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Hynad on 05 November 2010
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Metallicube said:
daroamer said:
Metallicube said:
daroamer said:
Metallicube said:
oniyide said:

whats crazy to me, is games like this on Wii usually get bad reviews. So is the tech really that good??? probably, with good reviews and good sales. Ninty AND Sony are in a bit of trouble.

What good reviews are you looking at? I see mostly poor to decent at best reviews, with the exception of Dance Central and Kinect Sports. I see a lot of afterthought third party Wii-esque games that wouldn't sell on the Wii, let alone the Xbox 360.

MS is falling for the casual fallacy with this addon and they may be the ones in a bit of trouble if they really think this thing will be what carries the 360 forward.

This is extremely hypocritical coming from a Wii fan.  These scores are right in line with typical scores Wii games get.

Of the Wii launch titles only 3 have a metacritic over 80:

Trauma Center:Second Opinion - 80

Madden 07 - 81

and Legend of Zelda : Twilight Princess - 95.  However it was actually originally developed for the Game Cube.

Wii Sports has a metacritic of 76.

The Kinect games are getting very decent reviews. 

Did you just compre the Wii lineup to the KINECT launch lineup? BAHAHAHAHA

Yes.  Which Wii launch titles stood out to you?  Besides Zelda which was Game Cube port.

Oh ok, the Wii LAUNCH titles, I guess that makes a little more sense. Still an unfair comparison though. The Wii launch lineup at least had Nintendo's games. Kinect has a bunch of third party Wii knockoffs.

Wii Sports was a quality multiplayer title, I don't care what anyone says. If it wasn't great, it wouldn't be the most successful game of the modern era, and everyone wouldn't be trying to copy it. I also think Trauma Center, Excite Bike, Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam, and SMB: BB were great games for launch titles.


You mean Excite Truck. :P

But I have to partly agree with you here.  The Kinect Launch games are very... uninspired to say the least.

Except for Dance Central and Dance Masters, there isn't much that I think really showcases Kinect's advantage or difference over the other Motion experiences currently on the market.  In fact many of those games are getting decent to good reviews for the sole fact that they actually "work", or at least, that is the vibe I get from reading most of them reviews.  Had those games been released on the other 2 consoles, they would have been trashed for being shallow gaming experiences.  But since they're launch games for an overly hyped peripherals, many of these games get a free pass.

That's how I see it, at least as far as the games are concerned.  I still think Kinect is a very good experiment, and the non-gaming features it offers are precursors to actual implementations of the tech (or very similar ones) inside our very TVs (and maybe other household electronic products) in a very near future.