Blitz Games: Kinect Detractors Lack "Vision"

KSarty

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An article about how we are lacking vision, but what does he use as an example of Kinect's potential? A karaoke game, brilliant.
 

Xanthious

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Andy Chalk said:
it's exactly what happened with the Wii, but this takes it even one level further."
And what exactly happens when you take a smoldering pile of shit and take it one level further?
 

BabySinclair

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I foresee it being bought by XBox fanboys and then discarded as a failed experiment by Microsoft. In 20 years it will still be worthless as collector's piece since far too many of them will likely be made.

Bad timing + bad tech + bad game selection = failure. See RoB for further explanation for comparison.
 

Choppaduel

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Ultratwinkie said:
oh yes, you create shovelware for little girls about IPs you don't actually OWN and call ME a fool without vision. right.
well said.

I won't be getting Kinect for obvious reasons (I'm not into family friendly games or moving more than a few feet every hour or so) but I am interested to see just how badly it will do.

I suspect the will set a precedent for most annoying quick time events.
 

BehattedWanderer

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Yeah...how about, when trying to praise the "vision" of a product, you don't use the billionth unsuccessful repeats of games that the "core XBOX audience" have never known existed as your figureheads? Sure, it has potential, but not for singalongs. Then it's just a waste of money. Show me an example of something like, I dunno, MAG, or Gears of War, maybe a Silent Hill...oh, wait...those all require advance movement, like walking...Actually, I rescind my thought. Any game that requires walking would be a pain in the ass to play without a means to move your character with some analog means.

Though, I bet Guitar Hero: Air Guitar would be a smashing hit...
 

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Andrew, calling your customers morons who lack vision is a good way to make sure your company goes broke. Fuck you, and fuck your motion controls. Call me when they've invented the brain bucket that can just read my thoughts directly and I barely have to move.
 

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Man, companies are getting beligerant lately. Sorry, folks, but capitalism works in most cases; when you make something crap, people call it crap, agree its crap, and then spend their money on different crap that is either less crap or their own personal favorite KIND of crap. Want to convince us it's not crap? Give us a better vision than SingStar Part Deux, or rehashes of games the Wii had within its first year of existance. THEN we'll talk.
 

RatRace123

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"You don't understand our genius! Blah blah blah, now check out our catalog of gimmicky, liscenced crap"

I understand the possibilites and I have vision for what this thing could do. But the stuff Microsoft unveiled for Kinect, has no vision, it's nothing but stupid gimmicky crap. Even the Wii had its fair shair of "real" games when it launched, Kinect has nothing.

And note, it took the Wii 2 years before it was finally able to be looked at as a game console.

I don't want to wait 2 or more years for Kinect to become good. Yeah the Star Wars game seems cool, if it's real, but still. Kinect is just plain crap.
 

AMMO Kid

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It's the exact same thing as COD4 and Halo games never being original, just with motion controls.
 

SelectivelyEvil13

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I don't know, maybe he has a point. Maybe every person who has even heard of the "Kinect" by Microsoft is just, y'know, doing these mental acrobatics to create a false delusion to act as a safety net against the onset of new innovations in technology. And maybe I want to pay over 300 bucks so I can wave my arms around the air and comb a virtual barbie doll's hair. [/sarcasm]

I not only hope that kinect fails miserably, I have a good feeling that it will (HD-DVD add-on part two?). And good riddens. How can they apply this technology in a way that involves more than simple motions? If you must amuse yourself for, what, give it 10 minutes, then go kick a ball outside and save $150.
 

Eviljesse

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Furburt said:
AmrasCalmacil said:
In truth, not worth the extra money, but interesting none-the-less, I'd say.

Also, on another note, I find this hilarious.

"You'll never get that from the controller. There will always be, 'You need to press this button, you need to press that button, you need to do this action'.

Yeah...that's how controllers work. That's how keyboards work! That's how a fucking microwave works! It's sort of part of the appeal.

Well, in that case, here's Kinect.

"There will always be, 'You need to wave over here, you need to wave over there, you need to bounce around spastically'"
This is the part that makes me laugh about motion controls. We have started to replace the quickest method to turn thought into action (pushing a button) into something that takes longer (arm swinging, jumping, whatever.)

They do have their place. A good example is most of the sports games. They do work on those pretty well, or at least the Wii does, but that is about it.

Maybe that is how we should look at it. There is obviously a market for games like that or no one would own a Wii. If these companies want to make these things, and people want to buy it, it dosent mean we have to. I will start to worry if they start making games like Fable, Diablo, WoW, GTA, and etc motion controled..... then I will worry. Untill then, lets just have fun watching people pretend to do stuff they could do in the real world better. I still would like to see the Kinect go down in flames if for no other reason than it is a Microsoft product, because I love to hate on some Microsoft.
 

TeacakeWeasel

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Dr. wonderful said:
Oh I have a vison, but my vison is this:

The game is not in the screen, but around you, you can smell, see, taste the world around you. No more chairs, no more game consoles.

Just you and that beautiful world.

That is my vison.
So basically, you want someone to invent the holodeck.

I can agree with that if it brings us one step closer to living in the world of Star Trek.
 

Exile714

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I'm kind of embarrassed at how many people here's greatest argument against the Kinect is that they are lazy and don't want to move during gaming.

It's not like the controller games are going away, but what's wrong with moving around a little once in a while instead of rotting on the couch? You can go outside, you can play Kinect, whatever.

The other arguments against Kinect... I don't agree or disagree, but at least you guys don't sound like fat blobs.