THQ Already Toying Around With Natal

[Syt's_Kitten]

THQ? Oh well, at least it's not EA; they'd just release football games all year long..........

too bad it doesn't have a system to make people really feel the damage, Tekken would suck for the loser. K.O.!

That can easily be fixed. Just play a local game with a friend, and stand a few inches apart facing each other.

that sounds like a "well, it seemed like a good idea at the time" kind of thing

 

[Jamash]

You could also fire your Bolt or Las Pistol at the enemy by making a gun shape with your hand, pointing it at the screen and shouting "pew-pew-pew" (or "dakka-dakka-dakka" for bigger guns).

But what sounds would we use for chains-words and power weapons?

I don't know how to spell it, but who can't make a chainsaw noise?

As for power weapons, I suppose it will be a cross between lightsaber sounds and electricity crackling for Power Swords, and maybe a loud "Thwack-Boosh" for Power Fists.

Besides, you'd probably only have to make the sound once as your character "thumbs the activation stud".

 

[Ashbax]

Am I the only one who remembers MS saying at the natal announcement 'We are sending out natal tech development kits to all our [third party] developers today."?

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

I'm hoping for a THQ-Relic Warhammer 40K squad based combat game.

It would play a bit like a rail shooter, in which you play a Commissar or another officer in the Imperial Guard, and you follow your squad around, giving them orders, with 'choppy hand signals' and other funny gestures you see in war films, or by shouting orders and inspirational "For The Emperor!" type phrases.

You could also fire your Bolt or Las Pistol at the enemy by making a gun shape with your hand, pointing it at the screen and shouting "pew-pew-pew" (or "dakka-dakka-dakka" for bigger guns).

You could also use this gesture to enforce discipline by executing the squad member with the lowest morale.

Every so often you could be engaged in 1-on-1 combat with an enemy, at which point you wave you arm around making chainsaw noises.

If a game on Natal could capture and recreate the childhood fun of running around the playground, making machine gun noises and doing grenade throwing impressions, then it would be a best seller.

That sounds like a friggin' nightmare. Screaming and blowing at your Nintendo DS is bad enough these days but having to yell in a 40k warzone at your T.V.? Having to say "pew pew" every time you fire a gun (or different sound effects for all guns which sounds even more annoying) sounds redundant unless I suppose there are no sound effects in this 40k game.

If that does turn out to be a game I'd imagine it would be hybridized with the controller, where you use that for movement but you use your hands to make precise orders.

 

[Jamash]

SNIP

That sounds like a friggin' nightmare. Screaming and blowing at your Nintendo DS is bad enough these days but having to yell in a 40k warzone at your T.V.? Having to say "pew pew" every time you fire a gun (or different sound effects for all guns which sounds even more annoying) sounds redundant unless I suppose there are no sound effects in this 40k game.

If that does turn out to be a game I'd imagine it would be hybridized with the controller, where you use that for movement but you use your hands to make precise orders.

You're right, I wasn't really being serious, I was just letting my imagination run wild for a bit.

Feedback loops between your TV's speakers and Natal's microphone would be a huge problem, causing you to continually fire your gun, wasting all your ammo.

I suppose you could avoid this by wearing headphones, but that would lead to the hilarious situation of you shouting at the top of you lungs, oblivious to your vocal volume and freaking out your parents and neighbours.

To a nosey neighbour looking in through the window, who didn't know what your were doing, you'd appear absolutely batshit bonkers... standing there yelling "For The Emperor!" at the top of your lungs, barking orders to people who aren't actually there, and waving your arms about like a madman.

With the headphones on, you wouldn't hear the doorbell... or the door being kicked in, and you'd still be acting like a crazy fool as the 'Men-in-White-Coats' tackled you from behind.

 

[Jamash]

If a game on Natal could capture and recreate the childhood fun of running around the playground, making machine gun noises and doing grenade throwing impressions, then it would be a best seller.

Nice idea, the big problem though is you'll never capture the fun of "running around" with Natal. Jogging in place just ain't the same thing.

That said, I hope some game company looking at Natal has had the foresight to snap up the videogame rights to Ironside [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061266/].

Now that would be awesome, not just because you could travel around the game world without having to stand up, but because a Ironside 'detective game' would be brilliant, especially with the period setting of 60's and 70's San Francisco.

It could implement Natal's touted voice and tone recognition as a game mechanic, where you have to persuade suspects and shout-down gun wielding criminals by using a stern voice.

The hardest difficulty level would simply be called Burr.

 

[Crowghast]

From what i've heard [i\]Project Natal[/i] is to Peter Molyneux what the [i\]Sistine Chapel[/i] is to Michelangelo.

What i've seen is that this device apparently has an AI and face, voice, and movement recognition system to give you a learning, near perfect artifical intelligence character they tested known as [i\]Milo[/i].

All they need to do is apply that to a thousand or more character's, paste [i\]Fable 3[/i] onto it, and you're done...

Hmm...

 

[PhantomCritic]

Natal's going to burn if THQ makes their usual crap on it, may god have mercy on Natal's future.

Do you remember when THQ made awesome games? The wrestling games on N64 were pretty damn amazing .

I'd be interested in seeing NATAL used for porn. It would be hilariously bad.

Yes, but do you also remember when Nintendo made those timeless classics, but in the same case as THQ, their ideas of gaming went bad and your idea of possible uses for Natal disgusts me -_-

 

[theultimateend]

Natal's going to burn if THQ makes their usual crap on it, may god have mercy on Natal's future.

Do you remember when THQ made awesome games? The wrestling games on N64 were pretty damn amazing .

I'd be interested in seeing NATAL used for porn. It would be hilariously bad.

Yes, but do you also remember when Nintendo made those timeless classics, but in the same case as THQ, their ideas of gaming went bad and your idea of possible uses for Natal disgusts me -_-

Well if that disgusts you then you are in for a pretty shitty life. Welcome to the real world, different strokes for different folks.