mrpmpfan said:
Seeing as how a Star Wars title is coming out early next year i dont think it will take a couple years.
Yes, because Star Wars is synonymous with high quality in modern times.[/heavy sarcasm]
From what I've seen of this game, all you do is crouch to move forward and flail arms to repel bullets, so it seams to early to claim this as a quality title.
Also the reasons if the Kinect turns out to be a direct duplicate of the Wii that it will be superior are:
Its HD
Not many people have HDTVs. Plus, at least in my opinion, HD/graphical upgrades in general don't add much to a game.
It has a great online structure (no friend code bullshit)
Not many people use online multiplayer. As far as I'm aware, people are more interested in local multiplayer, which the wii is clearly the most dominant at the moment.
Since you've brought up two points about why the console is superior, I'll give you some points about why it's inferior:
1.It overheats due to normal use. I don't know any one in person whom owns a 360 and hasn't encountered the red ring of death.
2.Discs get scratched even with the slightest of vibrations. I hope anyone who plans to jump next to their 360 would be willing to buy the same game over and over again.
Great 3rd party support (unlike the Wii, where the only decent games are 1st party)
Anyone who claims the Wii has no good third party support is either woefully misguided or a liar. The Wii has many great third party games that I'd highly recommend.
I don't see them releasing original Xbox games with pointer controls (unlike Wii's release of Pikmin)
And this is bad because? The games that were ported have been greatly improved by the motion controls.
You don't have to buy another $80 controller set up just to have a 2nd user play a game with you (Wiimote $40, Numchuck $20, Motion Plus $20...ouch)
And now you're trying to convince me to buy a $150 motion controller by telling me $80 is too much for a motion controller. Am I missing something here?
Its motion based game play is actual motion based and not some predetermined wand gesture. Take bowling for example, you can on the Wii get a perfect 300 game with a flick of your wrist. However on Kinect you have to make the full arm swing and aim.
You've clearly not been listening to the complaints if you call this superior. Anyway, how is the ability to play like this a negative for the control scheme, surely the problem rests with the player for choosing the lazy route.
The camera can be used for other applications such as browsing your system, scanning items into games, video chatting and signing you into the system.
Stuff that are pure gimmicks that I can't see doing anything practical with and stuff I can already do on my PC, really winning me over here.
So I will end this list now but my point I would like to end on is this. I doubt the Kinect system and games will ever have deep story driven games. But thats not the point of it at all, Kinect is going to enchance controller based games like Fable 3, and provide fun party/family games that anyone can play.
This is the reason why most people here are not interested. The vast majority of escapists (including me) prefer deep, challenging, 'hardcore' experiences as opposed to the pick-up-and-play, family-fun, 'casual' experience offered buy the current line up, so coming here and believing you would be able to change people's opinion on Kinect is overly optimistic.
Really, the success is all down to what games come out for it. If it weren't for games like The Godfather, Zak & Wiki, and The Conduit (amongst others) showing off the wii's potential so well, I wouldn't be so enthusiastic about motion controls as I am now. While I may be sceptical about Kinect now, it still has the potential to win me over.
Thankfully Microsoft is not in the business to make a bunch of shovelware like Nintendo apparently is so I have high hopes that we will see some amazing titles.
This really annoys me. Nintendo are not in the business of making shovelware and those who claim otherwise are idiots who a) can't tell the difference between casual and shovelware and/or b) have yet to realise shovelware is abundant on all popular systems, see: PS2, PS1/N64, SNES, etc.
