Trash-Talking Sony Engineer Blasts Kinect Lightsaber Game
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my motion control system is better. though I will say this though, all my friends who have a kinect are quite impressed with it. but I'm the "down with motion controllers until I'm too drunk to hold a controller" type of gamer. that very rarely never happens
Because then you've just made a Move for the Kinect, in fact you've TURNED the Kinect into the Move. Except you have even LESS control. The reason for the 'dildo head' is so the move can track and transform into various handheld products, like a mace or a hand gun or a sword, or a ball of lightning that when you punch forward sends out thunder bolts.Dana22 said:
The Kinect theorecicly could do this in the future but they have nothing to track on you. they can't get the intrinsics of your body to morph, and if you have to hold a stick it wont turn into a light saber you need to modify it to turn into the lightsaber.
Everything has unlimited potential but Kinects will purely exist with its homebrew demographic as of right now. even the 'holo computer' Minority Report used had a control device a pair of gloves. we need SOMETHING to be tracked to get this to work. Actually I could totally go for some motion gloves (proper gloves not Power Glove styled)
Perhaps we should have some sort of ban on "X badmouthes competitor Y's product Z" stories appearing as news.HK_01 said:
We had the other one about GT5 recently, you could more or less just change the names involved and little else and get every similar story published.
ninja'dStriderShinryu said:
but yeah the idea of a good game with motion controlled lightsabers is all but dead
Not really. The camera just has to know what to track movement of. One green ductape piece at the end of the stick, one above the "hilt", and voila.SpaceMedarotterX said:
Even better. Let the camera scan the stick just as it does with a body.
Its just the matter of writing a software.
First of all, the teaser video that came out at e3 during the Microsoft press conference was (like almost all of the Kinect demonstrations), pre-rendered and acted to by somebody who was paid alot to memorize the exact movement sequence. They did this to fool people into thinking there was no serious lag, and that you could even use a lightsaber effectively without having an object in your hands.
Second, while Microsoft made a big deal about Kinect being special because it didn't need controllers, it would be more profitable to them to release peripherals, and only incite hate from the 5% of the buyers who care/remember. The general populace tends to forget these kinds of things, and they could just as easily turn around and say "well we never explicitly said it couldn't use peripherals".
Third, apparently people aren't aware that Move operates with a CAMERA, and could also be used for force-pushes and such.
Second, while Microsoft made a big deal about Kinect being special because it didn't need controllers, it would be more profitable to them to release peripherals, and only incite hate from the 5% of the buyers who care/remember. The general populace tends to forget these kinds of things, and they could just as easily turn around and say "well we never explicitly said it couldn't use peripherals".
Third, apparently people aren't aware that Move operates with a CAMERA, and could also be used for force-pushes and such.
Oh noes~ A bad Star Wars game! That's unpossible!
As 'unpossible' as Sony dissing the Kinect's capabilities.
As 'unpossible' as Sony dissing the Kinect's capabilities.
I never would have guessed that a controler based game would be better on a console with a controler.
Not even a month out and the two are already slinging shit.
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I agree with him. I don't see how Kinect will pull this one off unless it uses gesture based animations rather than 1-1 tracking (like the Wii is good at).
