Star Wars Kinect is a real shitfest. Unless you happen to be a seven year old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8vIK1I17Ys
That’s my son playing it there. He’s swinging one of his own plastic Lightsabers which he says makes the game even better. He loves the Jedi Destiny mode which has you jumping and swinging your way through a Padawan adventure.
We tried the other game modes on the disc including the dance game and he was confused. “Why would they put dancing in Star Wars? Why wouldn’t you just play Dance Central?” he asked me. These are excellent questions that I did not have good answers for. He thought the Pod Racing was boring and I have to agree with him.
I gave it a shot myself and like most of my Kinect experiences I hated it. It will occasionally perhaps accidentally work the way it is intended for a split second and you will experience something very near fun. The rest of the time you’re just jumping around like an idiot trying to make the fucking thing do what you want. When it isn’t outright frustrating it’s just stupid and boring.
Unless as I said earlier, you are seven years old and you just need an opportunity to jump around in front of a TV while swinging a Lightsaber.
Maybe that’s the Kinect’s real demographic. People who don’t know any better.
Man, at 7 I was getting angry when Mario didn't stop on top of that fucking drain pipe like I TOLD HIM TO and instead slid over the side and fell to his death.
Working at a game store, I can say that in my 2 years of experience, I have not seen a sadder release day than what happened yesterday for Kinect Star Wars. Usually my store has about a 65% first day preorder pickup rate, and by the end of the week we're at about 85-90% pickup. There's always a few copies of a game that are preordered that are never picked up. But in the case of Kinect Star Wars, our pickup rate was terrible. I'd say we only had about 20% picked up.
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DragonryderThe Bizarre OneBehind you.Registered Usernew member
I think that, to a kid, they aren't looking at the game from the perspective "The input is crap and it's not doing what I want it to and it's a terrible gimmicky game", but rather from the perspective "Holy crap I'm playing a Jedi and killing stormtroopers* and when I swing MY lightsaber he swings HIS and this is so COOL!". I'm pretty sure the Kinect has always been aimed at kids/families looking to have a good time, and most kids don't happen to have a dad who essentially gets to play video games for a living. :P
*no idea if that's what he's killing, couldn't see the TV in the video well enough, but just an example
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What we need is a REAL Pod Racing game, like we have for the 64. That game was fantastic in every way. I loved it so much.
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Wow...they grow so fast.
I remember 'only yesterday' he was a just-born baby. Seven already...
Gentlemen, we've grown old. =|
As for Kinect...Yes Mike, you've failed. You're supposed to teach him so he knows better.
It's weird - my son was born on the exact same day as his - I came home to grab some stuff to find his post about having a kid.
It's really quite crazy - at 7 I was playing an Odyssey 2 and felt KC Munchkin and Monkeyshines were the wave of the future. Soon after, I upgraded to a 2600 with Combat and Yar's Revenge and a C64.
My son gets to control games with his arms, hold 3d games in his hands, and his DSi has roughly 100x more space on a cheap sdcard the size of a stamp than my first PC harddrive held.
Man, at 7 I was getting angry when Mario didn't stop on top of that fucking drain pipe like I TOLD HIM TO and instead slid over the side and fell to his death.
This shit is bananas.
K-I-L-L-M-E-Please
You didn't notice he skids? Like at all?
also this game looks like the opposite of a Kinect advertisment. If I could buy one that was just the voice commands that'd be nice but as it stands this looks utterly absurd. Unlike the Wii you really do have to flail about like a Jackass I don't got time for that.
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
I feel like this is one of the repeated blows of parenthood.
"She picked the pink toy? I have failed as a parent."
Man, at 7 I was getting angry when Mario didn't stop on top of that fucking drain pipe like I TOLD HIM TO and instead slid over the side and fell to his death.
This shit is bananas.
K-I-L-L-M-E-Please
You didn't notice he skids? Like at all?
Eh? I'm talking about him skidding too far (i.e. I didn't time the jump correctly). A 7 year old is not exactly the pinnacle of hand/eye coordination, but that doesn't mean I wasn't trying to be precise. This game would have bugged the shit out of me in other words.
Man, at 7 I was getting angry when Mario didn't stop on top of that fucking drain pipe like I TOLD HIM TO and instead slid over the side and fell to his death.
I feel like this is one of the repeated blows of parenthood.
"She picked the pink toy? I have failed as a parent."
(years later)
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S READING TWILIGHT?!"
Uh, is that an actual thing?
Given the huge outcry of disappointment in the recent Lego Friends line (Legos tooled towards girls in pinks/purples) I would say there is definitely a movement of parents to avoid the "pink aisle" of the toy store as much as possible. It seems mostly because they feel those toys make girls buy into traditional gender roles of girls play with dolls, play house, etc.
Should add: As a parent of a boy we had a year where he got a tool bench AND a kitchen for Christmas so we're covering everything
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HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
Well I mean, if a kid of their own volition picks something out, I don't think it counts as a failure.
Sometimes parents push so hard in the direction of no gender specific toys that their kid ends up curious about the stuff they haven't interacted with and will pick that instead. As such I can see a parent overreacting over his or her daughter picking out something pink when they've spent so much time trying to keep them away from pink things.
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
Well I mean, if a kid of their own volition picks something out, I don't think it counts as a failure.
What if they picked out the not-bold-font product in your first post?
Man now I'm thinking about how much it would suck if your kid decided to start typing everything in Comic Sans.
I HAVE NO SON!!!
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
edited April 2012
I remember reading something a while ago about how for Victorian parents, pink was for boys and blue was for girls. Because pink is a "stronger" color.
Yes parents, lets make color preferences a way to pressure our children, that'll be really healthy.
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J4RMZRecovering MisanthropeSan DiegoRegistered Usernew member
Yikes, shit got weird quick. Sorry about that guys.
I think that, to a kid, they aren't looking at the game from the perspective "The input is crap and it's not doing what I want it to and it's a terrible gimmicky game", but rather from the perspective "Holy crap I'm playing a Jedi and killing stormtroopers* and when I swing MY lightsaber he swings HIS and this is so COOL!". I'm pretty sure the Kinect has always been aimed at kids/families looking to have a good time, and most kids don't happen to have a dad who essentially gets to play video games for a living. :P
*no idea if that's what he's killing, couldn't see the TV in the video well enough, but just an example
There's at least one Star Wars game out there where you pretend to swing around a fake lightsaber and it does absolutely nothing. Also, there's no console or television.
Now that is bullshit. Compared to that, Star Wars Kinect might as well be Devil May Cry.
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That is true of every Kinect game.
This shit is bananas.
K-I-L-L-M-E-Please
*no idea if that's what he's killing, couldn't see the TV in the video well enough, but just an example
I remember 'only yesterday' he was a just-born baby. Seven already...
Gentlemen, we've grown old. =|
As for Kinect...Yes Mike, you've failed. You're supposed to teach him so he knows better.
It's weird - my son was born on the exact same day as his - I came home to grab some stuff to find his post about having a kid.
It's really quite crazy - at 7 I was playing an Odyssey 2 and felt KC Munchkin and Monkeyshines were the wave of the future. Soon after, I upgraded to a 2600 with Combat and Yar's Revenge and a C64.
My son gets to control games with his arms, hold 3d games in his hands, and his DSi has roughly 100x more space on a cheap sdcard the size of a stamp than my first PC harddrive held.
You didn't notice he skids? Like at all?
also this game looks like the opposite of a Kinect advertisment. If I could buy one that was just the voice commands that'd be nice but as it stands this looks utterly absurd. Unlike the Wii you really do have to flail about like a Jackass I don't got time for that.
"She picked the pink toy? I have failed as a parent."
(years later)
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S READING TWILIGHT?!"
Eh? I'm talking about him skidding too far (i.e. I didn't time the jump correctly). A 7 year old is not exactly the pinnacle of hand/eye coordination, but that doesn't mean I wasn't trying to be precise. This game would have bugged the shit out of me in other words.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWbLOFGSEDo
That's not how you spell bananas.
Uh, is that an actual thing?
Given the huge outcry of disappointment in the recent Lego Friends line (Legos tooled towards girls in pinks/purples) I would say there is definitely a movement of parents to avoid the "pink aisle" of the toy store as much as possible. It seems mostly because they feel those toys make girls buy into traditional gender roles of girls play with dolls, play house, etc.
Should add: As a parent of a boy we had a year where he got a tool bench AND a kitchen for Christmas so we're covering everything
What if they picked out the not-bold-font product in your first post?
Yesssssssssss. Podracer ruined me for any racing game that wasn't barely-in-control fast.
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Man now I'm thinking about how much it would suck if your kid decided to start typing everything in Comic Sans.
It means you've failed to train their volition properly.
Basically.
If your kid chooses to become a Scientologist...
well, that's just the first step toward liking Star Wars Kinect.
I HAVE NO SON!!!
Yes parents, lets make color preferences a way to pressure our children, that'll be really healthy.
PA used Comic Sans for a long time.
There's at least one Star Wars game out there where you pretend to swing around a fake lightsaber and it does absolutely nothing. Also, there's no console or television.
Now that is bullshit. Compared to that, Star Wars Kinect might as well be Devil May Cry.
It's not a great font, but mostly because it was the choice for every GeocCities or AngelFire page back in the day. Usually sized 42pt and with the .
SEE WHAT I DID THAR
Why was it necessary to post it like that? Does the blink tag actually work here?
[blink]Bink[/blink]
Edit: Whew, nope. Mind was very nearly blown.