I was recently reading this article on gamesradar about the top 20 most important games of the last decade.

So i was wondering what you all thought about the next decade and how that will change gaming.

On the list there was some games like GTA3, Wow and RE4 which completely changed their genres and GTA3 completely changed everything about gaming

So do you think there will be a leap forward this decade as there was last?

EDIT: and heres the link to that article if anyone was wondering:

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/the-20-most-important-games-of-the-decade-text-edition/a-20100121103950850041

Good question, but I doubt it. In terms of quality, HD is already very good - any better than this, the human eye won't be able to tell much difference. There will be new ways to play, but I think in terms of substance there won't be as much difference than for the past 10 years. We're truly living at the end of the world here.

I think that the changes from here for the next 10 years or so will be a migration to offering 3D content standard, user switchable from 2D to 3D based on preference...Other than that...smoother gameplay is all that seems to lie ahead....better framerates, more well done environments....etc.

hopefully, im sick of fps games.

Well, that's not really true.

Yes, you look at Killzone 2 and Crysis and Uncharted 2, and it's hard to get better than that. But still not impossible, of course. And then you look at games like inFamous and Kane and Lynch 2, and quite frankly, they look pretty awful. Hopefully, next gen (this decade), games will look like Killzone, Uncharted and Crysis across the board.

On top of that, if a game looks really good (again, like KZ2), the framerate is often pretty terrible. So that could be improved - 1080p 60fps as standard.

But increased resolution and framerate aren't really massive changes.

3D will be a big one in the coming years, as the price decreases and glasses are phased out. Motion control will also continue to improvew, and we should have lag-free 1:1 motion by the end of the decade - though, of course, a motion-only control scheme will still be impossible for most games.

Back on the creative side of things, I think (hope) that we can see more changing storylines this decade, i.e. games in which your choices affect the game world and, better yet, the actual events in the game's campaign. A game which is the same every time you play it will hopefully be uncommon by 2020. Heavy Rain-like story changes should be even clearer, more common and with a wider variety of gameplay to support them (no negative sentiment towards Heavy Rain, of course).

Integrating multiplayer and single-player could be another one. Jump in, jump out multiplayer has been starting to appear over the last few years - games like Demon's Souls, Burnout Paradise and to some extent Red Dead Redemption. Multiplayer on the whole should improve a fair bit, too, as developers feel less need to degrade technical aspects to prevent lag - internet speeds should get faster and faster.

On the whole, it will be hard to top the last decade, which really brought in proper 3D games, with camera control, online gameplay on consoles, digital distribution, mainstream motion control and much more, but there's plenty of promise for the next ten years.

GTA san andreas changed open made open would games, and i think we will se significant changes made to the next gen becuase of this gen.

this genhas already been a blast and is better then the last 2 gens combined.

It'll probably be a 3d option for most games by then and probably improved graphics in general.