Recent content by cool8man

Bogus title. Microsoft never intended to launch Kinect and have you stand up to control video playback and music on your TV. Sitting just wasn't the first priority because most motion control games regardless of system require you to stand up to play them properly. The title of this article...

Depends upon the game. I'm more likely to buy a racing game or sports game if it supports Kinect than if it doesn't. I would much rather be swinging the bat and throwing the pitch than pressing buttons for those activities. Pressing buttons and pushing sticks is not as much fun as actually doing...

Who said I never used Kinect? Kinect has been at my local Macy's for over a month now. I've never played this MotionSports skiing game which you say is broken, but there are dozens of videos of the game being played on Youtube and the game works perfectly fine: Here's a new video just posted...

Seems like a good marketing tool to grab parents, a good PR move to fend off government sin taxes, and beneficial to consumer safety as well as preventing potential lawsuits from out of shape or unhealthy players.

Well then you are in the minority. CoD Modern Warfare 2 has sold about 20 million copies on Xbox & PS3 using analog sticks and far far less than that on PC with M&K controls. Obviously not everyone is as fanatical as you are about analog sticks or controls in general. There was pretty much no...

Well now we know where you're coming from when you talk about Kinect. It puts things in perspective. To me the analog stick enabled most of my favorite video games. Have fun playing Halo or Call of Duty with a d-pad. I expect Kinect to do the same for a new generation of games. Just like...

I don't know if you're just being sarcastic, because an infrared 3D camera for home use is a pretty big deal. There's never been a 3D cam released for a game console before that could see you like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip17d9jfoDM Nor has there been this skeletal tracking...

Eyetoy was just an RGB webcam. It could barely see you without a spotlight. And when it did see you it was limited to 2D motion (left and right). But even Eyetoy as terrible and low tech as it was, sold 11 million units. Just seems odd to post a video of you talking about the game rather...

The guy I posted was doing badly because he was not using his poles to accelerate at all. I find it interesting that you chose not to post the actual video of you playing the game initially because it does not look bad. Also what's your reaction to seeing other people play the game and...

I grouped fitness and sports games because they are both athletic activities. You provided no video of you playing MotionSports so all I have to go on are the countless other videos on Youtube showing people playing skiing and it working perfectly. Also I think you were playing the skiing game...

You didn't give any examples at all of how it didn't work right. Your complaint about skiing was that it was too much like actual skiing (bending knees). I thought that was pretty laughable. You do realize that there are millions of people all over the world who love skiing and would think...

You're right that clicking on a virtual keyboard would be a terrible interface. But this technology is capable of understanding sign language - if not now then in the future. You could probably input words and sentences into a computer far faster with sign language than with any keyboard ever...

The lag is really bad for what? Playing Street Fighter? Yeah. It's fine for navigating menus and the Kinect games that are being designed for it. I wouldn't want to play Pac-man with Kinect, but for things like Kinect Sports the lag is not a problem at all. Also lag varies from game to game...

You have to suffer with it on 360? I had no idea Microsoft was forcing you to buy Kinect. This is not the Wii, they didn't get rid of the classic controller. But it does work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfsGy0gRR4M&feature=PlayList&p=31EA0CA37F564A5E&index=0&playnext=1 That is...

Woah, Sony and Microsoft have stopped making "real" games? When did that happen. See the problem here is that the video games snobs like this refer to as "real" games are too risky and expensive for 90% of developers to make. Each console generation the number of publishers and developers in...