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Fei-Hung on 18 January 2010
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Lord Flashheart said:
Fei-Hung said:

This is what will change the world

Natal is good and I am sure over the years the Natal tech will improve, but next to this, it is still far off from becoming an Industry standard. Novelty wears of quickly. It takes less precision and effort to push a button on a remote than to wave your arms around.

However, I will hold my final judgement until Natal is released.

So I have to wear coloured thimbles over my fingers. Hold on I want to use the maps. Got my phone but I don't want to press the button on screen so hold on while I get my condom tips out. 2....3.... Shit I lost one.

What's the point, I just want to press buttons, tactile response, it's making a simple job complicated, you'll never take my joypad away from me...

I can see why people blindly hate products before trying them now. That sense of superiority and ego boost it gives you when that looming threat of something new and different walks up to you.

But seriously I seen that a while ago and it looks impressive. Once the are able to put it in phones so you don't have to walk around like a PE teacher with you stopwatch around your neck or plasters on the tips of my fingers I want it.

Agree with you. The tech is awesome but not practical at its given physical state lol

OT: the tech in Natal doesn't worry me as much as what MS's intentions are. If MS just wants to make money from it and catch up to the Wii, we will see a lot of shovelware. However, if MS put effort into introducing Natal into hardcore games, I think it may work wonders.

My other gripe is I hate gaming without physically having anything to hold or touch. The sense of touch in gaming makes you feel more incontrol. I remember how frustrating the eyetoy was when you would do something and it wouldn't come out as intended and I would think to myself, "damn, if I had a joy pad I wouldn't have screwed up there".

Voice recognition should be awesome if implemented into games like Snatch and Heavy Rain. Games where the tone of your voice and facial recognition can add to the gameplay. This is why the demo for Identify on the PS3 got me quite excited.

At the end of the day though, when it comes to Natal or the PS3 Gem, we have no idea to what level they will be implementing it in games and what sort of software devs like Ubisoft will release. I don't want no cooking mama or 360/ PS3 fit.

On the other hand, I do miss the dancing games from the last gen. If Natal can pick up movement as well as MS claims, you could potentially have better dancing games than the last gen without the use of those dance mats.