Are Motion Controls the Future?

[nin_ninja]

Motion controls do help open up many type of gaming experiences that wouldn't have been available otherwise, and they might help eventually lead gaming to a fully interactive virtual experience.

The main issue that I find with them though is that everyone is used to regular controllers (or mouse and keyboard if they ever release motion control for PCs) and the game types only playable with controllers that it would be impossible to ever make a full transition. FPS, RTS, etc might be impossible to play with motion controls.

Also, what if the motion controls don't register your moves properly, or you just want to lay down and play, or your body is different from the norm enough that you can't play effectively?

Motion controls are a very interesting form of gameplay, but will they eventually become the norm, or just stay a gimmick forever?

 

[gabe12301]

I think the future will be games controlled by electric impulses from the brain making it so we don't have to move at all and making the game more immersive.

 

[sgwee]

I saw a video of some tech school using motion controls to play WOW. I think they even gave it out there for parents to get there fat kids to get up while the grind boars.... idk, maybe.

 

[josemlopes]

For now I dont believe that a game can rely totally on motion control, but in the future it may be possible. I would like to believe that in the future (50 years) we could play in VR only using our minds.

 

[sgwee]

I think the future will be games controlled by electric impulses from the brain making it so we don't have to move at all and making the game more immersive.

that defiantly would be more immersible than motion controls, hmm... but then would we all look like that fat guy from the Gamer movie?

 

[Tips_of_Fingers]

I hope to god that one day people will consider Videogames and motion-control games different.

Ok, games - like Mario Galaxy - that don't market their entire premise on motion controls are, to me, still videogames. But things like Dance Central and all the Kinect titles need to be classed as something different to videogames.

Videogames have been steadily maturing over the years, but the emergence of motion-control games - particularly classing them as videogames - is stalling the progress of the industry.

I don't have a problem with motion-control games, in fact, I really enjoy playing them at a party. But you cannot associate them with controller-based videogames such as Fallout or RDR simply because they do not offer up the same kind of experience.

Hrm, I feel I need a example to better explain my point.

I'd happily sit and play Read Dead Redemption, FIFA, TEKKEN or Need For Speed on my own, and I can see others doing the same. But in no circumstances could I ever see one person, alone, busting moves in their living room on Dance Central.

*shrugs*

Obviously this is all just my opinion and I welcome criticism.

 

[nin_ninja]

I hope to god that one day people will consider Videogames and motion-control games different.

Ok, games - like Mario Galaxy - that don't market their entire premise on motion controls are, to me, still videogames. But things like Dance Central and all the Kinect titles need to be classed as something different to videogames.

Videogames have been steadily maturing over the years, but the emergence of motion-control games - particularly classing them as videogames - is stalling the progress of the industry.

I don't have a problem with motion-control games, in fact, I really enjoy playing them at a party. But you cannot associate them with controller-based videogames such as Fallout or RDR simply because they do not offer up the same kind of experience.

Hrm, I feel I need a example to better explain my point.

I'd happily sit and play Read Dead Redemption, FIFA, TEKKEN or Need For Speed on my own, and I can see others doing the same. But in no circumstances could I ever see one person, alone, busting moves in their living room on Dance Central.

*shrugs*

Obviously this is all just my opinion and I welcome criticism.

Exactly.

Should they be considered the same thing, and if that's the case, should motion controls become the norm and controllers die out?

I say no, at least not in my time. I want motion games to be motion games, and controller games everything else.

 

[Chris646]

I'm going to be honest here and say; I hope not. Video games have always been a sort of pastime, a hobby, even a form of relaxation. When you come home from a stressful day, you want to just kinda sit back and relax, not wave various body parts around, because that is the opposite of what you want to do.

 

[Bullfrog1983]

I think it's going to be a gimmick, or at least a different genre of gaming. A lot of people want to be able to swing a weapon or shoot a gun without having to do a complex series of motions with something that might not read your movements right and screw up bigtime. Controllers at least for now are much more precise when playing games and WAY more enjoyable, plus you don't have to buy different attachments to play new games.

 

[WhatHityou]

No I do not think by themselves they are the future. The point of motion controls is that they immerse you into that game, Motion appeals to only one sense, touch. So If you wanted the full immersion experience you would also need good surround sound tech and maybe 3D to get fully immersed.

Secondly similar to what your saying holding a air gun to play a shooter doesn't feel correct and in a ton of cases imagin a game like god of war, His moves are brutal fast and filled with difficult somewhat acrobatic movements. Now look at yourself, do you think you can do those movements? how would some of those combos be done by you? Sound difficult? I bet.

While im not saying it won't have it's place, It will definitely be used in spiciffic places and good motion games will likely all be in a rather spsiffic range of game genres and situations.

A controller is more efficient at doing general precision actions in most cases.They probably have a very lucrative future together.

A good example might be imagine a shooter where you take the controller for combat and use kennect for picking up and manipulating objects for things like I don't know an action detective game! A action shooter like metroid might benifit from that kind of system as well. You could manipulate the bodies of the creatures you kill to find weaknesses.

 

[Geekosaurus]

Virtual reality is the future, not motion controls or 3D.

 

[Aerialfrogg]

I think the future will be games controlled by electric impulses from the brain making it so we don't have to move at all and making the game more immersive.

that defiantly would be more immersible than motion controls, hmm... but then would we all look like that fat guy from the Gamer movie?

I personally want a Holodeck experience. Sure, they are non-responsive at times now, but eventually the game engines will get better (and will be able to communicate better. Kinect's data transmission is limited to a USB). I don't want to just THINK I'm doing it. I want to do it with the safety on, basically. Right now, that means dancing in my living room without the embarrasment of people seeing me do the Soulja Boy Dance (other than people I would let into my house ). Maybe eventually it will mean getting to defend my own pirateship against a hoard of privateers.

New technology should maybe be embraced, but also complained thoroughly about. Show interest, but also remark on the direction you think their research should go. I don't want my kids' children to have to mash buttons to play a game.

 

[BlueberryMUNCH]

NO, A THOUSAND TIMES NO.
Motion control is terrible, and it is not the future, it's just a fad of the present.
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Yeah I'm not a fan. I'm sure it works for some games, but good grief, not every game should have motion control -_-'''''''''''''''''''

 

[Somebloke]

Indeed, there is no THE future, but there should be several places for the concept, alongside other control methods, many of which have nothing to do with user interfaces.
Heck, I, who have no interest in mo-con gaming, am seriously considering getting a kinect just for the toy factor of gesturing my way around Google Earth and getting cheap lo-fi motion capture.
(I'll wait 'til cheap second hand units flood the classifieds, though :9)

 

[newguy77]

As far as gaming goes, it will probably become a type of genre like FPS or RPG, etc. But as far as computers and the like go, I think it could be pretty big. Some of the things that people have developed for the Kinect mere months after it has come out are amazing (to me). I wouldn't mind having the hand controlled picture or 3D object manipulator.

 

[F'Angus]

All I want to do after a day at uni is lie in a chair and play games without moving for a few hours... Is that too much to ask?

 

[Fangface74]

I guess on a longer enough time-line anything is possible;

Controller, better controller, motion control, motion control that doesn't look or feel stupid!, thought control, thought control that doesn't cause alzheimer's.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

Entirely motion-controlled games are absolutely not the future. Gamers in general do not like having to move around to enjoy their favorite hobby. I can see a future where hand signals or voice commands are used in addition to a controller though.

 

[Aerialfrogg]

I guess on a longer enough time-line anything is possible;

Controller, better controller, motion control, motion control that doesn't look or feel stupid!, thought control, thought control that doesn't cause alzheimer's.

I laughed at this but at the same time had to wince. You know something like this is going to happen along the way. Ugh. Lawsuits.