Why 3D is a bad idea.

  3D is on the rise, and it will soon fail. My reasoning behind this is because when I (and assuming most people do this too) don't like periphals(sp?). Adding more clutter to my already bursting supply of Guitar Hero, and Rock Band stuff is not my cup of tea. 3D may also take a visual elemnts away from game devolopment, Devs will focus on how they can make their 3D look better and possibly neglect the basic graphical non-3D gamplay. Movies are a nice way to use 3D, but please keep it away from my video games. This won't stop third parties form releasing slews of them on the Wii sometime before the go ka-p00t

I think it's dumb because I don't think I can see things in 3D.

Unless Nintendo does it, it won't sell consoles! bahahaha

Yes let's just stay in the past woooooo

LEAVE METAL SLUG ALONE! LEAVE IT ALONE!

Hey, I just listened to the latest Bomcast, too!  Maybe I should make a thread...
 
Oh, wait.
 
 
Sorry, just teasing you.  The timing IS a bit suspicious, though.

My main reason is that it just gives me headaches and my eyes hurt after a while.

Played Resident Evil 5 in 3D at PAX, and I honestly thought it was pretty cool. Probably won't be for everyone, but I'd probably use it if it was an option right now.

I don't like motion-sensor, and don't care for 3-D.

From what I understand you need to be in front of the 3D monitor/TV set for the image to properly combine.  That means no laying on the couch at an angle playing games lazily like we sometimes do.  3D is a gimmick.  It may work in the theaters to get folks in the seats, but few of us are going to want to watch normal TV or play games that way.  When they figure out a way where people won't need the glasses, that's when it becomes a viable technology.

Yea I don't think 3D will ever kick off in any significant way until they can eliminate the glasses need, especially expensive shutter glasses.  There is no chance of that being a mass market item.

" I think it's dumb because I don't think I can see things in 3D. "

" Unless Nintendo does it, it won't sell consoles! bahahaha "

Well motion control, 3d and digital distribution is the way of the future, it's all going to virtual reality anyways. I'm all for the technology 3d technology.

Companies should just stop making games 3D and should just make the game look good; we don't need any special crap.

i love 3d

i  saw avatar in 3D and thought it would have been better in 2D 
 
as much as i hate to say, most future movies are gonna be in 3D 
 
i called it, remind me about it in 10 years

" I think it's dumb because I don't think I can see things in 3D. "

" @InfiniteGeass said:

" I think it's dumb because I don't think I can see things in 3D. "

so I'm not the only one eh?  Rarely did anything in Avatar look 3D to me.  So I get none of the benefits but still walk out of the theater with bloodshot eyes. "

" Yes let's just stay in the past woooooo "

" @handlas said:

" @InfiniteGeass said:

" I think it's dumb because I don't think I can see things in 3D. "

so I'm not the only one eh?  Rarely did anything in Avatar look 3D to me.  So I get none of the benefits but still walk out of the theater with bloodshot eyes. "

Do you wear glasses or have vision a bit less than say 20/40? "

" Yea I don't think 3D will ever kick off in any significant way until they can eliminate the glasses need, especially expensive shutter glasses.  There is no chance of that being a mass market item. "

it gives me headaches 
i wish it didn't because it's cool. 
 
also how the eff is 3d without glasses possible?

Retinal implants. That's all we need! Just some little nano machines in there that let us perceive 3D images without the need for special glasses.
 
One day it'll be a reality. One day.

"Retinal implants. That's all we need! Just some little nano machines in there that let us perceive 3D images without the need for special glasses.  One day it'll be a reality. One day. "

" @inkeiren said:

" @handlas said:

" @InfiniteGeass said:

" I think it's dumb because I don't think I can see things in 3D. "

so I'm not the only one eh?  Rarely did anything in Avatar look 3D to me.  So I get none of the benefits but still walk out of the theater with bloodshot eyes. "

Do you wear glasses or have vision a bit less than say 20/40? "

I have bad vision.  I wear contacts.  Only thing that ever really looked 3D during the movie was when there was a plant really large, close to the camera, on the screen. The trailers looked 3D however.  The thing that really really popped out from the screen was the text during previews. But Avatar never looked 3D for me.  I could say maybe the movie was so long that it just stopped...working...for me I guess. But I did go to the bathroom halfway through and when I got back it still didn't look 3D. "

" @SeriouslyNow: Well laserdisc stuck around for a while too.  It's not really comparable to high end cars because those don't devalue as fast but they also are way more cost prohibitive.  Like high end gaming PC hardware, this tech moves fast enough that shutter glasses with a 120Hz LCD will be obsolete in 10 years if not a lot less time.  Unfortunately, unlike a gaming PC which could run Wing Commander relatively cheaply a few years later, shutter glasses and 120Hz LCDs won't become really cheap before they're obsolete. "

Oh no, new stuff, change? I don't like change. I'm on the internet. 
 
Lets make a petition!!!

3D is here to stay. Why? 
 
  $445,768,203 domestic.
 
Mmm money.

i like it and guess what, its here to stay.  
AVATAR is well on its way to reaching Titanics epic worldwide gross.

@ChristOnIce

I don't know if you're old enough to remember, but the early 90s were a great time for forward-thinking.  The World Wide Web was still in its infancy, and the average consumer perhaps knew someone who knew someone who could pay by the hour to do something on the computer with their phone line.  
 
Some kids who went to see Brainscan surely thought that we'd have virtual reality games by 2000, but that meant very little.  People with knowledge of technology had other predictions.  Seemingly far-fetched sci-fi concepts like these:

Maybe the technology will become standard, maybe it won't.
 
All I know is that right now, every 3-D movie is built entirely around the 3-D gimmick, and that that makes the rest of the movie suffer to the point where objectively, it sucks. 
 
Either it's going to become less obtrusive or it's going to die out. Either way, I can't wait until it stops compromising the quality of my entertainment.

The effect is cool but having to wear glasses annoys me. As if gaming isn't geeky enough on its own.

" Maybe the technology will become standard, maybe it won't.
 
All I know is that right now, every 3-D movie is built entirely around the 3-D gimmick, and that that makes the rest of the movie suffer to the point where objectively, it sucks.   Either it's going to become less obtrusive or it's going to die out. Either way, I can't wait until it stops compromising the quality of my entertainment. "

People who call 3D a gimmick remind me of people who called 3D acceleration a gimmick in the early 90s.  There are no gimmicks, only technology that while entertaining and possibly useful, is yet to find its solidified place in the pantheon.
 
@Kojdog said:

" Anyone play that kick ass hologram cowboy game (name eludes me) that was in casino arcades (Caesar's Palace Lake Tahoe, circa 1990 comes to mind)?    That shit's the future.  We'll all have multi-thousand-dollar corner glass coffee tables in the future with Dragon's Lair - minus running on it with cowboys and geometrical shapes instead of Dirk and dragons. "

" I think it's dumb because I don't think I can see things in 3D. "

I think 3D is awesome, but for it to work on the home, it needs the technology that allows for 3D without glasses, like those 3D Hallmark cards. Otherwise, it won't work. Glasses work perfectly on a movie theater, but you can't expect anyone to do it at home.
 
@Symphony said:

" Retinal implants. That's all we need! Just some little nano machines in there that let us perceive 3D images without the need for special glasses.  One day it'll be a reality. One day. "

i may be the only one who thinks that 3D doesnt work it just makes the movie the colour of the 
stupid glasses the man makes you wear to watch the film