Too much Kinect, compared to hardcore titles I feel, they need to be on a level playing field or people just won't bother. I think the people who want kinect already have bought one, so stop trying to go on about how amazing and innovative it is. It looks like a glorified eye toy to be honest
So how do you think Xbox did at E3
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Alot of kinect hate on these forums...I think it was better then thier last one. Dance central 2 looked good now that it has 2 players
No... Just no. Fallout is the elder scrolls with guns.Nimcha said:
OT: it was just MEH.
I didn't watch all of it, when they got into updating the dashboard again, I was like "Do they percest on doing this every year? I just got used to the new one!" and they flooded a lot of pointless kinect crap. I can do what you would with the kinect 2 times faster if I had a keyboard for typing! seriously, xbox code enter shit is messed up. Why not QWERTYUIOP? why ABCDEFGHI? but anyway, after that I watched the GOW 3 gameplay, and then closed the window.
Relative to my expectations, pretty good.
Absolute measurement, terrible. Made even more so since they announced Halo 4 BEFORE the conference.
Dance Central 2 was cool, the Kinect integration into ME3 and Ghost Recon was about as cool as Move integration into SOCOM and Killzone 3 (which is, not really cool unless you absolutely loved kinect). Gears 3 was Gears 3. Sesame Street actually looked cool, along with Minecraft.
But... Fable and Star Wars stole the show. I thought that they were absolutely TERRIBLE. On rails with the player gesturing wildly (with significant delay) at the screen. Yelling Lightsaber to activate the weapon is so lame that words fail to describe it. Just for that, I think I'll pass on being a jedi.
Absolute measurement, terrible. Made even more so since they announced Halo 4 BEFORE the conference.
Dance Central 2 was cool, the Kinect integration into ME3 and Ghost Recon was about as cool as Move integration into SOCOM and Killzone 3 (which is, not really cool unless you absolutely loved kinect). Gears 3 was Gears 3. Sesame Street actually looked cool, along with Minecraft.
But... Fable and Star Wars stole the show. I thought that they were absolutely TERRIBLE. On rails with the player gesturing wildly (with significant delay) at the screen. Yelling Lightsaber to activate the weapon is so lame that words fail to describe it. Just for that, I think I'll pass on being a jedi.
Agreed.boag said:
And why do you (Zekksta) have so many awesome pics? It's totally not fair. You have more awesome pics than the rest of the Escapist population combined. Just that sailor moon speech one contains more awesome than everything posted on this site in the last week.
Terrible. They didn't learn a damn thing from Nintendo's previous E3 stinkers. I don't have anything against casual gamers or anything, but it's about time these companies learned that casual gamers don't do whatever they can to watch E3 live streams. They don't sit on GameSpot or IGN or any other site and hit F5 a whole bunch looking for news. Core gamers do. And core gamers don't generally care about stuff like Wii Music or Disneyland Adventures.
Here were my favorite parts of the show:
The guy's controller disconnecting during the MW3 demo.
Seeing a shred of ME3 in action (not the Kinect voice bits though). Female Krogan in the game, you say? Interesting.
YouTube on Xbox Live.
The part where Kudo whatshisname that always wears sunglasses came on and showed scanning items into Kinect (again; we saw that when it was still called Natal, WTF?!), then had his pause for applause and the room was absolutely silent until he gave up and started talking again.
FIST BUMP! That's going to be a fun meme for a while.
...That's about it, I think. Even Gears 3 failed to excite me. Yes Microsoft, we know Gears 3 is coming. It really felt like they just threw it in there to have a non-Kinect game in the show.
No I don't know why they put the crappier keyboard as the default setting. But you can change it.
Here were my favorite parts of the show:
The guy's controller disconnecting during the MW3 demo.
Seeing a shred of ME3 in action (not the Kinect voice bits though). Female Krogan in the game, you say? Interesting.
YouTube on Xbox Live.
The part where Kudo whatshisname that always wears sunglasses came on and showed scanning items into Kinect (again; we saw that when it was still called Natal, WTF?!), then had his pause for applause and the room was absolutely silent until he gave up and started talking again.
FIST BUMP! That's going to be a fun meme for a while.
...That's about it, I think. Even Gears 3 failed to excite me. Yes Microsoft, we know Gears 3 is coming. It really felt like they just threw it in there to have a non-Kinect game in the show.
Because you didn't change your console's language settings to "English Qwerty Keyboard".MASTACHIEFPWN said:
No I don't know why they put the crappier keyboard as the default setting. But you can change it.
Still not sold on Kinect.
That said, was this honestly worse than last year with the circus pancho Kinect reveal involving little girls molesting small tigers named after candy?
At least they revealed Halo 4 and showed off Mass Effect 3, Gears of War 3, and Tomb Raider.
Honestly, though, I would have laughed if they said "this year we offer what our competitors don't... working online!" Low blow, but I would have gone for it.
That said, was this honestly worse than last year with the circus pancho Kinect reveal involving little girls molesting small tigers named after candy?
At least they revealed Halo 4 and showed off Mass Effect 3, Gears of War 3, and Tomb Raider.
Honestly, though, I would have laughed if they said "this year we offer what our competitors don't... working online!" Low blow, but I would have gone for it.
Grade: D-
I think I speak for a 90%+ majority of hardcore gamers when I say that we have no interest whatsoever in Kinect or anything relating to Kinect. I want to sit in my chair with a controller or mouse and keyboard and play my games the way God intended. If I wanted to stand up in front of a TV like a jackass I'd go to a karaoke bar.
I think I speak for a 90%+ majority of hardcore gamers when I say that we have no interest whatsoever in Kinect or anything relating to Kinect. I want to sit in my chair with a controller or mouse and keyboard and play my games the way God intended. If I wanted to stand up in front of a TV like a jackass I'd go to a karaoke bar.
It was far too Kinect heavy for me mainly as I have no interest in it at all. I'd liked to have seen a bit more gameplay from some of the games too.
Oh and the kid's Kinect 'playing' acting hurt to watch it was awful.
Oh and the kid's Kinect 'playing' acting hurt to watch it was awful.