YES!! Motion games are finally put to use!!
There's a few styles of martial arts I want to learn and not all of them have easily accessible trainers. This is what Kinect should be used for.
Was debating it a while back actually, my thoughts were that if they did something like this it would be win. And it so is. Especially since there's no controller involved with Kinect, it uses your body.
Yoga (I wouldn't buy it, but going by the amount of underweight, insecure females who lapped up WiiFit, this would sell like crazy), martial arts, basic reaction and reflex training. This could be awesome.
BrunDeign said:
The game can teach people actual Thai Boxing techniques? REALLY? Isn't that a bad thing? We'd have all these people walking around who all of a sudden know where to hit you to make your day SUCK.
Goodness I can just see some kid getting a hold of this and wanting to try out a move they did in the game. Of course that would speak to a good few games but with full motion control it would probably encourage them to try it even more.
I just don't see a full motion fighting game as a good game. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
The hell? Why.. B..
'deep breaths'
Ok, the amount of people here who seem to think this is a bad idea is.. More than there should be. Give me a decent non FUD reason that an intelligent game is a bad thing? There's a page up here with people saying concealed carry laws are good, and then there's all of you saying a game teaching Thai Boxing is a bad thing?
Come on people, we've been, for years now, calling for video games to go to their full potential. Not some bouncy, IQ <20 need only apply console FPS, but to be the medium they can be. That games can be art, educational, that games aren't a complete waste of time. So that is finally happening and there's now a thread full of OH NOES!! XBOX KID IS GOING TO KICK ME WITH HIS L337 THAI BOXING SKILLZ!!1
'rages'
The_root_of_all_evil said:
VanityGirl said:
Dear lord, I hope people aren't really going all out like you do when you spar in martial arts. Even if you spar you're not supposed to go all out.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing
Heh, this I agree with fully.
If you're sparring.. Well it's a combat sport, pull on a helmet and some gloves and lets beat each other up. Nicely of course

If you don't want to get hit, you don't spar. Having said that, tornado kick to the temple is out, we want to spar, not kill each other. But anything apart from that
