Motion gaming has so much potential, why must it go unrealized again and again. The head of Quantic Dream has a big head and annoys me to no end with some of his comments, but I am begging for him to make one of his interactive movies using one of these technologies, since I trust he'll understand better than many developers that interactive movement can be immersive and expressive, even sacrificing the minor amount of tactile sensation that comes with button pressing. Pushing curtains aside with your hands only to have something jump out at you in a survival horror game would be better than pressing an A button at context sensitive moments, that can't just be my opinion can it? We're on the brink of 3D gaming, we have 1:1 motion control, now give people a reason to move that is the least bit intriguing even if it is cliche, give me the decision of whether to drop an bad person from a 100 story building or do the ethical thing and pull him up, that is a scenario that would be more interesting with a gripping motion and releasing motion than a context sensitive button.
That hand that entered the world in that Kinetimals or whatever it was called can be used to manipulate a gameworld in a thousand different ways, and not just the obvious ones like grasping something. The geometry of the world itself could be grabbed and manipulated, and user created content is limited only by the imagination of the rule sets the developers could impose.
Harmonix and Konami making a dance games makes perfect sense, they should do that and it clearly suits their vision. Fitness games are more fun than fitness tapes as long as they work. There's a definite audience for the sports\party\casual games and they can be very fun, I for one anticipate having quite a bit of fun with Rare's game. However, for the love of god there is sooooo much untapped potential here. It makes me wonder, if tomorrow the technology to existed to make perfect virtual reality a reality, with fully 3D worlds and complete 100% precise control over the world (holodec stuff, you know) if all we would see are uninspired party apps, logic puzzle games, and fun little healthy ways to make people active without having to go outside.
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