Bungie Says Halo: Reach Will Not Use Natal

[Outlaw Torn]

I imagine that the Japanese porn game industry could make a killing if they made use of the natal controller and an interactive love pillow.

 

[Sparrow]

With Reach tipped as the biggest game of 2010 by a number of industry figures, it makes sense that it would stick with existing hardware, rather than risking a new control scheme, but it does beg the question, aside from Fable 3 what games will use Natal?

Fable 4?

 

[HardRockSamurai]

[HEADING=3]Bungie Says Halo: Reach Will Not Use Natal[/HEADING]

Thank god! Natal may be god for some things, but if it had anything to do with Halo I might have killed myself.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Hooray! Now I won't have to punch the air to beat someone down!

OT:This is great news. I'm looking forward to reach and I'm relieved that I won't need to buy Natal to play it.

 

[fozzy360]

Good. Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer to use a controller. Thanks.

But I do play Silent Hill: Shattered Memories on the Wii. Does that make me a hypocrite?

 

[oppp7]

Good, I probably would have done bad with Natal. And I'm bad enough with Halo...

 

[Cpu46]

....we still need Halo games?

Yes we do. Although after Reach I think I will look at Halo games more judgementaly since the game is being handed over to microsoft.

 

[BloodyThoughts]

OH THANK GOD AND JESUS IN HEAVEN!

The Natal motion sensorness would probably fuck up in the game play department any ways.

 

[Aesir23]

Thank the gods/god/single celled organism. I have no intention of getting anywhere near Natal. I prefer to just sit in my chair and press buttons to make the little pixelated marionette do my bidding.

 

[Nurb]

Not a very promising sign when MS has to reassure fans or advertize that their bandwagon gimmick will NOT be used in a game.

That's funny. I was thinking this same thing. I was sure Microsoft was gonna splatter NATAL juice all over their new titles.

I think MS knows its basicly a gimmick and used to target/steal spesific customers rather than be like nintendo and make every game incorporate it.

 

[mikecoulter]

That seems pretty odd for a large franchise owned by Microsoft to not adapt to they're currently trying to push...

 

[tkioz]

Hopefully any game that uses Natal will also allow you to use the normal controller, seriously not enthused about another motion controller system, there are times you just want to plump your ass on the couch and veg.

 

[PandyBear]

....we still need Halo games?

Yes we do. Although after Reach I think I will look at Halo games more judgementaly since the game is being handed over to microsoft.

Aye, 343 studios could either ruin the series (even more?) or make it so amazing it causes a hole in time itself. To which only the iPad could fill

 

[Stabby Joe]

Good... that's all I can say really.

 

[The Warden]

That's a good step, but it'll still most likely be a bad game regardless.

 

[UltimatheChosen]

it does beg the question, aside from Fable 3 what games will use Natal?

Hopefully, none.

 

[Jared]

I expected this to be ghonest. I am glad to see it offical though

 

[Digikid]

As good as that is.....it would be nice to have it as an option at least.

 

[Digikid]

That's a good step, but it'll still most likely be a bad game regardless.

Wrong. It's Halo. There is NOTHING bad about Halo whatsoever.

 

[StriderShinryu]

but it does beg the question, aside from Fable 3 what games will use Natal?

I'm no fan of motion controls in general, but if anything is going to really use Natal beyond the obvious hand waving in menus and speech recognition then I want it to be a new game built for the ground up with Natal in mind. I desperately do not want games and series I used to like playing have Natal shoehorned in just because it's the next big thing MS is pushing.