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Rpruett on 19 August 2010
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Mr Puggsly said:
thismeintiel said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Euphoria14 said:

 

Boxing only involves your hands, so no need to make an EA boxing game for Kinect only.


You aren't considering moving away, bobbing around, etc.

For example, in The Fight dodging is performed by the direction you move both hands. But in Fighters Uncaged, dodging is performed by moving your body.

There is really nothing to discuss. The Kinect has the potential to deliver a more realistic boxing experience than the Move.

This is the problem I have with a lot of 360 guys.  You're focusing way to much on HOW Kinect works, and not enough on what's important, the END RESULT.  What does it matter how Kinect captures your motion if the end result is a laggy, limited experience?  I'll answer that.  Zilch.  If The Fight turns out to be a responsive, fliud game with little to no lag, it will be a better game than what Fighters Uncaged looks like at this point in time, regardless of how it captures your motion.  Now granted, FU does have a little more time in develop, so things could be ironed out.  But if things arent addressed, it looks to be game with noticable lag and the animations are INCREDIBLY stiff.  And this is from an official trailer for it.

As a I said before... full body motion control (with lag) vs motion controls limited to your hands. Both have potential and both have limitations. But I personally would love to see a boxing game that truly utilizes what the Kinect can do.

I really don't believe we are at a point where Kinect can track a precision based boxing game without significant amount of lag.  Anything can happen.  Kinect has all the potential in the world but I believe in one thing.

If it looks like a fish, smells like a fish, tastes like a fish,  it's probably a fish.

 

Everything I have witnessed from Kinect (To this point) has been A LOT of mis-information/over-hype regarding Kinect from MS/Supporters.

Whether it is staged showings on stage at E3, or commercials that portray Kinect games in a different light than they will actually be able to perform,  making promises to the technology that any person with a fully functioning brain knows they won't be able to complete.  Can you play sitting?  It can't detect spin on a ball in bowling??  How many people can actually play at any one time?   Noticeable lag even contained within 'official' trailers?   Yeah that's cool it can move your dashboard but what game types even work with this product? 

A product releasing in less than 3 months should not be this big of a mystery grab bag.

 

Microsoft is either keeping everything awesome with this Kinect under-wraps or it is trying to pull one of the greatest heists in gaming peripheral history. 

 

I think Kinect will be a colossal failure.  And every day the system is further on display (Or not on display) it adds even more fuel to the fire of truth that I think more and more people are going to realize.  Kinect isn't going to be 1/2 of what most people hoped when they heard about it nor is it going to make good on what Microsoft has advertised it to be.