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Kinect is $149.99 (£129.99 / €149.99), includes Kinect Adventures - thoughts?
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It'll be nice to get rid of the Wii and still have the exact same experiences minus the battery-draining controllers and threat of them flying into the TV or the dogs head now.
Shush, Herr Klyka, you're ruining their fun.
I think the real issue is that all of the "rules" being leaked about the device are adding up to a sum of parts that do not equal the whole that was demonstrated in Natal's infancy.
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True,but it's also them saying "So,if you tried everything else and it's STILL not working for some reason,can you try this?".
It never says "wear different clothes or it won't work".
Because dah'ling... that top is simply dreadful!
As with all things, yes.
I still firmly believe that the technology isn't ready and it will bomb.
This blows my mind that they made an American version of the game. Did they even realize that the "contestants" in the Japanese version were famous actors? Not only that comedians? It was a frigging skit for god's sake.
I think Americans just really, really enjoyed the idea of watching people get knocked into pools of water.
I guess. I don't know. I've been here a while, and Americans (who watch game shows) are still pretty mysterious. They were nobodies, as far as I could tell.
Except for the fact that very, very few products have such unreasonable standards. Don't use in temperatures below 40 and above 120? Sure. Have eight feet of space and absolutely perfect lighting? Er.
The free room can be an issue.
For the lighting,read this again:
It's an "If" scenario. It is not a requirement. They are saying you need better lighting IF it doesn't work.
None of my other video game systems or electronics ask me to troubleshoot by changing clothes. What they're asking for is pretty steep, even by troubleshooting standards.
Like, the Kinect thing says you want 4 feet to either side because some games require you to move side to side a lot. Hopefully it would be fairly obvious which games need that space, the same way you generally know which Wii games require you to move the vases and such out of the play area.
re: Clothing
It seems intuitive that if you wear white clothing and the floor, the couch, the walls, etc. are all white, too, then a camera-based system might have trouble. I mean, work with it a little.
None of your other video systems use a scan of your body as the input.
Also,they are just guidelines for troubleshooting. You don't HAVE to do any of this. It's like the guy from tech support asking you if you unplugged the computer and plugged it back in. Or asking you to try a different power cable.
True, but it does send a signal that the tech is pretty persnickety if you have to go to that extent.
Oh yes.
Exactly. And someday we'll have manuals requiring the user to wear a lead vest, which is perfectly reasonable because none of the other video systems use x-rays as input.
Are you sure it will work with my flesh colored walls?
True,but to be fair,the moment your technology needs to take pictures of the users to work, a myriad of different factors suddenly come up which can ruin it. I mean,all it takes is a dude with dirty fingers unpacking his Kinect and putting a nice smear on the lens to then post "OMG THIS IS THE WORST WORKING THING EVER."
Which it will probably be anyway,hahaha.
Hmm, spray on tan?
Again,you say requirements even though none of them are. They are troubleshooting tips in case of it not working correctly.
It's like how my Wiimote doesn't properly work if I have the light next to my TV turned on. So I have to turn it off when I play.
That doesn't mean everyone has to turn off their lights.
You could include all kinds of bizarre troubleshooting tips, and that doesn't make them less ridiculous.
The use of the term "Xbros" pretty much negates the funny completely.
Actually I'm pretty sure I'd blend into my tan (ish) microfiber couch if I did that.
cloudeagle, remove that goose from your butt that is killing your sense of humor.
All of them, i think, except for Kinectimals and the Dance one.
Driving, a bit of the fitness one, Kinect Adventures, and Kinect sports -- volleyball and ping pong.
I actually really liked the driving, fwiw, which is the one i thought I was going to hate the most. I thought ping pong was even better than wii's version, although different -- the wii gives you great shot control, but suffers from being unable to actually position your player, whereas the kinect is exactly the opposite -- it's all about getting your player into position (because it tracks you around the room), but it leaves you completely unable to do fine control like angle/bank shots (because it knows where your hand is, but not the precise position, angle, and velocity of it). It's also a bit more forgiving, I found.
I assume you'll see this pattern in a lot of other games -- the wii captures fine motor control, but no large body movements, whereas the kinect is really great for wild body movements, but terrible for fine motor control experiences. You'll see a lot more jumping around and moving around the room in Kinect games, as opposed to the Wii where I find there's just a bunch of swinging and pointing.
Essentially, energetic five-year-olds are going to love it.
There was a LOT of room. I can't answer any more than that, other than they obviously had the place set up for maximum visibility -- the floor was bright green, the walls were white, and the place was brightly lit. I'd say they had at least 8x10 at each station. But that doesn't mean 8x10 is what's NEEDED. You'll want that space though -- there's a lot more actual moving around than for Wii games.
Most of them show pretty crude transparent stick figures, like you might remember in the original Kinect demo. The exercise wii-fit-esque one actually had a really cool red-orange-yellow-purple heatmap-styled live feed of what the camera saw of you. It wasn't distracting at all -- actually really cool. I kinda loved how accurately it watched at all times what you're doing.
You know how in racing games, as the countdown goes, you find yourself revving the engine, or in fps games, fiddling with the control stick, just waiting as the lobby counts down?
On Kinect, your guy is on screen, and he's following your movements as you're making them -- almost exactly. So you find yourself making funny faces and flapping your arms, watching the avatar on the screen following your movements exactly. It's a lot of fun.
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There is another decent write up in EDGE this month, they seem to enjoy playing Harmonix's dance game quite a bit.
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
I'm probably in this boat.
Unless a real must-have title shows up.
Not sure what that would be though.
It's also too bad the porn industry will never get access to this thing. Imagine Milo, only now instead of Milo it's your favorite pornstar.
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Pretty much how i'd expect your face to look in such a situation. Maybe add in a *insert credit card to continue* somewhere in there.
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I thought that basically the only selling point to Steel Battalion was the crazy huge controller. Why would someone play it with no controller at all?
Yeah, that's why I'm baffled they kept the Steel Batallion name for this. People who really liked the 47 hojillion buttons probably won't like no buttons.