PA Comic: Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 - Efficacy

Jacobkosh

RMS Oceanic

I'd hate to see the renegade interrupt on combing a deer.

Slurmee

This is why i will never buy a connect specially as of my australian accent.

Juc

I wouldn't worry too much about an Australian accent.
I'm pretty sure the guy who did the kinect thing for ME3 had it account for Australian and British accents as well as western Canadian, maybe others too.

Wimble

Slurmee wrote:

This is why i will never buy a connect specially as of my australian accent.

a connect? Dang your accent is so thick that it carries over to text

Kagera

RMS Oceanic wrote:

I'd hate to see the renegade interrupt on combing a deer.

Same position, much less wholesome.

godmode

I really liked this one too :^:

Falx

There's going to be a new minigame, where you have to moan sex noises into the mic during the scenes or Garrus will accuse you of "faking it" and dumping you.

Aegeri

I cannot wait to see how uncoordinated the voice commands are in ME3 when I get the game. Finally the game I've always dreamed of, when my yelling at the NPCs in the game can actually be heard by them. I wonder if they will react to "Stupid asshole get out of my way" and "Why can't you shoot straight moron?".

Henroid

Sno-cones in space confirmed.

Roe

This comic is masterful.

Hunter

Good job Garrus!

Blow job sir, well OK.

Procede.

EvilRedEye

Isn't Gabe's Kinect, like, in the way of the TV image? That would drive me insane.

Penumbra

I've never noticed before that Gabe has blue eyes.

But good comic!

Henroid

EvilRedEye wrote:

Isn't Gabe's Kinect, like, in the way of the TV image? That would drive me insane.

Technically yes, but it's so low that it'd only block the view if you were looking up at the TV from the floor. Sitting across from the TV or standing wouldn't have obstructed view.

... why the fuck did I answer this so seriously?

jackal

I can't convince my wife that using an angry tone of voice isn't going to make the Kinect take her more seriously.

Maz-

Ahem, the..the way Garrus is positioned behind the deer in panel 3..I fear/hope the comic edits thread is going to have a lot of fun with this one D:

Underwhelming

Pfft, Combing Deer was so overpowered in ME2.

ArcSyn

EvilRedEye wrote:

Isn't Gabe's Kinect, like, in the way of the TV image? That would drive me insane.

That's ok, he's got 63.5" still viewable so he won't miss anything.

Mike's Twitter wrote:

New 64" tv - HDMI out from laptop-wireless mouse and keyboard - SW:TOR -not gonna move from my couch all day.

Yeah, I'm a bit jealous.

Lars

Did anyone else play Lifeline on the PS2?

The main character in that was always guzzling all my health drinks and slapping her ass when I just wanted her to shoot things or do something simple like "walk to the door."

I never did beat it. I got to some place where she has to walk in the rafters and you have to keep switching between three paths to avoid steam or something or you fall down and have to start over.

The Good Doctor Tran

Well. Now we know why Mordin found a varren STD on the Normandy. And who contracted it.

pirateluigi

I laughed out loud at this one. I think it's the expression on the deer that really sells it.

ThreeCubed

Wimble wrote: »

Slurmee wrote:

This is why i will never buy a connect specially as of my australian accent.

a connect? Dang your accent is so thick that it carries over to text

This is a highly underappreciated post.

Andy Joe

The deer meter is the best part.

admanb

jackal wrote:

I can't convince my wife that using an angry tone of voice isn't going to make the Kinect take her more seriously.

I never get angry at the Kinect.

I get disappointed.

ThreeCubed

Also, the art on this one is beautiful.

Tarranon

issuing squad commands seems pretty cool but i always have trouble competing with the volume of my television

i don't wanna shout at my TV !

Iron Weasel

I'm really looking forward to the demo so I can put this "better" claim to the test.

Fatty McBeardo

Just when I think my absolute loathing of all things voice or motion controlled is irrational and silly I see something like this that makes me think that I might not be wrong.

jackal

I bought Disneyland Adventure for my four year old. I have to play it with them and it is pretty much an isometric exercise routine. I'm not sure who thought it would be a good idea to make the player hold their arms out straight for four minutes at a time.

Resorath

Indeed, this comic is pretty much a blanket joke for all voice controlled systems.

Siri comes to mind... but then she doesn't have the power to comb deer.

yet.

Gumpy

I love this entire thing

All of it

So much I've made my way over here to say it

KalTorak

I'm not really one for issuing squad commands in ME2; I think 98% of my use of voice commands would be "get the fuck out of my way, I almost shot you in the head."

Pandabearcakes

I love the deer's progress bar.

lionheart_m

So how do you target with voice commands? Or will they always look for closest target or something?

Jars

I don't know which is funnier to me; the comic or knowing how much tycho enjoys word play

Blargosaurus

That deer is damn cute.

Also, with an Aussie accent connect is pronounced Kinect, so it all works out.

dren

Am I the only person wondering why we need a kinect for voice commands? There has always been a microphone port in the 360 controller.

The headset microphone would be substantially better than the kinect since people couldn't walk into the room and screw with your game by yelling the voice commands.

jackal

The Kinect is able to isolate the voice of the player from background noise.

TheOtherHorseman

Quicktime event- tap x to flourish your brush and sculpt a little deer fauxhawk

Tarranon

lionheart_m wrote:

So how do you target with voice commands? Or will they always look for closest target or something?

it targets where you're looking

look at a spot on the ground for move commands

look at an enemy for firing directions

etc

i could actually see myself using this a lot if there were a mic option or something but like i said earlier i have no intention of competing with my TV for volume in the room