock, if you follow Lester's tips to buy one by one, then the profit rate is still quite considerable.

Of course, in addition to stock trading, GTA5 also has a lot of small games, from shooting targets, throwing darts, golf, tennis, bicycle racing, parachuting, to flying airplanes, driving submarines, and even smoking big hemp and stock trading, almost all the small games that normal people can think of in their brains. Even if you don't do any tasks when you enter the game, you can play these mini-games for a whole day.

Other games include a variety of classic mini-games, such as Texas Hold'em in Red Dead Redemption, arcade poker in Far Cry, backgammon in Assassin's Creed, cards and gambling machines in the Fallout series, and a well-known game.

This game is called "Taige Lizhi Biography 5", maybe new players in the future, there are not too many people who have played or heard of this game, but this game can be said to be a pinnacle of similar games, almost unsurpassed, and the twenty or thirty small games added in order to enhance playability are also classics, and later games are either tributes or plagiarism, and there are even more people.

For example, in "The Legend of Chivalry", I paid tribute to "The Legend of Taige Aspiration 5" on the mini-game, and of course, the fun dropped significantly after reducing the difficulty of the mini-game.

These are a bit far away, Jester talked to Carmack about the development direction of the future game console, Carmack knew that there was a very confidential hardware development department in the company, this development department existed when he joined the company, I thought it was set up for the next generation of next-generation consoles, but then the development team of Dreambox3 was established, and this statement was unfair.

In short, this development team is extremely mysterious, and the people involved in the development have signed very strict confidentiality clauses, and the treatment is very high.

Later, with the improvement of his status in the company, Carmack knew and vaguely knew that this mysterious hardware development department was working on the development of somatosensory game equipment.

Carmack was still curious about the department.

He heard Jester casually ask him what he thought about the future development direction of game consoles, and Carmack happened to be interested in the new technology of somatosensory, plus he knew that there was a development department within the company that had been developing somatosensory hardware for several years, so he also smiled. Without thinking, he said: "I think that in the future, the home game console will gradually develop into an entertainment terminal in the living room, which may not only be used to play games with a controller, but also connect to some somatosensory devices......"

Jester listened and nodded, Carmack was still thinking quite far-reaching.

Home entertainment terminal this thing, to be honest. Sony wanted to make PS3 such a thing in the PS3 era, but unfortunately, because of various reasons, they failed, and even the absolute merit of the PS game console, Ken Kutaragi resigned, and then PS4, Sony's slogan was just a game, and it turned out to be very popular. Because in the eyes of players, game consoles are used to play games.

What a home entertainment terminal, we don't need this thing at all.

However, Microsoft does not believe in evil, and their XBO is actually following the old path of Sony's PS3. In a vain attempt to do what a home entertainment terminal, Jester does not dare to assert the final result of Microsoft's plan, but judging from the sales of a new generation of consoles, PS4 has twice the sales figure for XBO. It is enough to show how well the players agree with the ideas of both of them.

Of course, later Apple also seems to want to go for this home entertainment terminal. Trying to meddle in the business of living room games.

In Jester's opinion, this is simply not knowing whether to live or die.

Carmack talked about his affirmation of the future of somatosensory gaming devices, and believes that in the future, home game consoles with somatosensory devices will definitely become mainstream, and the controller operation will definitely be replaced by somatosensory operation equipment - Jester did not comment on whether what the other party said was right or not, and it was not necessary, after all, somatosensory can only exist in the laboratory now.

No one can say what his potential will be in the future.

However, as Jester who has experienced the hottest era of somatosensory game equipment, he knows that somatosensory equipment does have a future, but the future of somatosensory equipment is far less promising than many people think now.

In fact, somatosensory devices, for many people, many players, just sing a fresh, haven't played it, very much want to try it, and played, will quickly lose interest in this kind of game, just like the fate of WII, at the beginning of the launch, with somatosensory equipment, almost swept thousands of troops, XB360 and PS3 are not opponents at all.

It seems that the entire gaming industry has seen another revival of Nintendo.

However, in the battle for consoles in that era, WII's performance in the middle and late stages was extremely weak, of course, they had established an almost impossible to beat advantage in the early stages, although in the final console sales, WII's sales were higher than those of 360 and PS3, but, it didn't say that people, this era, belonged to WII.

Since the somatosensory game console,After experiencing the popularity of WII,It's quickly silent.,Even if Microsoft's Ken Milk - head is good enough,But it's still the same.。

Even if Sony's somatosensory equipment is like a piece of Xiang.

It didn't delay the crazy hot sale of PS4, and the sales hit Microsoft's mom didn't know.

Carmack talked for a long time about the future prospects of somatosensory devices, but it seemed that he felt that Jester, who had been listening carefully to what he said, didn't seem to agree with what he said, which made Carmack a little angry.

So, he immediately shut up.

Jester soon noticed Carmack's anomaly as well, and then he smiled and asked, "Do you think I don't agree with you?" ”

Carmack nodded.

Then Jester pondered a little and said: "Actually, you also know that in the company, there is a somatosensory equipment development department inside, and the density of this department is relatively high, but according to your level in the company, you can also get access to some information about this development department, although it is only on the periphery, but you also know what this department does." ”

"You seem to think that since I attach so much importance to the somatosensory equipment, and even spend a lot of money to develop this kind of equipment for so many years of secret research and development, then I must be very optimistic about the prospects of this kind of equipment - you are not wrong to think so, but my optimism is still very different from yours, or the optimism of some others."

Jester said in a flat tone.

"In my opinion, if the body sensation can be miniaturized, that is, it can be made into a small box, that is, in our home game consoles, it is indeed very marketable at the beginning, and even able to achieve a certain number of very ideal sales figures, but in my personal speculation, this boom will last for a very short time, and it may not even last for a console era."

While speaking, Jester shook his head: "And the reason why I attach so much importance to somatosensory equipment now is not that I think this thing will have much potential in the future, but I don't want our competitors to go ahead of us in this regard, although I am not optimistic about the long-term potential of somatosensory equipment, but I still have a cautious mentality about their explosive power in a short period of time." ”

Hearing Jester say this, Carmack also understood Jester's attitude towards somatosensory equipment.

He also nodded: "Then what do you mean, do you think that the replacement of home game console hardware in the future will definitely not be the somatosensory aspect?" ”

Faced with Carmack's question, Jester groaned again, he said: "To be precise, it will have a little to do with somatosensory, but somatosensory is not the main reason, in my mind, the next half generation, there may be a place for somatosensory, but the real next-generation console must be closely related to VR equipment." ”

Hearing Jester talk about VR equipment, Carmack's eyes lit up.

VR, as the name suggests, Virtual-Reality, translation is virtual reality, which is a comprehensive integration technology, involving computer graphics, human-computer interaction technology, sensing technology, artificial intelligence and other fields, it uses computers to generate realistic three-dimensional visual, auditory, olfactory and other senses, so that people as participants through appropriate devices, naturally experience and interact with the virtual world.

Of course, this is just a description of VR technology, and I don't know if it can be done in the future, but the current technology will definitely not be able to do it. (To be continued......)