Gears of War Rumored to Be Coming to Kinect
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Yeah it's gonna have to support the controller along with the kinect. The kinect lacks a pointing device of any kind, so you're not really gonna get that metroid prime experience.
Well, I've never bought a gears of war game before in my life. Although I have played on the first one and did enjoy the majority of it, but a game like this being made for the kinect? I, personally, don't see this ending very well at all. Why? Because a game like this needs controllers and I can't see how brining it to the Kinect is going to work.
Either that, or I'm extremely sceptical.
Either that, or I'm extremely sceptical.
I find it incredible that so many people on what is supposedly a geek-aligned forum neither understand or appreciate the technology and possibilities of this device. We're all gamers or geeks to some extent. Why aren't people excited when something ground-breaking comes to light?
I think you've seen this wrong. People here do, to some extent, appreciate the technology involved in making devices such as the Kinect work. But, a portion of these same people wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. I've seen it in action but haven't played it myself so I can't comment directly on if it does work or not but In this case it doesn't matter.VulakAerr said:
Why should we all be excited when new technology like this become available? motion detection hardware/software has been around since the ps2 (eye toy), and was good for its time. What I'm trying to say is, Motion detection has been done. Yes, not to the degree as the Kinect/Move/wii but it has been done, so there isn't much to get excited out. That's what I believe anyway.
Understanding the technology? Does some one who use a computer need to understand why and how it works right up the how the CPU does what it does? No. So why should you need to state that. Of course some people here aren't going to understand it.
Lets put an example up shall we?
Does an employee at a business need to know how this works in order to send an email:
I didn't think so.
I would just like to finish by stating that everything I have said is my personal opinion on the matter.
who cares... thousands will buy it even if nobody here does. Videogame companies could come out with a piece of shit for a controller and people would still use it if it let them play their precious gears...
"On the other hand, a really impressive looking hardcore game, from a SERIES WITH A LOT OF TRACTION amongst core gamers, that you can ONLY PLAY WITH MOTION CONTROLS, might be just the killer app needed to get the core audience interested in Kinect."
See, this is what pisses me off about some franchises and marketing ploys.
They make a game that is only compatible with a specific (and very expensive) controller in order to scam* money out of you.
I know that it makes economic sense, but it still irritates me.
*I meant scam in the sense that they used a gimmick in order to make you purchase something.
See, this is what pisses me off about some franchises and marketing ploys.
They make a game that is only compatible with a specific (and very expensive) controller in order to scam* money out of you.
I know that it makes economic sense, but it still irritates me.
*I meant scam in the sense that they used a gimmick in order to make you purchase something.
This is the misunderstanding that I'm talking about. Yes we've had camera-based systems before, yes the Eyetoy might have been fun briefly but Kinect is NOTHING like the Eyetoy save for them both having cameras. Kinect has depth perception, voice recognition, and the software behind it creates the user's skeleton in real-time. All this in your living room for $300-$400.Bigsmith said:
Edit: Sorry, fucked up the quote tag.
Unless it's a hybrid game, or the developers have put more thought into it than you.blue_guy said:
Eh, I doubt it will be all that good. Even if the game ends up being okay gameplay-wise, I doubt that it'll really be that fun to play. I imagine it will be to Gears of War as the Crossbow game was to the Legend of Zelda series.
You could hold out your arm like Samus's arm cannon. Or maybe use a finger pistol.hyperdrachen said: