Kinect FPS

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blunts2smoke said:

i thnk that gta and other games for kinect if done right will be the next greatest thing.all u lazy c0cksuckers who dnt wanna get off ur a$$ to play tough luck. i thought the whole point of a game is to get into another world doing stuff u cant really do in real life. gta smashing windows with ur elbow easily done, running already in kinect sports, and driving. the technology is there and im dieng for the day we see it com out and i thnk everybody will jump on the train soon enough!

I'd sooner jump in front of a train, to be honest.

The key phrase in your post is "if done right", which this clearly isn't. Yes, Kinect works for sports games and fitness games and dancing games, and that's all well and good. But it can't be the future of gaming unless there is some way to do what you can't do in real life. Sure, you can smash a window with your elbow using Kinect, but you can do that in real life. What about something like Mirror's Edge? Can you do any of that standing in front of a TV?

Driving as displayed in Kinect Joyride is incredibly primitive. You know what the problem is with shooters and driving games? Firing a gun and driving a car both require the use of buttons. Or rather, a trigger for the former and an accelerator/brake for the latter. If there was an easy way to fire a gun or drive a car sans buttons, we would be using those methods right now.

As for all this about head tracking, are you really going to pay $150 for a device which moves the camera in a TPS? (Not even an FPS, as we can see from this video). That's Sixaxis-level usage, and since Sixaxis is almost universally proclaimed a failure, that is no good thing. Yes, Kinect is used to its full extent in some games. So is the Sixaxis.

There is really only so much you can do with a motion-tracking camera and a few feet of space. You can dance, sure. You can sort of play some sports. Perhaps a puzzler or two. You can't play an RPG, a shooter, a platformer, or indeed, anything else.