Game smells

[AngryLawnGnome]

One thing I think games are doing pretty terrible without is smells. If scientists could come up with a way to make games smell like things, it would be awesome. Think about it-games these days have two out of five senses (or six in the case of a god among children, the only good child actor Haley Joel Osment). That's an outrage! I mean some things I can't do in real life that I can do in games. So why not let me smell things I'll never get to smell. Take a dead body for example. I've got the feeling I'll never have the opportunity to get a whiff of the stink of death. This is also why I choose smell over taste and feel, as I'm no cannibal (anymore) and I don't want to touch one. Seriously though, smell would greatly improve gameplay and Pixar is going to develop it...I'll tell you why it'll be Pixar...never mind I won't, but it's coming February 2005.

[Blakhart]

Yeah, the smell of burnt powder, and blood.

[ghost2003]

I heard once on TV that they were making a box that got electonic signals and made smells using oils. That would be very cool to have on a game

[lil Jimmie]

Oh yeah add the smell of someone who has experienced the loss of bodily functions.

[DragonNOA1]

I don't want to smell anyone or anything in my game. When you turn off the game the smell would still be there... not cool. You can see and hear, what about force feedback? There you can touch/feel the game. All thats left is taste. I definately don't want to taste a dead guy.

[imbest123]

Touch.

[Jimmy White]

Vibrations in the Mouse like the thing in the Console controlers

[FantasySoul]

Wouldn't that be spooky to add smell of blood......as if you're really killin someone in ur room.Forget about smell...

[Alfie]

Touch is what should be added,every time you get shot or burned,you feel it!
It definitely would improve your game playing

[DragonNOA1]

What if you just can't beat a level? Everyone will think you got in a fight or lit your hand on fire. I definately wouldn't want to try the harder levels in any game then. I can just see it now:
"No mom, I'm ok. It's from my favorite game"
"Your favorite game is hurting you? That doesn't sound fun"
"It's a blast, literally... but the pain goes away quickly."

[Blakhart]

LOL@Jimmy!

[AngryLawnGnome]

Originally posted by lil Jimmie Oh yeah add the smell of someone who has experienced the loss of bodily functions.

Exactly what I'm talking about.

[gameguy747]

here's what i hav 2 say about each sense

Taste: who wants to taste nething n a game anyway.. what is there to taste.. what do you want to taste blood or gunpoweder.. unless your a vampire i doubt it.. but i hav to positive words about taste COOKING SIMS.. it would be cool to eat stuff or cook stuff and taste it.. j00 could be teh online iron chef

Smell: i think wars smell bad... j00d hav to spen alot of money on glade plugins

Touch: I gues that sounds cool... but i dont wanna feel myself being pumped with bullets.. ouch

[bigandy]

I think smells would be the best. Who the heck wants to taste a game, and why would you want to feel a huge claw ripping you open (or something comprable).

[Jester]

Im gonna say im good on sight and sound. Touch Nope i play to many games where i get shot. Taste is an Olfactory sense you smell something and you taste it too so really that just leaves smeall and i dont want tubes stuck up my nose while playing a game and i sure as heck doent want my whole room stinking of rotting carcases and alien saliva.

[MaLfUnCtIoN]

theres a console or something that punishes you for failure. the controls heat up, electricute you, and etc in such a way as to mimic being pricked on the finger and stuff. electric shocks can mimic a feeling and as long as the proper voltage/current is used it would be a very safe way of incorporating feel. they're doing things like that for the adult toy world, why not gamers?

[DarkHorse]

On Ripley's the other night they showcased the PainStation, which did all the above things when you messed up in a Pong-like game. There was a pad that you rested your hand on that would heat up, zap, or flick you with a weed-wacker wire. The goal was to play well enough to force the other player to remove their hand first. The impetus for this thing were the two German developers playing games and thinking, "Wow, this is way too passive."

Guess they've never seem me gaming!

Something else to consider, what about when games get more and more immersive? Say if there is a way to actually interact with your neurons to simulate the senses? I know it sounds Matrix-y, but the possibility exists, and it brings up a whole mess with the definition of reality...

[i3OSS]

For feel, they have a chair with a built-in bass in it.

[Strider]

True 3-D (Virtual Reality) where you are in the game, now that would be cool. Imagine playing golf with Tiger Woods and actually starting to believe you are playing the real person or Call of Duty Type of Game and making it a little more real. Something like the Holodeck on the Star Trek Series is what I'm trying to say. Not just games either, you could take a vacation to exotic places without actually having to go there or anything you imagination takes you.

[CrazyMike]

I love the smell of napalm in the morning

[Rof_lmao]

just dont play silent hill with oen of thsoe smell things....game is full of rotting corpses... i bet that would be a lovly smell for a maggot and flies, i would have it on and see my window full of swarming flies..... would be hilarious.... and sad... and with all teh power needed to use half teh stuff u gusy are saying... i dont think double A batteries would work... need mini reactors in ur house LOL!

[bigandy]

Originally posted by CrazyMike I love the smell of napalm in the morning

Ah, what a great movie .

[Rof_lmao]

the horror....the horror......

[Karnevil9]

i3OSS, sent you a PM.

[Piro-san]

Uh, you people want to smell the sweat that just about every video game character has? Very disturbing.

[pickledchicken]

Touch is bad because you'd get to feel all of the %$#@*&! pain those guys experience. Would you like to know how it feels to get plugged by 8 rounds from a sniper rifle and then getting your head blown of by some 12-year old in another state? Didn't think so. PICKLEDCHICKEN!

[Piro-san]

Yep, that'd hurt, emotionally, and physically.

[AwryMenNagLong]

Originally posted by pickledchicken Touch is bad because you'd get to feel all of the %$#@*&! pain those guys experience. Would you like to know how it feels to get plugged by 8 rounds from a sniper rifle and then getting your head blown of by some 12-year old in another state? Didn't think so. PICKLEDCHICKEN!

Interesting user name...touch would be cool though if you wanted to feel a dog. It would be a soft-like feeling.

[LadyKiller]

PICKLEDCHICKEN is lame. Sit down, you idiot.

[padawan]

Guys..take this down a notch or this thread will be closed, too. Good topic, sort of, but it's heading in the wrong direction.

-Scott