Game Theory: How Real Can Video Games Get? 

okay I accually watched this FOR CLASS. I had to write a essay about Television, and I watched this to understand how it works! so thank you mat pat, for making school a bit more enjoyable.

Years later and we still haven't find out what was matpat's confession

Tv: PIKACHU, THUNDERBOLT!!!! Me: POKEMON!!! (MatPat changes channels) Me: NNNOOO!!

I am 200% for the running around virtual controls. It will help curb our weight problem

Can you do a theory about "Watch Dogs"? How possible can ctOS and the hacking of it will happen in real life?

These GT intros keep getting better and better :)

Damn my human limitations! D'X

do you know how many more people would be in shape if those machines were readily available

I think it would be awesome to actually jack in to a virtual world with our mind, like the Matrix. Alas, I don't think that will happen in my lifetime.

I won't be happy till we get sword art online levels of immersion.

"With each set being a mini-Chernobyl disaster..." Lmao quotes like this keep me coming back. Well done sire.

My phone:hello welcome to game theory My teacher:what was that Me:ummmmmm a theory video My teacher: oh game theory that's ok carry on

Personally, the whole "using our bodies to play a video game" thing sounds extremely appealing. As you get better and better at the game, you also get more and more fit, so it wouldn't be as much a video game tournament as a marathon. Also, we would FINALLY BE ABLE TO SPRINT FOR AS LONG AS WE WANT instead of having to wait for a little bar to fill up. Also imagine what horror games would be like!

I for one would actually like to see cinemas using oculus rift technology. You couldn't get more immersive than that, can you?

9:36 I would play the shit out of Skyrim like that. No fast traveling.

Total immersion? Sword Art Online, you listening developers! Get on it!

You should do a game theory on whether or not the Nervegear from Sword Art Online is possible, and if it is, how close we are to making it.

lets all vote for dating sims so matpat actually gets inpressed

How about virtual reality like in sword art online. Basically you put on a helmet and lie down in a comfortable position, after that you are placed into a dream like state. You can move just like in the real life, but the helmet blocks your nerves to send a single to your body parts saying to do something. To be honest I would love something like that c:

I don't know whether anyone said it or not... But the Frankenstein monster is actually named "The Monster". Frankenstein is the name of the doctor. The more you know~

How about this? A gaming device that gives the body the impression that it's sleeping, putting it in sleep paralysis, which mutes the bodies movements. The device now puts an image directly into the brain of the game. The device reads brain signals, so when you try to move your body, it's muted in real life, but you can move in the game (like you can in real life). The device also sends the brain signals from all 21 senses, including taste, touch (including pain and temperature readings), smell, hearing, spacial orientation and, as already listed, sight. The game now loads a virtual reality that the player can experience like a lucid dream. This is what I would conciser the most real video games can get.

Jokes on you MatPat, I clicked the dating sim thing

My favorite opening bit. Well done, vaudevillian MatPat.

And in the start of 2019 curved tv's are common and 4k tv's are under $400 lol

Who thinks Vsause and The game Theorists should do a video together?

How many people Here have seen SAO because MatPat needs to watch that shit. now. Like seriously, NAOW. People asking for immersion Beware! And it's a really cool idea and I secretly hope someone makes it that doesn't have a god complex. Or maybe, that's all part of the fun :D

You scientists were so busy deciding whether or not you could that you never stopped to ask whether you SHOULD

"No desire to smell the great, mighty poo, or get PTSD" lets all just sit back and think about what it would be like to be in Dark Souls for even a few minutes.

I personally despise the push towards realism mainly because a lot of it comes at the expense of clever and creative art design, replacing it it with shades of "brown" and "more different brown". Like, compare how stylistcally varied mainstream gaming was in the 8/16-bit era to how it was now, and you'll see my point.

Of course 16-year-old MatPat, at home, playing video games, is wearing a suit.

Am I the only one who wouldn't mind physically running while playing a video game? Think of how many calories you'd burn in a 5hour FPS gameplay session xD (not to mention practice of fine motor skills throughout your entire body)

MatPat bringing joy to his fans for years, and even more years to come

Well that intro was interesting

I actually had a class on media tech history. This is a pretty simplistic, but a fairly good summery. Well done.

I'll be honest I disagree with him on this one for once. "I really don't want to be that immersed" Screw that! I want Sword art online levels of Immersion.

I just rewatched this episode, and i thought of something. Matpat obviously hasn't seen or read Sword Art Online. That is the ultimate form of Immersion. Virtual Reality. I realise running around in front of your tv-screen in a mock-version of VR is silly, and alot of people don't want to do that, but what about immersing yourself in a game to the point where you control your avatar. Where physical abilities don't really affect in-game skill. And your real body doesn't have to be moving at all. What about controlling your avatar, as if you were controlling your own body, but not being limited by your own limitations. Your avatar might have endless stamina, or through the use of stats is twice as fast and ten times as strong as you are in real life. Isn't Virtual Reality as depicted in Sword Art Online the dream of every gamer?

Someone just make the fucking nerve gear already. If our bodies are the main limiting factor then let our minds do the work

Do an episode about hacking in watch dogs If it is possiple etc.

I just watched Sword Art Online yesterday, and the very concept for the game in that show is how I hope to see VR games in the future. Sure, we have the visual and audio VR possibilities with our current technology, but a game where you are FULLY immersed in the world, with all of your senses and bring being the controller.... Now that would be fun..

In a far future you could theoreticly plug a console directly into your brain and "be" the character.

"I love this game. Seriously! And it was all for one reason: the ending. The game ends--" *pauses video* *downloads rom* *beats game* *unpauses video*

Anyone ever watch Sword Art Online? That's how real I think it would get. Humans putting on a device that utilizes the brain, then trapping us in a virtual reality, forcing us to fight for survival....whoa. Sounds cool, but keep it on TV for now.

What I'm afraid of is that video games will eventually get TOO realistic and create a false reality for those playing it. I mean think about it. What if video games get so realistic that you could actually physically experience everything that the character you're playing is? You could just immerse yourself in your favorite game and forget all about your real life, aside from the dull, pointless job you probably have to pay for your "alternate reality".

Wow... Three years. That is how long I've been here... it's amazing to see how someone can grow from a few subs, to a few million. MatPat is a great person who can make math, physics and theorizing fun.

I vote for the dating simulator, because in my honest opinion, Minecraft has gotten a little old at this point. And since a lot of RU-vidrs already do Minecraft videos, something unique like the dating simulator episode would be great. And no, I don't just say that because im a lonely person...

I'd totally be willing to run in front of my TV to feel more like a soldier. And mat to the pat, you forget one thing, our endurance doesn't necessarily limit us that much. you can always make the player's movement exaggerated (although I'd love a game where if you weren't fit enough you'd get pwnd constantly) as well as have an option for a controller with all the basic movement mapped to buttons like we have now. Could solve obesity in America, also idk who would get PTSD from a game, no matter how realistic, because there is no actual loss. you can always reload or start another match. I'm sure SOME people would get it (Hell people claim PTSD from boot camp now a days!) but I'm assuming a majority would have no issue.

Insert SAO reference here

Uhhhhh.. D< Ovaltine. My grandmother keeps a bottle of 25 year old Ovaltine in her kitchen that rots and is covered in mould

I just realised this is like the gaming version of Vsauce

I hate how we live in a generation where it's cheaper to take your broken plasma to the dump and buy a new one, rather than get it fixed.

I wouldnt mind full body immersion. Be fit as fuck.

MatPat's jokes are the best nerdy and irony jokes ever!!!

I say Oculus, Nintendo, and Valve get together and create a gaming ball, which allows you to be the controller. You move your legs and you move forward. If only it could happen.

I'm surprised he didn't mention Sword Art Online. Something that makes you feel like you're in a game controlling your character. We're obviously putting aside the while death factor, and we're also forgetting how good or bad the anime was (I don't care for those opinions right now). Imagine a game like that... Good or bad Mat? :)

no mater who wins the end card thing, will you do both eventually?

I'd love to actually walk and run in my video games. I play so many hours a day I'd be really fit XD

I wish that the Nerve Gear from SAO was real, and I would not mind it having the ability to kill me because it makes the game more realistic and in depth. You could just live in the world you want to and treat it like real life, only problem is that life support for your real body would be dang expensive.

Nervgear from SAO!

Yes! Another brilliant video! And mega bonus points for the Moon Crystal music. Great little game, and the music and graphics (for an NES game!) were astounding. I'm still holding out for holograms.

Your intros bring me life. XD Oh yeah, and could you imagine playing "Legends of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" and falling off of a cliff while being fully immersed in the game? XD WOULDN'T YOU DIE?

I think the 'How well Dating Sim methods work in real life' would be hilarious, but I also want to see the creeper one.... GRRR!!! If you DO do the Dating Sim one, I dare you to actually go out and do it instead of just finding the probabilities.

Surely, though, if games become too immersive, they lose the very thing that is the reason for their popularity: escapism. If a super-advanced, super-immersive game is indistiguishable from doing those same things in real life, would there be much value in gaming anymore?

Hmmmm, I dunno the whole running around thing that guy was doing for CoD would be pretty/a great way to get in shape. Amt honestly I would love to be placed in a realistic Hyrule running around the fields cutting grass to find money.

0:08 LOL! I could not stop laughing after I saw the first part! The Game Theorists

This episode got me thinking about an anime about gaming. Matpat could you do a game theory about if sword art online is a possible future for gaming?

I agree with you, because I wouldn't want sonic.exe actually lunging at me from my computer screen.

uhh, mat pat, the controller actualy is more then the tv if you think about it, the rumbling when you complete something, the sounds, the vibrations when you get ihit, all thease elements make us feel that we are the hero in the game, but that does raise the question, are you playing the game, or is the game playing you...

I got so over excited at 7:05 because Sherlock

Some scientists said that after the year 2050 we "may" be able to "get inside a game" and play it.

Next time on Game Theory: Drama, Dragons and the King of Swing! It's on like Donkey Kong!

Frankenstein is not the name of Frankenstein's Monster. The level of immersion will eventually get to the point that video games become one with reality (see the movie Gamer).

For anyone wondering (like I was) the music at 3:20 is "Highlands" from the game Figher's Destiny.

Dating Sims, also, nice choice for the picture, using a really old dating sim for it. I wonder how many people actually recognize that picture.

Sword Art Online. Come on. We can do it. Let's do

I'm surprised he didn't mention Sword Art Online in this episode.

Imagine lag in this situation. Yyyeaaaahhhh... I'd rather not.

4k is yesterday, 8k is the future.

well i learned something new today....... i need a Curve Tv

I'd love to be so immersed..that I have to run and jump and dodge "Bullets". I'd even like a pain gauge too. So if you get hit, you really feel it..

8:10 Remember when 4K was still a new thing back in the day

There's a lot missing from here. TV's are also limited by color depth and framerate. XHD standards call for 12-bit color and 120 frames per second while current HD standards use 8-bit color at 60 frames per second. And VR/3D isn't perfect technology yet as games cannot simulate our eye's ability to converge on objects up close. 3D stuff loves to throw crap in front of you, but your eyes are still crossed and converged at the distance of the screen and not where it's supposed to be. For this to be solved, the game's cameras would have to read your mind to know what objects to converge on, but even then your eyes in real life might want to do the same, rendering 3D simulation from a 2D screen impossible for any games with objects that need to be interacted with up-close. Then there's the issue of control. The Wii Remote is fantastic for pointing and simulating motion in a living room or couch gaming environment, but it's not true VR. True VR and 1:1 gaming would not be very fun. That's just an exact replication of real life, and real life is very difficult to master without being very accessible. After all that, there's our other senses too. So far our sense of touch is rarely engaged with aside from vibration. Hot and cold, textures, and the sense of unobstructed midair would layer an unnecessary complexity to any simulation. In the end, what matters most is what's fun and engaging for games, and that's not necessarily VR or perfect replication of reality. People seem to enjoy playing Wii Sports Bowling without actually stepping forward to throw the ball, or smelling it. What's important for gaming is the ease of our interaction with it, and for that an age-old device has proved itself quite well with pro gamers: the mouse.

Uuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhh! I want to see both of those next game theory options!

How far I personally want to go with immersion is to the point where I can be in a dream-like state playing the newest Battlefield title. I want to feel myself walking around and getting that kickback (but not pain please or just die it down a lot) from being shot in the face. Since I'm technically Lucid dreaming I don't necessarily have to physically move but more or less control it with my mind. Because I'm reading the series, what I'm kind of thinking about is like being Divergent in a simulation. I get injected with a serum, go into a game, and shoot up my friends in online. Of course it would be hard to link minds into a server where they all control themselves instead of me just fighting AIs but I feel we'll get there one day.

personally, I think a gaming experience like that of SAO would be the pinnacle of gaming.

I think that this one was a bit more fluff than a theory, I was hoping to see groundbreaking technology and ideas that are breaching into virtual reality instead of being told about the history of the TV for it to really get to a Vsauce video I have already watched

the creeper one is easy. a creeper must release a chemical when it gets close enough to you that causes the combustion of the gunpowder inside it

Sorry to bring anime into this but would something like Nervegear be possible like it is in Sword Art Online? What it does is intercept brain signals to our body and uses it in the game, how close are we to that if at all?

3:00 Fight Bowser? Really? I'd be part of his army and worship him until the end with no second thought...

Dating SIM tactics in real life? That's the premise of The World God Only Knows.

Can the next game theory be about Digimon and pokemon

Clicked the dating sim one. any one else?

This only got scary when Dark Souls was thrown in the mix. 3:27 Shivers down my spine. XD

I want games get so realistic that they get to the point where FPS Games actually shoot you in the face when you die in-game.

After watching Sword Art Online, I disagree with this video, i would adore having a game giving me full 100% immersion, Though however, It sort of becomes more than a video game at that point, it becomes a full experience, as you are not even controlling your character, rather you /are/ your character, It seems as if that would be the ultimate goal for developers

How about we skip the whole "visual" hing? Hook that stuff right into our brain! Virtual reality, Sword Art Online, make it happen!

I want to see a theory on Pikmin sometime, such as one about the science behind the physical properties and abilities of different Pikmin, like the yellow's ability to catch the wind and be thrown extra distance, the Red's resistance to fire, the white's ability to see objects buried underground, and the wing's (ugh) ability to fly (can wings that size really support an entire pikmin?). Also, would it really be possible for pikmin to exist almost entirely encase by rock? It would also be cool to find out the maximum strength of a purple pikmin by finding the heavies object in the game and discovering how many purple pikmin are required to carry it, or something like that. Just a bunch of ideas.

I really want that dating sim one. Mostly because if The World God Only Knows (And if you do that episode, you better mention it)

Soon when you get shot in a game, you will feel the pain in real life :D that sounds like great fun.

Does anyone else want something similar to what was on Sword Art Online, where our minds are basically in the game? i personally think that would be cool, as long as its safe hah.

I miss the old blocks I had one when I was a kid and played on it with my 64 and SNES.