I got in front of the Kinect.

Theres a microsoft store in a mall near my home, so i had a day of yesterday and nothing to do except grab Dead Rising 2. So i ranmbled on down there and waited my turn, and boy let me tell you, it wasnt great. First, I had to stand kind of far away feeling from the television. I'm 6 foot 6 inches, so i had to back up a bit for the body scan. They had kinect adventures in, set to the raft game thing. First, to make raft jump, you must jump. No cheating. your feet must leave the ground. so i jump, expecting my raft to also jump, and it did, except that my feet were allready back on the ground when it did, creating a pretty good feeling of disconnect. Also, to turn, you have to lean in the direction you want to move, and i mean LEAN. Because of the lag, it kind makes you over compensate so much you feel like your going to fall over. I walked away very unimpressed, and any inkling i had for the connect is very diminished.

I'm sure Kinect will be fun for 10-15 minutes sessions, but can you imagine playing 6 hours of leaning and jumping and clapping? Sounds like the arthritis rate will be going up in the next 12 months.

Thats kinect for you lol. Move and the wii mote are the best imo.

I'm sure Kinect will be fun for 10-15 minutes session, but can you imagine playing 6 hours of leaning and jumping and clapping? Sounds like the arthritis rate will be going up in the next 12 months. DarkStraberry

i was hyped for kinect when it was first announced but now i feel this thing will severely disappoint when it launches. from lackluster games,features being removed,etc... im not feeling kinect. hopefully ms and developers bring some awesome games to it soon. as for now its a no buy for me.

for a while I was thinking this might be cool but then I woke up and remembered I don't like motion controls anyways so...

Thats kinect for you lol. Move and the wii mote are the best imo.

SwagSurf

Totally, and how do you play shooters with Kinect with no controllers. The Move and Wii both have controllers so you can get a sweet gun periferal.

Connect...disconnect. I see what you did there. :p

Seems to confirm early reports and gamers worst fears. Sigh. Oh well. MOVE was smarter to stick to the nun chuck wii formula.

I'm sure Kinect will be fun for 10-15 minutes sessions, but can you imagine playing 6 hours of leaning and jumping and clapping? Sounds like the arthritis rate will be going up in the next 12 months.

DarkStraberry

So much for being way more advanced than the Eyetoy. The move and Wii are better, but that doesn't mean they are good.

Connect...disconnect. I see what you did there. :p

Seems to confirm early reports and gamers worst fears. Sigh. Oh well. MOVE was smarter to stick to the nun chuck wii formula.

Bread_or_Decide

I think you mean Kinect....DisKinect

I'm kinda happy that there is such an underwhelming response so games can keep from being limited by those control schemes. IMO regular controllers allow a much better variety and deeper games in general, IMO the depth of DMC vs NMH is a good example.

So much for being way more advanced than the Eyetoy. The move and Wii are better, but that doesn't mean they are good.

hoola

i have to admit if i passed by a kinect demo that my first reaction would be to pick up the pace and keep going.

Looks like Zero punctuations prediction on Kinect (at the time NATAL) in 2009 was true.

I'm sure Kinect will be fun for 10-15 minutes sessions, but can you imagine playing 6 hours of leaning and jumping and clapping? Sounds like the arthritis rate will be going up in the next 12 months.

DarkStraberry

its not meant for a 6 hour play session...

if anything Guitar Hero play sessions would be worse for arthritus...

doctors are actually saying that exercise is not detrimental to your health ;)

I'm sure Kinect will be fun for 10-15 minutes sessions, but can you imagine playing 6 hours of leaning and jumping and clapping? Sounds like the arthritis rate will be going up in the next 12 months.

DarkStraberry

Looks like Zero punctuations prediction on Kinect (at the time NATAL) in 2009 was true.

dercoo

Theres a microsoft store in a mall near my home, so i had a day of yesterday and nothing to do except grab Dead Rising 2. So i ranmbled on down there and waited my turn, and boy let me tell you, it wasnt great. First, I had to stand kind of far away feeling from the television. I'm 6 foot 6 inches, so i had to back up a bit for the body scan. They had kinect adventures in, set to the raft game thing. First, to make raft jump, you must jump. No cheating. your feet must leave the ground. so i jump, expecting my raft to also jump, and it did, except that my feet were allready back on the ground when it did, creating a pretty good feeling of disconnect. Also, to turn, you have to lean in the direction you want to move, and i mean LEAN. Because of the lag, it kind makes you over compensate so much you feel like your going to fall over. I walked away very unimpressed, and any inkling i had for the connect is very diminished.

jigglebilly1983

from what ive seen and played in river rush game the game is a fake motion controller game. this game does not move like you but simply reads 4 commands left right up down. it is like u are a human dpad go left it is like going left go right it is like going right and jump it will jump but all those commands are not imitating your movements (just like a dpad when u press x for example you jump but u jump way after u press x and remove your thumb from the controller. anyways ive played this game also i think it will flop big time.

cool story bro

Damn you're tall. lol

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I'm sure Kinect will be fun for 10-15 minutes sessions, but can you imagine playing 6 hours of leaning and jumping and clapping? Sounds like the arthritis rate will be going up in the next 12 months.

Scoob64

its not meant for a 6 hour play session...

if anything Guitar Hero play sessions would be worse for arthritus...

doctors are actually saying that exercise is not detrimental to your health ;)

arthritis and carpal tunnel syndrome are synonymous with playing bass and guitar same applies to guitar hero.But that can fall down to technique sometimes :P

Exercising within reason is healthy over exercising is bad just like everything it should be done in moderation :P

That particular game could be done with justthe PS Eye no problem.

Although I do feel Kinect is a unfinished technology, I wouldn't take that one game as a indication of what it can do.

Thats kinect for you lol. Move and the wii mote are the best imo.

SwagSurf