I wish I may, I wish I might... I wish for my very own holodeck! To appear tonight. 🎅🎄⭐️
Well, not tonight per se, but in the near future of Christmas morning!
If I woke up on Christmas morning to find a strange new door in my house that led to a bonafide holographic gaming room similar to the holodeck in Star Trek, I would be the happiest person in the world.
You see, I've never really gotten into the whole Virtual Reality craze that consumes many gamers. I don't want to wear a weird headset and be confined to a tiny area. It's not "virtual reality" to me until it actually becomes a virtual reality.
I've also never been much of a Trekkie, but I did enjoy the Voyager series and that's where I first saw the great holodeck and wished and wished that maybe one day current Virtual Reality technology could transform into that amazing technology from the show.
What games would I play in this amazing holographic environment?
When I first wished for this construct, it was back in 2010. I lived in the world of Dragon Age and nothing would have pleased me more than having a Dragon Age program inserted into a holodeck-styled room.
I would swing my sword across Thedas! Destroy the Blight! Be best friends with Morrigan and lovers with Alistair! AND! I'd probably have never turned the program off and returned to the real reality, and I probably would've withered and died from dehydration and starvation... unless, of course, the food and drink in the virtual realm could actually be ingested. 🤔
If that was the case. I would never leave. Ever. Goodbye Earth, I barely knew ye.
As well as immersive single player games, I think MMORPG's would absolutely thrive in a "holodeck" environment! Actually fighting great enemies alongside your friends. I think raiding and dungeons would certainly be a lot more enjoyable, hell, I'm usually a healer in these games -- maybe people will finally get out of the damned fire! 🤣 And actually dodge attacks! And interrupt incoming blows! Ohmygosh! It would be fantastic.
I'm not quite so sure about switching gear whilst in public... ooh, I'll just take this chest piece off, flash everyone, then put my new chest piece on, ooooh. But overall, I think a virtual reality holodeck-based MMO would be the best idea ever.
Maybe more Elder Scrolls Online or FFXIV than World of Warcraft though. But I'd be happy with any of them. ALL OF THEM! 😁 I would be a master of worlds! Jumping into each and every new environ with new abilities, new creatures to call my pets, and a home in every realm.
It would be glorious.
🎄⭐️🎅⭐️🎄
And so, Dear Santa, as you can see,
A holo-room in my house, would make me very happy!
⭐️🎅🎄🎅⭐️
🎄 Merry Christmas everyone!
May all your Christmas Gaming Wishes come true! ⭐️
One image already sourced, two screenshots my own, BUT, my header image is a mish-mash of four CC0 images from Pixabay. You can find them here, here, here, and here!