GDC 10: Motion Fighter Hands-on

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megaman79 said:

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Games4Fun said:

binary solo said:
Of course a 20% complete pre-alpha build is expected to be a faithful representation of the final product and be devoid of bugs and glitches...yeah right.

It is a shame they don't have a complete full game to showcase. Maybe they will at E3.

It is a bad move on thier part. A lot of people will not look at te 20%complete they will just think it is horrible motion controls once the word gets out.

You're right about that, but I'd expect gaming journalists to be a bit more on to it with what to expect from a 20% pre-alpha. The legitimate criticism they should raise is the lack of anything to show off that's a lot more developed than 20% pre-alpha a mere 5-6 months from launch. Rather than writing about a pre-alpha as if that's a basis for judging the technical potential of the Move.

Hold on. So the graphics arn't tip top and the timing isn't perfect, but "the technology itself", at a developers conference FOR DEVELOPERS doesn't actually show proof of concept.

And you're expecting ign to be nice, respectful and polite about it?

Im sorry but i wouldn't expect the same responses that the Wii had 4 years ago, because now they expect more accuracy.

What are you talking about? They showed proof of concept, everything they said it could do they showed it doing; from the reports I've seen. They just didn't show it all in one single game. The fact the IGN guy got all pissy about throwing an elbow when it was supposed to be a punch to the head while the opponent was in a headlock is just one example of him judging the tech based on its implementation through unrefined software. Proof of concept was there all right.

You can criticise laggyness and failure to achive 1:1 when you try out a finished game and those faults are still there. In a pre-alpha 20% (which can hardly be even called a demo) you don't know where the buggyness and glithces are coming from, so you can't say the tech itself is flawed. So to me the major criticism is in Sony not having a near finished game to allow people to really put the Move through its paces in the way it will be used in the home.