Zero Punctuation: Kinect

[robotam]

He mentioned Giant's Causeway. OMGoodness.

Anyway, my xbox is in my room which doesn't have enough room for Kinect, but yeah I prefer Wii games when motion controls aren't overly used.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Both the Kinect and the Move look awful, play awful, and are painful to use if you're taller than 6'1, or heavier than 250, or some weird combo. The Kinect refused to register half my movements because I'm 6'4 and 145 lbs. It thought I should either be wider or shorter, and adjusted things as such.

I'm 6'3 and 200lbs and I have to stand far, far away for Kinect to work ok. I also need a LOT of room.

Unfortunately there are a lot of poorly conceived Kinect games out there that make a mockery of it, but games like Dance Central really shine on a platform like Kinect. It's still in it's teething stages at the moment so I think people need to cut it a little slack.

 

[Braedan]

The one thing that I see kinect benefiting from would be a peripheral along the lines of the Wii nun-chuck with no Wii remote. Sure everyone would scream "Ripoff of Wii/Move", but at least it will allow movement without requiring stupid body language, or holding a controller awkwardly in one hand. Also a start button would be nice. From the limited time playing on the kinect, trying to move about the menu by holding your hand over the screen felt like real life Fable. But even less fun.

 

[Spud of Doom]

It sounds like the usage of Kinect in Forza 4 would be pretty satisfactory for Yahtzee. Same goes for upcoming Steel Batallion and Mass Effect 3's inclusion of the thing.

 

[FallenMessiah88]

Well this was certainly unexpected. Nevertheless, I still found it to be throughly entertaining.

I too think that motion control would be better off as something that would simply compliment the experience.

Take Dead Space: Extraction for example. It's a rail shooter and it is on the Wii. Thus, it makes sense for it to utilize motion controls.

Now take Donkey Kong Country Returns. It's a sidescroller/platformer and it is also on the Wii. Still, it wouldn't make sense for it to utilize motion controls.

So even though the Wii does have motion controls, the developers aren't trying to cram them into games where they don't belong. At least not anymore.

 

[FallenMessiah88]

Edit: Sorry about the double post. I thought the website had eaten my post somehow.

 

[TheFlyingMango]

I rather enjoyed Rise of Nightmares it was pretty fun for a movement controlled game, good workout too.

 

[rickicker]

To quote your Lords of Shadows review, Yahtzee, this Kinect review is "attempting to jump on the bandwagon so late that the band has completed three sold out world tours and sold their wagon to a scrap dealer." You should've ripped this piece of gaming abortion the moment it came out, man. But oh well, better to shit on it late than to shit on it never. XD

One of the BIGGEST hard-on I have against Project Natal is the fact that the end product seemed to be cobbled up together in waaaaaaay too much of a hurry to meet the Evil Empire (read: Microsoft) deadline. The demo showed so much promise, but for some odd reason, all of those promises took a swan dive into a pit of spikes filled with venomous snakes come launch day. What the HELL happened, Microsoft? Was someone asleep on the wheel? Or do you just feed on crushed hopes, broken dreams and tears of gamers everywhere?

 

[rangerman351]

To bad he didn't do The Gunstringer. It has fairly simple movements and you can sitdown while playing it.

 

[rickicker]

To bad he didn't do The Gunstringer. It has fairly simple movements and you can sitdown while playing it.

It kinda defeats the purpose of the Kinect as a new type of controller, doesn't it? Instead of working properly on select games, it should have, to quote a certain meme, WORK PROPERLY ON ALL THE GAMES. XD

 

[AetherWolf]

To be completely honest, even though I spent a shitload of money on the whole Playstation Move thing (yes, I know this topic is about Kinect but they're pretty much the same thing), I found Child of Eden far easier to play with a regular old controller. I'm guessing it's probably more to do with the slippery Move controls than my muscle memory playing Rez. Also because I live in a small fucking apartment.

[sub]Still, Yahtzee mentioned my two favorite games. Yay.[/sub]

 

[Hypersapien]

He might be able to control the game better if the kinect weren't facing the wrong way around.

 

[AetherWolf]

To quote your Lords of Shadows review, Yahtzee, this Kinect review is "attempting to jump on the bandwagon so late that the band has completed three sold out world tours and sold their wagon to a scrap dealer." You should've ripped this piece of gaming abortion the moment it came out, man. But oh well, better to shit on it late than to shit on it never. XD

He was probably waiting for the wave of shovelware to rush through so that he could review something actually worth reviewing. He can't really find much to talk about from Kinectimals or Kinect Sports when he's already reviewed identical games recently.

 

[lord.jeff]

To bad he didn't do The Gunstringer. It has fairly simple movements and you can sitdown while playing it.

It kinda defeats the purpose of the Kinect as a new type of controller, doesn't it? Instead of working properly on select games, it should have, to quote a certain meme, WORK PROPERLY ON ALL THE GAMES. XD

It's a new technology it needs time to test itself and secondly I've played enough games to know that some games don't even work with a regular controller.

 

[jawakiller]

Hoping on the brand wagon, I ask Yahtzee why, why? Why are you reviewing a console everybody already knows sucks. God, that piece of shit is for old people and young children. Bad Yahtzee, bad.

 

[putowtin]

Indeed I agree with your last thought about the use of Kinect. It will never be any good for games unless you have an easy way of moving around.

try using it from a wheelchair!
Microsoft said before launch that one of the fetures it was proudest of was it's ability to let everyone play, including those with physical difficulties.
When your legs don't work you can't pretend your walking!

 

[k-ossuburb]

So, Yahtzee wants to see a game that uses the Kinect for unimportant things while using a controller for movement, attacking, etc. does he?

WELL BEHOLD!

 

[Eekaida]

I would have enjoyed this video a whole lot more if it didn't keep glitching on me

 

[buzzkill222]

I agree with yahtzee I could possibly justify having a connect if it was used to give instructions to a game. Kind of like the way DS's touch screen is used.

 

[cymonsgames]

I cracked up at the "Well hello there, Counselor Troi" wanking scene (though I'm more of a Dr. Crusher fan myself).

Yeah, about that. Uh.... source?

It's from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Deanna Troi is the psychiatric counselor for the Enterprise.

Spoiler

While she does do some actual counseling from time to time, her character's primarily there for fanservice. Personally, I always thought Dr. Crusher was more attractive:

Spoiler

I must admit though, she has a pretty unfortunate last name for her profession.

No... no... you totally missed the point. I'm relatively sure he wasn't wanking to Star Trek the Next Generation. I'm guessing it was TNG themed pr0n.

Then again maybe he was just waking to TNG. Making it sad and... sad.